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Monday 14 Aug 2023

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Build Attic fan power switchbox.
  3. Repair Attic fan.
  4. Repair Echo Show’s
  5. Wells Fargo Advisors
  6. Recycling 2
  7. Good Will
  8. Hand truck
  9. Fertilize the lawn
  10. Buy a water hose
  11. Repair radiator on Blue.
  12. Repair the eves on our home
  13. Replace back door of garage
  14. Repair window in garage
  15. Replace seal under garage door
    • Locate part number for seal
  16. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  17. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  18. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  19. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  20. Check Mom’s accounts
  21. Make an appointment with Dr. D Marini.
  22. File estate taxes.
  23. Research Lawyer for Arizona

Monday 7 Aug 2023

It is unlikely that we’ll be in trial the week of 21 August.

10M band looks good today.

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Build Attic fan power switchbox.
  3. Repair Attic fan.
  4. Repair Echo Show’s
  5. Wells Fargo Advisors
  6. Recycling 2
  7. Good Will
  8. Hand truck
  9. Fertilize the lawn
  10. Buy a water hose
  11. Repair radiator on Blue.
  12. Repair the eves on our home
  13. Replace back door of garage
  14. Repair window in garage
  15. Replace seal under garage door
    • Locate part number for seal
  16. Trim weeds from back of home
  17. Drive to FL
    • Bring back Magic Jack.
    • Bring back laptop
    • Bring back Echo Shows
    • Bring back 55″ TV
    • Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving. (Oops)
  18. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  19. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  20. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  21. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  22. Check Mom’s accounts
  23. Make an appointment with Dr. D Marini.
  24. File estate taxes.
  25. Research Lawyer for Arizona

Monday 1 Aug 2023

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Repair Attic fan.
  3. Repair Echo Show’s
  4. Wells Fargo Advisors
  5. Recycling 2
  6. Good Will
  7. Hand truck
  8. Fertilize the lawn
  9. Buy a hose
  10. Repair radiator on Blue.
  11. Drive to FL
    • Install remote access
    • Install MJ Phone
    • Repair VPN
    • Install Home Assistant
    • Bring back 55″ TV
    • Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving.
  12. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  13. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  14. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  15. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  16. Check Mom’s accounts
  17. Make an appointment with Dr. D Marini.
  18. File estate taxes.
  19. Research Lawyer for Arizona

Monday 24 July 2023

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Repair Attic fan.
  3. Repair Echo Show’s
  4. Wells Fargo Advisors
  5. Recycling 2
  6. Good Will
  7. Hand truck
  8. Fertilize the lawn
  9. Buy a hose
  10. Repair radiator on Blue.
  11. Drive to FL
    • Install remote access
    • Install MJ Phone
    • Repair VPN
    • Install Home Assistant
    • Bring back 55″ TV
    • Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving.
  12. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  13. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  14. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  15. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  16. Check Mom’s accounts
  17. Make an appointment with Dr. D Marini.
  18. File estate taxes.
  19. Research Lawyer for Arizona

Monday

Pulled the remainder of the bedding from the blue Focus.

Wednesday

Cleared the table.

Monday 17 July 2023

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Repair Attic fan.
  3. Buy tickets for Ohio.
  4. Repair Echo Show’s
  5. Wells Fargo Advisors
  6. ID Card appt July 20th (Today!)
  7. Garbage Can for Cave
  8. Recycling 2
  9. Good Will
  10. Hand truck
  11. Fertilize the lawn
  12. Buy a hose
  13. Repair radiator on Blue.
  14. Program remote access backup routers for mom.
  15. Drive to FL
    • Install remote access
    • Install MJ Phone
    • Repair VPN
    • Install Home Assistant
    • Bring back 55″ TV
    • Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving.
  16. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  17. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  18. Two more 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from DigiKey
    On their way!
  19. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  20. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  21. Check Mom’s accounts
  22. Make an appointment with Dr. D Marini.
  23. Fix mom’s printer working
  24. File estate taxes.
  25. Research Lawyer for Arizona

Monday

Updated Perl and Champagne Linux Mint. Champagne battery is bad and the two black notebooks have W7 on them. None of the Netbooks’s lives can be extended any further. The operating systems security updates and the drivers for the hardware are done March 2023. We cooked our first bag of bedding yesterday, we’ll push all the bedding through the oven until Blue is clear of them.

Tuesday

Submitted a reorder for the Potassium and Fuzole, they have pulled back on auto refill.

Wednesday

Went to Wally World to get our groceries and baked our second set of linens to get rid of the bed bugs.

Thursday

ID Cards!
No big deal, it was quick and easy.

Friday

Worked on bringing all the house items back into the home. I think all that’s left in the car is two pillows.

Monday 10 July 2023

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Repair Attic fan.
  3. Buy tickets for Ohio.
  4. Repair Echo Show’s
  5. Have mom take me OFF her will.
  6. Wells Fargo Advisors
  7. ID Card appt July 20th (Next Week)
  8. Garbage Can for Cave
  9. Recycling 2
  10. Good Will
  11. Hand truck
  12. Fertilize the lawn
  13. Buy a hose
  14. Repair radiator on Blue.
  15. Program remote access backup routers for mom.
  16. Drive to FL
    • Install remote access
    • Install MJ Phone
    • Repair VPN
    • Install Home Assistant
    • Bring back 55″ TV
    • Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving.
  17. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  18. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  19. Two more 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from DigiKey
  20. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  21. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  22. Check Mom’s accounts
  23. Fix mom’s printer working
  24. File estate taxes.
  25. Research Lawyer for Arizona

Bed bugs are a disaster…

We went to a cabin for the third time at Misty Mountain and had a horrible experience with bed bugs on this trip. When we arrived, there was a very strong smell in the cabin. It was so strong that I opened the windows when we arrived. (That was our first clue that we were in trouble.) My wife started getting bites on her arm 3 days into the trip. Since we’ve never dealt with bed bugs, we had no idea what was biting her. (We sent them an E-Mail after we found out that we brought them into our home and they claimed they didn’t see any. Which is probably true, but that statement doesn’t mean they are not in the cabin. No mention of the “Rust Stain” feces on the bedding and other traces they leave behind were noticed.

These bites lasted for two weeks, it’s not just like a mosquito bite.

I understand their hesitation to inform us of a previous run-in with bed bugs. They probably didn’t want to idle their most popular cabin and they don’t want to leave an opportunity for any liability either. Bed bugs are very difficult to deal with. This is not something you should hide from your tenants and make us figure it out on their own. Also, before I get into dealing with the bed bugs we brought home, this is no time for a business to lie about the infestation to protect their asses. We would have left the cabins a day or two earlier if we knew what was biting us.

We also found out in our research that Bed Bugs have grown resistant to spray insecticides. According to Arrow Exterminators it’s illegal to broadcast spray insecticides since they only work if the spray gets directly on them.

Diatomaceous earth is something that can help with their hiding places. According to one article I read, bed bugs are already resistant to insecticides since DDT was outlawed.

Monday 3 July 2023

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Repair Attic fan.
  3. Buy tickets for Ohio.
  4. Repair Echo Show’s
  5. Have mom take me OFF her will.
  6. Wells Fargo Advisors
  7. ID Card appt July 20th
  8. Garbage Can for Cave
  9. Recycling
  10. Good Will
  11. Hand truck
  12. Fertilize the lawn
  13. Buy a hose
  14. Repair radiator on Blue.
  15. Program remote access backup routers for mom.
  16. Drive to FL
    • Install remote access
    • Install MJ Phone
    • Repair VPN
    • Install Home Assistant
    • Bring back 55″ TV
    • Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving.
  17. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  18. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  19. Two more 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from DigiKey
  20. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  21. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  22. Check Mom’s accounts
  23. Fix mom’s printer working
  24. File estate taxes.
  25. Research Lawyer for Arizona

Monday

Got groceries at Wally World, it was NOT crowded.

We spent most of the week clearing the home of anything that could house the bed bugs. We vacuumed each area as cleared it. We also got a storage bin at Public Storage to temporarily hold the contents we’d removed.

Monday 26 June 2023

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Buy tickets for Ohio.
  3. Repair Echo Show’s
  4. Have mom take me OFF her will.
  5. Express Scripts
  6. Clear weeds along back of the house.
  7. Wells Fargo Advisors
  8. ID Card appt July 20th
  9. Garbage Can for Cave
  10. Recycling
  11. Good Will
  12. Hand truck
  13. Fertilize the lawn
  14. Buy a hose
  15. Repair radiator on Blue.
  16. Program remote access backup routers for mom.
  17. Drive to FL
    • Install remote access
    • Install MJ Phone
    • Repair VPN
    • Install Home Assistant
    • Bring back 55″ TV
    • Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving.
  18. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  19. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  20. Two more 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from DigiKey
  21. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  22. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  23. Check Mom’s accounts
  24. Fix mom’s printer working
  25. File estate taxes.
  26. Research Lawyer for Arizona

Monday

We got a message that we had to have court attire for Wednesday. We didn’t have dress clothes that fit anymore. We went to Goodwill and got a few items that will do. We still are not sure of the situation with the bed bugs. We changed out all our bedding and put the bedding into the cars for sanitization.

Tuesday

We got a message to be at the courthouse by early afternoon. We also got bit again last night by the bed bugs. We stripped the bed looking for any signs of them. We also tore apart and cleaned the wife’s side of the bed. (I wasn’t bitten.) We pushed 4 tubs of clothes into the attic for sanitation. We ordered bed bug traps to get our arms around how many there are. (It just feels like a couple of them and they haven’t molted into adulthood yet.

Wednesday

The lawyers called off going to court until August. We tore apart my side of the bed, emptied the dresser and vacuumed everything.

Thursday

We vacuumed the mattress and top part of the box spring today. We did see one bug, but it was very small red nymph. It had eaten because it WAS red. We put traps under the mattress and under the feet of the bed today. No new bites that we could distinguish from the existing ones.

Friday

The wife’s immune system was reeling from all the bites, even her chest was red. She took a couple Benadryl and made an appointment at 11AM at the doc-in-the-box.

I tried putting clip-on chokes onto the wires leading to the attic fans, no change in the amount of noise appearing on my HF radio.

Saturday

No new bites, I have spray if we need it. (I don’t want to use it unless it becomes necessary.

I have not been able to keep the camera in the Focus working. There’s some problem with the power. (Either the USB cables or its internal battery.)

Monday 19 June 2023

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Clear weeds along back of the house.
  3. Wells Fargo Advisors
  4. ID Card appt July 20th
  5. Garbage Can for Cave
  6. Recycling
  7. Good Will
  8. Hand truck
  9. Fertilize the lawn
  10. Buy a hose
  11. Repair radiator on Blue.
  12. Program remote access backup routers for mom.
  13. Drive to FL
    • Install remote access
    • Install MJ Phone
    • Repair VPN
    • Install Home Assistant
    • Bring back 55″ TV
    • Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving.
  14. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  15. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  16. Two more 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from DigiKey
  17. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  18. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  19. Check Mom’s accounts
  20. Fix mom’s printer working
  21. File estate taxes.
  22. Research Lawyer for Arizona
  23. Tag renewal is in glove compartment.
  1. Children saved.
  2. Estate Taxes
  3. Solve Arizona Probate
  4. Children health
  5. Our Health
  6. Wisdom
  7. Our sleeping habits
  8. Help for Larry and myself.
  9. Safe trip to Blairsville
  10. Planning to Ohio
  11. Planning for mom’s estate.
  12. Court Witness

We put up a 10M Doublet antenna in the back yard for my new HF radio.

Monday 12 June 2023

  1. Write Childfund
  2. Clear weeds along back of the house.
  3. Wells Fargo Advisors
  4. ID Card appt July 20th
  5. Garbage Can for Cave
  6. Recycling
  7. Good Will
  8. Hand truck
  9. Fertilize the lawn
  10. Buy a hose
  11. Repair radiator on Blue.
  12. Program remote access backup routers for mom.
  13. Drive to FL
    • Install remote access
    • Install MJ Phone
    • Repair VPN
    • Install Home Assistant
    • Bring back 55″ TV
    • Bring framed picture from Thanksgiving.
  14. Repair the brakes on Blue.
  15. Two 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from Newark Electronics.
  16. Two more 8GB Raspberry Pi’s are ordered from DigiKey
  17. Floss, banana, Meds and toes.
  18. Register with IRS as an administrator of an estate.
  19. Check Mom’s accounts
  20. Fix mom’s printer working
  21. File estate taxes.
  22. Research Lawyer for Arizona
  23. Tag renewal is in glove compartment.
  1. Children saved.
  2. Solve Arizona Probate
  3. Children health
  4. Our Health
  5. Wisdom
  6. Our sleeping habits
  7. Help for Larry and myself.
  8. Safe trip to Blairsville
  9. Planning to Ohio
  10. Planning for mom’s estate.
  11. Court Witness
  1. Creole Seasoning
  2. Comforter
  3. turbinado sugar
  4. Elbows
  5. CPAP Pillow
  6. tomato soup
  7. sleep blanket