Service providers
Clay Electric is the power company and there are three meters on the property. (House, Trailer and Bumpkin.)
The power for the trailer has been turned off.
The Internet service is Windstream, which also provides their own telephone service. (Service lands in the house)
AT&T traditional phone service is also available on the property.
None of the inside cameras record video/audio, they are still photo’s only.
Status: House is a shambles and we’re not done with Kathy’s project for school.
Theme: Stay loose and provide help to the Wife as needed.
Narrative: Didn’t sleep well again last night, overall ache’s and pain were also a distraction. Had my morning coffee and had eggs for breakfast. Got a haircut to trim my curls today. Took a pretty good nap and woke up with a dry mouth as usual. (Haven’t figured all the aspects of that one out yet.) We finally finished the school project and had a wonderful dinner to wrap up the day. I looked for a “To Do” list and couldn’t find anything relevant to Atlanta going back two weeks. I am sure I was working something?
TDL,
Repair the VPN between Ricky’s Fortigate and home.
Dental coverage for us. (Eye coverage?)
Card for the drama department.
Lighting support for the Christmas play.
Repair the two small UPS units. (60W x 4 is 240WH)
Get two teeth pulled and one post put in.
Call the doctor about the anti inflammatory that I seem to be allergic to.
Call Fl Blue, Lisa Rhodes 352-854-2100 about part D.
Find out about Dental coverage for Mom, Medicare “G”?
Find out about Eye coverage for mom.
Tomorrow: Dig up my “To Do” list and get organized. I need to gather numbers for a church budget for next year, by Wednesday if I can.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering: Project: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:
Status: House is a shambles and we’re not done with Kathy’s project for school.
Narrative: Had to help setup church services this morning at 08:00, it was difficult getting out of bed. I am somewhat stiff and uncoordinated, but I got there on time and setup went well. I made several serious mistakes during the service that were easily heard by the congregation. (I was not on my game today.) Home at 12:30 and had a ham sandwich while the wife does a audio recording of her presentation. (The final product will be her standing in front of the screen giving the presentation.) I am headed to bed for a nap, then we’ll do a video run-thru of her project using cameras. We recorded her project using our phones, it turned out that our phones were a better camera than any camera we had in the house. She had to comment on posts by today so that took president over continued work on the presentation. I am in moderate pain and my joints are sensitive again, I reached behind the couch and came out yelping in pain. I’m almost certain all of this some relationship with my sugar intake. Need to buy one of those meters and take my sucrose levels for a week. Well I’ve taken some pain medicine and when that kicks in I am headed to bed.
Tomorrow: Last day to turn in school project.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:
Status:Status: Farm equipment identified, but need to post a serious paired down list to the realtor.
Narrative: We (Family) need to decide what we’re going to do with the red van? It does run, but it badly needs an oil change to prevent damaging the engine. It can’t be driven to a shop and it’s getting harder to dispose of used motor oil if I changed it myself. The inside of the van had gotten moldy by leaving loaves of bread in it and the van was occupied by mice/squirrels for some time. (They chewed through the molding and feces are everywhere.) To me, it’s scrap metal and is too scary to be used without risk to someone’s health. Unfortunately I have not been able to find any pictures from the inside of the van to show the depth of what I am describing.
https://notenoughwire.info/2018/11/21/items-left-on-the-farm/
Status: House is a shambles and we’re not done with Kathy’s project for school.
Narrative: We spent a good deal of effort yesterday building the audio portion of her project. We’ll likely record a run through today.
The wife made coffee today, I am sipping on a cup while updating this blog.
I am not sleeping more than a couple hours at a time. I wake up with air flowing out of my mask rapidly because the seal against my face is disturbed. It will take a bit of time to break down the three pieces of the puzzle, mask tightness against my face, range of pressure given to the machine to use and my eyes draining into the back of my throat cutting off my airway by making it sticky. The way to work this taking a long period of time forgoing any productive activities. By far the most common is my eyes get dry during the day and when they heal at night the white blood cells make the pallet of my throat sticky enough that the septum blocks my airway to my nose. The result is that I end up exhaling forcibly out my mouth knocking the mask off my face. (Since I’ve lost the ability to exhale through my nose.) I get into this circle by staying up too many hours and letting my eyes get damaged by being excessively dry. It takes about three days for them to heal completely and break the cycle. (But who likes laying in bed for the better part of three days.)
Tomorrow: Church services in the morning, haven’t been to one in three weeks.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:
Status: Farm equipment identified, but need to post a serious paired down list to the realtor.
Narrative:
https://notenoughwire.info/2018/11/21/items-left-on-the-farm/
Tomorrow:
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering: Project: Status: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:
Status: We’re home and trying to recover from our extended trip to Florida. Our living room floor is full of tubs and baskets from the trip.
Schedule: 09:30 travel to park for our family walk after Thanksgiving, then to the Train museum and finally lunch.
Narrative: We made coffee and then took a nap to prepare for the outing today. The walk around the park was very chilly to say the least. The train museum was pretty cool, I thought the steam engines were the coolest thing on the lot. (I hadn’t thought of a steam powered air compressor until I saw one on an engine.) I hadn’t thought of powering the air conditioning for the sleeper cars from the wheels either. Someone also spent a good deal of effort making a mechanism to keep the sleeper cars as upright as possible even on unlevel track. (Lunch was pretty good and then we were ready for our afternoon nap. We spent some time playing scrabble and planning the school project that is due on Monday.
Injuries: I’ve managed to hurt my left foot just inside my arch where the bones pinch me on the inside. I also have cracked my right heal and it managed to get infected on the way back from Florida. I used a hacksaw blade and sawed open the crack in the callas so I can apply ointments.
Noteworthy: My E-Mail was blowing up with messages from the Florida cameras today because the Realtor was walking mom’s farm taking pictures.
Tomorrow: It’s going to rain so inside cleanup day and meet up with J&J.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Accomplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:
Status: We’ve still not unpacked our car from the three week trip to Florida. But we’re very grateful to be home.
Today’s Plans: Celebrate Thanksgiving with the family just after lunch time.
Narrative: Spent an hour or so pulling stuff out of the car very early this morning. The back seat is mostly empty, but the trunk is still pretty full. Had three eggs and some juice, all the others expired a month ago. I put the coffee pot together so the Wife just has to turn it on.
We’ve picked up a nest of tiny ants, not sure but I think they’ve built a nest in the attic. Google Foo suggests liquid Borax, I’ve seen Borax powder for roaches.
Pulled some more boxes out of the car, I think I’m down to the two desktop computers from her business office. I thought about bagging them, spraying the bag and bagging them again? They’re Windows XP, but mom wants the pictures off of them. I’ve got the same issue with an old Toshiba laptop.
Thanksgiving dinner went well, I ate too much and was suckered into having peach cobbler on top of that. We had a really good time, but we miss our son that couldn’t make it for the first time in many years. We took the traditional picture with the family that will end up on our walls. We went home around 20:00, I was exhausted and just needed to get home. (Didn’t even stop for gas.) We washed our CPAP stuff tonight, it’s been a couple weeks and they were beginning to smell. Confined air works pretty good under a comforter when it is cold like this.
Firewall News: The Fortigate 60D firewall at grandpa’s will dial into my firewall in Atlanta when I ask it to. I need to find a way of having it dial without asking and maintain the link without interaction.
Solar News: I had to leave the second 50W panel in Fl. because I forgot to load it into the car. Boo! My two 100W panels in Atlanta will keep my refrigerator running during the day as long as it is bright sun and can push about 140W into the batteries. Okay, your right, it’s maybe 5 cents worth of electricity and hardly worth the effort.
Pi News: https://www.raspberrypi.org/
I downloaded NOOBS 3.0 (New Out of Box Software) and loaded it onto two 16GB Micro SD cards, NOOBS 2.0 apparently cannot be used on the Pi V3B. I’ll let it load from the SD card then update it over the Internet versus downloading the entire thing across the www. The red LED must mean something different on these new Pi’s? Something like “The power is on” because I have plenty of power available and the red LED is constantly illuminated. Mom has two Pi’s on her new desk and there are two Pi’s on the old farm as well.
Tomorrow: Plans are to walk the park and go to the Train museum, then dinner somewhere that I’ve forgotten already.
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Projects: Status: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering: Theme: Repairs:
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
Major things that are on the farm, regardless of disposal.
FRONT PASTURE
Red VAN
Not part of the land sale, will remove prior to closing.
MIDDLE PASTURE
The White 36V golf cart that is up the its axles in sand
Not part of the sale, but it may be left on the farm. (We want the tires)
Tools in tool shed/pump house.
Not part of the sale, tools will be removed from property.
Large flat bed trailer
Not part of the sale, it will be removed from property.
Tractor
post hole digger
Bush Hog 
Blade
Small disk for turning over top soil alongside house Tin Shed in the grass. (You have to look for it, it is low and small.)
Not part of the sale.
Power Supply and solar panel (Stalls)
Not part of the sale, but may be left on the farm after closing.
Trinkets in Tin Shed
Mom needs to pull the stuff she wants from the shed, SOON.
BACK PASTURE (I can’t think of anything in the back/lower pasture)
HOUSE
Upright freezer in laundry room, doubt we’ll keep this.
Refrigerator in the house, probably stay in house.
Microwave in the house, probably stay in house.
Stove in the house, probably stay in house.
Analog camera systems with DVR, one new, two in left side of fireplace that are NOT part of the sale.
Computer Monitors (More than 2) in the house.
Not part of Sale, will be removed upon closing.
House Digital Security Internet/Network system and power supply
Not part of sale, will be removed before closing.
House living room digital camera and power supply.
Not part of sale, will be removed before closing
MORTON BARN
Morton Barn Security DVR and power supply
Not part of sale, will be removed upon closing.
BUMPKIN
Upright freezer outside Bumpkin, JUNK.
Tall weed lawn mower (Junk)
House Trailer (It has a broken stove and a couple of bed frames.
Bumpkin Security DVR and power supply
Not part of sale, will be removed upon closing.
Silver Pickup may exist on property and is not part of the sale.
Current Project: Recover from our trip and work on the wife’s college project due Monday.
Status: Our car is packed full of bug infested stuff we brought back with us. The worst of it is in a plastic bag in the driveway. (I didn’t want to leave it in the car and I really didn’t want to bring it into the house.)
Theme: Help the Wife finish her Honors GSU College course with an “A”
Today’s Plans: Let the Wife study, pick up the pieces of our Atlanta home and unpack the car, albeit slowly.
Narrative: We didn’t unpack much from the car, suitcases and CPAP’s last night. (I searched the lining of my suitcase and didn’t find any traces of bugs.) I woke up around 4AM and logged into the 13 cameras that are on the farm to set them in alarm mode. Eight of them record 24/7 and a select eight of the thirteen will send me an E-Mail if something moves in front of them even for a couple hours if the power goes off. I have a really good view of the living room. 
I did remove the stupid logo from the picture after making this post.
Mom asked about how long will the power be on. It took me a minute to figure out what she was asking. I cannot turn off the power to the house or the bumpkin without draining the expansion tanks of the two wells and it would be a royal pain to restart the shallow well if I drained the pump. Because of that no arrangements were made to change the power to the security cameras that are being powered from both meters. The house heater is set to 60 degrees but the trailer (Which still has water pressure) has no power to keep it from freezing. (Although power can be run from a nearby camper power plug in the lawn. Which was the deciding factor in pulling the meter last week.) The wires from the breaker panel to the trailer have a bad underground wire and consumed $40 worth of electric before I cut it off. (It will only get worse if I leave it on.) The toilet in the trailer leaks a little so that should keep enough water flowing for the outside pipes. (The kitchen pipes in the trailer are at risk unless someone opens them if it gets really cold.)
The outside spicket to the water trough in the front pasture is still ON, I’d crack that so it drips when it gets really cold as well. The big water trough in the lower pasture is cut off at the trough. It will leak sufficient water not to freeze, I can’t say the water lines above the dogs will survive though. 🙁 The Bumpkin water is off and cannot be restored without repairing the broken pipe where the two troublesome females were kept. (Between the trees across from the pump room.)
The water heater is on, but there is no heat in the laundry room of the house to keep those pipes from freezing. (There is a brand new heater in that room that can be plugged in if necessary.) I don’t know if setting the HOT water and COLD water dripping will protect those pipes, it should.
The toilet bowl in the office needs some water to keep the sewer smell from backing up into the office. (It was horrible yesterday.)
Please leave the small light in the house living room window on, it draws very little power. The 100W incandescent light in the bumpkin will help keep it dry. There are only two breakers on, one for that light and one for the security cameras. The other two breakers are for the deep well and the barn. (Which both must have power.)
Have to make a run to the post office box, it’s the holidays and the box gets full pretty quickly. I just remembered I left my 50W solar panel in the living room and checking the cameras it’s right where I left it. (Next to the door.) D+M offered to get it, I sent a picture of it and copied R. then she sent me a message without copying D+M offering to pick it up. (I’ll to be very clear who I am talking to and in what tense when I copy someone in on a ongoing conversation.)
D will be taking the garbage off the farm today, there is about 60lbs of fish that’s in the Bumpkin that will get ripe very soon.
D+M have had a busy day, they got my battery chargers that I left on the ground in the middle of the farm and my solar panel I left in the house. The good thing about them being in the buildings today is that they gave us a good test to my security cameras.
D also mounted the two smoke alarms today in grandpa’s house, so that’s done!
I’ve lost one of the cameras on the Bumpkin, there’s no coverage on the North pasture on that side of the fence in front of the Bumpkin anymore. I tried several things and one of them wiped the camera to factory defaults. It was connected to the network over the wireless, the key word is “Was” since it’s not anymore. Apparently we damaged one of the network wires cleaning out that room yesterday and it didn’t affect the camera until after midnight last night. There’s still twelve other cameras to keep track of the land.
We had leftover Chili for dinner and played a game of Scrabble to unwind before bed. Most of the stuff we brought home is still in the car since I worked on the equipment pictures all day.
It looks like a cat has taken refuge on my security system tub in the barn. (It’s probably pretty warm.)
Pi News: I bought two new Pi’s while I was in Fl but I didn’t have the Micro SD cards for them. The one Micro SD card I had would not run the Pi. I tried one more time using my Netbook to SD Format the card and load NOOBS, but the Pi flashed the red LED at me saying nope, sorry…
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering: