Day: December 26, 2018

Status: Christmas is over, still cleaning.

Plans: Look over our finances and start planning for January 2019 when we have most of the large bills of the year.

Narrative: We forgot to turn the heat back on yesterday. (We opened the windows while we were cooking.) It’s 64 in here and 32 outside. Our coffee is brewing and I’m in for a couple eggs for breakfast.

Enjoyed a relaxing day today, we walked around the block listening to the XM radio 60’s (that the wife loves) on my new radio I got for Christmas. Played with ground planes for the Pi-Aware ADS-B antenna on the roof. I didn’t get the same results as the You-Tube video guy did.

Had left-overs from the Christmas dinner and watched a documentary about Walt Disney before turning in for the evening.

Tomorrow: Both the PiAware antenna cables arrive tomorrow. Need to get an assessment whether the large 1090MHZ antenna I got for Christmas is worth the trouble. The small 1/4 wave antenna is getting substantial amount of traffic beyond 100NM already.

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: Livingroom is clear, but there is a few items I put back in the cars for storage. The family is coming over just after noon.

Plans: Help my sweetheart prepare for today’s feast.

Narrative: Got up around 8 and it was a pretty day this morning. Had my morning brew which was terrific as always. We’re planning a fire today, so I got on the roof this morning to move the PiAware from the chimney where it has lived for a couple days. I finally decided to mount the antenna on the top of a rotating vent (Which I stopped from rotating.) I ran a wire from the chimney 12V power to the Pi to supply the 8W of power it needs to keep running.

Mash sweet potatoes and put them in a bowl, that was my offering for dinner today.

The families arrived a little after 1PM and left well after 7PM so everybody was having a great time.

I received a portable radio and a wind up emergency radio from Santa this year. Both turned out to be excellent products. (Hard sometimes to get something substantial from Amazon without it being junk.)

Repairs: My Internet connection has started failing occasionally, I don’t know whether it’s a DNS problem with the Pi-Holes or it is a connectivity issue. I started a “Smoke” ping to the first Comcast gateway. That will prove the connectivity is not the issue. (But I think it is.) I checked the modem, the logs say it has been up for weeks. The RF links are also well above the minimum readings so I doubt that’s an issue. The cameras are complaining the most and they are after the Sophos firewall, so I can eliminate that as an issue. I’ve looked at the Fortigate logs, nothing there suggests that it’s going offline.

Tomorrow:
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: