October 2020 – Page 2

21 Oct 2020, a day in progress

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies. We’ve installed a new Air Conditioner and there is a terrible amount of work to be accomplished. The highest priority is insulate the ducts against moisture and clean up the living room.

My experience brings to light something that belies the message of many progressive activists. I, and many others, cannot all admit to feeling the effects of institutional racism, bigotry, and white privilege. The rhetoric among many activists suggests otherwise; not only am I and other minorities victims of these oppressive functions, but we are victims of it whether we acknowledge it or not. https://blog.usejournal.com/we-need-to-stop

07:00 Coffee and getting organized.
08:00 Groceries
09:00 Blogging, documenting and reading.
11:00 Getting organized.
12:00 Nap
14:00 Getting organized.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

Tomorrow: Thursday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

20 Oct 2020, a day in progress

“If we wish to establish racial equality or gender equality, or equality in any social structure — acknowledge that we can’t pick and choose who gets to be a part of the equality equation. As a humanitarian, before any label that I associate with myself; I hope we recognize that we can only resolve our issues through respect and humility. Through recognizing that it’s not okay to simply “demand” respect whilst belittling an entire culture.” medium.com/in-defense-of-white-people

07:00 Coffee and getting organized.
08:00 Walk around the block.
09:00 Blogging and working with ChildFund.
10:00 Getting ready to drive to school
11:00 Drive to Meadow Creek and remove equipment.
15:00 Back home, whew i am tired.
16:00 Nap
17:00 Coordinate getting power for Mariel
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Reading Luke 12
20:00 Prepare for bed

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

One of our Childfund children is living in a home without power. They are using kerosene lamps for light at night which is really bad for their health. It appears that the in country team has responded with a quote to provide commercial power to their home.

This is a quote to install what American’s usually see as a construction pole with a duplex outlet underneath near their home. They will also need an extension cord to reach into their bamboo house and a light fixture to replace the kerosene lamp.

It will take until November to receive the money in country and maybe late December before the power pole is installed and connected to over 700 feet of wire. In America we would have installed telephone poles every hundred feet. (Five poles.) The voltage drop will probably prevent running a refrigerator.

Tomorrow: Wedneday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

19 Oct 2020, a day in progress

07:00 Coffee and getting organized.
08:00 Documenting Air conditioning performance.
09:00 Called Air conditioning company and ChildFund
10:00 Drove to Dentist and Southern Seasons Air
12:00 Nap time.
14:00 Conversing with worship team.
15:00
16:00

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

Tomorrow: Tuesday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

18 Oct 2020, a day in progress

07:00 Coffee and getting organized.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

Tomorrow: Monday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

17 Oct 2020, 3rd day with new A/C

07:00 Coffee and getting organized.
08:00 Walk around the block.
09:00 Put a fan on the thermostat, it’s not tracking the temp.
10:00 Morning worship meeting.
11:00 Nap
13:00 Vacuum da floors.
14:00 Blogging and lunch.
15:00 Documenting the thermostat
16:00 Dinner
18:00 Watching Trouble with the curve
20:00 Going to bed early.

Trane XL1050 Thermostat: We purchased a new air conditioner several days ago and it came with this “Smart” thermostat. The short version of these paragraphs is that the XL1050 is a very poor thermostat. (Which is its primary purpose by the way.) There is NO excuse for the temperature on the display to be six degrees off!

I spent days trying to figure out why the temperature on the thermostat always reads setpoint and it’s obviously WRONG.

The thermostat draws so much power that Trane had to program in a “Correction Factor” to compensate for the increased temperature of the thermostat. The problem with that method (Versus a tiny cooling fan) is that air movement severely affects the “Apparent” temperature that is being used to control the air conditioner. In my case I have a small home where the return is within 6 feet of thermostat and ceiling fans are often used. I ended up putting a small fan under the thermostat to pull the heat from the unit.

The thermostat is now much more responsive and predictable. The only trouble with this solution is the thermostat only has 5 degrees of correction and I needed six. I had to lower my setpoints one degree to account for not being able to enter a large enough correction factor.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

Tomorrow: Sunday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

16 Oct 2020, Day 2 with new A/C

06:00 Coffee and getting organized.
07:00 Assessing the new A/C.
11:00 Nap Time!
12:00 Check bank accounts for payments due.
13:00 Stressing my thermostat.
15:00 Writing up a document on the thermostat.
16:00 Had a bit of salad.
17:00 Dinner
18:00 Program thermostat
19:00 Childfund survey.
20:00 Scrabble
21:00 Bed

Training the Trane Thermostat: Our new Trane variable speed has an XL1050 thermostat, it is not as cool as I was told. The largest inconvenience is that the thermostat generates so much heat that it has to compensate for the actual room temperature. (Like 4 degrees) If you put a fan on it it will show four whole degrees lower than the room temp!

It is also very slow to respond to changing conditions. We were cooking and the room got 4 degrees warmer (Using a second thermometer) and the Trane thermostat showed set point temperature and didn’t change. I even tried a hair dryer and could not get it to change! If they are putting a computer into these thermostats then they aught to have a remote sensor that can be placed below so that the temp is not affected by the unit’s temp.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

Tomorrow: Saturday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

15 Oct 2020, 1st Day with Air Conditioner

07:00 Coffee and getting organized.
08:00 Plan on Grocery Shopping.
09:00 Putting groceries away and breakfast
12:00 Lunch and a Nap.
14:00 Go over last night.
15:00 Rebuild Home Assistant
16:00 Research new thermostat
17:00 Dinner
18:00 Thermostat documentation
19:00 Seal the attic space near air handler
20:00 shower and check my eyes. (A wire strayed into one of them.)
21:00 Bedtime.
Oil attic fan.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

Tomorrow: Friday

Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Conservation mode.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

14 October 2020, insulate the ducts

07:00 breakfast.
i will have to fill this in later.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

Tomorrow: Thursday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Looked for plastic lawn chairs, insanely expensive $250 and up!

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

13 Oct 2020, a new air conditioner.

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

06:00 up early and clearing areas for replacement air conditioner.
07:00 Running Cool until they get here at 09:30
09:00 No sign of them yet, still cleaning up.
10:00 they are running late.
11:00 Pulling old unit out
13:00 assembling the new unit.
15:00 connecting the new Freon lines.
16:00 pulling down the lines with a vacuum pump.
18:00 Charged lines, working on the ducts.
19:00 Inside doing finishing work.
20:00 Air running, checking charge.
21:00 calling it a day.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

Tomorrow: Wednesday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Looked for plastic lawn chairs, insanely expensive $250 and up!

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

12 Oct 2020, a day after the flood

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

07:00 Up making breakfast and planning my day.
08:00 Moved the dehumidifier back into the house from the garage.
09:00 Called ChildFund and we made some good plans.
10:00 researching candidates to vote for.
13:00 Submitted our votes.
14:00 Preparing for the new air conditioner.
16:00 Dinner
17:00 clearing a path to the attic.
18:00 Clearing a path to the air handler.
19:00 Listening to D Jacoby pod casts.
20:00 preparing for bed, rise early and clear attic spaces.

NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit on 13 October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know.

Tomorrow: Tuesday, a new air conditioner.

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Looked for plastic lawn chairs, insanely expensive $250 and up!

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital again.

Arts:

Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News:

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To