Monday
During the night I removed the hard drives from five of six of my “Puppies” which are the Gateway/Acer Netbooks that carried me through all the trips to South America. It was MUCH easier to carry two netbooks than a full-size laptop. There are two left, my trusty “Perl” and the netbook that I’ve been using for Home Assistant programming. (Which I don’t do anymore.)
Made Eggs and Sausage links for breakfast.
Charged the three large tablets and let them update on the Internet. Working on the three small tablets and getting them updated, they were still charged even after sitting for a month. Looks like I have one lone ranger that’s too old to be updated.
Updating the 2nd Dell Latitude, it’s the one I loaned out for a while. These are Awesome laptops!
My IT microprocessor exposure is 2 phones, 1 Toshiba Laptop, 3 Dell Latitude laptops, 2 Intel NUC’s, 6 Tablets and one Acer Netbook. I shed 5 netbooks today.
Going to rain tomorrow, but it’s clear to keep my radio antenna connected today for WSPR.
Zaxby’s salads for lunch, it costs $22.24 for two salads which is less than roughly $45 at Longhorn’s, and you have to add the $15 Tip.
Worked on our Day Timers for several hours this afternoon after our nap.
Tacarta bible app has changed it’s name to Life Bible. I also realized that they changed the way to purchase bibles. If you want a offline bible you have to purchase the translation and the bible comes with it. If you purchase the bible app, it refuses to allow you to purchase the bible within the app. (Forcing you to subscribe to their service.)
- Mark Phone Purchased ESV and KJV
- Kathy’s Phone Purchased NIV
- Teal vogtm11 subscription
- Blue Downloaded NIV
- Black Downloaded NIV
- vogtma12 Downloaded NIV
- vogtm13 Downloaded KJV
- vogtm16 Downloaded NIV ASV
Tuesday
Tuned in my radio and I had a QSO with some one that I didn’t get their callsign or location. ARG… So, I setup a recorder today so that I can backtrack a contact to get it into the log.
We went to Longhorn’s for the first time in a month! They were all worried & wondering if we were ok. They seemed genuinely relieved to see us. We didn’t tip the entire staff like we’d done for the last three months. I think that bewildered them a little. On my side of the fence, I was trying to offload the Christmas spending while I had the ability. Now that I am paying taxes, that’s just out of my reach for now. We left the women with the Wife’s phone number so they can reach out to us if they need to.
Saw the Pee doc, he ordered a CAT Scan of my lower abdomen (Kidneys & Bladder)
Watched another Hallmark episode of the good witch and we realized that we were not watching them in order. (Even though I made a list for that purpose.)
Wednesday
Jeanie had the net this morning and no one was answering her call so I checked in on the WW Net this morning. It was a difficult net because of the propagation was bad.
Had two boiled eggs and sausage links for breakfast. I even remembered to take my morning pills!
The wife cleared the bed and did linens this morning, we spent about an hour looking over how our mattress is laid out. We ended up with this combination.
- mattress
- exercize pads
- mattress topper
- mattress pad
- fitted sheet
- top sheet
- heated throws.
We eliminated the comforter, it’s too thick to dissipate the heat if we get too warm. The thin heated throws and the ceiling fans to cool us when we throw off the blankets seem to be very comfy at night.
Took a light nap and we’re having soup for lunch today, Longhorn salads for dinner with some friends.
Thursday
Tuned my radio onto Waterway this morning, 40M band is pretty bad this morning. My uncle didn’t hear my call.
We managed to misplace my Wife’s procedure book this morning, it took more than an hour to find it in the glove compartment of the car.
Combined all the pages for our two mini Day Timer books onto my laptop and started organizing them. It’s a great resource, but now there’s so many pages to keep track of.
Ordered a Queen size blanket to replace the three throws, they are just too short for a bed.
Went to Zaxby’s for lunch after our Nap. We worked on looking for the cleaning instructions for the Wife’s Invisalign braces. We spent a good deal of time cleaning her Invisalign braces today. We also ordered the crystals to sanitize them.
Friday
Still updating all the VPN routers with current firmware, I have 14 GL-iNet travel routers on my network. I also updated my two Raspi’s that are running Linux. I still cannot connect to a RASPI using RealVNC from Windows. (It works from other Raspi’s) I updated RealVNC viewer and it still couldn’t talk to the updated Raspi’s.
We received our new queen size electric blanket.
I converted my side to 9W DC power and I was comfy, it’s a little cooler than the throws were because the blanket is bigger.
Researched all the Hallmark “the good witch” movies and we’ve started watching them in order.
- The Good Witch 2008, VUDU, Watched Friday 4 May
- Garden, 2009, VUDU, Watched Friday 4 May
- Gift, 2010, VUDU
- Family, 2011, VUDU
- Charm, 2012, VUDU
- Destiny, 2013, VUDU
- Wonder, 2014, VUDU
- Halloween, 2015 Oct, Hallmark
- Secrets of Grey House, 2016, Hallmark
- Spellbound, 2017, Hallmark
- Tale of Two Hearts, 2018, Hallmark
- Curse from a rose, 2019, Hallmark
Saturday
MFJ is closing its manufacturing May 17 2024!
A little scatterbrained this morning, it’s 10:30 and I’ve spent most of the morning talking to my uncle and researching the closing of MFJ.
Made a list of my wireless routers to upgrade the passwords.
- Slate 04
- Mango 04
- Opal 22
- Mango 22
- Creta 30
- Slate AP
- Mango AP
Set my WSPR TX power to 1W. (0.1W is received by only a couple stations and 2W is received by more than 10 stations.)
Zaxby’s for lunch and I’m needing another nap. My skin is tingling and my teeth are complaining that I haven’t brushed them.
Dropped off Lily’s BDay present and we headed back home. I rinsed with Hydrogen peroxide then mouthwash several times until the sensation calmed down.
- The Good Witch 2008, VUDU, Watched Friday 4 May
- The Good Witch Garden, 2009, VUDU, Watched Friday 4 May
- The Good Witch Gift, 2010, VUDU, Watched Saturday
- The Good Witch Family, 2011, VUDU, Started Saturday
- The Good Witch Charm, 2012, VUDU
- The Good Witch Destiny, 2013, VUDU
- The Good Witch Wonder, 2014, VUDU
- The Good Witch Halloween, 2015 Oct, Hallmark
- The Good Witch Secrets of Grey House, 2016, Hallmark
- The Good Witch Spellbound, 2017, Hallmark
- The Good Witch Tale of Two Hearts, 2018, Hallmark
- The Good Witch Curse from a rose, 2019, Hallmark
Sunday
I drank most of my cup of coffee before I realized that the coffee had sugar in it. My two teeth hadn’t been bothering me, but now they are sending me warnings. I flossed, brushed and rinsed with Hydrogen peroxide followed by mouthwash.
I have got to figure out how to divide the day into scriptable segments, what usually happens is that I chain one event right after another and forget what happened.
We went to Longhorn’s for lunch then took an hour nap. We’ve been working on the pill inventory since then. It started storming and the power flickered resetting some things like the stove clock.