Monday
I slept a little better last night, I did get a bit of exercise yesterday. Woke about 8AM and checked in onto Waterway Net. Had my morning coffee and read some news before helping her get ready for the Gym. I tried watching a couple movies while I wired up some power supplies, but I am waay too distracted.
The idea above is to have ONE 18V36W Wall Wart provide power to 6 USB devices.
The church website is a bit of a mess, I spent some time figuring out how to add sermons to the site. (And who’s maintaining it.)
The lift gate on the van is partially operational. It does not close with the button. You have to manually close it hard so that it’s latched. I thought it worked when I loaded up the equipment for yesterday’s service. It didn’t close properly when I left the storage and I had to pull over and hard close it. It also does not “Pull Down” the last inch to make sure it’s locked. There are no codes stored in the computer to reset. Google Foo says it has to relearn the lift gate. (Boo!)
My toenails are improving little by little, sure is hard to tell the difference.
Watched another Hallmark Crime movie before heading to bed. Watched another Hallmark movie Hailey Dean Mysteries “Dating is Murder”
Tuesday
I was in pain last night, so I took a hot bath around midnight. I slept pretty soundly on the lounge chairs until the Wife got up this morning at 06:00. I moved to the bedroom and slept until 09:00, another three hours! My tinnitus is pretty loud this morning and I just remembered I didn’t put my O2 sensor back on when I went to bed. (Low Oxygen makes it worse.)
Went to Wally World, it’s Grocery Day again. We use Sterlite Tubs and insulated bags we bought on Amazon. We put one tub in the cart and one tub under the cart when we arrive. We fill the tub in the cart and the insulated bags while we shop. At the checkout we put the 2nd tub on the carousel and let the cashier load it directly. We spend roughly $250/week even at Wally World, that’s 1K/Month for two people that eat out twice a week.
Sent the students some cash for their trip home.
We took a nap and had a Mexican casserole for dinner afterwords. We watched Hallmark most of the afternoon/evening before retiring to bed. Watched another Hallmark movie Hailey Dean Mysteries “A marriage made for murder”
Wednesday
Slept ok, took a long time before I really slept deeply. Woke about 8 this morning and checked in to the WW net on my HAM radio. Read some news and did a bit of reflection of our lives after seeing two students totally exhausted from having fun that day. I can’t say that I was aware of the value of my life when I was just out of HS.
Not much changed in the news since yesterday and the weather looks about the same. Uncomfortably warm and humid with occasional thunderstorms.
Cleaned the dust from the bedbug traps under the bedposts today.
The timer on the garage dehumidifier power got corrupted and had to be reset. I checked the dehumidifier pump. The bucket was empty, so that wasn’t the cause.
Had mexican for lunch and watched “Starliner” launch. Time for a Nap!
Checked on the garage, the dehumidifier is doing a good job.
Thursday
Up about 7:45 and cranked up the radio, the phone is silent. Nothing new since last night. There is a space X launch https://youtu.be/2G-L0u_L0qU?t=1997 Starship #4. They are doing rapid engineering using the data from each failed launch to plan for the next one.
We got a notice from USPS that there was a letter from the IRS, it was a delayed response message concerning their 2018 tax return.
I mistakenly programmed the dehumidifier to run at 12 noon, oops!
Had turkey chili for lunch and we both took a nap afterword. Watched another Hallmark movie Hailey Dean Mysteries “Will to Kill”
Friday
Didn’t sleep worth a hoot last night, have to imagine eating potato chips had something to do with it. I got my coffee with me given by my Wife of many years. I listened in on the GARS drive net in the morning, but I am too emotional to join them.
The garage dehumidifier came on as programmed at 10PM. I was a little surprised the humidity jumped up to 70% almost immediately after I cut it off at 6PM yesterday. The humidifier didn’t run for a couple weeks, and it seems that there’s a lot of left over moisture in the garage.
My power usage jumped up a little with the dehumidifier in the garage running almost continuously yesterday.
My solar powered vent fans are working pretty well to keep the attic cool.
Making a batch of eggs for breakfast.
We’ve lost the 2nd set of keys for the van, I have no idea when the last time is I saw them either.
770-709-5838 has called the wife’s phone 2x a day for the past week. I finally answered the phone today and they simply hung up on me!
Watched two Hallmark Mystery 101 movies before heading to bed.
Logged onto FB and posted an article about these fraudulent “Power Savers” that a power company put together. They are prolific on Amazon with all kinds of snake oil benefits. I also made two reports on Amazon about ones that claim lightning protection but have no ground pin!
Saturday
Logged into FB and posted a picture of the newspaper when we visited NZ. I also checked on all the posts about power savers that I commented on. No responses found. Updated my two Raspi’s that are used as headless terminals.
The garage humidity has been removed and the temperature is looking better. The batteries in the garage need to be kept below 80 degrees to maximize their life. There is a timer that “Should” only provide power during the night to limit the amount of daytime heating. As you can see, I ran it for about 12 hours to pull the humidity out and it heated the garage pretty good on the 6th. I messed up the programming on the 7th and it ran that afternoon. I finally got it right on the 8th.
Watched Hallmark Mystery101 and mowed the back yard after it cooled down a bit and before it got dark at 9PM.
We watched Music Videos from Youtube on the 55″ screen most of the evening. It felt like the evenings we watched “Night Tracks” on TV.
Sunday
Up in time for the guys at 8AM and I checked into the WW net.
I can’t say I understand why the dehumidifier in the garage ran every 10 minutes all night long. It didn’t make any headway towards lowering the humidity in 10 hours run time and the garage is a small 10×10 space. The only standing water is IN the bucket at the bottom of the dehumidifier, it would be wild if that is the source of the humidity.
I got an award for all the work I’ve done with the church.
Really nice, AND HEAVY trophy.
We went to Longhorn after church to celebrate with our friends and they messed up my steak. (The manager wasn’t happy because I told them I wasn’t coming back.)
Watched a movie on the Hallmark Channel before bed, mystery 101 something.