Status: It’s official, we’ve brought dem bugs to Georgia.
Narrative: I was tearing apart the battery backup units we brought from the farm and one of them had a live infant German roach in it. Kathy saw two more and we found a 1″ adult American roach on the ceiling this morning. I will have to buy some roach hotels in hopes of catching any strays. We brought so much stuff back n forth over the last year, I am a little surprised we’ve not run across more of them. All the stuff is in the middle of the living room floor in hopes of seeing them before they get to harborage. I didn’t bring the power backup equipment to Grandpa’s for just this reason. I’ll have to go through all the baskets, tubs and boxes and try and find all I can today. Then make a run to the dollar store for some preventative measures.
Haven’t had breakfast, but we’ve both had our coffee this morning. I bought a bottle of Irish Crème and it was a pretty good cup of coffee today. We were down to two bags of Dominican coffee and the supplier had a 20% discount yesterday, be bought a case (16 bags) to replenish our stores. (Too bad coffee doesn’t kill the bugs, that would make things easy.)
Now that the Wife’s project is done we’re cleaning and putting things away. It’s a pretty big haul of stuff we’ve taken back n forth to Florida. I don’t have time to run around so I’ve brought the kitchen sink when I go down there. I am hesitant to bring anything back unless it’s been cleaned and we’re past the 6 months infestation period. I also have to assess the life left in all the batteries. (most were used when I brought them down there.)
I reordered CPAP supplies before I left and they didn’t send a tank for the humidifier. The tank is too little cost to send by itself so they told me to go to the local center (Winder Ga.) to get one. Boo!
Wife is also having issues with a prescription for Restasis, I don’t think Express Scripts will refill that anymore. (Like they did with my Nexium) It’s $100/month to get it at a local pharmacy.
Engineering: I did do some research on two OLD 700VA UPS units that were in the small bedroom. They would work well to replace the unit in the Bumpkin next time I’m down there. I designed the Bumpkin power supply so that it could be run over with rodents without affecting the performance. The power supply in the Morton barn just has a plastic tub over it and that has survived so far. I’ve removed the annoying beeper! (It’s tolerable when it beeps every 10 seconds for 2-5 minutes, not so much at 2-1/2 hours!)
The first of the two LS700 UPS units did well in several hours of testing and was within the parameters expected from the chart below. The second unit failed within 15 seconds, trying to resurrect the unit caused permanent damage (Crashed and burned) and it will have to be scrapped.
Had leftovers for dinner with black eyed peas and salad with “Western” dressing on it.
This afternoon while testing the UPS I’ve been clearing the kitchen table. For us it’s the “Catch All” for anything loose in our hands. It’s also the sorting place for our mail from the mailbox and the Post Office box. The table is now clear cept the few pieces of fruit in the fruit basket.
I put out roach hotels and liquid ant bait tonight, that should take care of the sugar ants we gained while in Florida. The roach hotels also worked pretty good at mom’s house.
We’re roughly $30,000 in credit card debt and there’s maybe $2,000 left in our checking. We’ll have to tighten our finances a bit more to keep enough cash on hand to send $200-$400 to mom’s account every month. I was going to try and get these teeth pulled, i’ll have to think about that since there’s only about $2K worth of credit left.
It’s going to get down to 26 in the city tonight, should be about 4 degrees colder here at the house. 22 degrees is awfully cold for the outside faucets, I wraped a sock around the faucet until I can get those foam things and cover them. (I should have done this earlier, but the weather predictions were not that cold yesterday. Boo! There is a power supply that heats the only water line in the attic (Icemaker line for fridge) and it has a pretty large battery backup. It’s under some insulation, but it can freeze if not warmed just a little. (About 5W is enough to keep it from freezing.) The garage will be above freezing and I’ve checked the radiators last year, they’re good for serious cold.
I’ve recharged the batteries I used for testing earlier today, they can run the heater if I loose power tonight. Well, I guess it’s time to call it a night. See ya tomorrow.
M
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
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