Monday
Up at 7 and nodded off for another hour until 8:15. Hooked my antennas back onto my HF radio and I am listening to them while I write in this blog. I didn’t adjust the IR illuminators last night because I was just too tired. I am still not at my game today. I need to rest and watch over my skin abrasion that happened yesterday.
Had leftover turkey with vegetables over noodles and turkey gravy for lunch, it was quite good actually.
We spent the next three hours trying to agree on what to document where in the family Daytimer. We ended up calling it a draw, she’ll document to a blank page, and “We” will document things into the three Daytimer sections. (Action List=Todo, Scheduled=Planned/timely, Work record=Document accomplished.)
There’s a bit of a hubbub about our President in the paper. https://www.westernjournal.com/dems-advance-dark-theory-biden-conservatives-shouting-since-2020
I had chicken soup and crackers for my evening meal. We watched “Murder She Baked” movie until I had to take another nap. Didn’t get much accomplished today, I was dogged tired from not sleeping.
I did manage to get the IR Illuminators adjusted tonight; they look pretty good.
Ate a hotdog for midrats tonight and then took my daily pills 4 hours late. Oh well, at least I took them tonight and not tomorrow morning.
Tuesday
This is the third shooting in front of our home in three weeks.
The guy just walks up with a pistol in hand and empties the clip in the air.
I am really tired, I probably got 2 hours of sleep last night before the 3AM shooting. The police and I spent the next hour trying to find the shooting in the camera recordings. I spent the next two hours downloading the video so it could be uploaded to Gwinnett County. She got up around 6AM and fixed me a cup of coffee and I just didn’t have anything left. We decided to get groceries AFTER lunch since I was done for the day.
Lunch was terrific as always since we moved to Web Gin Road Longhorn. Shopping went pretty quickly, apparently, we didn’t need very much from the store.
Added a new camera (#7), the headlights may not blind this camera?
There is just so much to do, these shootings and her poor memory are such a distraction I am not getting anything done. I think I am going to put up my HAM radio hat for a bit and use that hour more wisely.
Wednesday
I slept better last night but I totally busted my butt this morning. I got up out of the chair and looked down at my slippers in the middle of the floor and just fell over against the end table. My side is a little sore, my wrist and ankle are tender but not hurting.
Bruised ribs.
The camera I set out in the driveway died before dark, I’ll have to figure out what the issue actually is after I get these computers and routers updated. Windows updated and Android posted updates too, I think they all are trying to fix the Wireless vulnerabilities that the DOJ has been abusing for years.
GL-iNet has retired their “Slate” travel router, but they did have a current firmware update for it today. (I need to pull them off the network at some point.) It took several hours to log into all the routers and upgrade their firmware. One of the GL-iNet “Creta” routers was forwarding traffic to somewhere that was a 100ms away. Although I just upgraded it, there’s just something strange about the behavior of that router. I ended up replacing it with a GL-iNet router “Opal” which required a USB-C power connector.
Somebody sent me some delicious cookies FedEx.
We watched a couple of Murder she baked and most of a Johnny Carson show. I had chicken Noodle soup for dinner and a few M+Ms for dessert. My bruses from this morning’s fall are appearing, I’ll post them tomorrow.
Finished off upgrading the routers and I’m headed to bed.
Thursday
I was up late double checking the network and cameras, everything looked good enough to head to bed.
Got up late, like 9AM. It was only 67 degrees here this morning.
She got me my morning cup of coffee and I pulled the wire running to the brick camera to shorten it. (It was three times the length it needed to be.) I also pulled the IR Illuminator from under the car, I think I am going to mount it in the grill of the silver Focus next time. (Under the car it couldn’t really illuminate Silvercrest street.)
Lunch was ham steak, sweet potato and veggies. Took a LONG nap and
I replaced the connector on the brick camera, its working again.
We watched some TV and then took another nap.
I installed the IR Illuminator in the grill of the Ford Focus underneath her license plate. (It’s low on the vehicle and barely visible at night unless you have a dashcam.)
My Digital Video Recorder’s hard drive has failed, I need to replace it tomorrow.
Ok well off to bed.
Friday
Got up around 8AM, Waterway Net was just a conversation not a strict net for some reason. She’s getting ready for the Gym this morning, so I pulled the illuminator off the car. We centered it in the driveway around 9AM and put the dashcam in the window.
I worked on the backyard fence this morning. It has been overgrown with weeds.
Air conditioner worked pretty hard yesterday for 92 Degree temp?
One of the old sensors in the attic needs to be replaced.
We used less electricity than we did last year at much higher temperatures.
Our lawn service is mowing the front and side lawns today.
Where can I hide from this motorcycle was roaring at me at 60MPH on one wheel.
Saturday
My HAM buddies were not happy with the propagation this morning, they could not hear each other. Breakfast was a couple eggs and ham with a glass of orange juice. My entire body was aching, so I took a hot bath and a nap.
She messed up and we didn’t have any meals and grocery shopping is next TUESDAY. She went to the store and got stew meat for today and I put the sunshade up in the windshield when I got up. Mom does not have any hurricane supplies and I don’t know where to begin. It would be tough for them to buy them after a hurricane is announced for Florida.
I finally got a new RSA device from Wells Fargo. They have a specific department just for those devices 888-245-8454.
Melvin’s website FINALLY let me donate https://www.jordanmusic1.org/donate using PayPal this morning.
Reversing the large attic fan so that it pushes air into the attic has really helped our electric bill this month.
When all three fans were pulling air out, it was actually drawing some air from the home. I added eight new vents and the home as three large vents in the eves assuming that was sufficient. I was shocked to find out it was sucking air around the air handler. (We found out about the negative air pressure because of the water that was collecting under the water heater.)
NYT offered 6 Months for $1/week, it might actually be worth that.
Trump was shot in the ear today, YIKES that was a close call.
unday
Up sipp’n on a cup of coffee while listening to my HAM radio. I have an issue with my Home Assistant that I have not been able to resolve. The node in my cave dropped offline and I just can’t seem to get it back for some reason.
Updated my Home Assistant nodes, but the Home Assistant database has failed. It took me another 5 hours to figure out what was wrong and undo all the changes I had made.
Church was ok, they sang happy birthday to me and Danny. We spent the next hour and half playing around with the trays for cultural Sunday. Longhorn was the lunch today and we bought a family’s meal for them. We took a good long nap after we got home, and I checked the recordings of today’s service to make sure they were good.
I received a IR Illuminator that had a broken glass in it. I originally was going to send it back, but I needed the circuit board for another white fixture.
I ordered two black illuminators, but I really needed one more white one. I took the glass out of a black one and repaired the white one that had the broken glass.
I’ll put it in service tomorrow. We got caught up with the Trump shooting till about midnight and then we headed to bed.