Woke about 7:15 which was too late to be on the radio B 4 the boat check-ins. I put on a pot of coffee while they checked-in all the boats.
We did most of our routine and we had 7 scrambled eggs for breakfast. We were tossing things around for lunch and decided on Longhorn in Suwanee. We took a nap when we got home until the linemen rang our doorbell.
They removed the transformer providing the power to our home. The power company is raising the distribution voltage to 14,000V next week. The old transformer had a fixed winding of 7200V so it had to be changed first. There were two such transformers in the neighborhood fed from the substation. I think I’ll throw the main breaker until I’m convinced that our transformer was tapped correctly as the voltage has a good chance of being wrong.
They’re putting the new transformer on the pole after removing the old one. Personally, I would not be standing under something that weighs several hundred pounds.
Almost done, it took a little over an hour to change the transformer.
Moved the equipment out of the van into our living room, I need to inventory the equipment and test it Saturday.
We had leftovers for dinner from Sunday. Ham sweet potatoes and veggies. We didn’t watch much TV, we were pretty spent today.
Tuesday
Up at 6, rebuilt a Raspi 4 and it failed to update. The operating system is locked and my only choice was to cut the power. I tried another SD card and got the same error. I changed the DNS on the router, and it seems to be finally getting all the updates. (The DNS was local but the network traffic was through the VPN, strange you would have thought the VPN would have carried the DNS traffic too.)
Joined the guys in 2M repeater this morning and listening on 40M to see if they come back to me. Checked in on the WW Net after taking a shower.
Salmon, red potatoes and veggies for dinner.
Bought a pair of identification tags for her.
Wednesday
I am up at 7:30, a little groggy though. Spent a good while upgrading my wireless routers this morning. Checked in on the WW Net, talked to Paul and made eggs for breakfast for both of us.
Took a nap and then made dinner together. We steamed the vegetables and microwaved the ham steak.
We warmed the plates on the steamer before serving dinner.
How far can 10Watts reach…. Europe is not too far LOL
It rained pretty hard tonight, little bit of lightning.
Thursday
My average Glucose is 108 my A1C is 6.1, target is less than 100 / 6.0.
I didn’t sleep very well, and I am at fault for not taking my pills on time. If I take Norvasc in the evenings, I have an issue with my feet getting numb after laying down. I think I am going to stop taking Norvasc and closely monitor my BP and see if some of these weird symptoms subside.
Took a shower and I am trying to dissect how a decision was made to have an outside service on the 4th? What happens if it rains? We went to storage and inventoried the large items. It doesn’t look like we’re missing anything for the training session on Saturday. Weather also looks good, overcast skies will keep the direct sun off of us.
Friday
Checked in with the guys on the HAM radio and we ended up going to Longhorn for lunch again today. That’s three times this week! I sent an E-Mail to Larry letting him know that rain is predicted for Saturday and I called off the audio training.
I did put together a bridge router for the service on Sunday. I need to connect it to the cellular hot spot for testing. This is a GL.iNet Opal router, it was only $30 at Amazon today.
Saturday
Checked in with the HAM radio guys and got ready to go to Public Storage to pick up the equipment. That went well, we have everything we need to get Logan up to speed on the equipment in the van. (Picture Needed)
We settled in on eating chicken legs for lunch and Logan showed up while we were eating. We spent several hours hooking things up and seeing how they work.
I put the sound board in the trunk in case it rained, which it didn’t even come close.
We were done by 3PM and I was exhausted.
Our beach cart family came by and waved back at us today.
They seem to be making a family event out of doing the laundry now that their burden has been lightened.
I went down for a much-needed nap for several hours. Made our sandwich for dinner and watched some TV.
Sunday
I was still really sore from yesterday and I was coughing up some awful looking sputum, so we decided not to join the family group at Russ’s house. We did go to Longhorn for lunch, but there was no one there to be bothered with a cough.
We stopped by Wally World on the way back and picked up some odds and ends.
Back home we went back to bed for another good nap. They are turning off the power tomorrow afternoon, so I need to get prepared for that. I don’t know how they are going to switch our lines to 14,000 volts a neighborhood at a time?
Off to bed.