Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.
Plans: Keep an eye on the hurricane headed to Florida.
- 07:00 Up drinking coffee and making plans.
- 08:00 Three hard boiled eggs for breakfast.
- 09:00 Replaced car headlamps while it was still cool outside.
- 11:00 Cleaned up boxes from headlamps.
- 12:00 Nap
- 13:00 Research and filling out my ballet.
- 14:00 Making plans.
- 16:00 Mow back yard
- 17:00 Shower and blogging.
Narrative: Feeling a little better about our country surviving BLM. It’s a difficult time because we are finding it difficult talking to our friends of color without offending them.
Replaced weathered car headlamps
It went really well, I only needed a screwdriver and a 10MM socket. The left lamp housing was broken so I bought two new ones a LONG time ago.
NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC
NodeMCU Status: They’ve been working perfectly since I dropped the number of NodeMCU’s on Home Assistant to TWO. I have had to change the sensors, I had a couple that the readings were not even close… I am glad they are stable now, it was very aggravating when they went offline! I want to up them to three, I know I cannot do four. *Raspberry Pi’s are rather cheap.
Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer
Pi News: I have three Raspi’s that are “PiHoles to protect DNS calls from our network. I have four Raspi’s that run the Home Automation. I have two Raspi’s that receive the ADSB transmissions from the airplanes near the homestead. One Raspi is being used to browse the web when I am digging for something using search engines, it protects the PC from “Drive By” malware infections.
The 3B draws considerably less power than the 4B which almost has to have some form of additional cooling or it will throttle the CPU.
DC Power generating and Inverter
Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Today I made 300WH more power than I consumed. (like 4 cents)
Articles about our current racial climate
“The current riots across the country are American terrorism — violence for strictly political ends, aimed at frightening a nation into obedience.” Seattle Radio Host Gives Narrative-Busting Account of What’s Happening in City: ‘Evil People’
“Federal officers protecting federal property are now the targets of demonstrators, not the instigators of violence. The real blame lies with progressive city leaders, who have all but promised violent protesters that they can act with impunity.” [WSJ]
Historians such as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee cited social cannibalism to explain why once-successful states, institutions and cultures simply died off. Their common explanation was that the arrogance of success ensures lethal consequences. Once elites became pampered and arrogant, they feel exempt from their ancestors’ respect for moral and spiritual laws like thrift, moderation and transcendence. Victor Davis Hanson: America Has Chance To Save Itself Thanks to 3 Woke Industries (NBA, MLB, NFL) That Just Suicided
Feelings:
Tomorrow: Wednesday, mow the back yard and church service.
Retirement: 1st SS check in seven days!
Project Engineering: Need to test mom’s golf cart solar charger.
Purchases: Garage door handles.
Repairs: Replaced the headlamps on the Blue Ford Focus this morning. (Looks remarkably better.)
Religion: We were called to look in our dark corners and bring them into the light on Sunday.
Family News: Mom’s in the hospital, hopefully she got home yesterday.
Arts: No movies yet.
- Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
- Slept pretty good last night until I forgot to turn on my CPAP.
Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.
Government: (Social Security)
Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.
Injuries: No injuries.
Pi News: Upgraded the Home Assistant software.
Accomplishments:
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To