Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.
Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.
- 08:00 Up slept in this morning, drinking coffee and making plans.
- 09:00 Blogging.
- 10:00 Loading E Sword onto the Wife’s computer.
- 11:00 Thinking about lunch, the Wife is looking for bed linens.
- Called Mom, two tropical depressions are brewing.
- 12:00 Nap
- 13:00 Worked on my todo list and reposted my Time Management.
- 14:00 Called the Doc, change my ph# so I can register with their www site.
- 15:00 Called mom and did some reading on the www.
- 16:00 Mowed the front lawn.
- 17:00 Dinner
- 18:00 Get ready for church
- 19:30 Church
- 21:00 Bed
NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC
NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.
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. Most days I make about 13 cents worth of electricity.
Articles about our current racial climate
Narrative: I’ve spent a great deal of time reading the news about the protesting encouraged by the BLM Corporation International. They are very skilled at mixing “Peaceful Protests” and violence into “Mostly Peaceful Protests”. They are also very good at squashing the media into publishing just their narrative by having people on the ground telling the journalists what they can video and publish under the threat of violence. No one is talking about people are innocent until they are proven guilty by their peers in a court of law, rather they may have judged and promoted immediate convictions based on video they’ve edited/published. They are remarkable in the complaints that are filed against the police and government about 1st Amendment rights being quelled by police brutality, which is the whole reason they are protesting. (Maybe, they still could want a Marxist government that redistributes the money to bring the poor out of poverty. They have to get the police out of the way before pushing the laws of this country aside with these protests.) No one is talking seriously about the 25 Trillion dollars of Debt we’ve (Politicians) run up as we keep finding ways to give away money. We also seem to be forgetting that a couple of these people (at the root of all this protesting) are convicted felons who’s aggression contributed to the painful loss of their lives in front of a video camera. I did read an article that links a pandemic to protests, apparently the oppressed are motivated during a pandemic to strike out at their government’s misgivings.
Louisville police arrested 76 at the demonstration (in NuLu), but in the hours and days after, protesters lambasted Revelry online, making allegations including that the owner had warned police about the occupation. The gallery has publicly denied this claim. The “Fire! Fire! Gentrifier!” sign outside of Revelry had been used at an earlier protest against the mayor. Some NuLu businesses fought back, asserting that the protesters had no right to issue demands. One called it “bullying,” and at least one other compared protesters’ tactics to the Mafia’s. But, their strategy seemed to work. Protesters have succeeded in securing changes that even some detractors agree were needed to diversify NuLu. https://www.leoweekly.com/2020/08/nulu-protest-demands-work-appropriate/
A medic, who gave the name Phoenix, confronted an officer she said had maced her and beaten her. She and a friend criticized the police for dispersing the entire crowd when only a few people had broken into PPA. “You are taking the actions of one person and you are punishing a movement,” Phoenix said. “One person did a fire and you think it’s OK to attack everybody here?”
“You’re all practicing group punishment,” the officer replied. “Because a few cops have done wrong things and you think we all need to suffer and be out here 69 days straight.” https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/05/portland-oregon-protests-police/
Finally, let’s note that protests at private homes are strategically misguided. Such protests tend to turn off potential sympathizers. The goal of political protest should be to generate outrage and empathy among possible supporters. But a protest at a home or at a restaurant defeats that purpose by making the protestors appear to be vindictive bullies. Public protests and civil disobedience are more effective at persuading others to see the justice of one’s cause.
Peeved protesters may get a thrill from demonstrating at a politician’ domicile. But their anger is misdirected. The official at home is not the problem. Rather the problem is what happens when the official is at work. These protesters would be more effective if they were informed by the history civil disobedience and by a more systematic conception of political power. The Problem of Protesting at People’s Homes
Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We’ve resorted to giving money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank https://acfb.org/ until I can come up with something better.
Tomorrow: Thursday.
Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.
Project Engineering: Need to locate source of humidity.
Purchases: DH22 Temp sensors, some didn’t work and some are inaccurate.
Repairs:
Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.
Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.
Arts: Watched a movie on Amazon Prime.
- Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
- Feet swollen today, not real bad but some cause for concern.
- I measured 20.75″ yesterday and measured 20.5″ today around the foot 2x.
- BP was almost perfect, drinking Filtered water to help kidneys and liver.
Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.
Taxes: Looking for our land tax bill.
Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.
Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.
Injuries: No injuries.
Accomplishments: None.
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