Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..
Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.
- 01:00 Blogging.
- 05:00 Up drinking coffee and making plans.
- 06:00 Down for a nap
- 08:00 Up and blogging, we missed garbage pickup today.
- 09:00 figuring out my state taxes.
- 10:00 Waiting on my new password, didn’t come…
- 11:00 Lunch
- 12:00 Nap
- 13:00 Spent several hours correcting my State tax return. Boo!
- 17:00 Din DIn
- 18:00 Blogging and cleaning up papers.
- 19:00 Watched Sputnik, Russian movie with English subtitles
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.
About our current racial climate
Narrative: I’ve spent hundreds of hours 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 their taunting, then they file complaints 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 and give control of the country to the working class. (DPRUSA?) They have to get the police out of the way before pushing the laws of this country aside with these protests.) The-revolutionary-philosophy-of-marxism 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.
Cancelled subscriptions to Newspapers.
I have also abandoned Facebook, Twitter too.
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: Saturday.
Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.
Project Engineering:
Purchases: Another Dremel tool for mom.
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:
- Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
- Feet swollen today, not real bad but some cause for concern.
- I measured 20.5″ yesterday and measured 20.0″ 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 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