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 FRIDAY!
- 07:00 Up, Sipp’n coffee and Blogging.
- 08:00 Blogging
- 11:00 Edged the sidewalks.
- 12:00 Nap time.
- 14:00 Getting organized.
- 15:00 Another Nap, i didn’t sleep very well.
- 16:00 Dinner is beans and ham
- 17:00 It is cloudy and the switchover between low/high cool needs adjustment
- 18:00 Margarita time
- 19:00 Watching Tesla
- 21:00 Bedtime
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. I’ve been tweaking the software over the last week to improve our comfort.
At 9PM each day the processors shift their sensors to the bedroom and ignore the rest of the house for the most part. That way we have maximum comfort in the room we are occupying. I ended up removing the vent cover from the bedroom to improve the airflow and the dynamic changes when the air handler is running. Leaving the bedroom door open offsets the additional cold air present during the heat of the day. Also we are running the fan as though we had a 3T compressor to keep it from icing up. The airflow is quite a bit more than normal when on high cool. (Which reduces the dehumidification and increases the air temperature about 4 degrees.) That’s why we are running a dehumidifier even during a hot day.
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 toward the police 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. Lastly I found a good read that doesn’t sound like a stump speech about racism. https://medium.com…stop-calling-it-white-privilege the writer Michelle Elizabeth covers most of the bases about were we are as a racially divided country. What I liked about her writing was that she pointed out the thing I had missed in all the newspapers. There may well be racism in our justice system that still has not been tended to. However, IMHO Marxism is not where I want to go to replace it.
Cancelled my subscriptions to major Newspapers, they all have the same hype. I have also abandoned Facebook, Twitter too. I did subscribe to medium.com where authors seem to give their in-depth views on things, which is more palatable to me in this climate.
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: Dresses 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.
- Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!
Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.
Taxes: Georgia owes me almost 4K
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