Status: We’ve still not unpacked our car from the three week trip to Florida. But we’re very grateful to be home.
Today’s Plans: Celebrate Thanksgiving with the family just after lunch time.
Narrative: Spent an hour or so pulling stuff out of the car very early this morning. The back seat is mostly empty, but the trunk is still pretty full. Had three eggs and some juice, all the others expired a month ago. I put the coffee pot together so the Wife just has to turn it on.
We’ve picked up a nest of tiny ants, not sure but I think they’ve built a nest in the attic. Google Foo suggests liquid Borax, I’ve seen Borax powder for roaches.
Pulled some more boxes out of the car, I think I’m down to the two desktop computers from her business office. I thought about bagging them, spraying the bag and bagging them again? They’re Windows XP, but mom wants the pictures off of them. I’ve got the same issue with an old Toshiba laptop.
Thanksgiving dinner went well, I ate too much and was suckered into having peach cobbler on top of that. We had a really good time, but we miss our son that couldn’t make it for the first time in many years. We took the traditional picture with the family that will end up on our walls. We went home around 20:00, I was exhausted and just needed to get home. (Didn’t even stop for gas.) We washed our CPAP stuff tonight, it’s been a couple weeks and they were beginning to smell. Confined air works pretty good under a comforter when it is cold like this.
Firewall News: The Fortigate 60D firewall at grandpa’s will dial into my firewall in Atlanta when I ask it to. I need to find a way of having it dial without asking and maintain the link without interaction.
Solar News: I had to leave the second 50W panel in Fl. because I forgot to load it into the car. Boo! My two 100W panels in Atlanta will keep my refrigerator running during the day as long as it is bright sun and can push about 140W into the batteries. Okay, your right, it’s maybe 5 cents worth of electricity and hardly worth the effort.
Pi News: https://www.raspberrypi.org/
I downloaded NOOBS 3.0 (New Out of Box Software) and loaded it onto two 16GB Micro SD cards, NOOBS 2.0 apparently cannot be used on the Pi V3B. I’ll let it load from the SD card then update it over the Internet versus downloading the entire thing across the www. The red LED must mean something different on these new Pi’s? Something like “The power is on” because I have plenty of power available and the red LED is constantly illuminated. Mom has two Pi’s on her new desk and there are two Pi’s on the old farm as well.
Tomorrow: Plans are to walk the park and go to the Train museum, then dinner somewhere that I’ve forgotten already.
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Projects: Status: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering: Theme: Repairs:
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To