Good Morning!!!! 81F @ 4:30AM. Plentiful sunshine. Areas of smoke and haze are possible, reducing visibility at times. High near 110F. Winds light and variable.
A Fire Weather Watch will start Monday evening, lasting through Wednesday morning, with low humidity, strong wind, and very low moisture content in wildland fuels causing any fire starts to spread rapidly. Coinciding with the Watch, PG&E (America's largest and most successful domestic terrorist organization) has started blasting warnings via email, telephone, and social media, that they will initiate the ironically named Public Safety Power Outages over much of Northern California starting Monday evening, lasting into the following Thursday. So tens of thousands of people here will be plunged into darkness in the middle of the night, and their ability to pump water to fight any fires that may arise will be gone unless they've made preparations to generate their own electricity. Or maybe they won't shut the power off after all, because it all depends on the weather, and so far their success in accurate predictions isn't that great. In the mean time, all of us out here on the left coast will stay hunkered down, fingers crossed that the generators, batteries, and solar panels will do their thing and keep us safe.
Sorry about the TBN outage, Eric. The extremes our governments are willing to go to in order to keep us safe are alarming. Why just yesterday, one of our idiot legislators in Sacramento proposed a "Wealth Tax" on anyone with a net worth of over $30,000,000. Because COVID-19, you know, and we're all hurting, and need someone else to make up the taxes lost when these same people shut down businesses state wide, losing all those payroll taxes and driving unemployment payments through the roof. You can't make this kind of stuff up.
And there's a move in the same legislative body to legalize unspeakable *** acts on children. How low can they go?
The world would be a far better place if people would not mix politics and business, Drew. But the two insist on intertwining in a death spiral that could very well bankrupt the whole country come the next election. Just another sign of the approaching Apocalypse.
Yes, distance and masks for all, Randy. Be safe at the party.
Still dreamin' about flannel jackets, and now slices of pineapple upside down cake, Billy!
Careful, RS, my Snap-On man sez he can tell when someone busted a non-impact socket with an impact wrench. But he still gives 'em a new one. What are ya gonna do when you run out of stuff to plant?
Your dogs are eatin' pretty high on the hog, Ted. But I doubt Don would approve of such a diet for you or I...
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You know what's worse than finding a worm in your tuna, Drew? Finding
half a worm.:laughing:
Same issue out here with the walls, only it's the metal mesh under the stucco that screws up the reception. If you're not trying to go very far, some of the Unifi APs have separate antennas you can swap out for directional Yagi types. Or you can opt for the nanoBeam bridges, and put APs at each end for good coverage in areas that are too far apart for a continuous blanket. Yeah, I know, you wanna stream music or your favorite talk channels everywhere on your property so you can listen while you mow. You can do that, it just takes time and money, like most things worth doing.
Sounds like kitty is earning her keep, Kyle, and no wonder you want her to be an outside cat. Got any pichers of Camp Mabry? Haven't been interested in any modern motorcycles for at least ten years now, so you can keep any from that dealership...:laughing:
Tried out my plan with the multimeter out in the garage, and found that the outlet on the workbench was wired with only two leads and no ground, even though the sockets had the hole for one. My own fault, as it was little more than an extension cord I'd made up years ago, undoubtedly using what I already had on hand instead of what I should have. So I moved over to a GVI outlet, which instantly tripped when I attached the ground lead to the oscilloscope because some of the return current was being shared by both the neutral lead and the actual ground. Undaunted, I moved into the house where I found an outlet in the hall that cooperated, my reward being a nice sine wave on the o'scope's screen. I also succeeded in transferring some of the captured data to a USB thumb drive, and reading it back into the laptop. Problem was, it was a CSV file with over 3,000,000 data points, and the Apple Numbers app choked on it. So I opened it in a text editor and cut it down to just one half cycle of the 1 kHz test wave that I was measuring, and that was still 30,000 points. I got a plot, though. That had me searching for a way to set the sampling rate and duration, and for how to get just that selection into a data file. No dice, as either the o'scope isn't designed to work that way, or I'm too dumb to figure out the somewhat ChEnglish instructions that I downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Probably the latter, so I'll keep trying today. But I also found an out let in the office that had the neutral and hot leads swapped, so I ordered an eight dollar socket tester from Amazon so I could check the rest of 'em.
All that fiddlin' tired me out, so I got a nap in yesterday afternoon, too.
Got a little work to get ready for the upcoming power outages, making sure the solar powered flashlights are charged and such. I don't see any need to run the generator while I'm sleeping, so I plan to open it's breaker at bedtime so it won't come on automatically when the batteries discharge far enough. But that also means no A/C or even ceiling fan, overnight, and I'm not looking forward to that.
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
