good morning all.
Hot day today, and tomorrow, going up to mid 90's in fair weather.
Saturday weather still calls for rain and wind, but wind at 16mph is no problem.
Looks like the planes at Barksdale got off on time:
Barksdale Changes Course, Evacuating Bombers Ahead of Hurricane Laura - Air Force Magazine
enjoying first cup of coffee despite unpleasant headache, thinking maybe a little caffeine, since I had none yesterday, may help. Am still mixing at 1/3 regular, 2/3 decaf
That and a couple more tylenol will helpfully work.
Have a number of calls to make today to county offices, got another water bill when two weeks ago called their office to verify they had shut
off my account, which they hadn't. I was on auto deduction so now I have to fuss to get my money back. And also got a property tax bill for next year, which is
all wrong, and have to get that fixed. Thankfully the $7k refund from assisted living came within one week, helped no doubt by my mentioning the name of their
company's president and intention to write a letter there if money not returned promptly. Every letter I have ever written to a company president has always gotten fast results, helped
by the fact I was not asking for anything unreasonable. Mentioning social media like Google reviews also seems to help.
Now that I have my second good PET scan under my belt, I can make firm plans for future, rent a home, etc. I'd love to get out of here by Oct 1 but oncologist may want me here another week to finish post chemo tests including another Pet scan and an EKG. Every time I look at heart monitor readout it says OK. I'm OK, you're OK...
I've been studying heavy duty extension cords, may need one to plug rv in at rental home, though my custom 70 footer may be all I need. It's only a 30 amp line and the oem/custom cable is 10 gauge it appears, so if I add a 50 footer to that, trying to decide between 10 and 12 gauge. Likely to be conservative and buy the heavier cord. The adapter from 30 to 15 amps comes in a variety of qualities, I bought the heaviest duty one I could find. Proof comes when you put your hand on cord ends and see if it's warm. I melted the end of one cord once and that taught me a lesson.
As an old fireman, I don't like anything getting hot. By the time I get to PA in October, need for a/c will be gone anyway, then it's running two small electric heaters which I carefully set to stay under 1500 watts draw. So thinking a cord rated at 1875 makes sense. Need to find a house or garage outlet not daisychained in with something else. If the garage has it's own outlet, which I won't know until next week, that would be perfect, and also mean I wouldn't need more than my extra long cord, which I had custom made to hook up to rv outlet at farm's barn. Would be nice to use RV as a guest house if I could though dealing with septic is a real challenge.
hope you all have a nice day and prayers for folks in S/E Texas, Louisiana and I guess Arkansas too.
Good I only needed one. Hope to get it installed today. Digging a 3'+ deep hole may be a little much with promised heat. It's in a area where I cannot get tractor post hole digger in.
