Good Morning!!!! 76F @ 6:30AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 104F. Winds light and variable.
Another bad air day, Fire Weather Warning day, PG&E Flex Alert for the long weekend (they don't have enough power for everyone), and starting Monday night, increasing chances of the first PSPS (Public Safety Power Shutoff) of the year. The Apocalypse is done approaching, it's here.
I can only dream of flannel shirts, Billy...
Good Luck with your packing, David MFW! Maybe throwing in a definition for PoE (Power over Ethernet) would help, Drew?
You may be starting over, Drew, but after all these years, you have the huge advantage of knowing exactly what you want, and how best to get it.
Take it easy with that shovel, RS, you might find some muscles you didn't know you had...
One of the disadvantages of owning a backhoe, Ted, especially once the word gets out. But nice of you to do the deed.
Two weeks ago they opened Chico State and the kids moved in for the school year, but CV19 cases started spiking and this week they sent them all home to do distance learning. What a fiasco, and the extra case load is causing extra restrictions on local businesses.
There's never enough room, is there, Randy?
RNG, I'd be totally frustrated about the subaru vanagon issue. Don't they know it lets out less emissions than a stock air cooled vw motor?
I passed frustrated several years ago on this build, Kyle. In a couple more years, the van'll be old enough to qualify for Vintage plates, and I may just park it until then. The plates expire at the end of the month, so at that point it will be "non-opped", another California rule that has people paying a reduced fee just to keep a vehicle active in their computer system. Don't pay it, and you have to pay all the back registration fees when you put it back on the road. Very predatory. Whatever happened to "government of the people, by the people, for the people"?
Oscilloscope finally got here, but the box had a big gash in it that looked like someone put a forklift tine through it. Close call, nothing inside was hurt, thanks to a very good packing design. Fired right up, used the built in signal generator to find one of the four probes couldn't be calibrated, but at least the controls are fairly well laid out, and with a little use, make sense in what they do. Tried to measure the wall socket voltage, but blew the breaker for that room when I attached the ground clip from the probe; probably grabbed the power leg with it instead of the neutral? More homework. That revealed that the new network hardware wasn't plugged into the correct socket on the UPS, so I did some cleanup in that closet and was able to get rid of an extension cord. Still more work to do there, too.
New monitor also showed up, more screen real estate, all of it nice and sharp and bright. In the course of taking the old monitor down, I tried to fire up the old desktop Mac and found it quite dead, so that moved to the recycle pile, too. But not before removing the hard drives and zero wiping them. Have to figure out how to use all that space under the desk where it used to sit.
I did get a few good hours sweating it out in the garage yesterday morning, running three phase power cords for the lathe and belt sander overhead through padded clamps to get them out of the way, and moving the sanders to the other end of the garage so as not to crap up the electronics on the solar power system. Still have more work to do to make everything fit and still be able to walk between pieces of equipment, but it's gettin' there.
At the end of the day I headed up the hill to close the gate, and the closer was dead. So that's on the agenda for this morning. If it's not the battery, which is only a couple years old, the next opener sure as heck won't be a Mighty Mule.
Hope everyone has a great three day weekend!
