Good Morning!!!! 59F @ 4:30AM. Sunny. High 82F. Winds light and variable.
Still no rain in the 10-day, but the weather guesser on the TV last night was showing a model prediction that will give us a good soaking in a week.
In the FWIW Department, Weather Underground publishes a multi-part guide to Personal Weather Stations, and
one part covers installation. I also thought that one rain gauge would shadow the other, Don, throwing off the readings. There's also a hack out there to substitute a car battery for the puny one that comes in most UPSs. That's what I'm gonna do next time one of the UPS batteries goes flat.
Twelve years is a good long time for a battery to last, Luther. What's your secret?
Guard Squirrel looks like he could use the extra exercise, Ron. Good job out smarting the censors.
If you can get the engine running on the Steiner, and the hydraulic pump works, you'll find all the leaks pretty quickly and get those fasteners doused with oil at the same time, Kyle. A two-fer.:laughing: Hope the boy's finger heals quickly, and he figures out how not to let it happen again. He's gonna need all his fingers to ride that Yamaha...
Maybe I missed it, Eric: Did you finish the concrete water works you had going? I'm with you on the time change foolishness: pick a time and leave it alone!
Also saw on the news last night that the local WalMart is putting all the guns back, and only stores in riot prone areas are effected by the new policy. Also saw that most of the shops in downtown San Francisco are boarding up their glass doors and windows. What a world we live in now.
You're a regular one-man-band, Paul!:thumbsup: Never learned to play an instrument, and can't carry a tune in a bucket with my voice, either. And since the Bell's started, can't even whistle any more...:confused2: They say you can never go back, but it's great you're finding a way to plug a sonic hole created in your misspent youth. I wish they were all that easy.
Seems like plenty of time left for that last 1000 miles, Bruce. Be nice if the weather cooperated a little better, though.
I saw where I was down to the last pair of furnace filters in the six pack I bought a couple years ago, Drew, and now they're priced at about 25 bux EACH! More CV19 gouging!
Glad you and your primary doc got along so well. Probably the most important medial contact we've got.
I think the surges in CV19 are due to the colder weather forcing folks closer together inside to stay warm. But while more people get sick, fewer of them die or go into the hospital because the therapeutic treatments are working better. And the predictions for a vaccine are very optimistic.:crossfingers: None if that is an excuse to back off on social distancing and mask wearing, though. And I still plan to minimize my trips to town, at least until I can get dosed with the new vaccine when/if it comes.
Well, yesterday didn't go according to plan, and didn't even start that way. Didn't get much sleep the night before, and trying to sleep in didn't work, either. Then the battery on the red bike was dead when I went to start it, even though it started right up the day before. But I'd left it off the trickle charger that night, and maybe left the GPS on, but that shouldn't be enough to cause it to go flat. But that battery has had a rough life, and maybe it's just bad. Put it on an old fashioned 6 amp charger, threw a set of jumper cables in the saddle bag, and left an hour later than I'd have liked. It was great to be out on a bike again; the last time was mid June. Things were running along wonderfully until I got into the first of the coastal hills and started to notice a vibration in the footpegs that's never been there before. And the more I used the throttle, the worse it got. I'd felt the same vibration before on the zebra bike when a u-joint failed, so I pulled over and tried to feel through a rubber boot for heat, but the boot was too thick to really tell anything for sure. But my gut told me it wasn't going to fix itself, and even if it was something else, I didn't want to take the chance of being stuck on the side of the road. So I turned around and took it real easy getting home. A nice couple hundred mile day, but not the weekend on the coast with friends I'd hoped for.
But maybe it's just as well, as I noticed FedEx had left a box full of electronics on the ground next to the gate, and USPS left another package in the unlocked parcel box.
ullinghair: And instead of bundling up against the chill of coastal fog, I enjoyed warm gentle breezes and installed a new security cam, and a new access point out in the garage to improve network coverage there. I'll see if I can make a screen shot of the new heat map and post it here later for you, David.
Hope everyone enjoys a great weekend!
