Good Morning!!!! 50F @ 2:15AM. Sunny skies. High 77F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph.
Up way too early.
What are you all doing for music?
My baseline source for music is a collection of over 1000 CDs, to which I'm still adding. I play each one once to rip it to the SSD on my main laptop, then I'll manually sync it to my phone. Then overnight it gets automatically synced to the file server and from there, my travel laptop. I browse for new music on YouTube regularly, and most of the time buy used CDs on Amazon. I still have one XM/Sirius subscription for a portable player I use on the motorcycles, but refuse to give them another $10/vehicle a month for the van and car since there's only one of me and I can only listen to one at a time. I won't be renewing, and instead will just listen to podcasts and music off the phone. I don't have any other streaming services, just not a fan of maintaining another subscription, but that does seem to be the way the world is going. It certainly is for video content, as much of the new stuff is only available via a paid for stream, and sadly, NetFlix no longer distributes DVDs. I'll stream music from the phone in the car, van, or motorcycles, or from the file server in the house, picking an album, genre, artist, or playlist, or sometimes just randomly picking from the whole collection. At the old house, I had an amplifier, AppleTV, and speakers set up in each room I wanted music, and controlled the stream via the phone via an Apple player app. At the new place, I've only got that set up in the living room and office so far. I can run a pair of wires out to the garage pretty easily from the office, just haven't gotten a round tuit yet. I'm debating on putting speakers on the back porch, as I don't want to annoy any neighbors. Then again, several of the neighbors don't seem to mind annoying me, and I'm not a big fan of Latino umpah music.
Our place is taking overflows on stuff that should bring a lot of money for the in laws rather than cut throat yard sale prices. I had one person who was hagling me about 5 dollars on an American Flyer double sled. Hey...was tired and just done at that point and would not give in. Was offered for half the internet rates. Our pricing was extremely below market with 5 to 10 dollars built in for haggling and of course...people like to bargin. LOL.
Same here. Among other things, I'm dumping the steel and plastic pallets I welded up for firewood, asking $25 a piece. Just the other day I had a guy offer $20, which I declined, as at $25 I'm almost giving 'em away already. Last night a guy IMed to say he'd take 'em both, and could be here at 8:30AM today. He'll get them if he actually shows up, otherwise another guy says he'll send is dad over to pick up one. I always tell people first one here with the cash gets it, no holds, no checks or e-money. I'd say maybe one in three of the initial contacts actually results in a sale. Most of the Facebook Marketplace inquiries are canned 'Is it still available' clicks, and I state plainly in the ads such inquiries will get no response. In a weak moment that I do respond to those, I always get ghosted. I also control when they come by to pick something up by only providing the address when they say they're on their way over. In a month or so when I'm completely out of the old house, I'll have a yard sale at the new one to get rid of whatever hasn't sold, and take whatever is left after that to either Goodwill or the dump. Man will I ever be glad to be done with the haggling! Hang in there, Mike. It only takes one to make a sale, and the patience to wait until they wake up and realize they can't live without something you're trying to get rid of.
Geeked around most of yesterday installing "smart" wall outlet switches on some of the more frequently used lamps. I've had pretty good luck with the Lutron Caseta stuff, and lousy experience with Eve and Leviton, neither of which can seem to maintain a Bluetooth/WiFi connection. I also like the Caseta "pico" switches that fit in a Decora footprint switch plate and give a conventional push button control that goes next to an existing gang box (just replace the plastic switch cover with one that has an extra hole), or can be placed stand alone on a handy table or counter.
A little more of that today, along with packing for another trip back up north, maybe leaving tomorrow, but more likely Thursday. For right now, though, I think I'll try to get a little more shut eye...
have feeling next 4 days leaves will drop at good rate.
