Well, we got rain yesterday… we got rain last night, we got rain today… It comes and it goes and it comes again… fortunately we have not had bad weather here… Did have some strong wind in the middle of last night and again this evening but not so bad it did any damage…
This morning I took off to do a little argue, and have breakfast, and mail some stuff off… breakfast was at the Donut shop… I like the jalapeno rolls they have… kind of like Kolaches but these are called sausage rolls… My focus was to get to the cable office to argue my bill… damn if they just keep changing it and the changes are always up… I was also supposed to get some credits but they have never shown up… so I took copies of the emails, notes, and last 4 bills to question why my switch part went from 79 to 99 last month? yes they had to raise the cost of TV but that was only about 5 dollars? and even at that I cut out the sports additions so I should have gotten a $11 dollars cheaper but it went up $25… After my argument and copies of stuff I did get some of that back off but no word on my credit due… ALWAYS GET PROMISES IN WRITING…
When I was about to leave their office , damn that thing was big….
14
yep… 14 double –double axles… and about half a block long… it took up both lanes on the west bound direction… no passing this thing…
When I did get out I headed up to ,of all places for me, Joann’s… I needed a much better, very small stapler, for my humming bird projects and found that Joann’s had one that was much sturdier and smaller than my bostich mini- 10’s… and that one had bit me once too many times last night so it is going out and the new one found works great…
I got my stapler home, and immediately had to build another humming bird to test it out… works fine… missed getting pictures of that last bird , again… so damn intent on getting things built that I don’t get enough pictures… later…
This is one of my first copies…
I also spent some time trying to get my old 706 hooked back up to use while the 7100 is in for warranty work… the new 7100 developed a problem with the touch screen… not responsive in the right places and no way to adjust it… and it has an audio problem? so sent it in yesterday and pulled the 706 back out to hook up…
Easy enough to get it hooked back up but for some odd reason it would kill the control program on the computer. At first I thought it was RF getting into the CI-V connection, but got that ruled out… then thought maybe it was the Com port on the computer not right, so re-set all that… after much hair pulling and study… I went back to the comm settings and found that for some odd reason it has reset itself to be RTS-CTS controlled? The CI-V link and the link to the Signalink is all software controlled and no RTS/CTS lines hooked up? so once I unchecked that option … poof it worked fine… so that is back… maybe I will make a few contacts if the storms die down?
I went in for lunch and we stepped outside the box and had some Firehouse subs today… I like their hot subs but for one reason or another we never seem to stop or get there and I mentioned we never go there so toady… that was the option and boy was my sandwich good… A hot Philly with grilled peppers, onions and mushrooms… After lunch I came on home pretty quick as I hadn’t gotten the radio fixed and spent a few hours this afternoon finally getting to that RTS problem… once that was done I worked on some more cans cutting and marking for a few more of the wind spinners…
I now have 6 of those made as I did another one tonight while working the local ham net on the radio and listening to several others… Most of these are pretty easy to make up… just a little time … The big wind tonight flipped a couple of them off the loops so I reworked that and have 5 in one line tied to the deck railing so they wont take off… ha!
I guess it is supposed to rain or have storms all the way through Saturday… that means I will have to mow next week as soon as it gets dry enough… Although I had an appointment for Wednesday afternoon… Going to get to the Root of it… not a fun afternoon planned… more on that later…
WD0AJG