Nothing big happening here… but have been real busy… Friday I had to get to OKC for my bi-annual hearing aid check… that took all of 20 minutes to get them cleaned, get my ears cleaned out… ( I have a wax build up problem with the hearing aids and getting it out is almost a surgical maneuver)… From there is was back home and put some more time in on the security cameras… could not find why they don’t upload properly and are not recording properly now that I have upgraded the cameras so I upgraded the software… it shows them fine but have not gotten the license yet to see all of them and figure that is holding back the few other things I need (recorded motion)… the old software will be maintained till the new license is approved… weekends are a problem…
While I was reading down to OKC I tried in vain to get the heater to work in the jeep… just blowing cold air? and it is only 2 years old so what the hell is this… couldn’t get in the shop till next week… at least it is not cold cold yet… but at 49 degrees and 70 mph it would have been nice to get some heat… We also had to get the Avalon back in today to fix what they broke… and we had another problem jump up just after the dash fix… no air from the center vents, resets every time you start the car and won’t work on all the functions… I had hoped it was something they did in the dash install… they called and said… oh no way… it is a special part way down in there that has gone bad and that will be $1200 to fix it… HOLY cripes… both cars with heat/cold issues at once… at least the jeep is still warranty… too bad the car had to wait till the extended warranty ran out at the first of this year…
Saturday we didn’t do much more than get to the game… watched our team look like “Ned and the First Grade Reader” in the first half… trading scores is not a good thing when you’re the one behind and giving up more than you get back… had a KSU fan down in front of us jumping up (girl) with ever great then they did and bad thing we did so she was standing a lot and doing cheer leading and blowing kisses to the crowd… (cowboy crowd mind you)… I think either she had too much stimulation before the game or forgot where she was at half time cause she left and didn’t get back till the score was nearly tied… and wasn’t near as “over-enthusiastic” in front of the opposition fans… I don’t mind enthusiastic fans but remember where you are please… We ended up pulling it out in the end… like last week with a field goal in the last seconds… I am not sure we are anywhere near as good as we had been rated…but we are 5-0 at present… although it will be all uphill from here… (other than Kansas)…
Sunday we were supposed to get to Sherries family re-union in Enid but through one excuse or another we didn’t make that adventure… We did get to Lowes, looked at some tile, since we are redoing the kitchen, but they had nothing of interest… I picked up some blinds for the garage… Sherrie has never liked the once we put up (really cheap paper things). They had the Faux wood ones on sale so we got 3 white 2 inch ones to hang in the garage windows… “so they look nicer”. I got one up in the afternoon… and finished up the job this morning…
This is what was up… I liked it cause the top let in a lot of light so the garage was well lite up during the day… but it did look “tacky” so they got pulled and all have ….
These have been put on all three windows now… with out a step stool you wont be grabbing the strings to open them up … or at least most wont get to them… I shot this from across the top of the jeep… yea the garage is a big and very tall ceiling type… so the window sills are about 5 ft. off the floor… not easy for some one to break in to them either… although the one at the deck looks normal (from the outside)…
This afternoon I spent more time on the software for the cameras and got the license to open it up … and then reset and reset and reset the cameras so they would recorded for motion and upload pictures but still not as smooth as the old software but they are working ( somewhat)… probably the operator that is causing the errors?
Tomorrow they car goes back – they will put in the part that I had to “PRE_PAY” for (that was a first for me and I was not happy about that)… and I will have to pay them another $800 for the labor to drag all that stuff out and swap the one part that is broke and put it all back…
Tonight I worked a little more JT65 on 160 meters… it is starting to improve a bit… picked up one DX call from the Cayman Is… ZF1EJ… and one from far NE Canada VE1SKY… so overall not too bad… just need for it to open up the other way and confirm some AK station..
That catches up the small happening here… I do need to get more diligent about posting… also need to work some on some family history but it is too nice out and I get sidetracked easily…
WD0AJG