Good Morning! 50F @ 9:00AM. Periods of rain and wind. Rain becoming heavy at times this afternoon. High 49F. Winds SSE at 25 to 35 mph. Chance of rain 100%. 1 to 2 inches of rain expected. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
0.3" of rain last night, and another 0.3" since midnight so far today, another two inches predicted for the rest of the day. It's been raining constantly, but with the winds this high I'm wondering if all of it is making it into the rain gauge.
A friend of mine lives in South Lake Tahoe and apparently he's been getting a lot of snow lately.:laughing: Thought some of you folks could relate to
this story he posted this morning.
Several years back a friend was trying to sell a Corvette and I toyed with the idea of buying it. Right up until I priced insurance; it was over $1000/year even though by then I was already in my 50s and had a spotless driving record. And this for a mid '80s car with a mid level engine package. :confused2: The last thing I needed was another vehicle that screamed "arrest me"; it's bad enough with the motorcycles already.:laughing:
Got another piece of headliner cloth ordered yesterday for the van. I'd overlooked the plywood bottom for the upper bunk; it forms a ceiling of sorts over the rear seat and cargo area. Now it'll be covered with clouds like the rest of the overhead areas. And since the board is flat and not too large, it'll make a good place to start learning how to glue the stuff on.
Then started getting my oldest Macbook ready to sell. Found a 750Gb hard drive in the drawer that will fit it and am doing a "government erase" on it. Multiple passes of writing zeros everywhere takes a long time. Almost 24 hours so far and it's only about a third done. Then found that the DVD/CD drive wouldn't swallow a disc anymore, so took it out to see what the trouble was. There's some kind of pin keeping the disc from going into the drive, and the pin is hooked to an actuator that doesn't seem to be moving. My guess is it's a software problem, so hopefully a freshly formatted hard drive and a new copy of the OS will fix it. Sure had fun playing with all those itty bitty screws though. (NOT!).
Also set up another security camera, but will need to install a power outlet where it will be mounted. Might get that done today as it's a good day to fiddle with inside projects.