Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 8:00AM. Areas of fog early, becoming sunny this afternoon. High 71F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph.
How you gonna fit all those nice machine tools in your already crowded barn, Kyle? Wish I was close enough to help!
Beautiful table, Ken.
I had Eufy cameras for a while, chosen mainly because they were Apple HomeKit friendly. They were battery only, and I got rid of them. Sounds like the current crop can be powered via USB. One pitfall many people seem to fall into is not checking the video from their cameras to verify that they can actually capture enough detail to identify a face or license plate. A 1080P camera will only do that close up, and 4K range can also be surprisingly short. Also, WiFi range can be a problem, too, as can POI power if you're using Ethernet cameras. If people were honest, it would sure save us all a lot of complication.
Delivered a bucket and a box full of Honda 90 engine parts that came with one I bought a few years ago. Met the guy that wanted 'em in a parking lot, and he starts to make noise about the condition of some of the parts. Yeah, they're used, as stated in the ad. And I'd gone a fair distance out of my way to deliver 'em. So he makes an offer way below the stated price. And I tell him I'll just sell them to someone else. He pulls a wad of bills out of his pocket and hands it to me, enough to cover the original price. If condition of the parts was an issue for him, why didn't he ask before he decided to meet and save us both a bunch of time. At least a buddy and I got a nice bicycle ride out of it, the only reason I'd agreed to the hour and a half delivery trip.
Nice weekend here, catching up on groceries, then yesterday a bicycle ride from the beach at Goleta inland on a nice and mostly shady bicycle path. On the e-bike. Legs tell me they're way out of shape, lungs, too. Too much anaerobic work, need more real exercise.
The big fire east of here continues to burn, and the information coming out about it is getting pretty sparse. As of 14 hours ago, it was a little over 38,000 acres. The sky here was hazy all weekend, and you could smell the smoke. Doesn't seem like anyplace in California is safe from smoke anymore.
I was dropping a buddy off after the bike ride yesterday when we noticed the neighbor lady fooling around under the dash of her car. We wandered over to say hello, and were told the brake lights weren't shutting off and it was killing her battery. A clerk at the FLAPS had sold her a new interlock switch, but when I took a look on YouTube the problem turned out to be a bad rubber grommet on which the interlock switch pressed. We found an M5 bolt and nut to fill the hole that was formerly filled by the grommet, installed it, and made sure the brake lights still worked. I guess I'll find out later this week if that fixed it. Sure hope so, 'cause it's plenty crowded under that dash, and I can't even see the other end of the interlock switch...
Hope everyone's week gets off to a nice start...
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