Good Morning!!!! 72F @ 7:45AM. Plentiful sunshine. Hot. High 101F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
"Plentiful sunshine" these days translates to "red ball showing through dingy smog like smoke". But at least the heat isn't quite as intense.
Pretty funny story, Bird, thanks for sharing. Good reason not to be drinking whiskey every day.
Hard to believe white sugar is actually good for the hummers, Drew, but both of the books I have on them say it's so. One of those 25# Costco sugar bags lasts a couple of months here. For a while at the height of the CV19 shortages, they weren't available and I had to switch to some 40# bags. They were too heavy and didn't fit into the cupboard very well, and the sugar was clumped inside as if they'd somehow gotten wet. I was happy to see the pink'n'white CH bags come back.
I don't see any faces in those flowers, Ron, but they're the same color as the manzanita blooms that come in the winter here.
In town yesterday I was asked to wear a mask at the allergist's, and about half the people and all of the staff at Costco were wearing theirs. At one point the CDC was telling us that people that have had CV19 could be asymtomatic and spread the disease, then they reversed that position. Are they now saying vaccinated people can be silent spreaders? CV19 case numbers are up slightly here, but it already looks like they are declining again.
Took a rather large box of unused parts back to the plumbing supply place for a refund yesterday, and the clerk that had been helping me came to the door to open it for me. But instead of coming back to the counter, he kept right on going, jumped in a truck, and disappeared. That left a rather inexperienced and not too bright youngster to wade through the half dozen pages of receipts I'd also brought, and to rummage around in the back room looking for the float that the other guy had ordered. He got it done eventually, but it was painfully slow watching him struggle. I sure miss the old TBN emoticons. The one depicting pulling your hair out would be very appropriate here.
Got connectors installed on the Ethernet cable running up to the big water tank yesterday morning, and very briefly got images working from a security camera. That was a 600' run, and used the Ethernet extender I'd had problems with when rigged with 2000' of cable. Hooked in another 100' of cable, and it wouldn't work at 700'. Took out the 100', and it still wouldn't work. Took everything back into the garage, where I put connectors on what remained on the three reels of left over cables. I was surprised to get good camera images with two of the reels hooked together at a little more than 600', without using the range extender. Ethernet is only supposed to work to 100 meters (328'), so today I'll try the run to the big tank without the extender. I'm still going to need some sort or extender for the 1400' run to the mail box, but if the ones I have don't even work at 600', I'll somehow have to convince the company's tech support to issue a refund. So far, all they've done is look for excuses.
Speaking of which, I finally heard back from the solar contractor, who is now trying to blame me for the voltage sags, saying they told me there would be problems if everything was fed off the battery bank. Fortunately I still have copies of all the email that went back and forth, and I was very clear right from the beginning that what ever system they put together would provide uninterrupted power. Pulling all that together will take some time, though, but the way things are looking, I'm going to have to do it anyway for when I file a court suit. Nothing disappoints me more than people that won't admit their shortcomings and don't keep their word.
TGIF gang!
