Max has potential.
Sparky likes him because, “He is not good with small animals or chickens.” He says Max sounds like a sensible fella.
Category: Projects (Page 2 of 9)
When the power went out a couple of days ago, my electricity was back in a few hours, but my home automation didn’t come back.
While I was having my coffee this morning, I noticed these guys screwing around in front of my house.
What are they doing? Don’t know. Probably some X-files bullshit. They may be with the water department.
When towing a trailer that weighs over 3000 lbs, a brake controller is required. My new Tacoma doesn’t have one. My last Tacoma didn’t either, but the RV dealership put one on in about 15 minutes because the wiring harness was already there.
Toyota decided to stop doing that. Now they sell Tacomas with a tow package, but no brake controller or provision to install a brake controller.
A few people have instructions online for the installation, but none of them match up. It’s a research project. I’m going to wait for a couple of weeks until Tech Support at the company is back from vacation.
Winter can be bleak and dreary, especially when the snow is old and the sky is overcast. Nature is shades of gray. That can bring a fella down.
It doesn’t bring me down, I’ve got a beagle, but as part of my Continuous Improvement Plan, I added automatic color.
Sparky wanted to go out and make new friends. His tail was smiling, but it didn’t make it to his face.
The construction guys sent the tire buyer to the aux driveway, so everything worked out.
This is fun.
They have to dig up the waterline to hook up Jerry’s house, across the street. It wouldn’t be an issue except a guy is coming over soon to buy the wheels and snow tires from my last Tacoma. If the guy calls, as I requested, he can park in the aux driveway.
He won’t call, and it will be a charlie-foxtrot as he interrupts the excavation.
I painted all of my padlocks and their accompanying keys.
My last home security project was to add instrumentation to all of my exterior door locks to monitor their status, and communicate with a local hub. I wrote a short program to link the locked/unlocked status of each door lock to the off/on status of a bulb in my dining room chandelier.
Are my projects getting dumber or am I?
It feels reckless to drill holes and change wires on a new truck, but I’m going to keep doing it.
In the thirteen years that I had my last truck, I modified it to add desirable features. My new truck doesn’t have those features, but it does display a bunch of cryptic symbols as it does stuff that I am already doing. Stuff like steering and watching what other cars are doing.