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.
My plum trees are wracked with black knot. That’s a gnarly looking fungus that infects a branch, and kills the rest of the branch. Close up, the corruption looks like this.
When the Embridge guy came by to sign off on the gas line installation, Sparky was very interested in the natural gas leak detector. He wanted to know if his breath really smells like farts.
My natural gas is going to be turned off most of the day as a new gas line is bored from the other side of the road, under my lawn, and to the side of my house. My gas meter will be moved from the basement to outside.
The worst part for me is waking up early to let them in.
A new truck means new projects.
That yellow jounce block was removed from above the rear axle, and replaced with an air spring.
When a project might be a good idea, it’s better for me to do it, then to worry about regretting it later. This project might be like that.
Vehicles will rust if they are parked on dirt as moisture comes up. The camper needs to be parked on the new asphalt, but the new asphalt needs to stay nice.
There always seems to be a construction project going on around here.
A couple of days ago, Sparky wanted to go out to talk to the construction guys to find out what they smelled like. That seemed like a good idea. I had some questions.
Home automation is addicting. Once the window shades in the solarium were automated, I looked for anything else to add to the system. Some people go nuts. If you have looked at a new furnace, refrigerator, thermostat or hot water heater, you see that they can all be web-enabled. I don’t want to go crazy.
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