Not A Whole Hell Of A Lot Going On

Yesterday or today. Just, mostly, SSDD. Sun came out awhile yesterday; a bit more today. But it wasn’t warm or anything. Not with that breeze blowing. Nice enough to take the Dog for a walk around the back of the property; but just barely.

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The 2-meter/70 cm antenna I ordered did come in today. And it took me all of an hour to get it up and running. Had to use that length of really thick coax I have cause all my other cables have one of the connectors cut off (for various other antenna projects). Thought I’d have to go and buy a new cable but found the thick one.

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Works pretty good, but I don’t think it works any better than the old one with the Club repeater. Maybe there are just too many trees and mountains in the way and I’m not going to get a great signal ever. Unless I get a really tall tower or something. But this one works with other repeaters just fine so I’ll stick with it until it wears out. Which will probably be never.

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Like I said, the sun was out a bit more today and I did get to spend some time outside. That was okay while I was doing things but that didn’t last too long. So I pretty much “wasted” the day reading “Alas, Babylon” for the umpteenth time. Still a good book.

Anywho, the love of my life is home and I’m gonna spend some time with her before bedtime.


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Hell Of A Wind Yesterday!

Trees down all over the place. Lot’s of damages to homes from falling trees. Power outages. Wires burning. Houses burning. Even a couple of deaths from trees falling on cars. Man, it was crazy here. Wind really howled around the house a few times. Don’t really like craking noises coming from the ceiling.

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We “weathered” the storm fairly well here. Lots of stuff we have outside got blown around; but we didn’t get any real damage nor lose power. Lights flickered enough for me to turn my computers and the NAS off (which is why I didn’t post last night), but they didn’t go completely out. Nor did it even reset any of our clocks. Cool!

Today has been mostly wet and only partially windy. Saw a blub where the Weather folks exclaimed “The Storm Is Over!” just as it started to hail rather aggressivly. Yeah. Sure. Tell me another. I still fully expect it to give us one more good snow before the end of April.

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Not a whole hell of a lot going on around here. I’ve been kind of lazy today; just the usual chores and took the Dog for a walk between the periods of rain. Finished off the laundry. Made some more jigglers. Talked on the radio some.

Still playing on getting the Linksis Routers to be Meshed. Tried a hard reset on one and now it comes up “NOCLL-xxxxxxxx” and won’t let me log in. Which is worse than before I tried the hard reset and just couldn’t log in. Figures. Now I gotta remember the log-in for the one I “flashed.”

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Anywho, that Sweet Young Thing I married almsot 30 years ago is home (safe) so I think I’ll go spend some time with her.


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