One year ago today: March 24, 2024, I fixed it myself.
Five years ago today: March 24, 2020, cactii, thumbs, Yeehaw.
Nine years ago today: March 24, 2016, cash is no longer proof.
Random years ago today: March 24, 2017, that sharpshooter guy.
It’s early, let’s find the Sun at 04:20:41 this morning. It’s above a spot on the Earth at GHA 123° 38’ and 01° 22’ North of the Equator. What is that closest to? First let me check something. I do not follow star navigation, but have read a bit on it. The point of Aries, used as a marker for all navigation starts, is at 0° declination at the annual Spring Equinox, is also near that same spot. Anyway, I’m not so good at this, which is why I’m practicing. If this was 2014, it would be in the Celebes Sea. Check addendum for details. I have no other pics for you today other than this circuit I find interesting.
Add this ride to my bucket list, a flight on an all-electric. It only gets high enough to use ground effect, but I’ll take that. It also works in hydrofoil mode. Let’s get to work. There are two joists that remain to be positioned, but they are the easy ones away from the corners of the structure. Rather than being that, I have decided that wing mess has to be sorted. Of the five or six lines, I have identified two running to the older outlets and a third that seems connected to the overhead lights. I say it seems as there is something mis-wired in the kitchen.
There are two outlets wired to the tiny and inadequate kitchen counter area. They’ve been added on by tapping into old existing wiring. I think that is the problem. With all the kitchen breakers off, my probe detects an intermittent hot signal. I’ve got it narrowed down to somewhere inside the south kitchen wall and I think it is something I’ve never seen before. A few years ago I came up with the theory that whoever added the second outlet found a convenient hot wire along that wall and presumed it was the same wire to the first outlet. Suppose the chose the wrong run and there are two hotwires somehow connected to the same outlets. They seem to work fine, but they burn out light bulbs.
Thinking ahead, years ago I ran in an exterior light box but never got around to the fixture. Today, I hooked it up to use it as a test light. No matter how the probe reads, I can easily peek out the kitchen door to see if the bulb is on. (I’ll replace it later with a night sensor bulb which I have in the shed. This commences the major job of the kitchen wiring which I predict will take until the end of this month, at least 30 more hours.
It’s a mystery when I will admit this cabin, at some 700 square feet, is too large for me. I have a number of options but I don’t want to give up anything. It’s basically a free and quiet bed for the rest of my life and after a certain point who doesn’t want that? I won’t think too hard about the future until the flooring and wiring is complete, plus I always have the option to rent the spare room. Am I comfortable? Very, and the upkeep here is nothing compared to a bigger and fancier place. And why tinker with a system that is working? Example, my biggest local expense is groceries. Next is gasoline, I’ve only spent $331 on gas this year and that includes a couple day trips.
According to stats by the Consumer Discretionary group, only the wealthiest people spend less than 11% of their income on groceries and I’m below that by a few percent. Mind you, you won’t find a lot of steaks, shrimp, or leg of lamb in my diet, but also very little Kraft Dinner.
“Snow White” has netted Disney just $41 million in opening week, below the $50 million normally considered the box office safety net. With production costs over $200 million, the standing joke is Disney gets a defense contract for producing more bombs that MacDonnell-Douglas. “Snow Woke and the Seven Virtue Signals.” The 330 plane South African Air Force is down to 6 flying aircraft. Seems nobody knows how to service them. Most airplane contracts include spare and service parts which are rotting away in warehouses.
Dien Bien Phu Historical Victory Museum.
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I built five brackets of scrap lumber to hold the wiring up against the bottom of the joists. I made them fairly sturdy so if they work as intended, I can leave them in place to keep the wiring organized. Between these and the exterior light, which was a bitch to troubleshoot, I burned up five hours of prime work time. And got myself tired. Once I take that flooring up, we will be living on coffee and sandwiches until I trace the kitchen circuits. I’ll slate that for tomorrow so I can get an early start—and with luck have them working before I have to start cutting new wire.
Knowing my electrician working capability, this isn’t going to happen fast. I will install a dedicated circuit with eight outlets (two quad boxes out of an allowable four), and the new dedicated circuit to the fridge location, I will cheat a bit and install a quad for the new fridge location. Remember how I installed over 30 outlets on my computer wall? Well, I’ve never had any trouble with cords and cables and never had to move furniture or bother with power bars. My plan is to add another 15 outlets into the kitchen area, again on two separate runs so a tripped breaker does not plunge us into darkness. To be on the safe side, we have enough supplies to make 32 sandwiches and 60 cups of coffee.
Did I mention the carrots? Oops, I meant to tell you about that. Recall a couple weeks ago I bought those fancy pickes in Bowling Green, or was it Fort Mead, whatever. They were excellent, so I saved the brine and topped the jar up with boiled carrots. I know zilch about the pickling process but they turned out something wonderful. Blogworthy.
I also took a break to build a took box that slides around on the floor. Handy, but may not get used much once I finish up with the current work. I could hear the radio, a program on how Americans are dealing with Bidenflation. Seems most of them are not. By not changing their habits, they are getting worse off. People who can’t afford groceries are using DoorDash. I finished listening to “The Four Winds” and it seems even a ten year Depression won’t stop people from borrowing money. Now I’m watching “The Grapes of Wrath” with the same unintended message.
If you are wondering how Elsinore is doing, she’s dead. She sided with the migrants on a strike at Welty farms. When Jack was surrounded by strikebreakers and beaten, she picked up a microphone and began chanting. A shot rang out and she died in the hospital. Loreda, disguised as a farm boy, robbed the company store of $122 and took Ant back to the farm in Texas, where contour plowing was saving the farms. They bury Elsinore in the Martinelli family plot and the story ends with Loreda returning to California, this time to go to college.
As the disk ended, I was not happy to hear an interview with the author, a married lady who was plainly getting something for pushing COVID. Again, the ancient libtard tactic of referring to something as established fact. Claiming her husband died of the virus after the start of the pandemic. And this just in, the State Department as denied Fauci’s passport renewal, due to “disqualification”. When you are poor, posted some smart aleck, this is known as a “flight risk”.
ADDENDUM
The radical left and Bernie claim a rally of 34,000 in Colorado as proof the Democrats are making a comeback. Problem. They forgot to leave the smart phones at home. Turns out 84% of the devices present have attended nine or more protests or rallies, meaning they are probably hired help. And nearly a third of the devices have been at more than twenty all around the country. This includes rallies for Harris, AOC, pro-HAMAS, and Antifa riots.
Wyoming becomes the first state to require proof of citizenship for all elections. Fine, but how long before the proof required becomes just another abuse? China has successfully tested an undersea cable cutter. These cables are absolutely necessary for the Internet to work and I see several under the Celebes Sea—although various maps show nothing. Part of Indonesia, the company NEC shows ownership of a cable location at Manado in the north and Makassar in the south, both on the island of Salawesi. The nearest town in Boroko.
Outside of nature preserves, most information on the town revolves around it once having been colonized by just about every country in Europe with a navy. The major industry is tourism, though I can’t find a thing there worth spending $3,900 airfare. Wiki says mostly Protestants thanks to the Dutch, but a sizeable Islamic minority says trouble is not unknown.
