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Jan. 19th, 2022 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrottieAlmost nearly going on 6pm and there's still twilight lingering. The days are longer. Soon they will be too hot and too long. With many overcast days lately, one sunny day feels amazing.
Forgot to write that I got kale yesterday, but instead of bananas, which I didn't buy, the kale jumped out of the pannier when I wasn't looking. I went back most of the way looking for it and didn't find it. If I lost it in Rio Vista proper, it probably got ran over. Dammit. Was craving leafy greens so maybe a another trek in to town sooner rather than later.
Finished routing and soldering the little Lawrance plotter. The mineral oil tube is only capped with duct tape for now, opting against something that would trap the transducer in there more permanently. Replaced the plexiglass over the instatement panel. It was almost impossible to see through and had been for a long time. Vast improvement. That was one of yesterday's hardware items. Trying to put off as much work as I can until the sun goes down so I can take advantage of the sun. Managed a midnight shower yesterday too. That's always an accomplishment.
Ordered some battery powered bow and stern lights given the death of the mast top tri-color (it's wiring, it's bulb, the whole thing, who knows). Got Innovative Lighting brand. I'm likely to hear that they're awful. They were $30 each and look better than the Sea Choice $15 each ones which don't appear to even be LED. Sea Choice stuff has been extremely marginal in my experience.
Extremely glad the Ace isn't playing Christmas music since I was wandering around for a while looking for various small bits of things. Trail mix and peas for lunch. Probably Cheetos for dinner. Veggie wings for dinner yesterday.
Another quasi project has been trying to get things in to ziplock bags, dry bags, and empty trail mix tubs, after seeing how moist things get during the winter rains. The big soldering iron part of tools out here croaked. I'd forgotten that I bought it so brought along another one and wound up needing it. Should have kept it in a ziplock. I guess there are special anti-corrosion bags you can get too. Maybe I'll look in to that later. A lot of what ship back to myself is electronics recycling. There was one transponder for an unknown system, probably for the long gone large inside chart plotter, that didn't go to anything that I pulled out previously and then running wire for this one, I found where wire for yet another had been run then chopped off where it came out of back part of the ice box. I think a lot about how all of this work is so incredibly temporary that it never ends.
Forgot to write that I got kale yesterday, but instead of bananas, which I didn't buy, the kale jumped out of the pannier when I wasn't looking. I went back most of the way looking for it and didn't find it. If I lost it in Rio Vista proper, it probably got ran over. Dammit. Was craving leafy greens so maybe a another trek in to town sooner rather than later.
Finished routing and soldering the little Lawrance plotter. The mineral oil tube is only capped with duct tape for now, opting against something that would trap the transducer in there more permanently. Replaced the plexiglass over the instatement panel. It was almost impossible to see through and had been for a long time. Vast improvement. That was one of yesterday's hardware items. Trying to put off as much work as I can until the sun goes down so I can take advantage of the sun. Managed a midnight shower yesterday too. That's always an accomplishment.
Ordered some battery powered bow and stern lights given the death of the mast top tri-color (it's wiring, it's bulb, the whole thing, who knows). Got Innovative Lighting brand. I'm likely to hear that they're awful. They were $30 each and look better than the Sea Choice $15 each ones which don't appear to even be LED. Sea Choice stuff has been extremely marginal in my experience.
Extremely glad the Ace isn't playing Christmas music since I was wandering around for a while looking for various small bits of things. Trail mix and peas for lunch. Probably Cheetos for dinner. Veggie wings for dinner yesterday.
Another quasi project has been trying to get things in to ziplock bags, dry bags, and empty trail mix tubs, after seeing how moist things get during the winter rains. The big soldering iron part of tools out here croaked. I'd forgotten that I bought it so brought along another one and wound up needing it. Should have kept it in a ziplock. I guess there are special anti-corrosion bags you can get too. Maybe I'll look in to that later. A lot of what ship back to myself is electronics recycling. There was one transponder for an unknown system, probably for the long gone large inside chart plotter, that didn't go to anything that I pulled out previously and then running wire for this one, I found where wire for yet another had been run then chopped off where it came out of back part of the ice box. I think a lot about how all of this work is so incredibly temporary that it never ends.
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Date: 2022-01-20 02:17 pm (UTC)Out here I believe we may be able to just haul electronics recycling over to the DGS facility on Erie Blvd. Don't quote me on that, of course.
One of the challenges is just figuring out whether it's even possible to achieve some level of steady-state. Seems like you're still playing catch-up against the deferred maintenance.