And heat. Lots more heat. We at least got some nice breezes in the late afternoon. Without having to work in the sun, or in a still space, it would be nice and warm in the shade. But, I’m not sitting in the shade. More days should be just like yesterday.

I did my stuff and I’m still not done. I’ll keep plugging away today. Two more trips should do it, if I can find space for the stuff. I am finding good stuff to sell or use so there is that. Some of it was very far back in the unit. Turns out I have a lot more turntables and a lot more shoes to sell than I expected.

One of the odd things I found was a box of harddrives. 5 vintage apple drives each selling on eBay for around $100 was a nice surprise. One might sell for $150 and one had some crazy high asks, but no sales. I put them in the “list this first’ pile.

When I start listing again, it would be nice to have some early ‘wins’. I think I can do that no problem. Just have to DO it.

Which won’t happen if I don’t get a move on. Just as soon as an auction for something for D2 ends. I really want it, in any condition, but it’s gonna be a pain in the butt to pickup north of Austin when I am on my way to the BOL…

Keep the faith, and keep stacking.

nick

And it’s likely to be a hot one too, like the last week. We are seeing ~100F in the afternoon, and the humidity is crazy high too. If there’s no breeze, you’re dripping in no time.

I spent the afternoon and evening working on moving my storage unit to the shop. Only got one trip in, but I did get more shelves set up and I’ll be able to hit it hard today. It is crazy hot in the shop without the fan blowing air in. I’m going to have to do something about that if I hope to do any real work in there. Can’t be dripping sweat on everything.

I was dripping sweat on everything yesterday and I’ll probably be doing it again today. I did try to keep up with the water loss, and added gatoraid mix to my water bottles. I think it helped. I was still getting leg cramps last night though.

Considering I’m 60 years old, I think I’m still in pretty good shape, and my ability to handle heat is probably back to normal. Took a long time after my heat injury though. Better to avoid getting hurt.

Today is more moving, stacking, sorting, and restacking. At some point I need to be listing, selling, and shipping, but getting the stuff out of storage is a first step.

At least I’m making progress and building momentum on this.

Until I’m not.

Stack what you need.

nick

And it will be hot again. I have to wait for afternoon so that I’m working in shadow, because that sun is broiling hot when it’s 100F and humid. Today should be the same as yesterday. HOT. And soaked to the skin from sweat in this Houston humidity.

Unfortunately my evaporative cooling vest doesn’t do much in high humidity and my ice pack based one is at the BOL. I did bring a bouncy house fan and having the moving air helps a lot. That fan is small but moves tons of air.

I spent yesterday afternoon and evening moving stuff from the last of my storage units to the shop, and stacking and organizing to make room for it. I found some stuff I’d forgotten about, both for my ham radio swapmeet and for my non-prepping hobby. You’d think I couldn’t misplace and forget about several black bins full of stuff, but I could and did.

There is a lesson there that is probably something like “you should go through all your stuff at least once a year to remember what you’ve got and where it is.” There was far too much stuff I set down and never got back to.

And that friends, is one of the drawbacks to focusing on stacking. I’ve got the stuff, but do I really have it if I don’t remember it, and can’t put my hands on it?

Nevertheless, having it is better than not having it. Stack!

nick

Another fine day Ollie. If by fine you mean hot and humid. And sunny. The overcast didn’t last long and the sun was trying to cook my brains in my skull, but I fooled it, I don’t have any! Ha, take that sun. Seriously though, it did get a bit cooler in the afternoon and the breeze was nice. I hope that continues as it is very hot at the shop.

I did do a couple of pickups, kind of ‘clearing the decks’ before the weekend and getting ready to head to the BOL in a couple of days. Then I went to the shop and started plugging away at clearing enough space to get out of the storage unit. I did get distracted toward the end and spent some cool down time going through 5 boxes of LP records I picked up. There are a surprising number of $20 and $30 records in what was a random lot without even genre descriptions. If I can get moving on listing stuff, it’ll be a great purchase.

There is a box full of jazz and blues 78s on the Decca label that might even have some more valuable records in it, but I ran out of time to look them up. I really need to start listing stuff. And I need to sort and stack the stuff I’m keeping. I am making it a point to listen to a couple of records most days. Great stuff. Day before yesterday it was two very early Kinks records I hadn’t heard before. I like their later stuff better, so I should sell them, but I’ll probably keep them out of a need for completeness.

Little stuff to fill in around the bigger stuff…

Oh, and some other auction stuff arrived in the mail that will go into the armory stacks. Never know when you’ll need some parts.

Today I’ll be working on the shop and the storage unit. If I can get that albatross off my neck, I’ll count it as major progress along that path. Just have to stay cool and hydrated.

Baby steps are still steps. And adding to the stacks doesn’t hurt.

nick

What’s not a secret is that Houston in Summer is HOT. H-O-T hot. Well, not as hot as some years but still hot. 100F and 80+ % RH is hot. And that’s what we’ve had, and are gonna have. Sunny too.

Spent yesterday doing pickups, mostly, but some household stuff too. Got back early enough to make dinner for the wife.

Today I’ve got a couple more pickups, and they are dispersed. Not disbursed, like I typed the first time. Although I guess technically someone might be disbursing my goods to me…

I need to decide if I’m headed to the BOL this weekend or if I’m just headed up before the rest of the family for the 4th. A couple of days won’t matter but a week will. So much to do though, and never enough time to do it.

‘Course that’s true at the BOL as well as here.

Easier to just say “STACK”.

But then you all know that.

n

And another hot day. Pretty much should be like yesterday, and if we don’t cross 100F in the afternoon, I’ll blame global cooling. It’s still cooler than several years in the last 10, but 100F and humidity in the 90%RH range is plenty unpleasant, especially if you are in the sun.

Which I tried to avoid, but was somewhat unsuccessful while teaching D1 how to pull the door card and change out her mirror. The fusion blast was especially strong on my head yesterday. D1 actually did part of the work, fastening and unfastening bolts and screws. She put most of the door back together.

Then I took some stuff to the shop and puttered there for a bit. Found two computers in a box lot of junk electronics. I’ll have to power them up and see what I got. Also received the luggage I bought on ebay. It was in like new condition… so I’m very pleased. I had to disassemble part of the handle mechanism and put it back together, it had become jammed, presumably in shipping. Took a little time to figure it out, but it went back together easily enough.

Today I’ve got an appointment in the morning to get the new tires put on D1’s ride, then I’m doing pickups. It’s mostly household supplies and stuff for the BOL. The auctions are spread out around town which is annoying and will take longer than I’d like. Still, the savings are significant.

I’m slowing down, but still filling in gaps in the stacks. It’s easy and FUN!!111!! Get you some…

nick