Hot, still, and overcast, without the relief of rain. Probably. It is possible we’ll get some rain and that will help. It was sticky and hot all day yesterday though.

Did some office stuff then did 2 pickups. I wanted to do 4, but left the house too late. Got the tv installed at the house. I thought it was nice not having it for a couple of weeks, but W was insistent.

Today youngest child and I have dentist appointments in the morning, so I’ll probably end up having a productive day. I’ll be up, dressed, and out, so might as well keep that momentum, right?

Always be working. Always stacking. and your health is a prep.

nick

But still hot and humid. Even mid 80sF can wear you out. And it was hotter than that yesterday. The overcast did help, and the intermittent showers probably cooled some areas down. I didn’t see any widespread rain or even a thundershower in Houston, but I might have missed something localized. I only saw a few smatters of rain, and widely dispersed between my house and my client’s.

I did some office stuff and then went to my client’s house. Found and fixed a couple of issues, but nothing definitive. I am leaning toward corroded cables and bad connections at this point. I hit them with deOxIT and we’ll monitor the situation. I will pickup a spare and I’m installing a Ring doorbell at the gate, so that will be another paid day. After that, it felt like today was a weekend and I had to remind myself that I have kids to get to school today.

So normal day for me today. Some auction pickups, and maybe a dump run. Maybe pull my main pc and replace the DVD drive. The bluray drive got here yesterday. There’s always more to do.

And always more to stack.

nick

Still got some way to go with the weather though. Hot and humid again yesterday, although the cloud cover kept the high down a bit. Only mid 90sF. Supposedly we’re gonna get some weather today, possibly a tropical storm or even a small hurricane. Nothing to get as worked up about as the people seem to be though. Our ISD sent several emails about “monitoring the situation” and even my auctions sent emails about possible alternative pickup days if the weather is unsafe to move around in. Seems like massive overreaction to me.

I didn’t get to my client yesterday so that is my main focus today. I spent the day doing office stuff, with a little scrapping and grocery shopping at the end of the day.

Today, I’ll be driving around, and maybe even making a pickup or two if my site visit doesn’t take all day.

Earning money is a prep…

And I’m a prepper.

Stack.

nick

But like the rest of the days, hot and humid. If the weather front sticks around it might be wet and a bit cooler, which would be welcome. Lots of people around Houston got rain yesterday but all I got were a few sprinkles. Barely enough to get the pavement wet. The grass is pretty crunchy and brown where the sprinklers don’t hit it.

I did some stuff on the list, but mostly computer stuff, and a lot of barely productive time was spent on our site outage. Still no idea why wordpress puked, or why it recovered. I hadn’t made any changes at all, and if it was a plug in, IDK why any issue resolved itself either. I did clean up some minor things like broken links and typos on rarely visited pages. And I always learn something when I am forced to poke around. I should spend a little time on my hobby site considering we just had our big annual event. I’ll add that to a list…

Today I’m sleeping in a bit, then I’ll do some things. What things will depend on weather, but the shop or stuff around the house will probably be top of mind.

Stack useful things.

nick

More hot and humid. Can’t fool mother nature, and it’s very natural to have heat and humidity in the Houston swamp. Over 100F in the shade, and 106F in the sun… and again probably today. It was a bit cooler at midnight, only 85F with some gusting winds.

I did nothing all day. I laid on the bed, stretching and reading most of it. I can’t help feeling bad about it, while acknowledging that some part of me must have needed that. We’ll see, but I did do a whole lot of physical work with little sleep, and a whole lot of being out in public and talking to people which is taxing in its own right.

Today though, I really need to get back in the swing of doing things. I think I’ll have to get the fence repair at the rent house done, at a minimum. And since the utility guys have called for a trim crew, I should cut any stuff along my property line if I want to save any of it. And I do, because it provides shade and some isolation for the back yard.

I should also move toward getting A/C going in the office at the shop, and the portacool set up there for the warehouse area, and start digging a path through the garage to swap out the A/C in there, which is definitely not making cold…

And I’ve got cameras to install. I’m moving one drop and upgrading that cam to look at the back yard, and I need to get the cam to spy on the halfway house driveway installed. Every time I think no one is home to observe and object, someone pulls up. They seem to swap out guys at the end of the month, so I’ve got a good window coming up.

It’s gonna be another day of sweating in the heat. My ice pack cool vest should help.

Lots to do, and stacks to work from and on. If you’ve got the stuff, you should use it once in a while…

nick

Still hot. Still humid. Still soaked to the skin working outside, or in the stifling heat of a still air building… Over 100F in the shade, and hotter than Haiti in the sun. More today, more of the same tomorrow.

Did some stuff, although not as much as I should have. Did some office stuff. Moved the meat from the portable freezer to the upright, only one needed re-sealing so I put it in the fridge to eat this week.

Tried to change the air filter on the Ranger, but the case I have on hand didn’t fit. I don’t know when I made the mistake, but I got them cheap. THOUGHT I had that covered though, and I do not.

Ordered a bluray drive for my main PC. Ordered some other stuff too. SO EASY, and not great for the local economy nor any sense of diversity or resilience. On the other hand, no one in town had one. That might be a chicken and egg problem, but at the end of today, I had no real choice.

Today I’ll do some more stuff. Or not. But I’ll do something. I’m sure I’ll spend time stretching first.

Physical fitness is a prep. Stack it as best you can.

nick

Hot and humid again. Still Summer in Houston for a while yet. It was well over 100F yesterday and probably will be today too. Early morning temps are starting to move down, so Fall is coming, just not right now.

Did a lot of stuff yesterday, mostly detailed in the comments. Some of it has added items to my list, so there’s that. Nothing like problems popping up and derailing “normal”. Knowledge, money, and effort go a long way towards turning potential hardship into manageable problems.

Today I will do some follow up for our event, possibly some work at the rent house, and who knows what else. I’m sure it will be a day filled with me doing things. I’ve always taken pride in myself and my ability to get things done, and to solve problems. However, it sure would be nice to have a period without any interruptions from NEW problems.

It’s a great life if you don’t falter.

And if you stack and prepare for the problems you can foresee.

nick