Cooler and humid. We’re supposed to get some Fall weather for a few days. The national forecast also says ‘rain’ or really thundershowers possible.
Monday was mostly overcast depending on your part of town. Houston is a collection of micro-climates and even the local forecasts aren’t local enough.
I did my pickups, got some gub stuff and some household stuff. That ate my afternoon by the time I got the stuff and went by my secondary location to drop some of it off. I brought home some of what I need for my halloween candy dispensing machine too.
Before I left the house though, I went looking for a drive for my NVR pc. Grabbing some drives from my box-o-random drives, I plugged them in to see what was what. Two of the 4 were dead- clicks and whines, no platter spin up. Two were fine, spun right up, partitioned and formatted no issues. The dead ones were both Seagate, the good ones both WD Caviar Green. Tiny sample size and old random drives from who knows where, but it was striking.
Had a police chopper orbiting over the neighborhood again too. Then he went straight up a major street until it ended, then followed another to a point where he orbited, then back to the barn. Looks like they were watching someone, who ran. They followed until he ran out of road, watched for a while, then left. The flight radar website was very helpful.
That led to some playing around with scanners for a while, but nothing productive. I never did hear any chatter about the chase.
Closer to home I put the motion sensor for the “Driveway Patrol” on the porch and the receiver at my desk. Even with the camera covering the front porch, I’ve been surprised to find a package waiting on the porch. I really want to know if someone is at my door. So I picked one up at an estate auction, and it works great. Now I see the flashing light when someone approaches the door and I can glance at the camera and respond or not.
Small steps, baby steps, but steps nonetheless.
And I encourage you to take some steps toward your own goals. Some of those steps should be stacking the stuff you might need later…
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