Cool, maybe a little rain, possible overcast, but generally nice.
Like yesterday. I got the tiniest little spritz in the late afternoon, but otherwise a nice day. Some sun, some warmth, shirtsleeves and shorts, no sweat dripping off my nose.
I am not feeling great, but still have things to do, so I’ve been doing them. More slowly to be sure, but still moving. I took a couple of hundred pounds of scrap to the recycler after breaking down a bunch of electronics and a bunch of wiring harnesses. I won’t get rich, but the stuff leaves, and I get some money back for it. It does take time, but today paid me at better than $20/hr for the time.
Assuming that we can have our Hamfest in March, I’m planning to bring bins of salvaged electrical and electronic parts to the swapmeet. I didn’t get a bunch of radios this year so I need something to sell, and I’ve got bins of “something” that need to leave. The parts are things that seemed too good to just break up for recycle, like panel meters, power supply modules, connectors, fuse holders, stuff like that. It sold well for me last year when I finally brought it out. I’ve got spools of cable and wire too. They always sell well when priced right. Assuming we’re not in the middle of a guerrilla war, or facing terror attacks from the insurgency.
Plan and prepare for bad things, but continue living your life in case they don’t happen.
Still not feeling well. Less of the sharpness in my lungs today, but still coughing and sore throat. Still the feeling of being unwell. No test results. I did finally get the CVS online portal thing set up and working. Some part of the process failed the first time, and I didn’t really get my account set up. Now it is, and it says “no test results available”. It also now says 3-4 days to process, up from 2-3.
Haven’t definitively called off the FL trip, but I’m 99% certain I better get a turkey defrosting here.
My third local auction company agreed to take a bunch of stuff on consignment next week. I will fill up some bins for them. My auction items seemed to sell well last night, but I haven’t seen final numbers yet. I want them to do well so the auctioneer makes money and wants more of my stuff. And I need to get it out of here. The time from Thanksgiving to February historically has been a slow sales time for me, but maybe the old rules have changed. I certainly hope so.
So much is changing now, or set to change dramatically, that it’s hard to plan for any specific outcome. I’m trying to plan for the worst but still be ready if it doesn’t materialize. My prepping can’t have irrevocable consequences. That’s been one of my rules from the beginning. That might change at some point, but for now, that’s bedrock. It leaves a pretty broad range of choices still in most situations while hopefully protecting me from excess. We’ll see I guess.
Meantime, I’m sleeping in a bit, then continuing to nibble away at the pile of stuff that needs doing. Keep working the problem, keep learning, keep stacking.
nick