Possibly rain all day here at the BOL, with moderated temps. It was grey with occasional drizzle most of yesterday with temps in the mid 60s F.
I worked anyway. It’s just a little moisture from the sky. I did spend the morning doing auction catch up stuff. Starlink doesn’t love the rain. And latency is an issue for me. The auction site, hibid.com has an incredibly bad website, that seems to have lots of problems with slow connection timeouts, and with high latency connections. It was nearly unusable last night with latencies around 40ms. They seem to be using a strategy of loading the whole page, then unmasking parts of it, and it suxxx. Even on my fiber connection at home it sometimes sux. It was unusable on 4G lte. With starlink and my older lappy, it’s maddening. If it doesn’t load immediately, the best strategy is hitting reload until it does. Waiting for the pieces to load, especially if there is some sort of race condition error, is crazy making.
Hot Skilzz- they don’t got um.
I did finally get out of the house and I worked on the pump and sprinklers. Got the pump primed, got the inlet out of the silt, and viola! water spewing forth… a mighty gusher…
Continued running hoses and setting up the sprinklers. They are not actually called “chucka chucka chucka” things, apparently they are called “impact” sprinklers. Who knew? Each hose run will only supply 3 heads, but the pump will fire all of them at the same time. I may double some of the zone connections to keep the back pressure down, and cut my watering time in half. The lesson is that I will use big trunk lines when I bury pipe, and then 1″ branches. The pump is clearly oversized, but it is also pushing water up 30+ feet of elevation. Better to have more than I need, I think.
Today I’ll do more sprinkler setup, and maybe a thing or two indoors. If it’s dry, I’ll wait as long as I can and then try mowing before I leave. I don’t want to have the next week or two of growth start from the point it’s at now, or I’ll need a scythe to cut it and some kids to stack the sheaves.
At some point, I’ll close up the house and head home. It hasn’t been the most productive week, but it was a nice break for me 😉
One other thing I’ve learned having the computer set up and actually using it- I need to find a good chair and set up a workspace for my bride, or she’ll be crippled up like me…
Take care of the folks around you and plan for the future. That’s prepping in a nutshell. Oh, and STACK what your plan calls for, of course.
nick