Cool to start. Warm to hot later. Even with rain, it was hot and wet yesterday. Then it got clear and sunny late in the day. Lot of water on the ground too, although I didn’t see heavy rain just light rain and drizzle. Some people got a lot of water from the sky.
I did my normal morning, then headed over to my buddy’s shop. He’d made a lot of progress without me, but there were heavy and awkward things that needed both of us to move safely. I worked with him for a couple of hours, but had to leave and do my Wednesday pickups. The kid let me know it was sunny and she’d walk home, so that gave me more time to go back and help my buddy. Which I did. We were able to go out to dinner and do a bit of socializing afterward. He’s been a friend of my wife longer than me, so they had some catching up to do.
Today I’ll go over there asap after breakfast and school stuff. He’s got a few things left to put into the truck, and needs help getting the car towing trailer set up. He’ll leave before noon, and W will join me looking at a boat or two. Depending on how that goes, we’ll be headed home to do final prep for going to the BOL for D2’s birthday and my wedding anniversary. Lots of stuff crammed into this week.
From a prepping standpoint, I won some more solar. I think I won another two 460w panels like the ones I took up to the BOL last week. It might just be one, or it might be two that total to 460w. The price was good enough for it to be any of those and I’ll be happy.
And in a new twist to Amazon returns fraud, I picked up a ubiquiti NanoStation loco M2, looks new in box, but the box is for a Nanostation M2… the smaller “Loco” is $50 retail, the full size is about $150. Looks like someone bought both, but got a $100 discount by returning the small one for the refund amount of the big one. I paid $16, so as long as it powers up ok, I’m still happy. I didn’t notice the discrepancy in the pictures and thought I was buying the smaller one anyway.
Did I mention that people suck and will steal when it is easy and low risk? That will probably get worse as the economy weakens.
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Work on providing for your own needs, whether that’s water, power, or entertainment. And stack what you need.
nick