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Back from my walk and all chores finished for today.

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Got a game plan on the sump today. I've already got the well, the pump and the pipe, so all I need is some connectors and some other cheap stuff. This will be a major improvement with very little cost.

Not going to start digging the well this late in the day though.


Had a scare with my A/C unit today. It must have stopped working last night sometime. Was stuck with the Filter LED on and all the other buttons were not responsive. Even after cleaning the filter which didn't seem that bad and vacuuming out the whatever I could from the front it still didn't work. Unplugging it and plugging it back in several minutes later would make the compressor work about 1 second before you could tell it was running a series of tests and finding some error codes I couldn't find any info for online.

Unplugged it for around 3 hours and it worked fine when I plugged it back in.


Leaving it off now though. Major change in forecast shows that only 1 day in the next 10 is going to be 80 degrees or higher, and it's going down to 57 degrees tonight!


But damn... I'm going to have to mow again. It's only been 5 days and for the middle of August it looks like I haven't mowed it in two weeks. What a strange summer with so many days in the 90's but so much rain at the same time.

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Back from my walk and all chores finished for today.

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I just don't get it. My grandma still has a piece of junk A/C installed in her bedroom in the early summer that has to be 25 years old and it chugs right along.

I wish they had models of A/C units that you could buy today that didn't have the computer board and just had the manual dials like the old ones did. There's no reason that the computer board should keep it from running. So what if it detects a minor issue? People are more likely to just throw it out and buy a new one instead of taking it in to get fixed some place.

I wish I knew more about electric and electronics and could just mod the thing to bypass the computer altogether.

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I just don't get it. My grandma still has a piece of junk A/C installed in her bedroom in the early summer that has to be 25 years old and it chugs right along.

I wish they had models of A/C units that you could buy today that didn't have the computer board and just had the manual dials like the old ones did. There's no reason that the computer board should keep it from running. So what if it detects a minor issue? People are more likely to just throw it out and buy a new one instead of taking it in to get fixed some place.

I wish I knew more about electric and electronics and could just mod the thing to bypass the computer altogether.

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It's called The Landfill Economy. Hubby might be able to jury-rig something for you. He'd prolly have to design and build a circuit-board tho... something has to translate those dial settings into voltages or currents to turn the compressor motor on/off and control the fan speed. But he used to do more complicated designs than that. Too bad he's not there, he might find it fun.

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Hey SIG. Saw a message on Twitter this morning from Doug Hershnall the actor who plays DI Perez. "Shetland" is back on.

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Seems like the rain is avoiding you!

And decent tiles, too!

I hope you have better luck next week!

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Got a huge compliment from a neighbor that lives a few blocks behind me on all the work I've done on my house while I was working and he was walking his dog. He said he remembered seeing me working on the driveway a few years back too.



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Today I did a dozen little things, starting with a very early morning watering of the back wall pines and moving the van out of the driveway so St Vincent de Paul could get at the donation items. Then I brought in my office plant (and had to vacuum the mat where I spilled some dirt), watered the veggie garden, bucket-watered a spot where no hoses can reach... the bee guy showed up, said we were bee-free and he removed his bee box and hauled the bees away to his apiary, so I paid him ... vacuumed the kitchen mats, raked up the pine needles before I put the van back... did a bunch of dishes and made chicken and veggie stir-fry... then I sacked out on the love seat bc I was knackered!

Still have a metric crap-ton of little things to do, but yesterday I sorted out the big headache I was having with Medicare denying coverage. It was weighing on my mind terribly, but all is good now, so now I can focus on other stuff and feel free to do what I need to do.

Still have a TERRIBLE case of the itches. Most likely a late side effect of one of my infusions, but I scratched my neck open in my sleep, it's so bad. I've tried triamcinilone Rx and coconut oil and Cerave and sulfur cream and cool showers and even permethrin cream (on the idea it was some sort of garden mite) but the only thing that seems to help is Benadryl gel. I'm telling you, if you've got a bad itch somewhere...mosquito bite, spider bite, sun itch, hives ... try that stuff. It might work for you bc it works for me.

Well, on with a cool shower and slather myself with Benadryl gel and maybe take some oral benadryl and see if I can get better sleep tonight.

Nighty-night.

Tomorrow its onward thru the fog!

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Got a huge compliment from a neighbor that lives a few blocks behind me on all the work I've done on my house while I was working and he was walking his dog. He said he remembered seeing me working on the driveway a few years back too.



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Isn't that great when someone notices?

It must mean you've made huge improvements bc most people only notice the bad stuff.

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Today I did a dozen little things, starting with a very early morning watering of the back wall pines and moving the van out of the driveway so St Vincent de Paul could get at the donation items. Then I brought in my office plant (and had to vacuum the mat where I spilled some dirt), watered the veggie garden, bucket-watered a spot where no hoses can reach... the bee guy showed up, said we were bee-free and he removed his bee box and hauled the bees away to his apiary, so I paid him ... vacuumed the kitchen mats, raked up the pine needles before I put the van back... did a bunch of dishes and made chicken and veggie stir-fry... then I sacked out on the love seat bc I was knackered!

Still have a metric crap-ton of little things to do, but yesterday I sorted out the big headache I was having with Medicare denying coverage. It was weighing on my mind terribly, but all is good now, so now I can focus on other stuff and feel free to do what I need to do.

Still have a TERRIBLE case of the itches. Most likely a late side effect of one of my infusions, but I scratched my neck open in my sleep, it's so bad. I've tried triamcinilone Rx and coconut oil and Cerave and sulfur cream and cool showers and even permethrin cream (on the idea it was some sort of garden mite) but the only thing that seems to help is Benadryl gel. I'm telling you, if you've got a bad itch somewhere...mosquito bite, spider bite, sun itch, hives ... try that stuff. It might work for you bc it works for me.

Well, on with a cool shower and slather myself with Benadryl gel and maybe take some oral benadryl and see if I can get better sleep tonight.

Nighty-night.

Tomorrow its onward thru the fog!

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Itches must be unbearable. I hope your rememdies work. I find a bit of phenerghan helps and it also puts you to sleep - double whammy. The other thing we used to use when I was a kid was calamine location. I have no idea what it is and whether you can get it - it was probably made from DDT or something awful.

Still cold and wet here but the days are getting longer and the wattle is fully out. My bulbs are starting to peak their heads above the soil.

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Itches must be unbearable. I hope your rememdies work. I find a bit of phenerghan helps and it also puts you to sleep - double whammy. The other thing we used to use when I was a kid was calamine location. I have no idea what it is and whether you can get it - it was probably made from DDT or something awful.

Still cold and wet here but the days are getting longer and the wattle is fully out. My bulbs are starting to peak their heads above the soil.

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Craig (Dr Blake) has been involved in some pretty dodgy stuff, sorry to say. Not sure how his career will be going. If you like crime drama, I can recommend Mystery Road, set at the other end of the country in the Kimberleys - amazing scenery, interesting story line, Aboriginal detective. I enjoyed it.

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Well, the lady that I work for has made up here mind as I got a message on Thursday when I got back from mah jong. I gave her a call and so I am off to work tomorrow morning.

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Ugggggggghhhhhhh.....

Freakin weathermen.

Woke up to find there's now a coin flip today that we could get a stray thunder storm that drops a 1/4 of an inch of rain, when there was no rain in the prediciton until Wednesday.

Here's hoping it misses me. In any event, I probably won't be washing the walls and putting any tar up today. Tar needs 24 hours without any rain, and the splash from the mud is going to dirty up the walls anyhow.

I can still get the rest of the crud out of the porch slab, clean it up and get tar on that though. Maybe I'll still find some time to take down the old light and see if I can rig up the new one in between rain showers.

It would be cool to finish up the garage today. Hopefully, my aunt and grandma are coming over tomorrow. It's getting a lot harder for my aunt to get her around though, and she still works full time and work's been hard because of the hot weather.

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I hope you get everything done that you're hoping to do, SIX!

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Itches must be unbearable. I hope your rememdies work. I find a bit of phenerghan helps and it also puts you to sleep - double whammy. The other thing we used to use when I was a kid was calamine location. I have no idea what it is and whether you can get it - it was probably made from DDT or something awful.

Still cold and wet here but the days are getting longer and the wattle is fully out. My bulbs are starting to peak their heads above the soil.

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Your weather sounds lovely. The winters there sound like winter in central CA, prolly cooler than here.

I'm learning more about Australia watching Dr Blake (altho disappointed to read that the actor was in Rocky Horror. Why the heck? He's a good enough actor not to be in that shlock.)

BULBS! What kind? Not that I expect to know; they're probably some Australian kind I'll have to look up.

Phenergan here is Rx not OTC, usually used for nausea and allergies. Curiously, another medication - here called Zantac, used for acid stomach - also works for allergies. There's a connection between stomach and histamine which I would know if I were a biochemist. I tried oral benadryl (diphenhydramine) too, but I had to take a whopping dose to get any effect. Triamcinilone layered over benadryl gel seems to work.

Good to hear from you, MAGONS.

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Well, the lady that I work for has made up here mind as I got a message on Thursday when I got back from mah jong. I gave her a call and so I am off to work tomorrow morning.

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I don't know about you but I find random demands on my time to be very frustrating.

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We looked up Mystery Road and it's available but, alas, it's not free.

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