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Saturday 20 September
2014
Saturday - OTR. Off to the desert!
Friday
- Hot, but not massively so. Cleaning up around the house, gathering up
gear for camping. I can't find a lot of stuff, including my hydration
pack and my tent. I was able to borrow a tent from kirk - it must be
massive from the weight. I have a ride but I'm not sure how much space
they'll have for me and my gear.
Light posting, obviously.
The cats and turtle will have to live without me for a day....
Why yes, that is indeed my cat climbing up the french door windows...
Thursday 18 September
2014
Thursday
- Hot again. Worked a bit on the app, but got sidetracked by some other stuff, so...
It
looks like I'm up for car camping this weekend. For a while it was
verging on cancellation, but now it's on again. I took the class on
dealing with youths from the Scouts, so I'm all set. Apparently it's
going to be a fairly small group, just a few boys, up at Red Rock
Canyon.
Wednesday 17 September
2014
Wednesday - Hot again. Not much to say.
Tuesday 16 September
2014
Tuesday
- Another very hot day. Two swamp coolers, with an assist from the
mechanical unit at times. Early evening I felt chilled, turned off the
mechanical and one swamp cooler, then put on a t-shirt and checked the
inside house temperature: 78F. Heh.
Worked
on the app more, got the work surface acting the way I want, with drag
able cards and tiles. Now to add prompts (graphic, text, audio), then
create the Settings page. S says she's redoing the artwork, my stuff is just placeholders.
I
also got a call from an old client, with questions about some work
we'd done for their database. I knew much of it, but had to ping Tim
for the rest. He, fortunately, had copies of the various final reports
to comb through. We don't actually have a contract with them any more,
but it's an hour or two, and maybe bread upon the water...
I
don't think I've mentioned the turtle. He's doing fine. In fact, great.
I built him a little platform, to haul himself out of the water. He
loves it, and spends most of his time on it. In his old tank he really
couldn't get completely out of the water, and it's clearly something he
craved. In fact, after I assembled just the frame of PVC and set it in
the tank to size it he climbed upon the slippery round plastic pipe and
balanced there - quite a feat for a turtle!
The platform was a
little trickier than I thought. Originally it was just a piece of pine
across, but he had trouble getting out of the water. So I added a
'step', another piece of pine that was actually under the water and
allowed him to crawl out and up, like steps. He still had trouble, with
his body swinging under the step, so I ended up adding a downwards lip,
so that he can lever his hard shell up without swing under.
Now
he just sits on a plank, basking under the glow of a fairly dim
fluorescent light. I believe they like a heat lamp and a UV lamp, and
I've pinged S on finding them
amongst their yard sale treasure. Sunlight would be even better, but I
don't really have a second tank setup. I guess I could gen something up
out of a plastic storage container and a small tank and some gravel
though.
Not much clearance. Turtles are dirty creatures, so I like lots of water.
I may just create a new top, but I've only got him for a few more days, so...
Monday
- Class in the morning. The instructor showed up late, with a perfunctory excuse about "being at the doctors". Since when do doctors have hours before 8:15am? And why didn't he call in? "My phone battery was dead". Sheesh. I was going to refer to his attitude as "phoning it in", but....
But
we had an actual lecture, and introduction to the computer media lab
next door, and some homework assignments - 5 of them it turns out.
Since this is week #4 that's about right...
I should say: we're
down to about 1/3rd the original number of students. Apparently you
only have to stay so long, and then you can keep the free state money.
I don't get why you get to keep any if you don't finish with a passing
grade?
Various bits of
work on things in the afternoon. App stuff, but also some other stuff,
bills and such. I stuck my self-employment taxes in the mail. Sigh.
Very
hot out, but reasonable though not amazing humidity. We are seeing some
afternoon development of clouds, and a push in from the east, but it
barely makes it to Lancaster before sunset, then it fades to
clear(ish).
I say clear-ish, because there is so much light pollution now that even a little haze is enough to reflect and block the stars.
Sunday
- Brutally hot. It felt like one of the hottest days of the year,
despite registering only about 105F.
I didn't feel well, but I decided to do an 'easy' chore, replacing the
water line to the swamp coolers. It had a leak, and needed replacing. I
decided to put it inside a 1/2" pvc pipe, so that I can mow and edge
with less worry. I also replaced the "T" fitting, putting it down at
the end of the line at the swamp coolers, rather than up at the spigot.
I replaced the hard water filter, drained both coolers to get rid of
the mineral build up, and oiled the bearings.
By the time I was done it was 2:00pm and I was feeling pretty low...
Not much else going on in the afternoon and evening. I did various
minor household chores.
