Taco Tuesday. Working downtown, wanted to walk but a still a bit too cold. Maybe this afternoon it will be 41 F.
Ordered a solder rework station. Hope it's better than the iron and the solder-plut.
PCBway has the boards done and they are ready for shipping.
Monday. Started this morning with a 45 minute work out on the elliptical. Found some reasons why ubuntu was not sharing with me. The Bluetooth seems to be a bit of a pain yet. I hooked up the old battery keyboard and it feels better. Looks like that battery is coming up. Back from the dead.
I can see that the new gyro board is being worked on at the factory. I'll have it in a week or so.
Ok I set up onenote on the linux box. Seems to work, surprising !
Not much Monday. Just work today. Picking up a bit for the house cleaning tomorrow.
Sunday, Rainy day.
My flying buddy John came over today. Before he came over I had to finish up a couple of project to free up some space. We are going to balance his new Cessna 150.
Finished the cub with the big wheels and fixed the elevator. Then put it in it's place. M helped by marking the wheel collars and coming in when 4 hands were needed. She then sweeped up the workshop floor. What a great help!
John came over. The Cessna is 84 inch in wingspan. After moving things around we put it al together. Then we adjusted the balance machine and lifter the plane onto it. It was pretty good!
We then inspected the plane and thought that all the bolts to hole the wings on were a bit fiddley. The thought of losing a couple at the field and then having to go home dur to that was not a good prospect. We got on the McMaster website and ordered up some hardware that will be here next week.
We then were talking about retirement and Medicare insurance. He's going to get me a couple of forms that I'm going to need to fill out. Also, he is going to give me info on some seminars for information. Retirement close but not that close. We were thinking of going flying together during the week. Yeah!
Finished the new gyro board. Sent it off to PCBWay. We'll have it soon!
Weekend, .Good workout day, Elliptical in the morning and a walk on the path later.
Working on converting the old tablet to a Linux machine having mixed success … actually quite frustrating. Going to drop it in a few minutes…
I really don't know why I put so much effort into that stupid computer. I'm just going to leave it be and get to work on the things that matter!
Costco was a mad house today. I got what I needed but I was whipped by the time I left.
The new TV Bluetooth receiver worked! It needed a APTX LL or low latency codec. We watched a show and it sounded great.
Friday!!!! WFH day.
Would like to welcome all the recent viewers from Singapore and China. Looks like they have downloaded all the entries in blog. I sure hope they find some intelligence value out of it, because I sure don't! Ha!
Did elliptical this morning. ( For you guys on the other side of the world… go outside and get some fresh air! It will do you a world of good. )
Working from home at least there is no train involved today. We are planning to go to the shoe repair in Abington to get a new zipper for my leather coat. Put it on Monday and remembered that the zipper was missing some teeth. That zipper was always useless. Want a nice heavy YKK zip put on.
John's was the place that I was envisioning. An old time craftsman. Shop just crammed with projects and things to do and old machines to do it on. My heavy duty zipper will be on my coat by next week.
Working on making the tablet a Linux machine. Table is too slow to run windows and want to see if I can run Linux.
Bluetooth for TV was a failure. Lips and sound were out of sync.
525 days left. Back downtown. Train was uneventful. Oatmeal and coffee in a quiet office this morning. At least the motion sensors on the office light are not going out and leaving me in the dark. Being in the dark at work a perfect metaphor.
Noodle experiment was a bust. Cooking the fresh egg noodles with hot water ended in gummy starchy noodles with starchy broth. Nope, going another way with the noodles.
Going to get a medium sub and a large sub from Wegmans for next week. That and some dry noodles will be a winner.
Last meeting of the day. Think I can get onto the early train.
On the early train hooray! Home early!
Could not believe the sleep I got last night. Only awake for 5 min! got up felt refreshed.
Working from the office downtown yesterday and today. Got a haircut yesterday morning. It was good to get groomed! Almost look human again.
Found a pink duck on the card reader at work.
Last night on the train there was some excitement. The train was crowded for an early train on a Tuesday. In the tunnel coming out of the city the train had a loud bang and sparks flew everywhere out side the train. The train came to a halt. After about 10 minutes the train starts limping again to the nearest station. They got some people off to express to Jenkintown. But the staff did not know if the train could continue. Then after 20 minutes the conductors asked everyone to get on the Lansdale train. Which was very crowded with only standing room. Everyone smashed in and made a crowded train VERY crowded. It took more than 90 minutes to get to my home station. UGH.
Got a meeting at the very end of the day so I won't be on the early train out today.
Lunch time rolled around. Tuna sub hit the spot. Got a large tuna sub at Wegmans and had them cut and wrap it in two parts. Two days of lunch.
Back from lunch and had to do the dreaded reboot of the computer. Hope it restarts.