Started the day out with a storm. Water coming in front and back doors. I went out and cleared the way for the water to flow around the building and not back up inside.
Wrote the following and failed to post or finish it so will repost it here then finish up the day afterwards…
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Started the morning off with a storm. Lots of lightning and rain. As it got closer I disconnected the power from the entire computer and electronics center and left it all off till the worst had moved on. However when it came back up the cable was (and is) out. Did all the unplug and wait and reconnect in sequence thingies and tis still out. Waited an hour and then called CableOne and they have outages all over so I am assuming that the problem is on their end. They have the address logged into their system anyway so am hoping it will be back on sometime soon.
Funny how I am jonesing this soon… Guess I didn't get the surfing out of my system yet today…
Storm has been fun. had water in the greenhouse floor again. Gotta do something soon about the trees so I can get started out there. Had water come in the front door too.
Got to get the backhoe sometime next week.
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After a while I called Steve and their cable was working fine. So… I unhooked the wi-fi access point and hook the iBook right to the modem and everything works fine. Then try hooking the ap back up and nada… Went into the ap and reset it to factory settings and still nothing. So to Wally world we go. The had a Motorola wi-fi unit that is 802.11g with removable antenna for $60 so got it (and other things as usual) and came home. Hooked it up and after loading the disk just to get the access ip address, user name and password it hooked right up and after the obligatory reboot and power cycle of all equipment we were back online. Seems to be a faster connection with the motorola. Guess I will try to sent the Netgear back for warranty repair.
Hope tomorrow settles down. Still got to weld some on the bush hog and clear an area for the saw mill to be unloaded… And replace a plug in the tractor. Always something… or 247…
Been quite a day. Started out about 6 with me falling down the stairs and breaking the little toe on my right foot. All red and purple and swollen… Hurts like hell too. But with a bit of stubbornness I have managed to go for at least part of the day.
Got the water hooked up for the washing machine. Also the drain run for the washer. then found and hooked up a vent for the dryer. Cat ran a load through each and they seem to be working fine.
Now to wash the piles of clothes and see where the walls need to be moved to…
Also put a bolt in Aaron's alternator. Hope it holds. Was a real pain in the arm. Large bruised place on my arm. Every time I work on a car I remember why I quit doing it. And then go and do it again. and again.
Looking back at the second paragraph, first sentence… Seems so simple. Took 3 hours or so. Today. And a few more last week. Started today with finding a piece of 3/4 inch iron pipe. 3 feet long. Had one end flattened. Just right. Took the 2 faucets with ells and compression adaptors attached to the barn. Found a piece of angle iron from an old bed rail that had been used as a fence post and cut 2 one inch strips off across the L. Flattened them while leaving a bit of a hump where the corner of the L was and then drilled holes in each end for a bolt to go through. Got 2 3.5 inch bolts and nuts and attached them through the holes. Put pipe and ells inside and was too loose. Took it all back apart and drilled holes closer. Put it all together again and it fit just right. Took it off and drove the pipe into the ground behind the washer by the platform for the toilet and put the clamp and faucets back on. Tightened it good. Got the tubing cutter and cut one pipe running overhead to the shower. Put a T in and then did it again to the other pipe. Ran tubing from those T's to the connectors on the faucets. Closed both faucets and turned the water on. One leaked. Took it apart and replace the inner tube I had put in there in place of a washer many years ago with a real faucet washer. Turned the water on again and fixed a couple of minor leaks. Hooked the pipes from the washer to the faucets and plugged the power in and turned the washer on. Worked fine.
And even here I left out some of the things that went on during the install… Whatever… tis a bit more involved than just hooking the water up… 😉
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