Weary Wednesday
Guess I have and have had a bug for the last few days. Last night the inside temp here was high 50’s low 60’s and I spent most of the night out from under the covers so at least something wasn’t regulating right.
Have been setting and getting a e-commerce site set up today. More on that when it has product in it. Not mine btw.
Cat had another dentist appointment today so that took the afternoon.
Loaded in some wood for the night and been sitting and reading or on the computer since. Gonna be an early night too. Still feeling a lot less than fair.
And with that minimal recounting of the day I am gonna close for now. Till tomorrow…
Themocracy
Wednesday was not so weird, as it was, well, Wednesday. Hump day. That kind of thing…
Tried another board on the drive last night-same model series, but about 7 months or so older-just the usual overspin and no seek. It looks like it will take the right model#, and very close in time to do the trick, if anything will. It’s not that it is not doable, it’s just that the odds of finding the right part are pretty low.
Sitting here drinking coffee, and getting my brain back online for the day. Saw a show last night called “Smash Lab” on Discovery channel. Four young psuedo-scientific-types try to solve a problem in a new, different way. Last week they were trying to come up with a way to stop vehicles from crossing the center of a highway, using barriers of easily-crushable concrete, and a collapsing center lane. Didn’t see the end of it, so I don’t know how well it went. This week, they were trying to limit wind damage during hurricanes to houses/trailers, so they (after various cool, destructive “proof-of-concept” tasks where they built/blew down small buildings) took carbon fiber cloth and reinforced a mobile home with it. Put strips at stress points, and then wrapped the whole thing in it. Then they backed up a 737 and started the engines, and gradually ran them up until they hit a force 5 hurricane. Oh, and they shot two by fours from a baseball pitching machine on steriods at it too. The thing did just fine until the anchors they put in for the hold-down straps pulled up, and then it rolled over. Still in one piece, really looking none the worse for wear. Don’t know what all the carbon fiber cost, but it sure did the trick. Made it look like a stealth trailer. I guess the point is you could reinforce those things to where they would hold together much better-Doh! Does make you wonder how much effort/money would be involved in actually making mobile homes more durable.
Well, its getting on toward time to go, gotta get ready. Have a better one today than yesterday.