Not surprisingly, that was a pretty quick weekend. And I didn’t win the $319 million mega millions (best I could have done was split it anyway, so I guess I’m glad I didn’t buy a ticket – who wants to share?). So, back to work I go. On the bright side, I was working in and around the garage quite a bit yesterday, and, despite the fact that it was colder than hell yesterday (nice looking day – sunny and all – but cold), and didn’t hear the boiler come on once. Normally I’d have heard it come on at least a few times just to heat the domestic hot water tank, so that investment was hopefully worthwhile. Now I have a storage tank that I can hopefully incorporate into a solar heating system. It’s a bit small, but if I can even use it to preheat, it’ll help.
I also got the new generator going. Didn’t do more than add gas and oil and let it run for a while, but at least I can run my sump pumps off extension cords if I need to. The next step is to figure out the spaghetti of the existing transfer switch. My panel is a mess and tangle of wires. There’s a subpanel that appears to not do much of anything, and a tangle of wires hooked up to the transfer switch that do not all appear to be in use and may not even be wired properly.
In other exciting news, while I really hate to jinx it, it appears that the latest Mac update has fixed this trackpad issue. Not that Apple would admit that something in the last update screwed it up in the first place, but that’s alright. I’m not even really sure that was it, because it was still AFU briefly after the reboot. But things have been OK for a couple of days. Still don’t have the guts to re-enable dragging, but I guess I can live w/o it.
Now if they’d just fix whatever it is that keeps making the WiFi drop out randomly.
Another cold, windy day today (it never got above freezing this weekend – normal high is 48 – it’s in the teens right now, and it’s not supposed to get much above freezing – maybe 34, if we’re “lucky” – today). Right now, they’re saying things will warm up next weekend. I’ll believe it when I see it.
It’s a bright, beautiful day but very cold. Where is spring?
Michele Rhee claimed that her union busting and concentration on test scores had led to great gains. However, it appears that these gains were helped a great deal by children erasing incorrect answers and substituting correct answers. The usual rate of such an occurrence was less than one question per student. Rhee’s schools had an average of 12 such corrections per student.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-28-1Aschooltesting28_CV_N.htm
Spring is right over there in Western PA, under a big pile of groundhog dung.
The Republicans in the House are accusing AARP of supporting healthcare reform out of some nefarious scheme to make money. (Of course the Koch brothers can support anything they wish as long as it makes them money.) AARP reps are being called to testify on April
Fools Day1st.And the Donald is hitching his presidential horse to the birthers.
Ugh!
Spring will be coming to Denver this weekend with an expected 76F Friday and 78 Saturday. Nice turn around from a little snow on the way to work this morning. :yippee:
Enjoy it artnorton and send a little spring eastward if you will.