Sometimes...

Sometimes I think I'll trade this house for a dog and shoot the dog. Served my time on the front porch paint job, smudging primer on spindles and columns and such, put the ladders and stuff away, and one of the springs on the garage door broke as I was closing up. I said various bad words, ate lunch, and went for a shortish bike ride over to the airport and back. Nice day out there, sunny and cool and no wind and very little traffic. Too bad I wasn't out in the country or on the carriage trails at Acadia.

Anyway, came back, worked an S-hook into the coils of the spring and bent a few things so it wouldn't come out again, restrung the spring, and the door works again. Until the next fuck-up.

15.13 miles, 1:02:35

Power supply update

Received the replacement battery Friday (stealth UPS, box found on porch Saturday morning when I came back with the newspaper...) Thank you to the nice folks who suggested Power Protection Partners.

So I've sorted out a lot of wires and removed the old Trip-Lite unit and replaced that with the refurbished APC unit and all is well with both computer stations.

And the Trip-Lite unit has a date with screwdrivers and soldering gun out in the workshop, with a planned conversion into a battery trickle-charger and DC-AC inverter in its future. After all, the electronics still work.