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It must be time for a 2nd Sunday coffee by now.

After a slightly frosty 1C (felt like -1C), there was not enough humidity for a proper frost, we're now at 7C (feels like 5C) on our way to an expected 17C for today.

Anyhow I better go and turn the kettle on.

Cheers.

Oooer!

What happened??!!

Here and there was I, lost and bouncing between worlds...

And....


Congratulations Admiral!

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Yes congrats Admiral from my backup internet connection.

Spectrum says internet access repair completion delayed to maybe 9:30pm pt, damage to the fiber must be really bad, thankfully the police caught the Joker, Batman wasn't needed.

Time offline for my PC and TV is over 12 hours, this started at 12:01am, one minute I was watching YouTube, the next looking for the TV antenna which of course needs replacement, when rains here, it pours.

Update: Spectrum in Yermo is back online, I did a speed test and it was 414/23, this should improve, this was at 4:04pm, email came back at 2:59pm.

Well that's a myriad of chores done outside this morning as we get to 16C (feels like 11C) so I reckon that it's time to wander up the hill 3 doors for a well deserved LLB and possibly a feed while I'm there on this mostly sunny Sunday.

Cheers.

Congrats Admiral. All I can say is I missed it by that much.

Congrats Admiral. All I can say is I missed it by that much.

Same here. LOL

Well a few beers were had, while running into a few old school boys from my days back on the buses (they're still as cheeky now 40yrs later), and a pizza was grabbed, along with with half of it was had a special spinal pill that I should've had last night (I may have got a whole 8hrs of sleep in instead of 7 otherwise), so now I'm ready for another spinal reset in the hope that I'll get of this kink and twinge that I still have.

Cheers.

A day or back I was driving to town with my GF to get her something to eat, we drove down Old Hwy 58 to 1st Street which has one new bridge going over the railroad yard, the new bridge is the Concrete bridge, the old bridge has the 3 trusses, the entire old bridge is now GONE, except for the river approach the drive was smooth, the river side is going to get two new bridges going over the Mojave River. I usually avoid Old Hwy 58 since 1st street is a bit out of my way and the upper part of 1st street is a bit rough.
The Mojave River is to the Left in the picture.

The planned bridge alignments, the 1st bridge has been completed and the original bridge has been removed, the 3rd bridge to be built is to the right out of frame.

Congratz Admiral.

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Well it's night time here, I had to check behind the bedroom TV and I found Grace had pooped there, she gets chased away from 3 litterboxes in 2 bathrooms by 2 larger male cats, Grace is 9lbs and the 2 males weigh 12lbs each, I will be buying 2 new litterboxes which will bring the total to 5 boxes, but for the moment no litter since I don't have the money to do so, I simply lack the resources to do so with what I get, If I can't get her to use the next boxes once I have sand for them, I may have run out of options and there may be only 1 option left, she was poddy trained but the other two clearly have claimed the bathrooms as their territory and not hers.

The 3 bags of litter would cost almost $110 delivered, the 2 boxes are $22($11ea), 2 scoops are about $10 total, I have 1 scoop now.

Some people may not like it, but she is 16yrs old and at her age the local shelter would put her to sleep and she does have arthritis, I pick her up and she cries in pain and she never did that before, so what do I do?

Grace is not adoptable at all, I know that.

Last I looked it was $100 at the ABC Animal Clinic to do so, but since I have not asked in years, that is old info, I'd rather not, just finding floor space in my bedroom is nearly impossible, I wanted to put in a king size bed to replace the queen size bed which is a bit small for 2 cats and me, Grace never sleeps in here, I can't add a 3rd bathroom at all here and a litterbox in my bedroom won't work with a kingsize bed that I need, so if she won't or isn't allowed to use any of 5 litterboxes, then some will hate this, but she will have to be put to sleep.

I'm already hated elsewhere for suggesting this, my friends couldn't make room for her as they have a large dog and a cat and 1 bathroom and bedroom and she'd get in a fight with the male cat there and run out the door first chance she got as she used to do that after I had adopted her.

If she runs away she will die, from lack of water and food or from bobcats, yes they do exist here in the desert.

The sun has gone to bed here while the temp has dropped down to 9C (feels like 5C) and a frosty 0C is expected in the morning.

Cheers.

14C here. Still a few hours before the golden globe appears.

Congratz, Admiral!

Looks like most of the catastrophic rainfall in the Czech Republic and Southern Poland is now over. We are getting heavy floods on the Oder (border DE/PL) and Elbe rivers. But because it didn't rain extremely in Saxony, we won't see any flooded villages and towns here.

It's totally different in Lower Austria. Half of the annual rainfall has fallen there in the last 72 hours. All historical records have been broken and exceeded by at least 50%. Im most parts of the state (300mm in 72 hours; 12 inches). The whole State of Lower Austria has been declared a disaster area by authorities. Things are looking really bad there.

It's down to 4C (feels like 0C) now, but unless this wind drops and the humidity rises a lot I doubt that we'll get a frost here in the morning, so I'm no going to snuggle down to see if I can get another 7hrs of sleep again.

Cheers.

Why have the expense of the bridges across the widest part of all the railway sidings? Why not across just the one or two tracks at one end??

... It's not as though the USA is stuck for space??!!

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Historical/hysterical/geographic reasons - the reader may choose their own reason.

There does appear to be a big lump just to the west, and a lot of buildings to the east.....

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Why have the expense of the bridges across the widest part of all the railway sidings? Why not across just the one or two tracks at one end??

... It's not as though the USA is stuck for space??!!

OK the Yard is not a bunch of sidings, it is where freight trains can park for crew changes and where railroad cars can be added to or subtracted from freight trains.

Barstow train station is in one picture and that's was for passenger trains as the station is now part of a railroad museum.

There is another Barstow station but that is for Greyhound and other buses, which is known as a whistle stop and where a McDonalds fast food restaurant is at over on Main Street.

Most freight trains are of the container type today and there is a yard for that being built to the west of Barstow California.

I hope that clears up a few things.

Continuing in the Food Desert...

And I'm run ragged ridiculously running around fixing things only for other consequences of non-optimal working to catch up for another painful episode to fix and clear...

The exploding filter has exploded another couple of times, even when run at way way below maximum spec... Even with me operating it directly. Normal operation is to operate that unit continuously. It very much doesn't like the presently enforced very irregular usage! I'm guessing pressure bubbles, or material drying and clogging the filter mesh, is part of a whole new phenomenon as a consequence of all the other consequences...

And everyone is exhausted. Especially me.

There's too many interruptions/emergencies to be able to get anything done. I'm even stymied from arranging for some new equipment to preempt looming problems turning into post-looming expensive fixes...


All this has proved to be beyond the fortitude of my relief bod... And I'm not happy too keep with this either!

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Posting on a chilly Monday morning on top of this range where it's 1C (feels like -3C) with 17C being expected, but too much air movement and too little humidity has resulted in no frost on the ground.

Anyhow after another good sleep it's time for a coffee.

Cheers.

What can go wrong with automation?...

We have some whirry machine with lots of rotating and oscillating parts that is reasonably 'modern'. It has push buttons but with magically a flat panel display. Thankfully, the display panel is NOT a touch-control display. There are multiple automatic modes of operation. Most users operate the thing full manual only.

Here's me, using the automatic modes to gain some extra efficiency and to reduce my workload keeping the thing on track. Activation of whichever of the auto modes is displayed top centre of the display panel. So that should be good then?

... Except...

The display panel is very 'busy' with other dials and numbers and indicators which need constant monitoring. The automode engaged is a hopelessly small indication amongst all that lot. And you must change the mode settings upon occasion dependent upon surrounding happenings...

... Which all works well until...

You get bored and lose track of what mode is operating...

Or worse still, you get distracted by 'something else', and completely lose the plot and things unexpected start running seemingly out of control...!


There's a lot of science in a successful and safe User Interface that hasn't been applied to this example!

Cue various production line comedy sketches...

All good fun?

Time to finish my latest reheated (caffeine) brew.

(I'm missing last beer orders, AGAIN).

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