As I continue to blow warm air out and suck cooler air into my unit at least I won't have to water my veggies again today with 30mm yesterday and another 10mm today, but we fell short of our average January rainfall of 107mm recording 75.25mm.

My sand is still far too wet to do any mixing so my trailer will stay connected to my sedan for a while longer yet and may stay that way for another week as yet according to the forecast for the next week. Luckily I still have my wagon to run around in.

Anyhow it's time for my 2nd coffee break of the morning after paying my fortnightly grocery bill so I've only a bill to pay at the post office later on with a couple of beers on the way back before settling down to channel flick between the women's Ashes test match and the men's test match in Sri Lanka.

Cheers.

The temp reached a steamy 27C here today while we managed to dodge the showers and storms so I maybe able to do some more mixing.

Anyhow I think that I'm ready to call it a night.

Cheers.

The weather outside is grey, grey and grey... all nuances of grey Mother Nature knows. Dark clouds, bright clouds, fast flying clouds. But where's the sun?

Yes, back online. Eric had not noticed someone had made a change to the firewall. He reset it when I asked him about it.

Thanks that Eric!


Meanwhile, checking through my new insurance for my car, one notable detail is:

"Engine details: 0 cc"

Yep... It has no combustion engine!!

Who would have thunk?...

Form filling bureaucrats 'n' all that!

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Thank you very much Carlos and Eric.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

... And for another thing to be beware of for the insurance for these new fangled electric drive 'emselves and you up the wall:

... We won’t cover any loss, damage or injury caused by your automated car driving itself at any time or place...

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... So British car insurers are fast adapting to the new age of BEVs.

Meanwhile, German authorities are slow to even imagine cars can be powered by something else than ICE:

That's [photo] a West German driver's license (issued until 1986, before a more unified EG (European Communities) type was issued), which is still valid until ~2033.

The inscription reads:

Mr.
Mrs. .........................
Miss
is granted permission, after passing the (driving) test *)
(to drive) a motor vehicle powered by
an internal combustion engine
of type class one, two, three, four, five [issued license classes crossed]
...

I'm not sure if a Tesla driver with such a license risks to be fined by the police. ;-)

source: History of German drivers licenses... (in German... pictures):

Posting on a Saturday morning where on the top of this range we got off to a 17C start with 25C expected.

I'm just keeping my eye on a weather radar to the east as some weather attempts an assault on the escarpment to see if I'll get some mixing done this morning or if I have to throw a tarp over my sand so that I have dry sand for tomorrow.

Anyhow it must be time for a 2nd coffee.

Cheers.

47f and steady rain. The temp will drop to near freezing. Light snow showers are expected down to near sea level. Meanwhile the mountains are getting a lot of much needed snow.

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Well I've been next door and got another 50L bag of premium potting mix and uncovered everything so all I have to do now is finish my final coffee for the morning before I turn the concrete mixer on and start shoveling compost, sand and the potting mix into it in a 4/2/1 ratio.

Anyhow we're now up to 20C (feels like 18C) out there so I'm hoping to do 2 more loads of growing guru and maybe even get some of the sand that'll be left in the trailer into the last small bay and under cover all before the cricket gets underway.

Cheers.

Well I was just finishing my 1st mic when the drizzle started and I figured that 4 loads of mix was enough and covered that up before pulling the mixer in under cover so I started shoveling the sand out of the trailer before some serious rain started to fall so I quit at that point and got myself under cover as the temp got to 23C (felt like 22C).

Cheers.

It's getting frosty again -5,1C

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Well the temp didn't get any better today, but it did bounce a bit between bouts of drizzle that continued well into the afternoon, and it's now down to 17C (feels like 16C) with 11C expected in the morning.

Anyhow it's time for some dinner to take a pill with.

Cheers.

Back in Civilisation oh so briefly...

And what is that green stuff in the bottom of my forlorn coffee mug, as was hastily abandoned where last left, in mid work and dash...?

... We have new life! Some form of caffeine and coffee beans loving lichen! In my coffee mug!!

That soon got cleaned out!


And the lesson from last year is:

Rush and haste do not work!...

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I'm day 3 in Tucson. So many pretties.

Posting on a Sunday morning as the Bathurst 12hr race gets underway.

We're off to a 14C (feels like 11C) start with 25C expected.

Anyhow it's coffee time.

Cheers.

That didn't last long...



So...

What bright spark in China decided that it was a good idea to double the claimed current switching capacity by using a DPDT switch with the terminals wired in parallel...?

Nothing melted and no damage done but it don't work any more!



DPDT: Double pole double throw switch. In our imperfect world, one pair of contacts will always open or close, singularly, first, and so suffer singularly the full load...

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Well the usual carnage at the start of the race under headlights didn't happen this time and it took around 90mins before it did start.

Anyhow as an extra coffee for the morning is being had we're now up to 16C (feels like 13C) here.

Cheers.

...and the magic smoke will escape (eventually).

Even worse are multi-pole switches when used for critical timing - even more magic smoke emerges.

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?