Saturday Café.

ST1100Y said:
G'Day...

5°C, sunny, blue skies, noticeable wind... the howl woke me up way before dawn...

ya know where the Nespresso machine stands, so help yourself, cups are in the upper cabinet, don't forget to top up the water tank while at it...

fresh self baked rye bread, soft boiled eggs, butter, Camembert, sausage cut, etc... all locally farmed & produced...
That glass in the middle? See the label: "MIL's best"... granny's homemade strawberry jam... looks pale you say? Well it lacks the squeezed out scale bugs added to industrial grade jellies (the food color Carmine is processed out of Coccoidea bugs)... and to avoid people's barfing reflex they just label it innocently E120 instead of "Beetle-juice"... still qualifies as 100% natural biological ingredients though... ;)

The neighbor seems to be done with installing Xmas ornaments, at night his place looks like an offshore oil-rigg had s@x with a cruise-ship... dazzling...

We'll have friends over for dinner, GF already rummaging in the kitchen, flipping pages of a cooking book...

One corner of the room looks like a storage facility... Amazon cartons... GF had me order quite a volume for the family... more inbound :rolleyes:

Mower robot on the last round for this year, will clean and store the grass bug for the winter then...

Reloaded the bird-feeder, the little pterosaurs love their sunflower seeds...

have a nice w/e!
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Beetle-juice Beetle-juice Beetle-juice

oh nooooooooooooooooooo!
 
Morning all! Dark here still and 8C. We'll get up to 11C with rain most of the day.

I'll spend the day cleaning windows and cupboards in the house as well as dealing with a tree that got blown down in the windstorm earlier in the week. Looks like we'll be able to possibly start moving some things back into the house next weekend, hence the cleaning this weekend. The end is in sight and we cannot wait.....

Hope everyone has a great day!
 
nicksacco said:
Sounds like fun, @Sadlsor - Have you picked out a drone yet?
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I have 4, 3 that fly and 1 needing a power supply.
Not counting my couple of $30 "starter drones" I learned to fly with.
While not exactly an "early adapter", my first real done was the DJI Phantom 1, if that means anything to you.
So what's that... maybe 10 years now?
 
Sadlsor said:
I have 4, 3 that fly and 1 needing a power supply.
Not counting my couple of $30 "starter drones" I learned to fly with.
While not exactly an "early adapter", my first real done was the DJI Phantom 1, if that means anything to you.
So what's that... maybe 10 years now?
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Actually I also have a Phantom 1 that still flyable.
Currently using Phantom 4 Pro V2. Scary precise!

Lots of folks like the Mavics for their currency, size and ability to fold.
If you are into DJI FPV, apparently the Avata is the one.
esssh, this changes all the time.
 
Morning Ray & All from mixed clouds, Sun & :wind1: , in Southern Utah!

Currently beside the winds blowing in from the WSW @ 6 to 19mph, the temp is 52F, up from 45F and heading for 59F. According to the weather guessers, we have a storm coming in and all next week will be a mix of rain and snow.

So, that means I need to finish up the trenches today! I spent most of the day cleaning out the trenches and trying to straighten out the 1" water line from it being "coiled". Also, I made a mistake (hey, I'm not an electrician) with not pulling all the electrical wire through the short conduit before adding some bends to it. So I will have to remedy that before continuing the conduit and wire to the outlet.

Eggs, bacon, toast & OJ. Pepsi(s) later.

Anyone :dr13:, have a great day on the roads! :hat3:
 
Sadlsor said:
So much activity, coming from mostly old retired fellas. Well, maybe one day...

Thanks for Eyetalian Roast, Ray. Martin's rye bread sounds good to me, but I'm not quite sure of the protocol here, due to his vague selection of words... do y'all think that was just an announcement, as in a matter of fact ("I have some"), or was it an offer? ("And you may have some too"). It wouldn't last long, if there's only one loaf.

I should have gone in and posted this on my laptop upstairs, it's flipping 36° outside. Stoo's new stove is calling my name, I like wood burning stoves. They've come a long way since my Mom grew up in that little farm house, where the pot bellied cast iron appliance was used for cooking and for heating the whole house.

Honda Element oil change is on the books for today, once Roz gets up to guide me up onto the ramps. I haven't figured out how to drive it onto the ramps just by myself. It needs to warm up outside, too.

Besides that, I'll get back to working on my Part 107 license so I can legally fly my drones and get paid.

And I have a new AI course to start also. Our CEO has created an AI Ads Manager for businesses paying for online ads, and it's outperforming Google's ad team. We have a client with a dedicated Google advisor, and our AI Ads Manager is netting him 96% better response than the guy he's working with at Google. That's impressive.

I need to get up to speed with this technology, after lampooning AI all this time.

Looks like I fell off the tech end, so I'll leave y'all to get on with your day. Bundle up if you have to go outside.
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I wish I had a wood-burning stove, too. I have no shortage of wood around here. Have you seen the rocket stoves?

I just shove my ramps as close to the front tires as possible and eyeball how straight to get them. You can be off a bit and it's no problem. You can easily feel when you've gotten to the top of the ramps. If I can do it, you certainly can.)

I'm interested in hearing more about the ad manager.
 
SupraSabre said:
So, that means I need to finish up the trenches today! I spent most of the day cleaning out the trenches and trying to straighten out the 1" water line from it being "coiled". Also, I made a mistake (hey, I'm not an electrician) with not pulling all the electrical wire through the short conduit before adding some bends to it. So I will have to remedy that before continuing the conduit and wire to the outlet.
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Use a vacuum on one end of the pipe and put your rope with a plastic bag tied on one end at the other end of the pipe. It'll suck the rope thru.
Then tie the end of the rope left at the non vacuum end to your wire, lube the wire up with some dish soap, and pull the wire thru.
The dish soap will help reduce the friction, especially at the bends. Now if it's a 90* bend, and large wire, it will be more difficult.
 
Thanks for the coffee, Ray! I'm jonesing for a second cup.

I was up until 3am skyping with my programmer. He finally showed up. Not sure how long that will last. I do know that I want to throat punch the "support" staff at WooPayments.

It's a nice sunny day today with temps rising to the 70's later today. Perfect really. I was planning on taking a spin on the bike, but I'm kind of green from staying up so late.

My better half is going grocery shopping. On a Saturday afternoon no less. She's a glutton for punishment. Yep, she's getting some toilet paper before the run on it starts.

The Christmas parade is this evening. Small town fun in a fun small town. A welcome distraction from all the craziness.

Have a blessed day!
 
Obo said:
Use a vacuum on one end of the pipe and put your rope with a plastic bag tied on one end at the other end of the pipe. It'll suck the rope thru.
Then tie the end of the rope left at the non vacuum end to your wire, lube the wire up with some dish soap, and pull the wire thru.
The dish soap will help reduce the friction, especially at the bends. Now if it's a 90* bend, and large wire, it will be more difficult.
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When I was running a lot of coax cable through conduit, I used some strong string and a small piece of fabric or even paper towel tied to the end. The vacuum always sucked it through with no problem. I'd always tie an extra string to the cable and pull both those through together just in case I had to pull another cable through the conduit later.
 
Obo said:
Use a vacuum on one end of the pipe and put your rope with a plastic bag tied on one end at the other end of the pipe. It'll suck the rope thru.
Then tie the end of the rope left at the non vacuum end to your wire, lube the wire up with some dish soap, and pull the wire thru.
The dish soap will help reduce the friction, especially at the bends. Now if it's a 90* bend, and large wire, it will be more difficult.
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Yeah, I had the wire through just passed the three 90 degree Ss, near where my steps are. But because of how I glued the conduit, the wire was stuck in the conduit. So I cut the conduit (without cutting the wire) and used that section to pull all the wire through ALL THE WAY THROUGH. I then was able to pull the wire back out of that messed up conduit (very glad I didn't just cut it. :eek:I then started replacing that section by adding one piece (90 degree bends) at a time (threading it through about 60' of wire). Once that was all attached, I threaded the 10' sections, one at a time and glued them in place, until I got to the outlet. Out of the 100' of wire, I had a couple of feet at the outlet and about five feet still in the tractor shed, where I was pulling it from. Like I said, I'm not an electrician! :rolleyes:
 
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