As Promised

So here are the Power Supply/Charges (PS/C) I was talking about yesterday. I removed the shelf segment from the charging cart for clarity.  The two on the left are mounted my way, the one on the right is mounted "their" way.    You will notice that with "their way" the AC power cord (carrying the BIG (relatively) juicies ) is on the bottom.

In this closeup you may see that the AC cord is touching the metal "shelf", and in fact the cord plug is supporting the PS/C (in tension with the strap) as the body of the unit is not touching. I do not care for AC cords touching a thin metal piece.  What if the insulation wore through? Shocking! In my experience the AC cord connector can easily come loose and it is difficult to plug back in, too.

With my technique only the low voltage cord is touching metal, and there is no strain on the AC cord or its connector.

It is STILL a tremendous pain to strap in thirty-six of these suckers on each cart.  Takes nearly five minutes each to do a "good enough for the likes of YOU" job.

EDIT:  To sum it up, none of this is going to make r/cableporn on reddit.

Happy weekend!

Of Green Lizards & Power Supplies

I guess I posted this on the FB but not here!  We went to the zoo last Sunday and I saw this lizard while going down the rain forest path.  We sat on a bench a few feet away from this little green fellow and he did not run away. 

Today, at work, I made a panorama of the library, in two parts.

The first part:

Remember, these are thumbnails.  You gotta click on 'em to see the BIG picture!

The second part:

My task these last four days of work is to load the LOGO netbooks back into the charging carts.  Not a big deal, but all the power supply/chargers (PS/C) have to be put in, too.  Or they won't charge, you see.

This is the PS/C side of the charging carts.  It is supposed to be all tidy-ish and neat, like the top row (more or less).  Most of the carts are missing most of those black straps that hold the PS/Cs neatly.

I believe they are all going to be taken out again in the Fall, so I just piled them on the cart top.  The doors won't lock on the PS/C side, but who is gonna steal a bunch of chargers?  You can believe the netbook side is locked!

Another cart, an example of what I started with on most of the carts.

Tomorrow I may complain about just HOW those relatively neat ones were improperly oriented, in my opinion, and why.  Possibly with pictures!

Saturday Afterafternoon

I forget what I did this morning, except that I went downtown to look for some caches & to check on one of my own.  I didn't find any of the ones I was looking for, but mine was in its place, so that was good.

After waking up, eating, and talking to Matt I headed off to the event.  I planned to get to the area early so I could look for a couple of caches.  I passed a gold vase in the road on the way to the parking spot.  It was gone when I got back from the hike to a cache, which I found.

I went looking for another cache a couple of miles away, it was missing, sadly.  That make three DNFs today, and two Finds, including the event "cache".

I went, to the event, and received my certificate. The event has a MASH theme, to recognize cachers who have sustained injuries caching, or even non-caching related illnesses and injuries.  About a quarter of the attendees had some sort of military garb on.  I wore my field jacket and some other clothing that looked military, in an eclectic sort of way.

I also ate pizza.

I am so tired now that I can't remember all the stuff that happened.

That certificate is SO well done, and I'm going to frame it.  I got some other swag, too.  Several people came up to talk to me.  One person told me they liked my log entries a lot.  Another like the photo I posted on the log entry for her Cat Lady cache.  I believe I posted that picture here, too, back in January.  I got to meet some other people.  One guy was much taller than I had pictured, and younger, too. 

That's about all I got for now!

Tomorrow Is Garbage Day. Again

First I went out to El Cajon on Sunday morning and found a couple of caches I wasn't able to  look for on Saturday afternoon.  Then I went out to someplace in Chula Vista, southwest of Eastlake.  Not all that far from Olympian High School.

These flowers were in a patch pretty much just there, I thought that was remarkable, so I took a picture.

Trudging up a hill I was raising a lot of dust.  Dust is hard to photography, I find. I was so focused on trying to get a good pic that I walked 110 feet past the geocache.  So I had to got back DOWN the hill, make the find, then back UP the hill.

At the top of the hill I took the selfie, trying desperately for a different facial expression.  That may be Otay Mountain in the background.

This isn't a spoiler, 'cause this is pretty much the only cover around.  A Suspicious Pile of Rocks, as we say. I didn't spot it.  The hint said, "Under a rock".  Huh.  Yes, I finally found it!

Dirt bike riders, and there were a few out today, get their choice of hill climbs.  I was up there, too.  I came down the little one to the right.

I posted this pic on a forum in answer to the query: What Is Your Favorite Shirt?

Who ARE those guys?

Just before I left work today we had a visitors to the library.  He is still there.  You may want to wear long pants tied at the ankles if you are coming in tomorrow!

This evening I learned that one must put water into the Sunbeam Hot Shot BEFORE turning it on and ignoring it.  What's that smell?  So much for that, now I gotta buy a new one.

Wednesday Passing By

Here are two more pictures of the pretty blue projector lubricating oil bottle.

It still has some oil in it!  I saw one of these bottle on eBay for forty bucks!  I also saw one for five bucks...

My, and by "my" I mean not mine, Triplett multimeter. Needs a new battery.

File size 462K You have been warned!

I'm trying to get rid of this chair at work.

I can't think of anything else to say, except I started reading "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?", which I may have read before, but I don't remember it.

Oh, I just thought of something!  I had severely dismantled the fake pendulum clock that I have so MANY emotional issues with, and I was going to order a new mechanism, but I fooled with it for a quite a bit and it magically started working!  Then I found I had to pry the hands off again so I could put it back in the wood case.  And it stopped working gain.  So I did some judicious whacking with a hammer, and a bit of prying with a screwdriver, and now it works again!  So I went to screw the back of the plastic mechanism case on and found that I would have to take the whole thing apart again to get the screws in.  So, duct tape.  Camo duct tape.

NOW we're done here!

Truly It's Tuesday (Garbage Day)

sfssfs

Monday before work I went looking for a geocache that had been published the night before, one of two, actually.  I didn't find it.

Yesterday the principal was in the place and said she was tire of looking at one of my two bulletin boards.  Well, it's only been up two years, I said not all the kids who made it have graduated yet, ha ha!  Anyway, I took it down today and put up a new one.  Here it is:

And that is how it is gonna stay, at least until I am inspired.

I was in a tossing out mood, and so out goes all the 16mm projector repair stuff.  I just love that Victor lubricating oil, it is in SUCH a pretty blue glass bottle, I am keeping it for nostagia's sake.  But the projector belts just have to GO!  I wonder if there is some craft one can make with them?

I will try to take a better picture of just the pretty blue bottle tomorrow with the REAL camera.

Same with this big projector lamp, I will take another picture of it, sans thumb with the chewed-off nails.

After work today I went for the second of those two newly-publised geocaches.  I find it, either.

It's Tuesday, I Tells Yah!

The library is still not open because it hasn't been inspected by the fire department yet.

Here is an interesting example of flying conduit. I suspect the ceiling was an inch lower a few months ago.  Looks like we got new light fixtures in here. 

I had a notion that I had written something on the bottom of this drawer.  I was right.  I can't remember just WHY I wrote it, but it looks like we are coming up on the anniversary of it having been placed there.

I am reading The Longitude Prize.  It is pretty interesting.

That is all.

Three Day Weekend

Saturday, after morning labs, I stopped by El Azteca for a breafast burrito, the first one I have ever purchased for myself, although not the first I have ever eaten.  It was breakfast AND dinner.

Sunday afternoon we headed downtown to look for some geocaches near Petco Park but it was very crowded.  I learned later that there was some sort of musical concert occurring that evening.  So we took ourselves out to Sunset Cliffs Natural Park.  I had a rather big pain start up in my right rear shoulder when I got out of the vehicle.  It did not totally leave until I got home.  Very odd.  We found three geocaches, and didn't find one.  The one was near a ravine with large bushes from loud giggling and odd smokey smells were emitting.  We also saw a reasonably big snake crossing the trail, but it was not a rattle-type snake.  I don't think it was venomous, what else is around here?  I was joking that it was maybe a boomslang, 'cause I like saying boomslang, but I think it was a gopher snake.  Sorry, didn't get a picture of it.

Yet another in a series of incredible portraiture.  Is not the hair fantastic?  So wild, so free!

Boy, I don't look a thing like in the viewfinder!

This was on the camera roll, but I forget why.  But here it be, preserved for all posterity.

I watched some television last night.  I watched a charming Columbo episode, with Ruth Gordon as the guest murderer.  She is so great! 

I watched a movie titled "Hell's Horizon", about an aircrew during the Korea war.  It had the actor (Jerry Paris) who played Jerry the neighbor on Dick Van Dyke Show.  I looked him up and found he was in a lot of war movies, which I did not know.

I watched something this morning that made me weep so much, but I can't remember what it was.  Oh, I remember, it was "Follow That Dream", a movie with Elvis Presley.  It is maybe the only movie of his that I like,  I read the book before I saw the movie, in yet another instance of "Oh, I read that book!!".  The book was Pioneer, Go Home!  by Richard P. Powell.  I have also read I Take This Land and Don Quixote, U.S.A., a book that Woody Allen used parts of for his movie "Bananas".

That is about all I can think of, thanks for reading!



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Thursday It Is

What a curious day is has been today!

I was hoping to kill two birds by taking a book truck of textbooks along with me to lunch, the hope being I could catch the teachers who wanted the books before THEY went to lunch.  I had my sandwich in a bag sitting on the cart.  As I was maneuvering through the throngs of students a staff member came up to me and asked if that was my sandwich on the cart.  I looked, it was gone!  They said a student had grabbed it!  I declined to follow up on it, I just did not want to know who it was.  It would taint any future dealings I had with 'em, I'd have to do the paperwork, just forget about it.  I hope they enjoyed it, I made it with my own two hands.  I probably should have washed my hands before making it, though...

This afternoon I was shifting shelves, actually shifting the same shelves again, having not shifted them quite enough the first time, when I noticed...

Some slight visual exaggeration of the slant due to camera angle.  But the iPhone tells the truth.

How come I didn't notice the 2% slant the when I straightened that shelf earlier this week?

For comparison, Wikipedia says that a 1% or less grade is the norm on a mainline railroad, over a 2.2% grade would be extremely rare.

It may rain tonight, it certainly is a little chilly!

I see the they are at work on the bathroom next door.  I wonder if I am next?  I have heard nothing.

Is It Tuesday Already?

I don't know what happened Monday or Tuesday, but Sunday I went geocaching and found only three out of the nine I searched for.  This was one of them.

I was going to do labs tomorrow before work, but I've decided to do them on Saturday.  Then I won't miss any exciting times at work!

Saturday In The Fog

Matt and I went geocaching at Palomar Mountain State Park today.  It was alternately foggy, drizzly, sunny, and then foggy again.  It was 46 degrees when we got there, got warmer and sunnier later, then cooler and foggy again.

This is kinda out of order.  It show me in a hollow burnt tree and finding a cache, while taking a humorous (?) selfie.

I rested for a bit at this spot while Matt went back to the car to put the parking pass on display.  There was already some sort of citation, but he cleared it up later with the ranger.  I bless whoever made these seats!

This is the weir building on the Weir Trail.  Don't know what it does, though.

Later on we went up the trail to the fire tower. The fog started coming back in!

Another photo, same spot, different crop.

Pretty red flowers, lots of them about.  Trumpet somethings (Scarlet Bugler - Penstemon centranthifolius).

Before the fog came in completely we had a view of the Pauma Valley below.

We've been to the top, found the geocache, and are headed back down. Matt is taking the flower's picture.  The fog has returned and visibility is very limited.  Driving down the mountain was very "interesting", I'm glad I was the passenger.

I had a bacon and cheese breakfast burrito for dinner, courtesy of Matt.  It was excellent, and I'm sure there were not all THAT many carbs in it.

Thanks for reading!

Friday Wetness

And it WAS wet, in the morning, but I think it was wetter the other day when it rained before work.  More of a morning gentle showers, or even sprinkles, in our neck of the woods today.  I totally coulda probably biked to work!

Here's a panorama of the library I made this afternoon.

There's no electricity or data at the circulation desk, but they are gonna fix that.

And that is about all I have for today!

Not Bike To Work Day

And neither is tomorrow, it's postponed till next week 'cause it is gonna rain tomorrow.  And when I came out of meeting today:

Back to Tuesday.  It didn't rain Tuesday.  I took a picture of a dandelion that a student left on the railing.

Then I grabbed a prism I had laying about and Mrs. B. helped me take this picture of a rainbow dandelion.

Back to today.  I've wondered what this is for, for many many years.  There are several of them mounted down this fence, connected by conduit, sometimes plastic conduit or pipe, and seemingly aligned with parking spaces.  The conduit feeds back to what used to be a functioning gate-opening mechanism, I think.  I guess that is a Type E conduit body.  Learn something every day!

Back to Tuesday.  The shelves are going up in the library.  Yes, you saw this on the FB.  The shelves are mostly up now, and being populated with books!

I was first to DNF a new geocache on the way home.

Bike To Work Day has been postponed to next week, or maybe the week after, I forget.

Have a dry one!

Last Week, Mostly

It rained the other morning, but I forget exactly which morning it was.

We got just under a half an inch of rain in the whole "storm".

I got really wet walking from the parking lot to the bungalow.  A bit of a cloudburst and puddles on the asphalt were the cause.

Here we have the drain outside the library finally seeing some water.

Foam.

I watched part of the movie Outrageous Fortune this Sunday morning, Mother's Day.  It is supposed to be a comedy.  I did not laugh. Not once.

That is about all I got.

NOW I'm Hungry!!

Not mine, but I was envious.  Behold!  A Taco Bell Breakfast Taco!  Looks like sausage, egg, & cheese biscuit.

If you haven't seen the Taco Bell Breakfast video, well, click the link!   LINK