Another Week, Another Post

Mostly September, but one August that I forgot to post last month.

Please remember these are all thumbnail images.  The original hi-quality (well, larger, anyway!) images can be accessed by clicking on the thumbnail image.

August 17th
I heard some banging around, and voices, so I went out side to see these guys up in the air!

Sept. 11th
I got a free trackable number for participating in a geocaching event, so I put it on this old cell phone, and I shall send it out into the world.  Some day.  I printed the number and some identifying words on a piece of paper and slipped it behind the glass on the display.  I did this after taking the picture.  Just try to imagine it...

September 12th
Someone posted something on Fark.com about their ham radio equipment, so I was gonna post about having an antenna in my bedroom, but I forgot which discussion it was in, so here's the picture.

I was looking at Google 3D Maps and it was VERY slow to load, and it looked amazing weird.  Like after a hurricane, or a great disaster.  So this is Pacific Grove, California.

September 12th
Someone said they were visiting the Space Needle in Seattle, and so I had to post my stamps.

And I found my crummy stamp "tongs" out in the garage, and so had to take a couple of pictures trying use them.  But they are VERY crummy!

Four-cent stamps, remember them?

September 14th
I watch this person almost park their car.  They bounced off the concrete curb there a couple of times, too.

September 16th
I finally found the tweezers that I got in my grandfather's stuff when he passed away.  I wonder if I can get them re-plated?

JUST before I found it, though, I ordered some more tweezers and other stuff to fix the cell phone.  Or else break it completely!


September 18th
I went geocaching after the oncologist visit today.  I spotted these in a bush, but they were too crummy to take.  Found the cache on the other side of the bush. Eventually.

When I got home the mailman came and delivered the stuff I ordered on Saturday.  That's 48 hours later.  Amazing!

Here we see the three tweezers and a drill index, full of tiny drills bits.  I couldn't get the drill index open at this point.

Here is the replacement part for the Home button on the cell phone, with the tweezers' point for scale.

I finallly got the drill index open, so here it is, with one of my pin vices that holds the bits for drilling, and the obligatory tweezers for scale.

And that is about THAT!

Thanks for reading!

Mostly September

This blog post is ALL about September. Except for this pic, which is from August, at a geocaching event.

We had QUITE a spell of warm weather when a tropical something moved through.  I took several screen shots to document the horridity of it.

September 1st at 11:24 AM

My humidity meter seems stuck on 99%

September 1st at 1:03 PM

It was pretty darn hot and humid, but I'm not QUITE sure it actually reached 114 here.  No one else that anything QUITE that high. Close, but not QUITE.

September 1st at 1:38 PM. A little later than the next pic, but I'm too lazy to fix it!

September 1st at 1:18 PM

September 2nd, at 3:14 PM

September 3rd. Here we see the weather record for short period, showing the temperature drop as the rain level goes up.

Parking spaces for very short cars?  I saw this geocaching, in Mission Valley-ish.

Removing the old carpets revealed this stuff stuck to the floor, quite securely. A LOT of work to remove it, not to mention all the staples and nails, some broken off.

Fortunately the bedroom had a lot LESS of it.  Almost none.  What a relief!

I walked around all morning Thursday with a touch-screen stylus stuck in my shoe.  So THAT'S what that lump was!

A chain reaction collision at Los Primos.  This car was unlucky enough to be behind a truck, and in front of the person who managed to push three vehicles into each other.

OK, I made this because someone re-posted something about sharks in hurricanes that was created at the same website, you can see the watermark. I can make fake news too!

The background is really a picture I took at Pt. Reyes a couple of years ago.  It's foggy there.

I drove out to Mt. Otay today. My first time driving up there.  I only realized the other day that it was even possible to drive up there.  In a truck, anyway.  If one had 4WD one's horizons, as it were, could expand even farther.  Or further.  I forget which.

I parked at Doghouse Junction (about 200 feet shy (vertically) of the summit) and walked around a bit, looking for three geocaches, and taking some pictures.

 So here we see Lower Otay Lake.  We can see the Pacific Ocean out there.  Or we could, if it was a clear day.

This one is more to the south, towards Otay Mesa.

There are a LOT of antennas of here, in several locations.

I think that is the very peak up there.  I did not go up there.

This is near a place called Doghouse Junction, but I can't find any information about either one.

Three Panoramas!

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2

This one and the next are from the very same location. I just zoomed in a little.

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These two pics show two of the many expressions I have when I can't find the geocache.

I found sixteen geocaches today, and didn't find four.

That is all I got for today!  Thanks for reading!