This month’s geek project has my phone telling me who is flying in the skies above us: My outdoor project was to build a uphill water collection pond for the creek fountains and fish ponds. I had to move a couple of big rocks: I dug it deep enough so that those who wanted to…
Hurricane Zeta left us without power for 1.5 days, so I rigged up some solar panels to charge up our phones & laptops: Our 20 year old heat pump died so we upgraded to a more efficient 24 SEER, 13 HSPF model: Mystery photo: My latest trail extension forged 7 steps up a cliff: In…
I discovered that you can buy a 2 week Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) for $65, more details here: Here is an example of a typical day of my measurements: I’ve been doing the ‘time restricted’ eating thing for about a year, with a eating window between 6pm -> 10pm. The rise between 9 -> 10…
Eric & Aya came for a visit, part of their ‘Escape from LA’ road trip: They found a condo here 3x bigger than what they had in LA, for less money, so they decided to move here in November! The internets sent me a toilet. Modern toilets are MUCH better at flushing than 1970s toilets:…
Two unrelated mystery photos: I gave our House a nose and some fingers so it now can detect smoke and turn on our stove fan: White Doggy collected a couple of ticks. One was a little too well fed: Made a canvas print of Alabama critters. Except for the seagulls, all these photos were taken…
Care to guess what this is and where it came from? One of these birds would be happy to eat it, the other would not: The white dog birthed it. He developed a 1″ bump on his side with a small hole in the middle: We thought it was a spider bite, but after seeing…