hombre243
.30-06
Morning Folks.
We might still get some light rain, but it all passed north of us. Not even a drip of the projected drizzle.
Sunday was mainly spent lounging around. I don't want to aggravate my back.
I did some light work at the bench, and hooked up my garage PC again.
My old streaming blu-ray player was misbehaving, so I bought a new one and have been using the old one in the garage.
It kept stalling on long downloads, and I think the chip is overheating.
I ventilated the case, which helped, so I took the case off, which maybe helped more.
It appears that the main processor has a tiny heatsink and no fan, so I will attempt to tap into it's 5vdc+ USB power to run a tiny fan on a bigger heatsink from an old PC.
I need to remove the existing heatsink without damaging anything. I'm hoping it can be done with fishing line.
It might have thermal epoxy, but more likely has a less effective adhesive patch.
I hope.
Anyhow I think I will avoid heavy work today. Lots of little things to sort in the garage.
Our dogs will often howl and bark at night. My wife will try to shut them up, but I rarely do. I actually kind of like it. I know they're on the job.
Nothing ever worse than a stray possum here, but everybody's got dogs in the burbs.
My strange lot borders 4 other properties plus our local doggie promenade or "green belt".
3 folks across the street all have dogs.
If a sweaty fugitive walked into our street at 2AM there would be quite a chorus.
I wanna hear my cow dog wail in the night. The call of the wild . . .
When I was laying over in Ramona, I lived just outside of town and walked in to get my dinner or whatever...I had to pass a house that had geese.. Talk about watchdogs. The owner came out one time and laughed. He said everyone they honk at gets a different tone or honk. He said he wouldn't need to look out anymore when he heard my honk. He would know who was passing by.
I asked him if I could toss them some kind of feed. he said, O hell no. That'll just make em worse...so I didn't. But it was hard.