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January 30th 2020

Fake News?

As we watch the evening news, there seems to be a plethora of scams, and there is no end to the people that just seem to hand over their hard earned money to scammers, that spin some of the wildest stories I have ever heard, like seriously if someone calls and tells you to move all you money to an off shore bank account there should be so many bells ringing and alarms going off, but it still happens. So if you want to give away your money just private message me.

We then seen an amazing Mexican tunnel dug 70’ under the ”wall” and it is a mile long, it has an elevator, ventilation, electricity, like seriously that’s some serious engineering, just imagine the amount of red tape and bull shyt that would be involved in digging a one mile long tunnel seventy feet deep here…just saying

The world is trying to recreate and analyze the horrific helicopter crash that killed nine, here is the reality the pilot just got disoriented in the fog and flew into a hill, it’s a tragedy but let’s let those affected morn in some peace.

Then there is the whole Chinese virus outbreak thing that has the world running for cover, we see lots of masks out here in the desert, but it’s all about protection from dust not a virus. Why does all this shyt come from China, thats why I always avoid all the packaged food that is prepared in China, i have always wonder why so much of the frozen seafood at the supermarket is packaged there, don’t believe me, just look next time it will be either China or Vietnam. This is now apparently worse than the sars out break about twenty years ago, it seems to me it started in China also, then everybody says don’t you want to travel the world, quick answer…NO!

Then of course is the whole impeachment thing, I’m not really sure what to make of it, but in true political fashion all the layers from the Clinton impeachment era that said lying about have sex was impeachable but lying about everything else is ok now…as I always have said I have no direct skin in this mess either way but like why can someone not stop this man from saying stupid things, until the citizens make their choice again in about nine months, if he is doing as great as his supporters believe than he will be re-elected of if he isn’t that he will be voted out and the country moves on to 46. Either way this has not been a trial by definition in any ones world, as any vote seems to be totally partisan, so why did we have this political show (trial) when the outcome was a for gone conclusion?

And of course there is the big game is this Sunday, the 49ers and the Chiefs is being played in Miami, I think we have seen most of the super bowl ads already, I’m just hoping for a good football game, and maybe some decent officiating this year, after last years failures… I know I may be expecting too much from the NFL, but I can hope can’t I. We also have the Phoenix Open golf tournament this week as well, always an entertaining tournament, with the crazy 16th hole, with huge crowds…great to watch but I wouldn’t want to be there in the crowds.

January 29th 2020

Wednesday morning and we are finally settled in at LaPosa West, when we came in on Sunday we did not take time to dump so that was how we spent our Tuesday afternoon, not real exciting but a task that was do, with 8 rigs in front of us so it was a fair wait. We had showers and Miss Laurie did a load of laundry to take advantage of all opportunities that are available, and again it was our grey tank that was full, miss being able to weep the grey…just saying. We put the window shades on yesterday to cut down on some of the heat, it is amazing how much they help in controlling the interior coach temperature, was definitely a good investment last winter. I’m also impressed with the extra solar, I will get a better idea in the next few days as yesterday got messed up with us having to go in the afternoon to dump.

So I need all our friends at Oak Grove to be sure and welcome Butch and Betty Ward back to the park…we are so glad that thing came together and they were able to escape back to the sunshine, but make sure to tell them to be home by the second week of April, cause we will be looking for a place to stay on our way back from the desert…just saying.

Now that most of my little projects are done, at least for now we are planning some excursions with the Bannon’s, that could possibly involve a ceasar or two or three. It hasn’t been a great solar day as we have had some heavy clouds and even about a dozen rain drops, one thing that has came to light, I just discovered that when our solar panels are harvesting at their maximum we are suffering a voltage drop of half a volt. Now half a volt don’t sound like much but when the controllers work on battery voltage to control the charge amperage it is a big deal, and that 0.5 volts can make the difference between charging at 60 amps or 5 amps the difference between bulk and float. I suspect that I will need to upgrade the size of the cable, I think with the new panels I’m just exceeding their amperage capacity because the issue is only there at full amperage and lessens as the amperage drops…there you go my next project.

Just a snapshot of the last hour of today’s solar harvest, the yellow highlighted line was the reduction of amperage going into the batteries from near 30 amps to 0, the purple line highlights the battery level, today we got within 20 amp/hours of being fully charged. The green highlights the instant pot cooking our dinner on the slow cooker mode, it obviously just controls the pattern as it doesn’t appear to have a lower wattage mode.