Daily Archives: October 11, 2015
Dang Cold Mule . . .
Well, I think I’ve figured that my ‘lazy’ Mule isn’t ‘lazy’ after all. He’s just cold.
After last night’s blog post, I was thinking about what was causing one of my Mighty Mule Driveway Alarms not to work at night, when it worked perfectly in the daytime, especially now that I moved it a little closer to us. Then, in one of those ‘Doh’ moments, I realized what the problem had to be.
It was cold.
Up until recently our night time temps have been the 70’s, with dips into the high 60’s. But in the last week or two, the temps have started dropping into the 50’s, at least for a few hours. So yesterday I had Jan start noting the time it stopped working and then started up again. And last night was a great test. Especially with tonight as a comparison.
Last night’s low was in the low 50’s, and the 82° day temp started dropping fast as soon as the sun went down. When I came out at 11pm, Jan said it hadn’t been working for a while, and it never worked all night for me.
But about 9:30 this morning, Jan said it suddenly started working again, and was fine all day. Now at 8am this morning the temperature here was 55°, but by 10am it was 75. So somewhere in there the unit warmed up enough to start working again.
The real proof, however, is that tonight, at midnight, it’s still working. Because the temperature is 72 degrees right now. It’s supposed to go down to between 65 and 68 degrees later tonight, so I’ll see if it drops out in that range.
Of course, at the same time, my other Mule is still working fine, hot or cold. So tomorrow I’ll call the company to see about getting a replacement transmitter.
I recounted last week how much trouble I had checking out at a Shreveport Wal-Mart using my new ‘chipped’ VISA debit card. BTW when you use your ‘chipped’ card in one of the new readers, it’s called ‘dipping’. Chips and Dip, get it?
No? I didn’t think much of it, either.
Anyway, apparently, I’m not the only one having problems with these cards and readers. Check it out here. Chip Card Problems
I’m just glad to see that the Carthage Wal-Mart still hasn’t started using the new readers, even though they have them installed.
Wrapping up, once again today, we did 55 vehicles coming in the gate. It’ll be interesting to see if this is the norm from now on, or just a weekend thing.
We’ll see. Either way, it was nice.
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Famous Last Words:
From Oscar Wilde on his death bed –
“This wallpaper is dreadful. ‘Either it goes, or I do.”
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