Daily Archives: October 15, 2015
No New Toys, Yet . . .
Well, all my stuff was delivered here in town, but as I figured, Billy, the landowner’s son, who is also a Deputy Constable, won’t bring them by until tomorrow sometime. So I’ve got one more day of ‘Antici . . . pation!’
Well, it did make it up to 98°, our hottest day here so far, but since the humidity was so low, it wasn’t too bad. And tomorrow’s high is forecast for 86, with a 79 on Saturday. A lot nicer.
We still don’t have a firm handle on how much longer we’ll be here. Depending on who we talk to, it’s two more days, two more weeks, or two more months. I figure the ‘two week’ figure is probably closer than the first or last ones. But we’ll just have to see how it goes.
A couple of days ago I mentioned the LED strip lights that I used to replace the small fluorescent tubes in our rig, and a blog reader asked for more info. So I thought I do a refresher course.
The LED Strip Lights I used are actually automobile accent lights, so they’re heavy-duty and waterproof.
Here’s my previous blog on how I changed them out. Just scroll down toward the bottom.
https://ourrvadventures.com/2014/12/batteries-and-balls/
Although the lights look yellow, they glow white, and are brighter than the standard fluorescent tube. And at $7 a pair, they cost less than the price of one new fluorescent tube, much less two. And they’re certainly cheaper than some of those commercial LED replacement tubes I’ve seen. Here’s what the final product looks like.
The remaining two fixtures in the bedroom are next when those tubes go out. I’ve already got two sets of strips ready to go. And when the 4 foot tubes in our two kitchen/living room fixtures finally go out, I’ll probably replace them with 4 sets of the strips. 3 sets would about equal the lumen output of the old tubes, but 4 would probably be better.
I’m sitting here watching the ‘Failed Login Attempts’ counter ratchet up, with more than 20 attempts in the last 15 minutes. One thing funny though, are the login names they’re trying to use. Besides OurRVAdventures, Administrator, Admin, and even occasionally the real one, there are also some very strange ones that I have no idea where they came from.
The blacked-out one is the real login name.
To see if it helps, I just went in and changed the number of ‘Allowable Retries’ from 2 to 1.
You really don’t want to set it to 0 because then if you make a mistake logging in, you’ve just locked yourself out for 4 hours. So I guess if the blog is very late one day, you’ll know what happened.
Just check back in 4 hours.
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Thought for the Day:
“Science is an ongoing race between our inventing ways to fool ourselves, and our inventing ways to avoid fooling ourselves.” – Saul Perlmutter
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NICK!
Just wanted to wish my good friend, Nick Russell a
Keep ‘em coming. Eventually you may catch up to me.
