Daily Archives: August 30, 2016
We Have An Address!
I’d been trying to figure out how to have packages delivered to us here at the rig. First I checked to see if Amazon had a locker available in the Bryan/College Station area, but they didn’t.
Amazon Lockers are facilities around the country, kind of like those private mailbox places, that Amazon has set up so you can have packages delivered there to pick up. But no luck with that.
So my next idea was to call the Hearne, TX Post Office to see if we have an actual address here. And it turns out we do, and I didn’t need to call the PO after all.
Tony, our landowner, came by a few minutes ago and I flagged him down to ask if this road has an address. The road to his house goes straight, while our pad is a left turn about 75 feet off the highway, In fact you can easily see both our rig and the drill rig from the road.
He gave me the address, and said he gets UPS and Fedex packages all the time, and that there shouldn’t be any problem with USPS stuff either,
Life is Good!
I don’t know if I mentioned it earlier, but we’ve been having a lot of problems with our DirecTV satellite feed. We get regular messages on the screen saying that we have not received any guide information in 1, 5, or 10 hours.
And the guide information tells your receiver what channels you are supposed to be getting. So if you don’t get any guide info for a long enough period, you suddenly have NO channels available.
We had seen this problem occasionally before, but now it’s getting to be much more frequent, and much more annoying. I suspect it’s my HD receiver, because twice in the last week, I’ve looked up to see it rebooting all on its own. I’ve sometimes seen this happen before, with they send down a software update for the receiver, but never this often.
But before I call DirecTV I want to eliminate everything else on my end. So tonight I’m swapping out my new Winegard Satellite Dome with my old one. Regular blog readers will remember that several months ago while we were staying at the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails, I found a Winegard Dome sitting on the ground by the dumpster as we were throwing away our trash. So I quickly scooped it up, thinking maybe I could possible use it for parts if I had a problem with mine.
As usual, Jan just rolled her eyes, thinking he’s dumpster diving again. I told her it wasn’t really ‘diving’ since I didn’t have to crawl in the dumpster to get it.
Well, since it didn’t have a power cord with it, I used mine to power it up and check it out. And, amazingly it worked fine. So rather than swap it back, I just left it working and stowed away my old one. So I’ll change out the domes and see if it makes any difference.
If I then still have the problem, next I’ll swap out the cables from the dome to the receiver. At that point, if I still have the problem, I’ll know it’s the receiver, and then I’ll call DirecTV.
I find it best to not give them too many choices of things that can be wrong.
There’s also a possibility that this is a problem on their end, not sending me the correct data, so I’ll ask about that too. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Friend and blog reader Carol Burt had a couple of questions about yesterday’s gate guarding blog that I’ll answer here for everyone.
Can that rolling septic tank back flow like normal sewers can without backflow protection? I see a hose going in at the top, which kinda’ makes sense….but still, I wonder could it back flow through your black tank and up into your house?
Carol, if you follow that green hose from the top of the big tank, it leads to a smaller green tank. That tank is what we connect to with a standard RV sewer hose connection.
Inside that small tank is a FloJet Macerator, operated by a float valve, that pumps the sewage up into the big tank, and then turns off. So the macerator itself acts as a backflow preventer, with the sewage not able to flow back through the pump.
Is the Ginny (generator) loud? Seems awfully close to y’all?
It is a little closer than usual, due to the confines of our wooden pad, but with the TV on, you can’t hear it. And back in the bedroom, you can just barely hear it, but since we use a White Noise Generator when we’re sleeping, we can’t hear it at all.
We’ve pretty much settled down into the routine now. In fact both today and yesterday we had the same number of vehicles, 78. So not bad at all.
Tomorrow it’s Blue Moon BBQ for lunch. YUMM!
Thought for the Day:
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
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