Monthly Archives: February 2019
A Big Mistake . . .
My changeover to the new 2019 SSL certificate went off without a hitch this morning, except the long wait for everything to come back up.
All I had to do was rename the old certificate from XXXXX.CRT to XXXXX.CRT2019 and then rename the new one from 2019Cert (just a name I gave it) to XXXXX.CRT.
Then it was just a matter of putting the Shopping Cart into Maintenance Mode, stopping the Apache Webserver software, and rebooting the server.
And then wait. And wait.
But only 20 minutes this time. Just enough time to get slightly anxious. But finally it was all back up and running. But just to be sure I ran a credit card order through with no problem. And then a few minutes later a real order came through, so I guess we were good to go.
I spent the rest of the day modifying a bunch of epilator machines. These machines all use a foot pedal to trigger the pulse that zaps the hair follicle. But somewhere along the line one manufacturer changed the wiring of the foot pedal and the socket on the machine that it plugs into. So what this means is that old pedals don’t work with new machines and new pedals don’t work with old machines.
So if you have an older machine and you order a new pedal for some reason, it won’t work. But there’s no way to tell. The machines all look the same, and the serial numbers don’t help either.
But after a little fiddling, I came up with a simple modification to the machines that lets any machine used any pedal. So all machines that we ship out now, both used and new, are modified to accept both old and new pedals.
Jan and I are still enjoying the twist and turns of the new Roswell, New Mexico series. The only thing that’s disappointing is that they’ve made no effort to duplicate the town’s street lights. Anyone who’s ever been there knows exactly what I’m talking about.
They’re iconic, just like the ones in Hershey, PA.
I made a big mistake yesterday at King Food. I wiped my eye.
Normally not a big problem, right?
But it is when I’ve gotten a small piece of my Volcanic Pepper Flakes on my finger wthout knowing it.
Yoooowh!
Jan said my eye turned a bright red. She should have seen it from my side.
I guess I got some on my fingers when I was cleaning the lid so it would close tighter.
I will definitely try not to make that mistake again.
Tomorrow Jan and I will head up to Houston about 10am for our Katz’s Deli, iBurn, Houston RV Show excursion.
And no, we’re not looking for a new RV.
I know where all the problems are on ours now, and I don’t want to pay a lot of money for a whole new set of problems.
We’re mainly going just to walk around and check out all the vendors, one of our favorite things to do at these events.
Thought for the Day:
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It’s Twenty Years Old . . .
How Long Can It Last?
Jan and I headed a little after 1pm for lunch at our favorite King Food. But as we were passing by, we made a detour into Rudy’s BBQ for a take-home bottle of their BBQ sauce, as well as a jar of their coarse ground pepper,
as well as one of their coarse salt.
At King Food, Jan got her usual Chicken with Hot Garlic Sauce with Jalapenos,
while I went with just a big bowl of their Hot and Sour Soup.
Always a treat.
BTW a few years ago King Food was selected as one of the Top 100 Chinese Restaurants in the US.
Then it was on up the Interstate for a quick stop at Lowe’s for some screws, and then it was on to the nearby WalMart for more stuff. It seems we never have quite enough stuff.
Then it was on home with a stop for a couple lottery tickets.
A number of years ago the temperature controller on our rig’s Dometic NDR 1292 refrigerator quit controlling. Luckily it stuck wide open, so for a while I just watched the internal temp and cycled the fridge on and off.
But this was a problem when we were away for a few days. So a while back I hooked it up to one of these WiFi switches,
so that I can control the fridge remotely. And I also can control it via Alexa, as well putting it on a timer. But it was still hard to allow for outside temperature changes which affected the fridge internal temps.
So why didn’t I just fix it? Well, the consensus was that it was the controller board. A VERY expensive controller board. And really more money than I wanted to put into an, at the time, decade and a half old refrigerator. I mean, how long can it last?
Now, except for this, our Dometic has been a workhorse, and unlike many other Dometic and Norcold RV refrigerators, our 1292 has never had a recall on it. But I keep waiting for it to fail so I can replace it with a Samsung or LG residential fridge.
I mean, it’s twenty years old.
How long can it last?
At this point though, I’m beginning to believe it might just outlast Jan and I.
But I would like to find a cheap(er) fix for the temperature problems. So recently I came across this.
A thin probe connects the unit to the inside of the fridge, which then will turn the fridge on and off based on the temperature setting I select. In addition, I can also control it manually via Alexa, or an Android app.
Hopefully that will take care of this problem.
Thought for the Day:
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies just because they become fashions.” – G.K. Chesterton – 1930
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