Our RV Adventures

No, not me. Not yet, anyway.

Well, the somewhat-expected knock at the rig door didn’t happen this morning.

Thought the guy might come back for another shot at getting us out of ‘his’ site. But no such luck. I told Jan if it happened and the park had asked us to move, that it was going to take at least three hours to get everything packed away and ready to go.

According to our friend Ed Hurlburt, after the guy left us he pulled into a redbag site on the other site of Ed. Since Ed’s site was redbagged, he wanted to know why Ed had power. I guess he though there was some secret to getting power even if the pedestal was bagged.

Ed had to explain to him that he was running on 30 amps from a nearby working pedestal at another site. The guy finally gave up and moved on, I guess.

Apparently the cause of all this was a not-up-to code electrical panel. About 30 minutes before the power when off, Jan heard a big ‘BOOM’ outside which was probably the transformer and panel blowing up.

Looks like they’ve replaced the meter panel and the transformer and then called it quits for the weekend. Which explains why we were told the problem wouldn’t be fixed until Monday or Tuesday.

About 5pm Jan and I headed out for dinner at the local Golden Corral. One of our favorite places, especially this one which is really good, unlike a few others we eaten at around the country. They have some of the best Fried Chicken around.

A few days ago I talked about the bump stocks that the Las Vegas shooter used to mimic fully automatic fire. Referencing the calls to ban them, I talked about how you would also have to ban springs and rubber bands.

Well, now they’re going to have to ban fingers. Check out this video.

Several people have commented why the Las Vegas shooter’s rifles, when fitted with bump stocks, aren’t considered to be illegal fully automatic weapons. Well, that’s because of the way the Federal law is written.

“The National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) defines “machine gun†to include any combination of parts designed and intended for use in converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.

Which mean it fires continuously with ONE pull of the trigger, while a bump stock just enables you to pull  the trigger multiple times, really, really fast.

Still on the Las Vega shooting theme, John Ringo is a very well-known science fiction writer, and one of my favorites. He has his own idea, from personal experience, about what drove the shooter. It’s a very interesting read, and certainly raises a lot of possibilities, especially with his girlfriend saying he would lie in bed screaming and crying for days.

Check it Out.

Descent Into Madness

Nick and I have had a really weird experience with a Kindle book called 101 People to Kill Before I Die. We both downloaded the book on the same day, August 26th, when it was a free daily selection on FreeBooksy.

What’s weird is that our copies of the book are different. We were talking about the book, and Nick said,

“What about the aliens?

Me: “What aliens?â€

Nick: “The aliens that raped the CIA guy.â€

Me: “What aliens?â€

After this back and forth for about five minutes. we discovered that Nick’s copy has a whole additional, different subplot . . . with aliens, that’s not in my copy.

WTH?

So I went back to Amazon to look at the book in the Kindle section. Turns out that there were a lot of complaints about the alien subplot with readers specifically downrating the book in their reviews because of it.

So the only thing that makes sense is that some time between when Nick downloaded the book and when I downloaded it, the writer must have deleted that part.

The main problem with this is that it left several holes in the plot that didn’t make sense any longer. Which is what made me start questioning the plot in the first place.

The Word of the Day is:  Collogue 

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Getting down to Clear Lake, I installed the new power supply, pushed the button, and the computer powered up. However I never heard the ‘beep’ during the boot up.

And I had no video coming out either. Now I know the old power supply was bad, since it wouldn’t even power up. But it looks like the motherboard is bad too. So I guess I’ll have to pull out the hard drives, hook them up to another computer, and see what’s on them.

Jan called about 2:30 to tell me that the power had been off for about 30 minutes and still hadn’t come back on yet. I told her to go outside and cycle the big breaker, but it didn’t  help., So next I called Ed Hurlburt who’s only 3 spaces down from us, and found he had power.

My next call was to the Ranger office, and as soon as I said, “This is Greg White and we’re in G23 . . . “. she said they were working on the power, but it might be 3 or 4 hours.

About 4pm, with still no power, Jan called and said it was getting a little toasty in the rig, so I led her through starting up the rig’s generator. Had her first turn off both AC’s and then hold down the Gen Start button, while pulling the Start trigger on the Remote Switch I installed last June in Rapid City, SD.

And it started right up, with power coming on about 15 seconds later. About an hour later Jan called to say someone had stopped by and told her that the power  probably would not be repaired until Monday, and that we could either move to another site, or run our generator all weekend.

So as I came through the front gate, I ask about where we could move. She said that we could move to any other site that was not redbagged. When I got back to the rig, our pedestal was redbagged, but I noticed that the site just to the left of us was not.

Grabbing up my yellow outlet tester I first tested our pedestal, since with the generator running, we wouldn’t know if the power came back on. But it was still dead.

But the unbagged pedestal had power,. Lucky us. So I quickly pulled the truck into the site to save it for us. Jan said the couple in the Class A had left earlier.

Since Jan had already packed away a lot of stuff, I only had to disconnect the utilities and satellite, pull in the slide, crank up and pull out. I didn’t even let the awnings in.

So in about 10 minutes we were parked and hooked up to shore power, so then I turned the generator off and we were home. Then I called Ranger office and told them we had moved one site to the left, and they said fine, we’ll change you over.

For dinner tonight Jan had slow-cookered a big batch of her world-famous chili, and we had just settled down with our steaming bowls when there was a knock at the door.

Turned out to be an angry gentleman(?) and his wife, who said this was his site, and he paid for it , and he wanted us out now. I said that he left the site, and we told that we could move to any site that wasn’t redbagged. He said that the site was redbagged when he left and accused me to taking the bag off and stealing his site.

I told him that the bagged sites would not have power until Monday, so why would I pull the bag off so I could park in a site that wasn’t going to have power. I also told him that maintenance had come through and bagged every site in ‘G’, until they knew exactly which sites would still have power. So if he had stayed a little longer he would have had power too.

He sputtered a bit, and said he would call the Rangers and they would kick me out of his site..

We never heard from anyone the rest of the night.

The latest Landonism: Brandi ask Landon to switch spots with her on the sofa. Landon shook his head NO, and said, “Sometimes you just need to get out of your comfort zone.â€

Don’t know whether to laugh or strangle him.

The Word of the Day is:  Enervate

Thought for the Day: 

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