Fixed the Leak

Sorry about missing last week. I had a toilet leak that ended up taking all available time. The wax seal had deteriorated over time. I ended up needing a new toilet due to multiple cracks that I've been aware of for a while but had been putting off in favor of things like dental visits to fix tooth abscesses. It was a lot of physical effort, but the leak is fixed.

I was able to put some extra time into the writing front this week. I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel yet, but I'm confident it'll be there.

I had a great test of the new fiber install. While looking at news, I ran across an article about some new video game I'll probably never play, Earth From Another Sun. It had a 27GB demo. I downloaded it. It took less than half an hour. Wow! With my old internet setup, it would've taken days for something like that. If I'm probably not going to play it, why get the demo? I want to see the game world. I used to play MMOs back in the day and enjoyed exploring game worlds. On the Bartle Test I'm an Explorer. I keep thinking that one day I'll get some games with big worlds and explore them. I still haven't even opened this new one yet. I'm getting around to it.

Have a great weekend.

The Rain Ends

It finally stopped raining this week. It had rained every day for at least a week and a half until Monday. Temperatures dropped after the rain moved out. One night it got down to 49 officially and 52 on my unofficial thermometer. Brr. Maybe the Farmer's Almanac is right, and it's going to be a cold winter until January.

Other than that I've been getting some house painting done. Because of all the rain and humidity, I had a mold outbreak. The end of the rain was a great time to break out the mold killing primer. Long-range forecasts are garbage, but there's no rain in the forecast the rest of the month, which is almost impossible, especially after all the rain this summer. We'll see.

I got a little done on the writing front. It's been slow going, but it's going.

Have a great weekend.

The Year Without Summer

In recent news the media has finally started reporting on the three-year la nina cycle that has been causing the high temperatures and drought in California and other western states but lower temperatures elsewhere. North Georgia where I live is one of those elsewheres. It's been a very cool, wet summer. Rainfall is 3+ inches above normal. But it's the temperatures I want to talk about.

Normally, summer temperatures are in the upper 90s or 100+, especially in July and August. This year, we had no summer. In June there were 7 days the temperature was 90 or higher. The highest high was 93, and only two days reached it. In July, according to official records, there were 9 days of 90 or higher with the highest high being 94 with only one day that hot. Twenty-nine days the lows were below 70 with one night hitting 59.  In August the temperature never rose above 89. In August in the south it never got into the 90s! All the lows were below 70 with the lowest being 59. Somehow, the sunshine was converted into rain. I have no doubts that rivers and lakes are full. The rain and humidity have been insane. If only I could sell rain to California. I'd be rich.

It's important to note that these are official temperatures from Accuweather. My personal thermometer claims it was in the low 70s multiple nights in August, and I don't remember it being over 90 nine days in July. Nevertheless, except for all the rain, skipping summer was awesome.

If all goes well, the Fiverr gig will be up and running this next week.

Have a great weekend.

Brief Update

I made a little progress on the writing front this week. It wasn't as much as I'd hoped. I had some sleep disruption and too much extra to do. I'm still tired.

It's been over a week with fiber internet. It's made life easier, but I still haven't had a huge software patch yet to see how fast it is. I did update one program but left it running while I did other things and forgot to check it. I watched it a little at first. Speeds were fluctuating wildly. I'm not sure why.

Have a great weekend.