Pepper likes the cold and snow. Rain, that's a completely different animal.

Pepper was barking at the lawn crew doing one of the yards behind me. They started going down the fence row with a leaf blower. She instantly jumped back about 20 ft when it started blowing under the stockade fence. Then you would think they were doing it just for her benefit playing with whatever blew under the fence.

Naaa, that is just another car. The 911 and the Elky are the important cars! Both going up in value. ;)

I see Macans on the road all the time. Air Cooled 911s on occasion and very rarely an El Camino that is not a total POS trashed out rust bucket.

Not sure what I am going to do with my 928. Haven't really driven it in 4 freakin years. Between my foot thing and getting the piston oil holes drilled (that's all it needed) it's become a lower mileage 928 GTS that is in that over $100K collector range.

Saw a list where one of the car mags said the 928 and the 85 Carrera were up there with the 356, 918, Carrera GT, 550, 917, 959, Boxster S, as top 10 most iconic cars.

We did all that legal paperwork stuff before Mom went in for her Cancer surgery. You two are okay aren't you?

As far as I know we are fine. It is just one of those things that we have talked about for years. Just one of the things that is not easy to discuss with anyone but it really should be done for every adult. A living Will, and power of attorney and advance directive is important.

Richard, if you ever get the 928 back, maybe in another year drive the damn thing. Enjoy it and have fun driving it. You did not but it as a investment. I plan to drive my 911 as I please. I will continue to drive it to track days when the track is a fun one or a bucket list one like Roebling Road or Laguna Secca. I will autocross and drive it across country as I see fit. It is insured and it is still just a car. A much loved car, but just a car.

Mike just called and he started the 928! It's ALIVE!!! The 928 is alive!

Why I don't go to Florida...

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So it runs. How many months before it is ready to go home? Should we start a betting pool on the date of delivery?

He said a couple of weeks to make sure everything is working right, broke in good, and cleaned up so I am thinking Spring or maybe the 4th of July.

Awesome news Richard!

Morning.

Good over Monday day.

I am liking my new garage door opener. As soon as I walk out into the garage the lights come on automatically like magic. The motion sensor sees my movement. The opener and the new rollers are a ton quieter than before. It took a while to re-program my mirror to open the door but that works. Now I have to research one of the optional gizmos. It is a unit that connects to my wireless router and allows me to connect the opener to the internet. I can then open and close the door from anywhere with my cell phone. The door has the ability to set up an automatic door close time delay. I can set it for 5, 10 or 15 minutes to close if it is not closed already. It has a button for manual open so when I mow the yard and want the door up until I close it, that is possible.

The door is already monitored by my alarm system so I can see if it is open or closed already but I can't lower it if I left it up. With the add on gizmo I can. First I have to find out how expensive it is.

Mertnin.

Door opener sounds like fun. Just be careful with that Internet Of Things stuff. A lot of it will leave your wifi wide open to hackers, or so they say specifically about the door bell cameras and IOT security in general. Usually close my garage door when mowing the back yard. Got a keypad opener remote mounted on the door frame.

Just ordered a cheap doorbell with extender. UPS came to drop a package that required a signature both Fri and Sat and I nor the dog heared the doorbell. Don't use my front door that much so didn't even see the note until Sun. My office is at the opposite end of the house from the doorbell and if the TV is on the doorbell ain't loud enough. Today I left the front wooden door open, glass storm door closed, and Pepper heard the truck stop. Ordered a wireless with two chime boxes. Going to try to hack the transmitter so it will use the existing button. Looked for one that worked with home automation stuff but didn't find one yet so just got something cheap. $20 for the transmitter and 2 chimes. Got battery powered cause this house does NOT have enough outlets.

Any device I give access to the internet will have a strong username and password. One reason I have yet to go on-line with my video surveillance DVR system is it does not allow me to change the logon from Admin. I can set the password, but any hacker know to go for Admin as the user. They said in an upcoming firmware update I can change that user name. Even with my video surveillance system having some of the most boring content ever recorded. Worse than Jersey Shore! I want it secure.

Actually since I have never seen one second of that show I have no idea but it is close. My back yard, driveway, side yard and back porch are pretty dull place and I like it that way. I would watch 12 hours of that over 15 minutes of the View however.

The current problem with IOT isn't usernames and passwords, it's poor encryption ie the lack of.

That's why I was looking into the Home Automation stuff. I could run an actual server a lock that sucker down and require a SSL VPN to get to it publicly.

Brother Bob is so open to malware, etc. I will not give him access to my encrypted wifi, and I have all Macs.
Instead I turn on a guest network when he comes to visit and turn it off when he leaves.

morning/afternoon all. Past two days have been a fun filled task of last minute rush to get CAD done before the construction issue.

One thing I love about our current door bell at home is it is not a standard ding-dong. It plays some chimes. On TV 99.9% of the doorbells in TV shows are ding-dongs and our dogs don't associate that with barking at the door. At our old house it was a standard ding dong and the dogs thought that meant bark a lot. It sucked on TV if there was a door bell in the show.

yeah that would suck.

This cheap chime is supposed to have 36 tunes including ding dong.

Richard, we have something similar since whoever added onto the house decided it wasn't worth the effort to tie in the new garage door, where everyone would now go, into the existing doorbell.

Our house didn't have a door bell.

I bought a battery operated one and it works fine. Only one song "Ding-Dong".

The house is not big so you can hear it in all rooms except for the garage.

This one is made by 1byone. It has a battery operated button and either a battery operated or plug-in receiver for $12. It has 3 volume levels and 36 chimes. And has a modes to just flash an LED, chime, or both. You can add as many receivers or buttons as you want for $9 each. Each button can be programed to make a different chime sound. The lowest volume setting is supposed to be 25 db and the highest 110 db on the plug-in receiver, says >85 for the battery powered receiver. It is the only doorbell that listed an actual db level for the sound.

Since I don't have many electrical outlets I got the button and battery powered receiver and an extra battery powered receiver. Since my existing doorbell is wired and has a wired button I am thinking I can open up the button/transmitter and connect the wires from my existing doorbell button so I don't have the funky looking button thing outside.

There was one designed by some fancy smancy designer (looks like a bang and olfsen) that has a bunch of tones or you can record your own. It was $149.

There were also several from Honeywell that has from one to 50 tones that you could use different transmitters and/or contacts like triggers for doors and windows or fire alarms to make different tones as well. They started at $49 and went up to like $99.