Got up, let tje pepper out, she came back in as soon as her business was taken care of. Noticed it was cold out so went directly back to bed. Woke up again, must be lunch time. Feels like a weekend day but it is still freezing out.

So...I've got these wheels.

http://www.zipbang.com/928gts/newroocks.jpg

They are 2 peice Roock USA competition. Orignally they were 8.5x18 and 10.5 x 18 in offsets for a wide body 911,
or will fit a boxer with 8mm spacers on back. Had them on my Boxster S. I liked them.

http://www.zipbang.com/986boxster/onboxster.jpg

Had them re-barrelled to be 8x18 and 10x18 in the offsets to fit the 928 GTS.

http://www.zipbang.com/928gts/roockwheels.jpg

Top is what the roocks look like bottom is current.
The problem is the company did such a horrible job not only are they not round and wobble the
air nipples are behind the centers so far you can reach them with an air hose.

Do I try to have them rebarrelled again for the 928 or put centers back in the original barrells and sell them?

I was the first one to put the Carrera III lightweights on a 928 and now a LOT of 928s are running them.
Would be the only 928 with the Roock USA wheels.

I hear you Okies had a couple of earthquakes a little while ago. What's that like?

We had a 3.2 quake so just a little bump.

The quali was interesting. Ferrari looked good.

Snowquake next is the Sharknado. Or I could stick a bazooka out of the sunroof on the 928 and call it the SharkNATO. It is already blue.

Yea, we had a late freeze, snowstorm, earthquake all at once.

We've had late freezes before. Remember making a clear plastic tent over our Apricot tree and putting one of those oil pots the railroad uses to keep switches from freezing inder it to keep it warm and toasty inside. That was the only year we had apricots. All the other years that last freeze caught us unaware freezing the Apricot flowers or actual fruit buds.

We had another tree that was an apricot/plum graft and it never made any fruit either. Dad said they sold us trees for the wrong zone so it froze to early.

We also had tomato plants we put milk cartons over that we had to open and close according to the temperatures. Don't remember losing any tomato sets.

At one time I designed a greenhouse that I could offset plantings that would produce fresh veggies year round. It included a freezer to run seeds through to winter cycle them. Had a compost pile for good dirt, an elaborate watering system. Lights and shades to manage daylight and temperatures, but not too hot. Also would of had a bee hive to keep everything pollenated. Wanted to eliminate the need to grow lots of crop and canning. Instead have fresh crops year round to pick from. It would have taken a lot of work keeping track of how long it took different plants to go from seed to bearing fruit. And how long and how much each plant type produced to set up how many plants go on what kind of rotation cycle to make sure there was plenty, but not too much. Freshly home grown foods always have more and better flavor that the stuff at the grocery store.

Wow, with the lower peak rates and no peaks yet this month. At 18 kWh per day only used $8 of electricity this past week.

Thinking about putting a water mister that comes on with the compressor when outside temps are high to mist the air before getting to the condenser coils making it more efficient. The idea being to cool the outside air the unit draws from a little on those hot hot days. Maybe even put a roof over the darn thing to shade it. Know I don't want to pre-cool the air/freon too much or it will freeze the evaporator. Just want to help it a bit when the outdoor temps get hot.

Great F1 race, and Great! Coverage from ESPN. Full coverage, no commercials. It would be nice to see a wrap up with points and such. But the race coverage was nice from Sky and no commercials was a bonus.

When was using Mac mini instead of AppleTV was able to VPN Sky F1.

When cut cable and Sony Bravia rental died moved to all AppleTV and only one remote, but neither AppleTV or Router can do VPN. Have an over-air antenna so TV can get local. But like watching on my schedule and no commercials. Just use it to keep track of severe weather. Decided wasn't worth $100 for box that makes over-air TV available to AppleTV (and any other networked device).

Got an extra mini after server update. Maybe can set it up as VPN for AppleTV so can get Sky including post race.

Mourning all. Long weekend of driving and visiting the kid at college then dad at his new home.

Basically slept all weekend. Felt a little nauseous. Blood sugar was going nuts (really high without eating anything) like it did before the stroke. Blood pressure was normal so popped some extra aspirin and stayed laying down. By late Sunday blood sugar returned to normal and felt much better. Never got any stoke symptoms so warded one off or slept through it. No post stroke headache so thinking warded off.

stay safe Richard.

Morning all.

Golly, building reports in QuickBooks is is simple and logical.

I finally had it export a spreadsheet and made the report that way. It just did not want to sub-total things in a logical manner.

The autocross yesterday was cold, but still fun. One of the members had his grand-daughter at the autocross in a nice Boxster. He sat in in his SUV and watched. She is FAST. Most women are just too timid to really push hard. She did not have that problem. I told him he needs to have her enter the Parade autocross. Most of the women are terrible and she is likely to win a trophy.

Snowed again last night but supposed to be in the 60s Wednesday. Might get the oil changed in the Cobra this week after all. Need to get the bike out too. My wife tried to get some work done in the garden but the soil is still rock hard.

The company I used to work for did all drag and drop stuff for the reports so it was easy as could be.

I was trying to build a custom report of all the charges for just one client. Break it down to the level of we have charged a certain amount for each of the services we have invoice them for. It should be easy but they just made it impossible to do what I want, so export to a spreadsheet is the way to do it.

My wife has been working on a spreadsheet for my partner and I to figure our personal taxes that we have to pay estimated quarterly taxes. Congress makes the tax laws so dang stupid it is a real challenge to figure out.

The way a LLC works is the LLC itself pays no income taxes. The two owners each own 1/2 of the company, so the total profit and loss of the company is split 50-50 between the owners. It comes to a stupid high percentage with all the taxes in one lump sum. Every three months. We each have to pay the taxes.

I don't begrudge paying the taxes, I have been paying them since I got my first job. It just makes it more annoying when I see a lump sum to pay. They need to hand every employee a statement each quarter and show them the taxes they have already paid with withholding. And then add the matching taxes the company had to pay. Everyone with an income has the government as a partner. Work harder and more hours, your Uncle Same got a raise!

Would have been about 10 minutes start to finish with that software. On the other hand, it is a bit more expensive than QB.

OMG, we have over 700 employees. The new IT guy is going to pay $4 per month for them to all have Azure on-line so they can reset their passwords. That's $4 per user per month. $2800 a month. We usually have 10 people per month "forget" and need their passwords reset. We have been having them call or go by the help desk and they reset it in Active Director. Takes 5 minutes and have them call or go by for privacy/security. Most of them won't do it and their supervisors keep turning in help tickets to get their user's passwords reset and they are told over and over to have the user call or go by the help desk.

All the new VP of IT can say is "We don't have a policy in writing." That is also his excuse for not implementing Security Awareness Training despite people clicking on and entering their credentials in phishing attacks. Oh and he is paying for a new spam filter that is supposed to be stop ALL phishing attacks, yeah right. Lets not use the things we have already paid for, and buy more that will not fix the problem.

Sometimes feel like this company is domed.

Sounds like you could spend $50 in labor for someone to make a written policy and if they aren't able to follow the policy maybe they shouldn't have a password. Or at least have some accountability.

If they can't remember the password, how will they remember how to reset it?

How long before someone is compromised and they get jacked online? Ruh Roh Shaggy!

Phew, the mean bosse's wife drug me outside and made me work as a lumberjack again. Trimming off the low limbs on the Bradford pear tree. The law boy will appreciate not getting whacked in the head when mowing. The bad news is the 26 year old Lawn Boy mower is going away, and I will be using the brand new 2018, Honda to mow from now on. I guess the mower never got whacked on the head by the tree, just the Lawn Boy operator. I can't see calling myself the Honda, maybe I can call myself the yard maintenance senior technician. The YMST is not a very catchy acronym. How about yard slave, since I have yet to get paid for yard work around this place.