The forecast was right, we have a light dusting of snow. Just enough to make the roads a bit slick. I have a simple solution., I will stay home and not even open the garage doors.

good plan. We have wind and power outages.

We have a great power grid. My over the back fence neighbor has an automatic generator that runs on natural gas. In the last 8 years it has run for 12 minutes of power loss. It does start up and run for a while each month as a self test. He admits that 12 minutes of power was rather expensive.

There is a large retirement-assisted living facility just a few blocks from us. They have lots of old folks on equipment to keep them alive. They get top priority for power restoration, and I bet we are on the same leg of electricity.

In 24 years of living here we have had very few power outages.

WE have had a few but they usually only last few hours. We had one years ago that lasted days. I have a gas generator so if all fails I have lights and heat.

Every-time the generator threads pop up on Pelican, I read the replies, and get a hankering for a backup generator. It starts off with a small cheap unit, the the better and expensive Honda invert type, and moves up to the expensive natural gas powered Generac anad equivalents. Then I step back and think of my neighbor that spent a big pile of money and got 12 minutes of backup power at great expense. Then I just say screw it, and rely on the energy pros to provide me with electricity.

Ugh. 12 to 14 inches of crystalline precipitation forecast here. Daughter made it 1/2 mile to the main road and turned around to wfh. Heavy wet stuff.

We looked a few times at generators when those threads come up too. We have a UPS on the important things like the NAS and router and access points and . . .

Once in the 17 years we did go 4 hours with no power in the summer after severe storms. Hard to justify a 14k generator for that.

WE just have 5000watt gen no frills noisy sucker but it powers the micro, fridge, freezer in the garage and the downstairs lights as well as the furnace.

I was very close to buying one of the larger Honda inverter units. Then I started thinking, how do we use it to power the central heat, or the fridge. I would have to run an extension cord into the house through a door or window. That or hire an electrician to put in a panel to hook the generator to, and it just got to the point of saying screw it. We are living life on the edge!

Yeah we have a gen/trans panel next to the main panel in the garage.

We have gas for the stove so we could tie into that and do a transfer switch for the geothermal and fridge/freezer well pump etc.

We are forecast to have a really COLD weekend and 5 days below freezing. Yuck. Even worse is talk of the white crap accumulation.

Looks like ours has changed to just cold no snow.

Another 2-4 tonight and 10 on friday.

Well I don't know if this sucks or is a good thing. Went to the doc. Its not covid or the flu. Just a really bad cold. If its the one everyone seems to have the doc said 10 days to 2 weeks to start feeling better.

Took our son that long to get over it.

That sounds like a BAD cold. Yuck. My sympathies. I was sick once, and I really did not like it.

Morning all. I said Blood sugar be dammed I'm taking some cough med at bed time. Once the buzz work off in about an hour I slept thru the night. Still feel like crap and coughing this am but I'm on the mend!

Most OTC cough meds are of little real value, but some. My doctor will prescribe a cough med with codeine in it. It is gritty and has to be shaken up before getting a spoonful before bed. You will sleep like a rock, and the cough is gone. It requires an analog paper prescription, handed to the pharmacist as it has codeine in it. I have not had it in many years, but it flat works.

We had nice weather yesterday and even better today with highs to almost 60. We have a few chores to get the Koi pond ready for tonight and the next 5 days of sub freezing weather. Mrs. Carrera bought a new pond heater, and aerator. She will "let me" install them this afternoon.

Weeee! Having fun with Photoshop.

One of our clients wants a 60x90 print mounted and laminated for the wall in the command center. Of course the only way to move that around is with a huge truck. So we have to split it into 4 equal pieces that are 30x45 each, and trimming the four separate prints to butt up perfectly is tricky. So I made tick marks for the service bureau we use. They did it before, so it should be OK this time.

Last time I had a really bad cough we had run out of cough medicine so I had some brandy. Slept like a worn out dog and sugars were just fine.