Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

Morning/afternoon all. ITs nuts here for a Friday again.

[GH85Carrera]

Beats me. I had to search out what the heck a beskar was. I am still not sure I know.

[GH85Carrera]

Fall has arrived. It is 48 degrees now, and supposed to just get colder and rain and yucky weather for the weekend. Ah well, it is almost November.

[Porsche-poor]

fall and cold has definitely hit here. It was 32 this morning. Heated seats are wonderful.

[GH85Carrera]

We dropped to 30 briefly last night, it will get colder tonight. My wife's Macan has heated and cooled seats. They are nice. When it is cold, I am wearing a coat, and my 911 has astonishing heat, and the El Camino dang good heat. The Elky is a very small cabin, and the heater is the same as one from the station wagon.

Of course, my 14 step commute down the hall does not need heated seats.

[Porsche-poor]

I no longer have a walk to work except on Fridays. At least I use my garage for its intended purpose so I don't have to scrape in the am.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, garages are just wonderful. Especially in really hot or cold weather. To get into a car that is in the 50s and open the door to cold weather is a big advantage.

[GH85Carrera]

I keep getting a text message from someone with a Michigan area code that says "hey lets play golf". I would not go play golf in Michigan right now unless they are paying me big bucks.

I just delete and report as junk.

A real WTF.

[Porsche-poor]

I get random texts every so often. When and if I retire I plan to mess with them. For now they get deleted.

[GH85Carrera]

Every time I think of messing with them, I realize it just adds my number to the "legitimate human" list of some bad list of scammers.

My iPhone has a feature that may well be just default texting feature. I just tell it to delete, and report it as spam in one simple action. Done.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all another cold day here. 34 and frosty out. Glad I work inside all day.

[GH85Carrera]

We got down to 32, but only briefly. Tonight we have a hard freeze, and the growing season is over.

Time to do the statements and send out the invoice and statements to the deadbeat clients. Just a few clients, and of course the bigger the company (and invoice) the slower that pay. Mostly I like to send out the statements to remind them we are still here and waiting. we love those big companies as they are the bulk of the profits. We are just the tail end of the payment process. The engineering companies are doing the project for some construction company, and they are billing a city or other large company, and they get paid eventually, but sit on the bill for month, and then pay their vendor, and they sit on it, and eventually pay us. We always get paid, but 6 months later is fast payment for the big companies. We are not a bank, but we build in some banking fees in the project.

[Porsche-poor]

Sounds like a typical payment model. Good plan on building in the late fees.

[GH85Carrera]

We have a few customers, and most government agencies that pay with a credit card. We just build in the CC fees we no we have to pay to do their work. The good news is most of the government agencies all have a "budget" year and have to spend the money or they loose it, so they are motivated to spend it. They sometime pay us before we can even finish the project. Golly we hate that.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. off to go play with PLC drawings and then PIDS for beer. Oh boy!

[GH85Carrera]

We had a hard freeze last night for sure. That will leave just one mor mowing to do sometime after Thanksgiving to suck up the leaves and debris of fall.

The grass was covered in frost, so the Bermuda will all go dormant, and the Fescue will slow way down. We will have many trash cans of plant debris to get rid of in the flower gardens.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. No freezing here today but you will not stay dry either. Tomorrow its off to the mech for the kids Rav4. Its 10 years old and starting to show it. Little things keep breaking nothing major yet.

[GH85Carrera]

Beautiful day here. It is 65 degrees now, a bit breezy. The boss's wife came in cracking her whip. We was herded me outside to put the leaf cover on the Koi pond, but wait, we need to clean the Kio pond filters first. Then go into the attic for the Koi pond cover. And "while yer up there" lower down the humidifier so we can set that up.

Oh! and while we are out here on a pretty day, how about we dig out some of the compost pile, and put that in one barrel, and dump the grass clippings compost barrel into the hole we just dug. We still have the fountain to get wintered.

[GH85Carrera]

I was having fun with computers this morning. I like to keep my OS updated, and my BIOS updated. There was also a update for the Intel ME and do that first. Then the BIOS. It is always freaky to update the BIOS, as it installs it, reboot the system, and it goes to the POST screen, reboots, and then shuts off for a few seconds, and goes back to the BIOS POST screen, then reboots a few more times. With 256 GIG in RAM, it always looks like it is hung after the BIOS screen appears and it just sits there as it checks the memory. In the olden days it counted it and displayed what it was doing. Not now, just a steady display and no movement for a good 45 seconds. Then finally Win11 Pro comes up.

Next is update the Router's BIOS.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Working from home today. Lets hope the internet holds. I was having issues last night with the laptop connecting. Not sure if its the laptop or outside the house.