Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
The lovebugs seem to be especially abundant this summer. I suspect it has something to do with all the rain we’ve been getting this year.
I was putting up the antenna this morning for the Tennessee QSO party and there were hundreds of them swarming around the side of the house.
All those small black specks on the house are bugs. They seemed to find the antenna mast a good spot to rest.
I am disappoint.
Unfortunately our eclipse experience here got rained out. We were all disappointed here, but had a good time hanging out with friends.
The day started off fairly decently with some high thin clouds, but then the cloud cover started getting denser, and by the time 2PM came around, the sky was getting pretty dark out to the west.
Boo thunderstorm #chs #chswx pic.twitter.com/ONveGzNUQs
— imabug (@imabug) August 21, 2017
A few minutes later, the lightning started and a steady rain followed.
Not looking very promising based on the radar pic.twitter.com/x2UrwI4Csh
— imabug (@imabug) August 21, 2017
At least I was able to experience everything slowly getting dark, and then getting brighter again.
Rainy, but dark #Eclipse2017
— imabug (@imabug) August 21, 2017
There’s another eclipse happening in 2024. Maybe we’ll have better luck with that one.
Well, at least there’s a nice sunset to finish the day with #chs pic.twitter.com/1XTsjJRH6O
— imabug (@imabug) August 22, 2017
18°C in the morning wouldn’t be unusual around here in the fall, but on a July morning, it’s very unusual. 28°C is a more typical temperature for a July morning.
I’ll take it.
The dogs were certainly enjoying the “cooler” weather this morning.
Well, the epoxy job I did on my old Dyson vacuum cleaner didn’t last quite as long as I thought it would.
Maybe I didn’t use enough epoxy, although I think if I made the epoxy layer much thicker, things like the hose and bin wouldn’t have snapped back into place as easily.
I think rather than trying to slather on more epoxy, it’s time to retire this Dyson. It’s done an excellent job over the past 10 years. Mostly likely it will be replaced with a Dyson Animal Ball 2, which has only a slightly smaller bin capacity than my DC15 (2.0 liter vs 2.5 liter for the DC15), and significantly larger bin than the other newer model Dysons that I’ve seen.
Dyson tear down to come.
Just leaving a note to myself for future reference.
Needed to rebuild the kmod-wl package because of a borked update process (something made the computer crash mid-update).
A bit of Google searching brought me to the script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/akmodsposttrans.
Running sudo /usr/sbin/akmods --from-kernel-posttrans --kernels `uname -r` rebuilt the missing kmods and a modprobe wl got the wifi back up and running.
Running sudo /usr/sbin/akmods --force (for the current kernel) or sudo /usr/bin/akmods --force --kernels kernel version (for a specific kernel) works as well.