Rapid City – Page 8

Entrapment Most Fowl

I’m fine, but the rubber ducks are not faring as well. It’s a good thing they do not have viscera.

My goodness but [expletives deleted] lightbulbs are snoopy! The Kasa “smart” lightbulbs want to know everything about you to upload into the Kasa cloud app, which of course requires setting up an account. Want to guess my password? Hint: It’s the title of this post. Thankfully, once you get them WiFi-ed, you don’t need useContinue reading “Me Casa es Su Kasa”

I’m Not Dead, Yet

The hot tub is not only filled, it is hot. It hasn’t killed me, yet. I did kill my network swapping out the firewall. Tip: It doesn’t matter what your iptable forwarding rules are if IP forwarding is not enabled. Next steps: Renumber the virtual machines and add the names to PiHole.

Hibernating Menace!

This is ridiculous. Page 2: ! DANGER: RISK OF SEVERE INJURY OR DROWING! four bullet points. ! DANGER: RISK OF SEVERE INJURY OR DROWING! five bullet points. ! DANGER: RISK OF SEVERE INJURY FROM ELECTRIC SHOCK OR DEATH FROM ELECTROCUTION! seven bullet points (bleeding on to page 3). Oddly, hair dryers are not called outContinue reading “Hibernating Menace!”

HOAs

Want to guess where the HOA boundary ends? To be fair, I also have a beige house.

O Deer

I knew I should have bought a K-bar when they were on sale at Amazon. But, no, I think to myself, I think, “whatever would I use it for?”

Trench First

I highly recommend getting any desired trenching work done before doing anything else to one’s yard. We’re getting our power lines buried because we want a second floor deck. As the power lines exist, they would either take off your head or electrocute you when you walked across the deck. The trench was dug, conduitContinue reading “Trench First”

Alpha Unit – Breezeway

“Unit A” became “Unit Alpha” has become “Alpha Unit”. I’m working on a unit patch, but I suck at digital art, so it’s taking a while. Meanwhile, the breezeway is the next remodeling target. It’s an odd space. It’s the entrance to the house with the screen door a mere 12 feet from the actualContinue reading “Alpha Unit – Breezeway”

Splicing LED Strips

I ordered yet another set of these. This time Bluetooth LED Lights Strips 32.8ft with APP Control, Music Sync Waterproof Flexible RGB Color Changing LED Strips Lights for Bedroom Room,LED Neon Tap. I knew I didn’t want Bluetooth, but that is much cheaper than WiFi and I really wanted the “waterproof” strips to splice intoContinue reading “Splicing LED Strips”

Dinosaur Park

It’s an interesting WPA project on a hill in the middle of town. You cannot go through this hill; you must go around. This leads to a number of strange routes from “here” to “there”. The view from the top is panoramic: The view looking the other way is much the same, the hill beingContinue reading “Dinosaur Park”