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Saturday 27 July  2019
Saturday - Very hot! I think it was officially 107F, but my neighbor said he measured 113F in the shade, with two different thermometers. I see that a nearby personal weather station recorded 110F, so that's perfectly possible.

In any case I was 'down below' with my brothers, visiting the Space Shuttle Endeavour at Exposition Park.  We took M's newer Mazda 6 sedan, and despite heavy traffic everywhere arrived safe and relatively sane.

It was a great visit, we got up close to the Endeavor and a couple of early space capsules, a Mercury and a Gemini, and an Apollo command module.  They even have a Shuttle External Tank, still outside the building, that they trucked through the same city streets as the Shuttle, though it's actually longer but not as wide.

Coming back it was still in the low 100's at 7pm in the Antelope Valley...


Books so far for 2019:

#1 Deep War
#2 Merchant and Magic (M&E #1)
#3 The Scavenger's Gift (M&E #2)
#4 Imperial Magic (M&E #3)
#5 Merchant and Empire (M&E #4)
 #6 Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London #7)
#7 The Swift Programming Language 4.2
#8 Skipknot (Jane Bunker #1)
#9 Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints
#10 Fisherman's Bend (Jane Bunker #2)
#11 My Kind of Freedom
#12 The Peshawar Lancers
#13 Goblin Moon
#14 Battle Angel Alita #1
#15 Mastering Swift 4: Fourth Edition
 		#16 The Golden Tresses of the Dead
#17 The Maze Runner
#18 The Scorch Trials
#19 The Fever Code
#20 The Death Cure
#21 Swift for Absolute Beginners
#22 Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
#23 Null-A Continuum
#24 Octavia Gone (Alex Benedict #8)
#25 Divergent
#26 Pacific Crucible
#27
#28
#29
#30

Note: there are a couple missing, from when a couple of weeks posts were accidentally deleted and overwritten. 
 

Friday 26 July 2019
Friday - Hot. Too hot.

Didn't do too much.  Dinner with friends at Lee Esther's in Palmdale for a birthday. Excellent as always - they hadn't been and were very impressed.

It was apparently dinner-and-a-show night: one of the other patrons was a car thief, and ran out the back through the kitchen (and got away) when a Sheriff's cruiser stopped by the stolen vehicle in front.  Apparently the vehicle had lo-jack type stuff installed, and the real owners soon came and got it.


Book #26 was Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942, by Ian W. Toll.  This was an excellent book.  It was so warm inside the house that I could not sleep well and instead read for hours, late at night.

Thursday 25 July 2019
Thursday - Humid and raining in the morning, in 80F heat at 7am.  Then about 100F and rather humid in the afternoon, so I just had to live with a warm house.

Too darn tired to do much anyway, though I started cleaning up the garage, so I can move household stuff into it.


My tomato bushes still look sad, despite another dose of Sevin.  It might just be too hot out there for them.


TD says the contract from hell has been delayed again... He also mentioned that he pulled a muscle, just stepping over something.  He's about at the age I was when I first injured my Achilles's tendon just walking downstairs in the morning.

Wednesday 24 July 2019
Wednesday - Hot.

AH stopped by for some reason and I shanghaied him into helping me lift the big a/c out of the connex box and into the container. 

He was shocked at how hot it was in there, and impressed by how well a hose cooled things down.  The mister seems ineffectual. AH has intermodal containers himself, but they have ventilators and some sort of cardboard insulation that even in moderation works very well.  I'll have to consider something like that.

I turned off the a/c and after a while it was 119F inside on a 103F day...


Book #25 was Divergent, by Veronica Roth.  It was another novel along the lines of Hunger Games and The Maze Runner, a dystopian thing.  Meh. I finished it, but don't have much urge to read the sequels. I guess there is even a movie?
Tuesday 23 July  2019
Tuesday - Hot again. 

I finished framing stuff up for the container, and even stuck the little 5,000BTU a/c in.  It really couldn't keep up with the heat flux from the light blue metal container, averaging about the same temperature as the outside air temperature - which is still probably 5 degrees cooler than it would be otherwise.

Spraying the exterior with a hose worked very well though, maybe 20F of cooling of the metal?  It was interesting that the sides dried from the top down.  I assume the top gets much hotter because it's next to the RV shed and gets 150% of normal radiation because of the corner reflector effect, and that heat conducts quickly through the corner and down the side.

I will try putting the mister right next to the container side and see what happens.  And I have a fairly large a/c that I can swap in as well, though it's too heavy for one person to lift safely.
Monday 22 July 2019
Monday - Hot.

I worked on framing in stuff for the container, and made good progress, though it was about 100F outside and considerably warmer inside the container.  I'd had the 4x8 plywood sheets ripped into 2x8 sheets at lowes, and that helped speed things along, it's a lot more maneuverable.  The container isn't square - I guess there's a reason they sell them cheap, so I had to measure a bunch of stuff.  But overall it went pretty well.

I called the termite guy and let him know that I wouldn't be ready for him until next week...

Sunday 21  July 2019
Sunday - Hot again. It was about 102F, but only 12% humidity, so the house stayed tolerable. 


I did some shopping in town with S, and picked up some 2x4's and 3/8" plywood to make a temporary cat refuge in the container, that I will use as storage / workshop later.  The plan is to scab in a wall at the entrance, with a door, and a window, and an air conditioning unit aperture.  And a 2nd wall 8' or 10' in that wall off most of the container: my little window units couldn't possibly cool the whole thing.



The new anime season on Crunchyroll is pretty bad, as I think I mentioned.  I guess there is a new season of Attack on Titan out though.




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Antelope Acres sunset
Antelope Acres after sunset.

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