2.06.2025 One 3.5mm drill short of a carport.

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  Monday 2nd 54F/12C. Overcast. A mixed forecast with a risk of thundery cloudbursts. Three cloudbursts were registered to the west of us yesterday. 

 Up at 6.30 after several failures to lift off. The word has gone around the local cats. That somebody has built a vast pétanque arena. I caught three cats on my camera. Returning from close fought matches. 

 The camera was doing remarkably well in low light conditions at bedtime. Around 11pm. Until it became really dark and the video turned to little more than colourful noise. That was about 2am. It was already getting much lighter at 3.30. The camera I bought? The TP-Link Tapo C325WB. 

 8.15 Walk. 

 9.00 Still overcast. I met my nice neighbour walking his dogs. So we had a chat to catch up. A black kite circled low over the road but quickly retreated. After that I circled around  the other neighbours' drives. A baby horse was dashing about experimentally in its paddock on the hill. I believe this is referred to as zoomies by the younger generation. And why not?  

10.00 There was a cloudburst including some hail. Not long enough to do any harm.

11.00 I went out to straighten the carport roof with a ratchet strap. It proved easy to adjust the diagonal measurements [6.05m] to within a few millimeters. I then re-tightened all the bolts and checked again. Since large rectangular roofing sheets are to be fitted the frame it must be square. [i.e. Rectangular NOT diamond shaped] It rained lightly while the sun was still shining. During the time I was messing about out there. It is very windy again.

 15.30 64F/18C. Sunny and warm but windy. Back from a three carrier bag grocery shop in the next village. I found some 3.5mm drills as well. So I can go on with assembling the carport roof.

 Oh the excitement! Thanks to the camera I can now watch myself driving the Morris on my phone screen. I have tried VLC, OBS and iSpy so far and none will connect to the camera. So I can't see a human sized picture on my PC screen. Rather than a Lilliputian miniature, postage stamp. 

 My Lenovo tablet can't accept the Tapo software. Because Lenovo abandons its products for Android updates after a year or so. Of deliberate built-in obsolescence. I laughed when I saw Lenovo were releasing robots. A couple of years after purchase the software is out of date. So the expensive robot freezes and has to be taken to the recycling yard for landfill.  

 Dinner was mackerel in tomato sauce on toast. With halved Sugar Drop tomatoes. I had come to the end of the loaf in the freezer. It seemed a waste to discard the crusts. It worked well due to the rapidly shrinking size of loaves.  

  

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