I spent several hours Saturday finishing up the computer swaps in our clubhouse. I also made progress on our clubhouse WiFi. We purchased an outdoor WiFi device to cover the pool area. I spent several more hours Saturday plus most of this morning taking data and coming up with some options for installation. We’ll have to find a way to route Ethernet cable through the clubhouse to where the WiFi device will be mounted.

Danita and I took Bud to the oral surgeon to have two teeth removed. Bud did well. By the end of the week, he was eating real foods.

The front derailleur stopped working on my bike. That’s the part that changes the gears. I was having trouble shifting down to the low gears. I took it to the bike shop. They mis-diagnosed the problem and did an adjustment. Two days later, I was back at the bike shop, completely unable to shift into low gear. This time the problem was obvious. The bike works great.

The backup sump pump is not doing very well. We have a water powered backup pump and it didn’t work. The pump company sent me a new pump under warranty and gave me a lot of advice on how to make it work better. One thing that was needed was to enlarge a hole in the sump cover from 2″ to 3 1/2″. I bought a hole saw, and learned that while drilling a 3 1/2″ hole isn’t very hard, enlarging an existing hole is a whole lot harder. A plumber came by Friday and spent 3 hours installing everything. When all was done, it still didn’t work. In fact, it’s possible that it never worked. I have some things I want to do yet. We’ll see how it turns out.

I was so busy dong stuff that I missed three Zooms that sounded interesting. One was about Baltimore Arabbers. We still have them. In fact, there are two active arabber horse stables. Unfortunately, the main guest either didn’t show or couldn’t get their computer to work. Danita told me they did a brief interview of an arabber. He told stories of the 500 days he spent in solitary while in prison. If you don’t know abut the arabbers, here’s a YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5h5LDVwZHg The other two zooms were about Day of the Dead dancers. Danita told me the videography was so bad she stopped watching. It’s not easy to make a bunch of people dancing look good.

There aren’t very many Zooms for us next week. But the rain should roll out, allowing more time for bike rides. In low gear!

I hope this finds everybody doing well.