2019
Piano repair in Flatiron.
This crisp very low IBU Montauk Summer Ale is what I needed this warm late summer evening on Long Island, NY.
Love how Mott Street in China Town (Manhattan) curves out of sight like a movie set.
I wanted all of the knishes.
Gorgeous day on the Brooklyn Bridge. Walked from Penn Station to Atlantic Terminal. Knishes, Lotus Seed Paste Cake, Ruebins, and Cheese Cake were devoured along the way.
JFK, New York. Scene from last night: a traffic jam in the hourly garage. Was treated to a horn serenade near midnight. Was kinda funny though the pay booth operator was clearly having a bad night w/ technical difficulties.
Snow Mountain and St. John mountain are looking pretty good after yesterday’s rain.
The audio sync feature on Apple’s tvOS 13 is 👌 Also, here’s a🌈 🌈
My almost 2 year old plum is so fickle. It’s senescing early. After digging into the soil, I think it is water deprived. So trying adding 1 gallon per hour emitter as 0.5 gallon per hour emitters are not delivering nearly enough water. I’m also annoyed at the borer bugs.
Urban prescribed fire 🔥. Provides volunteer fire department training and reduces city blight & fine fuels in vacant lots.
Epilobium canum (California Fuchsia) keeping pollinators, including hummingbirds, happy.
Mantis enjoying the accommodations of our little Blue Oak.
Anna’s Hummingbirds fighting over native fuchsias!
HomeKit is great because it doesn’t require internet for day to day operations. Internet goes down, I can still operate or expect automations as normal. The same cannot be said of the other smart home ecosystems. Ecobee goes out of business? HomeKit!
Ecobee 3 lite seems nice but had to change its default 0.5°f “Cool Differential Temp” to 1°f. We keep our house pretty warm so its heat saturated mass rapidly causes air temp to rebound. To Nest’s credit, I think it had a non-programmable ~1°f diff. Short-cycling 👎
Bye bye Nest Thermostat Gen 1. Hello ecobee3 lite! I revised the Nest’s fancy screws to avoid drywall anchors — critical as the drywall is backed by 2x4s. Super easy install with the common wire I enabled last weekend.
Almond harvest season.
Can’t wait to replace the 1st gen Nest Thermostat with this Ecobee3 Lite. A Friday project.
Going to be jealous of that iPhone 11’s 📱grown up front camera! About time it has near parity to the rear.
The package only had to go from one end of the state to another. Instead, it first went across the country! 🧐