Big day yesterday, Matthew and Geoff came over to help with some jobs around the house that my back won’t allow. Stumps were dug up and turning over the garden bed was done once the stumps were out. They went home for lunch and Matthew was dropped back to do some more stuff and then […]

Missed one yesterday as I was just relaxing but I update you tonight. Today was spend at a job later this morning and then I came home for lunch and got to thinking about the front garden sprinklers and investigated getting a rapsberry pi down there and also how I was going to run voltage […]

Went the the chiropractor this morning before seeing Sarah, so the morning was taken up with those things. Then to Coles for some shopping and Maccas on the way home. Did some fiddling around at home this afternoon and didn’t get my walk in as it was bloody hot today. Winter seems to have vanished […]

Did some stuff at home and then headed out to my haircut appointment after giving the car a drink at the bowser. Had that and came home for lunch and fiddled about some more with the home-automation system. Went for a walk and back to some video-editing. I have one up and one to put […]

Started the Psych course online this morning. I didn’t pick a good time to start it as the phone was ringing and I was ignoring it for an hour or so. It went reasonably-well and I now know how it all works. Got back to all the customers which resulted in two remote jobs and […]

I’ve been doing the washing today and developing the blind-control system further and having some teething problems with it, which has sort of sucked the fun out of it a bit but I need to view it as a challenge instead. Spent almost all day on it (after a backup) and then had a nice […]

Fiddled about this morning and decided it was time to go and and vote in the council election and get that over-with so I could relax into the rest of the day. Spent some time installing not one but two of the electric blinds! All went well and I have control over them! Yippee! Started […]

Mucho-successo today! I think I might have a handle on the Somfy blind remote programming in Python, getting it working on the Raspberry Pi! I have created some clever code to manage it all and taught myself something in the process. A couple of outings today and more programming in-between. I’m very pleased with things. […]

I’ve had the whole day practically to myself and I’ve been fiddling about with this Somfy blinds code and trying to get it running on the Raspberry Pi. I have done that and it works quite well. It’s still at the infancy state but it needs further programming to make it more flexible. Took a […]

A day filled with appointments, visits, jobs and discovery! It’s been pretty-bloody-good all-’round!