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Episode 103 – Automation and Show Catch Up
Overview
Alan had to deal with a situation where app automation would have been helpful. This includes apps to help with travel plans.
And with traveling and trying to automate, various cloud services are available, but man, the problems Stephen has had using Google and their lack of support.
Recommendations
https://www.angi.com/
https://www.biltmore.com/
YouTube
Transcript
[00:00:05] Alan: There we go. Yeah. How my so shadowed here. This is wild. Let’s see. At least we got the head in the middle. Yeah. Of course I’m out in California instead of at home in uh, Lakewood and I’m right next to a big patio door. And I thought I’d be able to have another light source that would even that out.
No it doesn’t. No,
I guess I’ll just be the shadow man today. I get over here. That’s better. Okay. Don’t move. Not really. Just the old days of okay. Billy, go adjust the antenna now, hold that for the length of the show. Everybody
[00:00:36] Stephen: hold. Yeah. The revenue. Exactly. For the, for any kids listening, they won’t get that so how are you a
[00:00:41] Alan: I’m doing fine, actually.
It in fact here, this is a good launching point. So I’m out in California I’m taking care of the house, visiting mom usually one week outta the month that. Without people living in the house the constant fear is that what’s gonna happen to it. We actually had something recently where they have a sprinkler system, an irrigation system, cuz they have a beautiful, beautifully landscape and it’s California.
So they have an orange tree and birds of paradise and all that kind of stuff. So you really don’t want it to go south part of the beauty of the house and the resale value of the house is the beautiful landscaping. We have a neighbor Corey who noticed that one of the, it was spritzing either the she thought it was at first a sprinkler had, but then it turned out to be upon investigation.
A break in the actual line that goes from the main line of the house, into the irrigation system that leaves everything else. And you don’t find that out until you. The city of Oceanside send a person out because they’re concerned about water waste. You know what I mean? It’s drought conditions out here.
They have restrictions on how often you’re allowed to water anything. Pretty soon. They might even have Hey, you guys shower on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Friday that kind of thing. people we had people investigate that they had to dig to find it. The people, the plumbers that we had first come out said, we really aren’t experts at sprinkling and irrigation.
So we’ll do the work, but we won’t warranty it. And it’s that’s an ideal situation. You’ll do some work. You’ll bury it. And then if something, once again, screws up, you’re not responsible. So we using the wonderful of Angie at formerly Angie’s list. Now, Angie, we found people that really specialized in conclusion irrigation and we We found someone to take care of it.
It’s really working perfectly. I saw it sprinkled this morning and stuff like that. The reason for saying all this,
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By Relentless GeekeryOverview
Alan had to deal with a situation where app automation would have been helpful. This includes apps to help with travel plans.
And with traveling and trying to automate, various cloud services are available, but man, the problems Stephen has had using Google and their lack of support.
Recommendations
https://www.angi.com/
https://www.biltmore.com/
YouTube
Transcript
[00:00:05] Alan: There we go. Yeah. How my so shadowed here. This is wild. Let’s see. At least we got the head in the middle. Yeah. Of course I’m out in California instead of at home in uh, Lakewood and I’m right next to a big patio door. And I thought I’d be able to have another light source that would even that out.
No it doesn’t. No,
I guess I’ll just be the shadow man today. I get over here. That’s better. Okay. Don’t move. Not really. Just the old days of okay. Billy, go adjust the antenna now, hold that for the length of the show. Everybody
[00:00:36] Stephen: hold. Yeah. The revenue. Exactly. For the, for any kids listening, they won’t get that so how are you a
[00:00:41] Alan: I’m doing fine, actually.
It in fact here, this is a good launching point. So I’m out in California I’m taking care of the house, visiting mom usually one week outta the month that. Without people living in the house the constant fear is that what’s gonna happen to it. We actually had something recently where they have a sprinkler system, an irrigation system, cuz they have a beautiful, beautifully landscape and it’s California.
So they have an orange tree and birds of paradise and all that kind of stuff. So you really don’t want it to go south part of the beauty of the house and the resale value of the house is the beautiful landscaping. We have a neighbor Corey who noticed that one of the, it was spritzing either the she thought it was at first a sprinkler had, but then it turned out to be upon investigation.
A break in the actual line that goes from the main line of the house, into the irrigation system that leaves everything else. And you don’t find that out until you. The city of Oceanside send a person out because they’re concerned about water waste. You know what I mean? It’s drought conditions out here.
They have restrictions on how often you’re allowed to water anything. Pretty soon. They might even have Hey, you guys shower on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Friday that kind of thing. people we had people investigate that they had to dig to find it. The people, the plumbers that we had first come out said, we really aren’t experts at sprinkling and irrigation.
So we’ll do the work, but we won’t warranty it. And it’s that’s an ideal situation. You’ll do some work. You’ll bury it. And then if something, once again, screws up, you’re not responsible. So we using the wonderful of Angie at formerly Angie’s list. Now, Angie, we found people that really specialized in conclusion irrigation and we We found someone to take care of it.
It’s really working perfectly. I saw it sprinkled this morning and stuff like that. The reason for saying all this,