Wednesday, January 22, 2025

More fires in SoCal

 Well there are more fires in SoCal now, a big one around Lake Castaic. The Santa Ana winds are going to stop when they stop and that's all there is to it. Amazing to think that places I've known, where relatives lived, etc., now look like those photos of the results of Allied bombing after WWII. 

Ken had called last night and told me he was going to be over with whoever it was who wanted to buy power resistors, at 3 in the afternoon. Sounds great, I said, from the light rail station in Campbell at 10PM. 

I got back here, had my double Dough Burger and fries, had trouble getting to sleep for some reason and went to sleep around 5AM, then got up at 1PM. At least I felt good with no headache. There are a lot of things that can give a person a headache, one of which being a bladder infection and my pee had been stinky so I had a good dose of mannose/cranberry powder before bed and surprise surprise, pee not stinky and head not aching. 

I started packing things and at about 3:30 a Vietnamese lady came to the door with her phone, "Talk to Ken" she said. So I talked to Ken; she was the lady looking for power resistors of a type we don't have. I told her how to get parts effectively (first have an idea of value/wattage/type) then look online for that exact part, then find someone selling them etc.) and eventually she said she'll just wait for Ken. 

So she sat in her car and I did more packing and Ken showed up and while I did my work around them, Ken showed her other ways to solve whatever problem, something to do with medical device design, she had. He ended up selling her a power supply and an op-amp power supply to the tune of $900. Not bad! I helped all along from printing out sheets on each thing, de-listing them from Ebay, and helping load them into her car. I even got Ken to give me $20 for paper, which I need to buy more of. 

I packed the last item or so and that was that. 


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