- Date:
May 2026 - Sept 2026
Inside one of my FM Broadcast exciters.
The CR-V parked in downtown Athens in front of The Fred Building
Black Rock Mountain State Park, Mountain City, GA
The base of Black Rock Mountain
Sandy Creek Park in Athens
Sandy Creek Park
Free IT Athens
Mabel
Motorola EVX-261 UHF-1 radio. A Free IT Athens find. It sat on a chair in my home office for over a month until I found a generic programming cable in my collection that could program it.
Patterson Services ordering a roll off dumpster to do renovations on the Titan Building
Air Fryer potatoes. The air fryer was a Christmas gift from my brother Dan, and this is the first meal I made with it (months later)
At the Racetrac in Clayton, GA preparing to go home to Athens.
Roll off dumpster for reroofing my house
Carol Ann helping me replace the water filter in the refrigerator at the Titan office
Every day Carol Ann asks me to take her picture when I pick her and Louise up from school.
Damage that Patterson Services subsequently repaired on the fence at my house
New shed roof
After buying my first Eco Flow power station, I bought a second one. This one is the Delta 3 Max.
I ordered some solar panels for my power station. The charge super-slowly, but during a power failure it's better than nothing.
Carol Ann with a new friend.
A frog that I found in the dog bowl one morning.
The beer that I ended up giving away
Mabel, Louise and Carol Ann
WXPB-LP Transmitter Site
Hanging out at the lake
A 2014 Macbook Air I bought at Free IT Athens. The hardware is great, but the software is so outdated that it's functionality is heavily reduced. Live and Learn.
Error messages that my Jeep Wrangler displayed when I was in the woods.
Live view of the lake as seen from my house in Athens :)
Ubiquiti airMAX PowerBeam 5AC ISO dishes. These were subsequently installed at Black Rock and the health department building in Clayton, GA as a network backup.
Preparing to install the dishes. Loading the car before driving to Rabun.
The roof of the health department building in Clayton, GA.
Black Rock Mountain site. Just set up the Clayton dish. Now eating some lunch.
Black Rock site
Black Rock. This magnifier offers 10x magnification. Most smart phones today offer more than that.
Incandescent light bulbs taken down as part of my LED replacement project at the lake house.
Carol Ann testing a chair at the Athens Costco
Sandy Creek Park playground
Clayton, GA as seen from my cell phone from the vantage of the magnifier shown before. This is more than 10x magnification.
Diagnosing a tripping breaker at the Lake House. I haven't figured it out yet, but still working on it.
Bose Acoustimass 3 Series IV Speaker System that Ron gave me
Indian Food in Cumming, GA with Ron
Replacement stylus for the turntable at the Lake House.
Haocheng tucking Louise in after a fun day
I-85
The HID bulbs I replaced in my 2018 Jeep Cherokee Latitude.
Accessing these HID bulbs
Athens, GA Building Permit Office
Turtle at the Lake House
Tidwell Park Construction in Cumming, GA
Boat Engine
Replacement HID headlight bulbs working. After a $1200 phone quote to replace one bulb from Landmark Dodge in Athens, I found a pair of HID bulbs on eBay for $30.60 after taxes and shipping. Over a week later, they're still good.
