Dust Settling

Whew! What a week! It is Friday morning as I write this post. Tuesday I left home with my power line noise tracking stuff at 6:00 in the morning and did not get back until after 9:00 that evening! I walked at least 20 miles that day, doing one final and complete sweep of the area. Exhausted doesn’t cover it.

Wednesday I spent frantically trying to clean up my home and finish some modifications to my radio equipment in preparation for the visit from the power company person on Thursday. I didn’t quite finish the work with the equipment and ended up with a somewhat less than planned setup for the following day.

Thursday the power company troubleshooter arrived as scheduled. He spent much of the day investigating each of the poles I had found noisy. He found noise at one third of them, not bad considering most of the problems are intermittent. It went pretty well considering he called me on the phone at least half a dozen times during the day to have me listen to the noise on my radio while he “aggravated” specific poles. All in all I can see this will be a long, involved process and a lot of work, but I have hope it can be resolved.

Today I’ve got a long list of things I would like to do or should do. Mow the lawn. Go to town and do errands. Go to town and buy comfort food! Go take a picture of something of interest across town. Work on finishing changes to my radio equipment to optimize for noise tracking and identification. But I’ve got no energy for any of it. It doesn’t help that it is hot and humid outside. The forecast calls for heavy rain and thunderstorms this afternoon through tomorrow, so the outside stuff – unless I get to it in the next few hours – will have to wait for Sunday at the earliest.