by Hyram Voltage | Dec 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
I visited my friend from high school the week before Christmas. Last year I had given him two strings of green LED Christmas lights last year to compliment the multicolored lights that he had put up. He’s not much into Christmas displays and he needed the help.... by Hyram Voltage | Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m tied up in a lot of things right now and I’m not getting a lot of writing done. At times life is hard. Year end day is almost here, but life will go on. One way of writing Steampunk is to take what is happening today and imagine what it would be like... by Hyram Voltage | Dec 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
The annual untangling of lights went better than last year. Still need to make a map of where the lights go. Some of the light strings are custom configured to go around gates and objects. The strings have to be orientatedk towards the controller and mount on hooks so... by Hyram Voltage | Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s the day after Thanksgiving and I have convinced my friend to upgrade to Windows 10. He has two machines that are Windows 7 and they’re not that old. I keep telling him that Windows 7 is going off support and the program is buggy. Microsoft may not... by Hyram Voltage | Nov 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
I found a where you can get a handful of brass gears that are bigger than wrist watch gears. The timers that control old washing machines and clothes dryers used mechanical timers. Those timers used brass gears. If you can find a shade tree repair guy that fixes old...