Sorry, I didn’t get any reall testing done with this problem this weekend. Instead I spent the weekend working on a nitrogen laser. Much more fun than flushing the toilet repetively. I’ll maybe look into it somethime this week and see if I can find the cause. I don’t think anyone else in the world [...]

Continue Reading General Update – Toilet Dimming Lights, Lasers, Weather, Air Conditioners, Lawn

Tags: electricity, Plumbing

Okay, right… so this has been bugging me for quite a few months now. I notice that every time I flush the toilet, the lights dim. Well that’s downright crazy! I think I already know what the problem is. I’m thinking that the toilet is plumbed into the hot water line and when hot water [...]

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Earlier this week I spotted a new flower peeking out through the forsythia along the main highway. They’re very colorful and have a really neat way of growing and sprouting. The Orange Trumpet vine flower buds poke out as hard looking pods which split open and another pod, the flower (similar to a balloon flower) [...]

Continue Reading New Flower Bloomed – Orange Trumpet Vine

Tags: flowers, summer

The Scott’s PatchMaster has been doing well so far.  It grew in pretty fast and has just been thickening up.  It has now been mowed quite a few times.  We started mowing when it ‘looked decent’ and have just kept mowing it as part of the normal yard. It’s not super-scientific (though I suppose it [...]

Continue Reading Another Scott’s PatchMaster Update

Tags: grass, grass seed, Lawn, patchmaster, seed, sprinkler, Topsoil

I recorded the pack current and volts on my ACE Mini-Titan R/C Helicopter using an Eagle Tree flight data recorder V3 with my new setup. I had some awesome flights with flips and rolls and high G-force turns mixed in while flying with Ollie on Saturday.
The new setup uses metal mixing arms, green paddles, a [...]

Continue Reading Upgraded Mini-Titan Flight Data Recorder Results

Tags: e325, Helicopter, mini-titan, Radio Control, rc