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Well now I thought that today I would take off from all my current projects and just go back a couple of months and do some needful catch-up here on the Forum, with posts that I'd left dangling .... especially this big Sipp. Promised Jim I'd give him a heads up on an idler pulley set-up for his Baker fan, and I did that first thing this morning, but that is all I managed to get done in that way today. Shortly after getting that done I got called out to a new Graffiti site near our community, so I hiked out to check on that, and while there a major wind event set in so that my remediation experimentation was cut a bit short, but wasn't likely to be very successful in any case. Not too long after returning home the SCE decided discretion was the better part of valor, and shut off the local power grid in what is known as a Public Safety Power Shutdown (PSPS) because the wind and weather conditions created an extreme fire hazard situation, so I was without power, or internet for most of the rest of the day. Power came back on just an hour or so ago, and what with fixing dinner and resetting clocks, the day got away from me without attending to most of what I'd hoped to do.

My excuse is that Friday the 13th came on a Tuesday this month ...... and my Lord and Master Murphy made full use of it!!!