It is unbelievable that so many things can go wrong so often? Maybe it is just me or my Luck?<\/p>\n
First, in the first week home, I get the new weather station, the new computer<\/strong> and am looking toward getting them all on the air and on the internet\u2026. Wait\u2026. The internet<\/strong> won\u2019t stay up? What\u2019ss with that? I got the computer<\/strong> working<\/strong> with the APRS<\/strong> but can\u2019t get the software to stay connected and find it is not the software but the internet<\/strong> modem\u2026 it just does not want to work very long before it locks up\u2026 kind of like me\u2026 I don\u2019t want to work much and find ways to avoid it\u2026 so I get a new modem\u2026 that takes a day<\/strong> or two to get it going as these things are never all that simple\u2026 but after a lot of tech help and several hours on line<\/strong> \u2013 we (me and ATT) get it working\u2026 but\u2026.<\/p>\n During the process I am on the phone and down stairs playing with the modem in the mechanical room\u2026 water<\/strong> starts backing up out of the drain? What\u2019s with that? It goes back down and I figure that may I had bumped the drain pipe on the cooling unit and it drained or maybe the hot water<\/strong> heater over flowed\u2026. But then it happens again and it is bigger this time? Wait, the wife was using the washing machine ? so k I go out and look at the clean out and water<\/strong> is standing in it\u2026 of course mopping is the call<\/strong> for the night to get all the sewer water<\/strong> moped out of the down stairs\u2026 UGH!… but we got that done and I went out the emergency switch for the sewer system (we have a grind and pump thing<\/strong> cause we are downhill from the main line\u2026.) in the box the wires are pulled loose from the board, one of the terminals is hanging off and it is generally tore up\u2026 so I get a wire in place to make the manual switch work and hit that button to run the pump\u2026 it pulls the water<\/strong> out of the clean out pipe\u2026 ok\u2026 so we don\u2019t get to use much water<\/strong> for awhile\u2026<\/p>\n Next morning I call<\/strong> the builder and complain that his having pulled on the line<\/strong> and it being way to short while they built the wall and all the rain has settled the ground and finally pulled the wire out and the board is broke\u2026 between the two of us we find that there is yet another company that does the service work but I demand that the line<\/strong> be put in right\u2026 so we get an electrician and he send to get a new box\u2026 so it is yet another day<\/strong> to get the box in\u2026 I had taken the board out and put a temp fix on the connector but the pump will not work right? The next day<\/strong> the electrician gets the new box on and the pump still will not work\u2026 call<\/strong> the service again on the system and they send the plumber out to fix it\u2026 he shows up and can\u2019t really find anything wrong with wiring\u2026 so he puts in his spar pump \u2013 which is a much older one than mine but it works, the alarm works and we are good for the night\u2026<\/p>\n The next morning, he brings back my pump and says it was plugged with grease? That does not make much since to me as there are only two of us and se seldom cook and for sure never pore grease in the drain\u2026 but oh well, get my pump in and we test\u2026 well it is back in and we test and \u2026. No alarm when the tank is full\u2026 the pump runs a little but not a lot\u2026? That night we do on load of laundry and the thing<\/strong> is full and not running? So I have to go run the manual switch\u2026 the book says 3 minutes to empty the tank\u2026and I have to hold the damn switch for 3 minutes to get that done\u2026 ok\u2026 so he ( the plumber for the company) meets with the company rep in Moore to fix another unit that wont pump\u2026 in the meantime I am having to hold the button every time we shower, wash or anything\u2026 I do one load of laundry and it fails to pump so I call<\/strong> the plumber and let him know\u2026 he says he has ordered new switches for both the alarm and level control and they will be in next week\u2026 great a weekend of switch holding\u2026 at this point (Monday) that is still not fixed\u2026 in the meantime I am working<\/strong> on the weather station<\/strong> and the APRS<\/strong> radio stuff\u2026 this evening I started to do the TV on my new computer\u2026 no sound? – huh? So I start to pull the computer<\/strong> out of the desk and it bumps a little and shuts down\u2026 ? won\u2019t come back on either\u2026 now what? I Can\u2019t find anything out of place, the little led (green) on the motherboard is it but lit but it won\u2019t turn on\u2026 and it runs the weather station, APRS, everything in the shop was to be working<\/strong> on that \u2026 I pull everything out, no shorts no out of place wires,????? So I put everything back\u2026 still does not work\u2026 maybe the motherboard gave up already\u2026 ? I have no way of testing it to find out what failed. So it is one week until I go back to work\u2026 and I set here with time to write this blog but :<\/p>\n The sewer is broke\u2026<\/p>\n