{"id":4136,"date":"2015-04-29T23:23:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2017-07-08T06:46:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T06:46:01","slug":"29th-april-2015-today-is-another-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4136","title":{"rendered":"29th April 2015 &#8211; TODAY IS ANOTHER DAY &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when I smell all coconutty.It was a much better day today and the temperature in the home-made 12-volt immersion heater that I use as a dump load for the excess solar energy reached 64\u00b0C. Consequently, when I knocked off at 18:30 this evening, I put some hot water in a bucket, cooled it down with some cold water, and then had one of my patent &#8220;jug showers&#8221; in the corner of the verandah. And wasn&#8217;t that lovely?<\/p>\n<p>So today, I&#8217;ve varnished all of the woodwork that I cut yesterday. So far it&#8217;s had two coats on either side but tomorrow morning it will have the third coat on the outer side.<\/p>\n<p>That is, apart from the pine board that will be the front of the <em>beichstuhl<\/em>. That&#8217;s had three coats ion the other side, and nothing on the inside, and for the simple reason that I&#8217;m going to tile all of the inside of the <em>beichstuhl<\/em>. If I&#8217;m having the fittings for the composting toilet in there, it needs to have a wipe-down surface and varnished pine boards don&#8217;t work. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m even going to tile the floor in there too &#8211; something that I said that I wouldn&#8217;t do, but cleaning has to be the thing with a composting toilet. Consequently, I spent about half an hour going through all of the odds and ends of tiles to find enough for the job.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started to refit the plasterboard too, which of course I&#8217;ll need to do if I&#8217;m going to do the tiling.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve made advances with the electrical system here. Having had a test-bed in the barn with the old internet Livebox running on 12-volt DC non-stop for 10 days, I&#8217;ve set up the new one in here and that&#8217;s now running on 12-volt DC instead of the mains and an adapter. It took ages to set up, but the situation was greatly eased when I remembered to switch on the Livebox.<\/p>\n<p>But this is yet more progress around the house.<\/p>\n<p>And on my travels during the night, I was joined by someone else with whom I wouldn&#8217;t aprticularly care to pss any real time. I was in my car and explaining to the aforementioned about MP3s in car radios with either memory sticks or SD cards &#8211; an invention which hadn&#8217;t, apparently, penetrated into the depths of darkest Crewe.<\/p>\n<p>But all of these unwelcome people turning up in my nocturnal voyages. Whatever is this all about? <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-4136 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='4136' data-nonce='c08db6eab0' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-4136 lc'>+5<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-4136 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='4136' data-nonce='c08db6eab0' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-4136 unlc'>-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-4136 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when I smell all coconutty.It was a much better day today and the temperature in the home-made 12-volt immersion heater that I use as a dump load for the excess solar energy reached 64\u00b0C. Consequently, when I knocked off at 18:30 this evening, I put some hot water in a bucket, cooled it down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4507,1616,258],"tags":[3356,1786,3357,5298,2560,5565,2012,1683,5366,521,462,3355,3354],"class_list":["post-4136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-12-volt-dc","tag-12-volt-immersion-heater","tag-donald","tag-dump-load","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-heated-shower","tag-internet","tag-les-guis","tag-plasterboard","tag-shower","tag-tiles","tag-varnishing-beichstuhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4137,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}