Repairs

Bad news, the newer of our two large electric coolers blew its peltier cooler slab at the convention (or maybe before, I don't know). Ice fixes that problem while at the convention, but it'd be nice if it actually worked too.

The older cooler blew a peltier probably 12 years ago, and I found that the bad junction was in the first row so I was able to solder to the next row over. Kludgy and reduced efficiency a bit, but it worked. I fussed with it because at the time peltiers were about $40 each.

Good news, you can buy peltiers for $5 shipped from China now. So I'll go ahead and fix both of them properly.

Now I just need to figure out how to quiet the damned motors down. After a few hundred hours or so of running (which we demand of them yearly between cons and camping), they get noisy as hell.

Enough of this

After 3 months of little exercise, my blood pressure is up into the "that's not good" zone WITH meds.

I'll be going to the doctor in a few days, and I could get more intense meds or higher doses, but I'd prefer to get back on regular exercise.

So as of tomorrow, I'm back on the bike, or on days when I can't due to weather, on one of the machines at work. Given my family history, it's not really an option; the only way my mother ever controlled her BP without serious meds was with 1 to 2 hours a day of exercise, at least vigorous walking.