Although he is best known performing with his group Bruce Hornsby and the Range, he has a long and rich history in music … playing with such well known artists like Ricky Scaggs and groups like the Grateful Dead.
Prior to 2017, I backed a ThingCharger Kickstarter project that was an excellent product. It was overpriced for what it did, but I ended up buying a couple extras for gifts (Brenda’s phone charging in photo at Katelyn and Drew’s house).
In 2017, after the business failure, founder Seymour Segnit started a new company telling early investors he learned from the mistakes in “running the business” and was re-branding a new line of premium charging products called MagFast. After much delay, pandemic manufacturing slowdowns and now shipping issue backlogs … we’re finally getting an initial backer shipping date list. One thing they did right was to keep backers updated ever step of the way … even when the news was less than positive. Since my order is in Batch 4, I’m hoping that a package will arrive in February 2022 … at least that is what the latest chart is suggesting.
For Christmas in 1999, Katelyn and Drew gave me the MyQ hardware to “smarten up” one of the garage doors … well at least the opener. It permits a smartphone to control, adding authorize users and ability monitor garage door access. A couple of weeks I received a warning that the battery was “low” and needed to be replaced. It is now a couple years old, so that doesn’t seem too bad?
I’m not a fan of replacing batteries, but it was no big deal since this one lasted two years and was pretty simple to replace. I only wish the Samsung Smartthings hub connected to the battery motion sensor and door sensors at the condo had batteries that would last more than 6 months.
Our driveway project is semi-wrapped up, but the landscaping company has yet to deliver our topsoil and river rock. TheCreech’s rep did update me with a tentative date later this month, so we shall see if the weather holds them back again?
I finally moved the construction cones a couple weeks ago and we started to use our front driveway again … but no sooner did vehicles drive on the new concrete again did a van drive off the edge. I was hoping that it didn’t crack the edge of the concrete (it did not) … considering that there isn’t any packed ground or at topsoil settled in to give the edge some extra support.
It may not be pretty, but hopefully the “fix” for the segment of driveway concrete that was poured when our driveway was replaced, without the proper pitch, will prevent puddling where the old and new concrete came together. We were not home to see the work, but after a cursory look (photos) on Wednesday morning, it looks pretty good.
We are still unhappy with the quality of work, the poor brushing and trying to beat the rain (damage to surface) and will likely have disagreement over our finally contracted payment amount. The company disappointed me several times in addition to the quality of workmanship and the cracking has already appeared:
No cut-thru for a spill/pipe in rear on a previous slap that we talked about initially,
refused to remove a stump or even contract a stump grinder after starting the project (I had to find someone to take care of this on my dime),
damage to blacktop in the rear that they “said” would be taken care of,
After learning to tie a Monkey Fist knot this past year, I decided to make a couple Christmas ornaments for my granddaughters. I was planning to attach them to their presents in December, but Brenda suggested they should have them before Christmas so that they could hang them on their tree. Yikes, now I need to get the little “year” tag done sooner!
Of course, even with my long to-do list, I found time to sit back a few minutes over the weekend after working outside. The autumn weather has been crisp, but with sunshine and no wind, it was very pleasant sitting in front of the fire on the back porch.
Although I usually don’t purposely listen to jazz, I do appreciate hearing it when it is played and discussed. Last week when Fox Business host Charles Payne mentioned “We’re having a Miles Davis rally” in reference to the stock market – and the“be there or be square” 1950’s slogan. I tweeted about it and was shocked at the views and retweets.
Maybe it is just me, but seeing this drone photo of a Blue Whale off the coast of Western Australia was impressive. Australia is one of those countries on my bucket list, but it is such a long and expensive flight … and Australia is a huge country to visit in a single trip, that a vacation there has never risen to the top of a short one of two weeks off travel list. Maybe someday? For now, I’ll archive the photo from the Australia Twitter feed and save the link the Margaret River Region of Western Australia to my blog.
I’m recycling a Music Monday song from a few years back (2017) with Bruce Hornsby performing “The Way It Is” from the 1986 album by the same name … but this time not just audio, but the official video on YouTube/Vevo (so indicates the mp4 file). 
