Dinner and a series.

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I actually used all of the first batch of beans and beef.  So, yesterday, since I didn't pick up other foods and I still had some hamburger and several cans of beans, I made another, smaller, batch.  That, too, is now gone.  While my hunger comes and goes now, the main part of it, the starvation edge of the thing, is mended.  Now, once or twice every few days, I get a regular hunger.  It isn't "for" anything, like bread or beans or potatoes or meat... it is just raw hunger.  I need some serious volume.  I was neglecting it.  Tea won't do.

I looked through something else that arrived in the last packet of orders... a drill set with countersinks.  I have wanted a set of these for a long time.  There have been times when I wanted them, had to do without.  Yes, you can do without.  But do you really like to do without?  Especially when it really is called for?  My problem was deciding which type to get.  I ended up ordering two sets.  One, this one, with drills attached, then another which are just cutter knobs on the end of bits.  I was looking the kind that arrived, the ones with attached bits, and was a bit surprised, and pleased.

These bits combined with countersinks aren't one solid piece, as I had thought.  I can take them apart.  Which is much better than what I initially thought.  I thought they would be disposable once the drill broke and dulled beyond sharpening.  Which is why I got the two different kinds.  No major problem.  There are times when having them together, and separate, will work better.  But, now I know.

After feeding then tipping off the girls' water device, I set a fresh pot of tea to go.  It's an extra, but as noted I like to keep ahead.  I did a minor sweep in the bathroom, just because.  I plan on taking a shower shortly, then doing laundry... just that one load... and dealing with some folding and sorting while the washer runs.  I checked the laundry soap I had watered to keep fresh.  It is still quite viscous... or is it the other way around?  I mean, it hasn't clogged up in the soap port for the washing machine.  Yeah, I'm getting ready.

I think I'll also be reading the book on electrical wiring.  I just thumbed through the first shot.  I realize now how some of the charts, such as amperage by wire size, works.  Just seeing the chart, without something to make sense?  I just didn't quite get it.  I know feel a bit silly about not getting it, but... so be it.  The wire size I need is probably just the 1, which should cover 125 amps at less than 70 feet of run (though I will do a more exact measurement before long.  I am sure it is less than a hundred feet, probably less than 70, and maybe as little as 50 to 60 feet.  I will check my main panel, but with as many openings, it almost has to be 200 amps, or more?  I am guessing it has around forty (if singles) openings for breakers.  With, I am betting, ten to fifteen openings remaining.  So, technically and probably literally and by code, there is plenty of room for a rather robust sub panel... 125a by 240v shouldn't even be a problem.  Probably.

Something else I received in this order was an outlet device.  I had another one, but it sort of sucked.  It's code was weird, it didn't seem to work correctly, I... just became frustrated with it.  I did a bit more research this time, including finding video usage and reviews.  With it I plan to check all the outlets in the cave, logging each room and by outlet and location.  I am hoping, with this and that, to begin mapping the breakers.  Some are pretty obvious.  I only have one 60 amp circuit, the stove.  I have several 30 amp circuits, the two water heaters (not a hot water heater?  no... it heats cold water.  GAH! :p ), the dryer (I think), and maybe something else?  The rest, I believe, are 15 amp.  There might be a 20 amp circuit or two.  And there is at least one gfci.  I don't think there other types.  Yeah, I would definitely like to tag, bag, and sort, then add where possible.  I truly hate having so few outlets.  Especially when there is that much room on the panel and because I think there are probably breakers with only one or two outlets on them.  Read, read, read, read... tzzzt.  Start with 120v/15a and I'm good.  That speed only tickles, unless I happened to be in water.  Though I have some suspicion even that might not get me.

Ah...  jabber, jabber, jabber.  Later.