Recipe: Bake Oggy at 104 Degrees for 4 minutes or until crispy in middle

Weather for Austin, TX

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My brain is pudding...I'm starting to sound like I live in Austin.

I missed out on a $8000/month clinical trial. Bummer but maybe it's for the best. No career as a human lab rat.

Austin Energy owns more than 2,600 MW of total generation and operates three natural gas powered plants in the Austin area. We are also part owners of two power plants outside Austin, one powered by coal, the other by nuclear fuel.

Decker Creek Power Station
	Constructed: 1967-78
	Location: Northeast Austin
	Fuel: Natural gas, fuel oil as an alternative
	Output: 926 MW

Sand Hill Energy Center
	Constructed: 2001-2004
	Location: Dell Valle, Texas
	Fuel: Natural gas, combined cycle
	Output: 480 MW

Fayette Power Project
	Constructed: 1979-1980
	Location: La Grange, Texas
	Fuel: Coal
	Output: 600 MW
	Co-owned with the Lower Colorado River Authority

South Texas Project
	Constructed: 1988-89
	Location: Bay City, Texas
	Fuel: Nuclear
	Output: 400 MW
	Co-owner of 16 percent of two 1250 MW units

Renewable Energy
	Source: Wind farms
	Location: West Texas
	Output: 439 MW
	Source: Methane from landfills
	Location: Austin, San Antonio
	Output: 13 MW

Orgonite Brings Rain

1969 Ford Econoline and 1974 Vespa Ciao

I feel that my moped is bound to be stolen. Everyone and their kid is asking if they can buy it. I really think they are projecting their daily grind misery onto me and see my hair flying in the wind with my guitar dangling from my toes and want a piece of the "freedom" they believe I have. They don't actually understand what it means to ride a 38 year old hard tail 2 stroke moped down a city street. But they see my sandals and Orgonite rain conductor necklace that Dowin sold me to attract good chi to Austin, and think they can have this image for a few hundred dollars .Of course that won't happen so I grin and tell them it isn't for sale. They are envious of their own imagination.

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Inside the van it's 20 degrees hotter. So I got a 12v fan. Bliss. when you leave a 120 degree attic, 110 actually feels nice. 90 consecutive days over 100 degrees last year. We're trying to break the record this year.

Failure To Launch

Another ridiculous project that cost me time and money

 Here's Oggy trying to fix his tail lights. This is a brutal project because the problem is a brand new Chinese part that can only be replaced with another brand new Chinese part that will also be crappy. So, it's dollar store manufacturing being applied to pre-digital ford technology. That equals problems as no tail lights and no turn signals are caused by failure of the tines to properly connect to the contacts on the turn signal cam. If I were a man with no regard for the environment or humanity I would set about properly manufacturing the turn signal cams that actually work. But since I am Oggy I will repeatedly repair the broken Chinese part with hours of brainstorming.

How am I checking the tail light? By propping a mirror up behind the van.

Troubleshooting

One of several portals to another dimension in my van

It's either my heaven or my hell when something goes wrong with the electrical system in the van. You know a trip has really started when you are half naked in the van, a lightning storm is crashing down around you, you just worked 6 hours unloading hundreds of 145 lb Masonite doors for another cookie cutter multi-unit condo flesh factory being built in the 104 degree heat so that you feel like a Chimichanga that had been left on the buffet table too long, and neither your tail lights nor turn signals work. It's awful because unless it's the fuse or the bulb or some simple ground problem then it's guaranteed to cost you 10 hours of troubleshooting. This problem was literally a tour de force that required total dedication over two solid days and nights. And it required Oggy ingenuity the likes of which haven't been seen since I repaired a 40 year old neutral safety switch using copper flashing. This time I only had to rebuild the turn signal cam switch using hair pins and magic. The horn is the next project.