Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "ebay"
26th July 2014
The weather has been hot to say the least. Mind it is cooler today which is a bit of a relief after melting up at the retorts. Up there it was a hundred and four Fahrenheit ( about forty two Celsius) and being inside there isn't much of a breeze. You have to drink loads of water in that kind of heat. I was sure I was losing fluids faster than I could replace them so had Magz put extra water in my work bag. It was needed.
The ASIC miner has still to arrive. I'm a little worried as Magz emailed the seller and was told it still hadn't been posted after the date it was meant to arrive. Apparently the seller had been to a festival last weekend so that had prevented him posting it. He then asked if we still wanted it which I do. Of course if I don't see it soon Magz will inform EBay of the sellers failure to deliver and so seek a full refund for Calum. It is just a little of putting when this sort of thing happens. Not much that we can do about it though other than what we have so far.
Out in the garden the potatoes were pulled this week. There are some left for tomorrows diner but Tammy made a great potato salad yesterday that was much enjoyed in the sunshine. There is nothing like a summer salad especially when some of it comes from your own garden. Though I didn't get a lot of lettuce there was two which though small were full of crunchy goodness. Yes it was a great end to the first week back at work.
The ASIC miner has still to arrive. I'm a little worried as Magz emailed the seller and was told it still hadn't been posted after the date it was meant to arrive. Apparently the seller had been to a festival last weekend so that had prevented him posting it. He then asked if we still wanted it which I do. Of course if I don't see it soon Magz will inform EBay of the sellers failure to deliver and so seek a full refund for Calum. It is just a little of putting when this sort of thing happens. Not much that we can do about it though other than what we have so far.
Out in the garden the potatoes were pulled this week. There are some left for tomorrows diner but Tammy made a great potato salad yesterday that was much enjoyed in the sunshine. There is nothing like a summer salad especially when some of it comes from your own garden. Though I didn't get a lot of lettuce there was two which though small were full of crunchy goodness. Yes it was a great end to the first week back at work.
2nd August 2014
Well the ASIC my son ordered from EBay never arrived. After several excuses from the vendor Calum was forced to go through the resolution centre to get his money back. I decided to spend some of the little Bitcoin I had left and went to Bitmain, I checked them out and they have a good rep in the Bitcoin community. So now I am waiting for two Antminer S3's coming from China. The third batch, which mine is part of, begin shipping next week. Add to that the time for shipping and I might be mining coin again by the end of this month. I would have just ordered one unfortunately they weren't allowing anything under two per order. Yes I know what your thinking, one for my son. Sadly not this time as I am still paying Tammy back for the last one I got him. Plus the fact that I have a lot of bitcoins to make back after all the equipment that I have spent my reserves on that didn't work, as well as the latest batch. So no I will be using both myself.
Out in the garden, which the rain is watering nicely today, my remaining plants are doing well. That is other than the cherry trees and my eating apple tree. They aren't doing well at all. Spraying them seems to have little effect. At the start of the season I really thought they were going to do well this year. Next year I will need to make the hard decision on whether ort not to cut them down. If I do I will need to replace the apple tree for the sake of the cooking apple one, which is doing really great. In fact the number of apples on it are weighing it down so much that it has needed extra support to prevent it uprooting itself. So it will give us plenty of pies this year, yum.
Out in the garden, which the rain is watering nicely today, my remaining plants are doing well. That is other than the cherry trees and my eating apple tree. They aren't doing well at all. Spraying them seems to have little effect. At the start of the season I really thought they were going to do well this year. Next year I will need to make the hard decision on whether ort not to cut them down. If I do I will need to replace the apple tree for the sake of the cooking apple one, which is doing really great. In fact the number of apples on it are weighing it down so much that it has needed extra support to prevent it uprooting itself. So it will give us plenty of pies this year, yum.
