First Day of Fall

I consider this our first day of fall here in the Silicon Swamp.  A front came through late yesterday and while our overnight low wasn't affected much, it was 71, today's high was 80.  Both of those are the "official NOAA/NWS" numbers from the station at the airport.  Neither number is a large departure from the temperatures before the wind shift that signaled the cool front, or NOAA's "normal" values, and the biggest factor in it feeling pleasant outside was that it stayed cloudy all day, the kind of day when you don't cast a shadow standing outside.

Last Sunday, I mentioned some problems I was having with the UPS backing up the two computers and monitors on this desk.  Long story short, I pulled the battery pack out of it, a pair of sealed lead-acid batteries making a 12 cell, over 26V pack, and did a controlled discharge test on it with my CBA-IV.  It behaved rather normally and I found a record of having replaced the battery pack in the UPS back in '20, so I decided to replace the entire UPS instead of just the battery.  All of that was accomplished by Thursday and I've kept the two batteries to add for my emergency power needs.  They're set up to be cycled a couple of times; discharged and recharged.

Tonight I'm monitoring the European Space Agency Flight VV23 launch as I did a couple of nights ago.  The launch is scheduled for 9:36 PM Eastern, 0236 UTC, from French Guiana. 

After that, at 10:56 PM Eastern, 0356 UTC, SpaceX has scheduled a launch of Starlink satellites called group 6-22 from Cape Canaveral SFS SLC-40.  And if we feel like sitting up (or setting an alarm), another batch of Starlink satellites is set to launch at 3:43 AM Eastern, 0743 UTC, this is group 7-4, from Vandenberg SFB SLC-4 East (SLC-4E). 

And just because:

And here you see why I wanted a font to match the original of this.  It's that free font "Moon Flower" - not exact but close enough,