Today, I received some stuff for my model train layout. The most important part of that to me were the HO scale trucks, which I will try to do something very interesting with in the future. I also got some street lights, grade crossing, crossing signals, a gazebo, and a locomotive engine block. I was very surprised that the engine block actually was not a one piece casting as I had expected, but a 40 piece kit. Well, I won’t use it for a while, then.
As for my PHP scripts, I continued working on them a little more these past few days, when my nose was not so runny as to flood my keyboard. My immune system takes bribes from viruses to let them attack me.
I made a graph to keep track of the UPS line voltage, and I noticed an interesting trend; the voltage drops a bit during the day and then increases above 120V late at night, as you can see in my pretty graph.

I will maybe set up a section of the site for these and other graphs and stuff that would be similar to the old “Railwolf Labs” site I had before.
I also set up a PHP script to monitor my router’s status and represent it graphically, like the router’s front panel, using the actual front panel icons, plus the addition of the current IP address. The script actually logs into the router’s page and grabs the information from it. It wasn’t easy to do, but I figured out how. This is how it looks:
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