1. Figure out what to do with expired transit cards. Can I use the RFID chips in my expired transit cards to do anything neat? Probably not. I’ve been wondering if I can use them to open the cat’s food dish, but I’m worried that if I press the “add pet” button on the back but the dish doesn’t recognize the bus pass, then either the hungry cat will somehow add her microchip to the whitelist or else the anorexic cat will have her access removed.

  2. Bypass the meaningless gate at the front of my building. I don’t have a good photo of the meaningless gate handy, but due to the slope of the lot, anyone with decent upper body strength could use the wooden fence (topped with a 2x4, flat side up) to assist in getting over the gate. The building next door has a similar gate; I’ve seen neighbors climb over it more than once. Outside the gate is a panel of buttons. If you press the button for my apartment, then a box by my front door makes a loud noise. If I press a button on the box, then I can “buzz” you in. I want to take the box off the wall and attach the “ring” wires to the “buzz” wires so that you can just buzz yourself in.

  3. I want to get an antenna mast and put my 1090 MHz antenna on the roof of the building (well, probably screwed to the fascia) and then run some LMR-400 cabling into my apartment, having it come in through a tidy-looking face plate. Putting antennas on your roof is a family tradition.