Grumpy,

I hope you also ordered another 200 amp feed for your house from the power company.

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If you change your additional work buffer to avoid interruptions due to the three planned outages,
don't set the number of days to more than 3.
Mine is set for 1.0-2.0 days based on the CPU.
Although the preferences allows up to 10 additional work days,
my experience is that BOINC does a poor job of managing due dates at that setting,
and it will eventually send some work units in late.
Late work units can impact another user for whom you are the wing man.
Is there anyone that does not know why we have wing men?

If I understand it correctly this is how it works, otherwise you may have to explain it to me:
Quorum - projects use a redundancy scheme to ensure that tasks are reliable;
quorum is the number of tasks needed in order to validate WUs.
Until this number is reached, credit is pending; it is granted after validation on the server side.
All WUs are given to one or two other members to crunch (wingmen).
When your WU returns for validation you must wait for other members to return their WU to reach the quorum.
If there is a quorum and the other member's results match yours they validate.
By the same logic you are someone's wingman.
The WUs go out at the same time with the same due date.
But, for various reasons your wingman may not return the result until a few days after you.
That is why there is a delay in validation of some WUs.

Tornado sirens have gone off four times tonight.
This could go on all night.
Typical spring weather.

Burno,
We had two near misses, one went just south of us and the other went just north of us.
FYI 1 just = about 10-15 miles
Sitting in your basement listening to weather reports is a spring ritual here.