After tax incentives, my 11kw offgrid #solar install total cost comes to $0.84 per watt. The average cost for residential solar installation in the US is $2.56 per watt. I seem to have achieved around the same cost as utility scale solar.

Happy that my power cost is 1/3rd of average. For the next 25+ years or until PV installation prices catch up...

(Still have to put in some more unpaid labor to complete the install..)

river supposed to crest at 20 ft, 1 foot below major flood level, already the highway is impassable in both directions, island mode activated

flooded in

my emotional support terminals

aah, found the bug... I had replaced doesPathExist with doesDirectoryExist in a case where it should have been doesFileExist. Happy passing test suite.

20 thousand line patch to #gitAnnex that I've been working on for 3 weeks. I know it contains some bugs. I doubt reviewing it will possibly find them, luckily the test suite does find a few.

https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/git-annex.git/commit/?h=ospath&id=f1ba21d698c908ad84c08bce24fbbc376190fe83

the one in the html mail works, the one in the text mail 403's, as does the one in the x-unsubscribe header

#linode is spamming marketing emails and all unsubscribe links in them lead to error pages

enjoying golden hour before a 7 pm* sunset on this spring† day

* personal timezone adjustment applied
† climate change adjustment applied

At a Denny's at a truck stop. Helped someone plug her Bolt in, charger was very unclear that it was not fully latched. #evlife

One the one hand, I've never been an author on a published paper.

on the other hand, I've never been one of 100 authors on a paper who quote an LLM generating the text "Wait. Wait. Wait. That's an aha moment" in the middle of working a mathematical proof, who all uncritically concluded it learned to think harder. lol

topped up my car for a trip with 9 hours of #offgrid charging, including 13 kwh of solar production and half of the house's battery bank

Maybe added 50 miles of range for tomorrow's road trip, although winter does reduce EV range. I'll dump the rest of the house battery into it in the morning to defrost and warm the car.

underground it's still flowing

having some fun charging the car from solar in this arctic weather

Yesterday, it was cloudy and the charger was only powered intermittently. The battery actually went down 1%, so possibly the battery heater was using more power than the charger was providing.

Today, it took at least 2 hours after starting to charge for the battery to warm up enough to start charging.

I have an inverter upgrade pending that will improve all of this, It's only charging at 1kw currently.

I assume this all means they have left their website to rot in favor of an app which I will never use.

interactions with new health insurance company have gone as follows:

- I have no id card, and the web page that they say contains a "digital id card" does not contain one (but has thing at the top saying "this page contains the digital id card").

- Trying to pay them results in a cgi error along the lines of "no ID parameter".

- Trying to contact support, on today, a weekday, results in "we are not available on weekends" (ok ok, it's MLK day)

Mom's birthday hike bird.

first #sourdough bake in a long time, 50/50 whole wheat. I forgot that white flour likes a lot less water than my usual 100% hydration so this was very challenging to shape and so I'm happy it turned out this well

baked between hot coals in the woodstove at 700F-500F

so begins phase 2 of solar install

what a way to end a day.. tractor trailer driver called an hour before sunset and we decided he should not attempt even the dead-end road my driveway is on, and so I hiked to the highway with a wheelbarrow to meet him there

caught a lift back to my driveway in a pickup truck and got everything hauled as far up as makes sense until the snow melts

freaking loot boxes

half mile difficulty level

waiting around for fedex in a 8 hour delivery window, snowy driveway edition, tractor trailer pallet load expansion pack