Sounds like a very cool set up. Adding a power wall (or batteries and gear to switch them) will make a huge difference. My roof doesn't qualify for government or power system help so I'm essentially screwed,

700 in 2 days? That's amazing. It takes me an hour to unbox a new machine. Granted there is a whole lot that doesn't need repetition on the 2nd or the 698th, but that is incredible. Thanks for sharing

I really didn't mean to cause you or anybody any distress. Truth be told I was taking a little poke at my friend @galenkp. Cause I could. As good as Sam would be with Jovi and Jovi with Sam notwithstanding,

Hey ya Sara. Thanks for a great photo essay. I'm really glad you got to go with your family and that the experience was good. To be honest, I'm a bit bummed at the water level, but glad you still had places

I'm not a child of the depression (about 20 years late) but I was raised by parents who were. I get the scarcity mentality. I changed headlight bulbs on my motorcycle yesterday. One was burned out so I

You guys are making sport of me, aren't you? It was 31C here today. For the low. It's brutal.

I don't think I'd tell anyone (certainly not everyone in a post) if I was running out of road. I'd just try to do as much as I could until I couldn't. I just got my first Notification on Friday. Thanks

The festival is next weekend. It's such a good place to eat. It is gross here. You have to plan and execute a hydration strategy to do anything. If you don't you are in serious trouble. My friend Erv was

Wow. Good on you. New knowledge is better than almost anything. Except getting in the right pair of pants, of course.

Around here at this time of year, a dead AC is not good. It's going to get down to 32C (88F) before the sun comes up. Barely. Everybody in this part of the world is waiting for the summer heat to break.

Damn Wes. Always good to see your smiling face. I'm glad to know that you are not completely hidden behind the wall of despair...

Well, now I'm jealous. If I hadn't read ahead to MeesterBoom's reply I'd think I am the only macro dipshit left. So. Is your secret to just keep trying or did you actually figure something out? Enquiring

Yeah. I am a macro maggot when it comes time. So much so that I rarely try-no, make that I rarely have anything usable as a result of my attempts. My newish phone has a macro lens and I seem able to screw

Ahahahahahaha. Gotcha! Generally, when Sam has gastric distress it means he has to fart. He comes to me and likes his head scratched until he does the deed. Nothing good comes of an audible dog fart.

Yeah. I seem to vaguely recall once or twice :)

Ahahahahaqha. I love it when a plan comes together.

I was literally dumbfounded. I'd ridden quite a ways (250 miles) and suffered more than a little angst and this guy told me that with a straight face. Seriously. I did a quick calculation of my bank balance

I was really unprepared for the crush of people in the Sierra around Tahoe. It was like an ant hill and I was 50 miles from the lake. Crazy. Just crazy. I pulled off the highway a few times. Once between

Well, I don't normally give up on stuff in general, and living fits into that picture. I'd go on. As I travel about I look at things and places with a 'this would (or wouldn't) be a great place to survive'

Exactly that, the frog in the boiling water. Or dream sequence. I was befuddled in an area I'd thought I knew fairly well. The flapper is the ball valve that moves when you pull the handle. Toilet volume