The Week #83

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  • The same as Michael, we had an outbreak of covid amongst family,  so Leo's school closed all week.  It's re-opened now, let's hope it stays that way. Winter break just never ends for this boy 😅.
  • I finished watching Generation 56k, it was really enjoyable. I was disappointed it was only 6 episodes long to start. I'm looking forward to Season 2.
  • So far I'm keeping pace with my goal of 100 runs in 2022. In January I ran 9 times for a total of 40km. My recent focus has been to run slower and keep my heart rate down, which is proving more difficult than anticipated. But just letting myself slowdown has made running more enjoyable.
  • I've made some more small contributions to indieweb-utils this week. James and I seem to be in a bit of a groove timezone wise. I'll send my reviews/PRs in the morning before work while he's winding down/sleeping. And he typically responds / handles them while I'm winding/down sleeping. And still the project moves forward.
  • DHH wrote a good post about  We can't live without friction, about how the friction is a great filter. It's important to remember this because of the years of engineering frictionless reactions to things in social media is a large part why it can be such a cesspool (my words, not his).

    For a few days I was thinking it might be fun to add a comments form to Tanzawa posts, so I could perhaps replicate the communities that used to form around a given blog. Where your blog would connect not just you and a reader, but your readers, too. I think I'm going to let that stew for a bit longer, and perhaps add an email link in my footer for non-webmention responses.
  • I started looking at the quotes we got for solar panels and a battery again, mostly for two reasons:
    1. Disaster preparedness. We're overdue for a big quake in the Kanto area. Having a stable, rechargable power supply would be really nice if the power was cut because of it and remove a lot of stress. The battery is small enough (6.5kWh) that we'd still need to conserve electricity, but we wouldn't be in the dark or without heat.
    2. 2.6kWh is a small system. And based on the generation estimates it would only ever produce about half of our usage during fall/winter. We might get a few months in early summer where it can cover all of our usage. Post-lunch dishwasher runs would be "free". But it's more about the feeling I get when I come back from walking Sophie and the sun shines down on my house: that feeling of missed opportunity.
    I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but it's back on my radar. Again.
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