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by JamesMy house is now putting green electrons into the gridΒ (when itβs not using or storing them) πβ‘οΈ. Kinda cloudy today, though.
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The Week #120
by James- What a week. PyCon JP was held over the weekend and Kraken had a booth. I've been help coordinate and did the final setup of the booth before day-1 and it was a lot of fun. Besides working the booth, telling people about Kraken, what we do, and that we're hiring, I also got to chat with a number of former co-workers. I also got to meet an old teammate that I'd never met in person before, though we worked together for about a year.
A co-worker and me workin the booth - On Saturday we went camping for the first time with some friends in Nishi-Tanzawa. This too was heaps of fun and I look forward to going again.Β We had a bit of bad luck with our location because it was mostly covered in rocks. I learned two very important lessons with this trip: the pegs and hammer included aren't worth the plastic they're made of and sometimes you need to muscle things together.
The river along the campsite
The plastic pegs and hammer issue was mostly (I believe) a bad luck of the draw for location. It was non-stop rocks so everywhere I'd try to put the peg I'd get rock. Eventually I found it worked better to dig a bit, clear the rocks and continue. Was it the "right" thing? Not sure, but it worked. So next on my list things to buy for camping is some proper steel pegs and a heavy / fat hammer for getting them into the ground.Β I also learned that Workman, a store that specializes in work-wear and such in Japan, also has camping gear. Coleman steel pegs were about Β₯400 each last I saw them, and they're about Β₯100 from workman. Doable. ( I just checked their site and they have some that you can screw into the ground....seems very convenient,Β but I'm not bringing my drill-gun β feels like cheating.)
The other lesson was that, when building the dome of our tents that you're not going to break it when bending the dome to get the roof in place. I think we maybe bought too much tent (a 2-dome tent), but I reckon we're going to always want to some kind of shade to hang out in when we're not sleeping, so it saves us from building 2 different things.
The mountains and river were beautiful. Definitely looking forward to a second trip, maybe in spring. - A year after starting our initial quote requests and 7 months after signing a contract, we finally got our solar and battery installed! As of this writing it's still not 100% finished β everything is installed, but I think there's still a bit of work to do around the breakers.
When we discussed the layout of the panels, they'd said that the panels would come to the very edge of the roof β and they weren't lying. This is only possible because Sharp makes non-rectangular panels. I'll make a separate post my panels when they're all hooked up and running.Panels right to the edge of the roof
- What a week. PyCon JP was held over the weekend and Kraken had a booth. I've been help coordinate and did the final setup of the booth before day-1 and it was a lot of fun. Besides working the booth, telling people about Kraken, what we do, and that we're hiring, I also got to chat with a number of former co-workers. I also got to meet an old teammate that I'd never met in person before, though we worked together for about a year.
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Checkin to Wellcamp Nishi Tanzawa (γ¦γ§γ«γγ£γ³γθ₯ΏδΈΉζ²’)
Camping with the family for the first time. ποΈ -
by JamesI originally learned about Nude Foods in this video about shopping plastic free. I wish we had one here in Yokohama. So. Much. Plastic.
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The Week #119
by James- This week was Leo's "play day" (what they call undoukai/field day in pre-school). This year I had to help set things up a bit as a "dad volunteer", but truth be told, we didn't do much, we just help hang the banners that spread across the field.
When Leo woke up that day he told Mom that he's going to do his best. And when he didn't win, he looked to us and said "I did my best!", with a look of confidence on his face. During the x meter dash he didn't get discouraged and walk halfway through like last year. Instead, he just look ahead and ran. The dance that his class performed was also really good and he nailed it.
The tug of war was a nail biter as his class was at a natural disadvantage because they ere down a man. Each of the 4 teams got two rounds. His class lost the first round. After a long struggle in the second round, it looked like they were going to loose the second round too, but then they got a second wind and tugged their way to victory and 3rd place over-all.
Being down a man also affected the relay (oldest class only) because the kid that was out was in the top grade, so another kid in had to run twices. Their teacher picked the kid in soccer club who is really fast and they came out on top!
Another week and I am privileged to say I'm super proud of Leo and his effort on sports day β even if he didn't win, he did his best and had a positive attitude throughout. - James made a release of indieweb-utils v0.3.1. I helped do some code review for it and rearranged the docs a bit. Hats off to James on his hard work on the project!
- We're releasing a thing at work next week, so I started playing with it a bit as an excuse to fiddle with Rich, a python library for "rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal", as I've been meaning to for a while.
I like the library a lot so far. I need to fiddle more so I can figure out how to make it interactive, if it's possible. Like ncurses, but less 90's. So what did I make? I made a little program that, when given a date range will fetch your usage and do some calculations.September usage
This is all in python, so I think it might be fun to integrate into my blog somehow. Maybe a chart of monthly electric usage? Or my daily usage (for the previous day) an arrow indicating if it was up, down, or the same? What do you think?
- This week was Leo's "play day" (what they call undoukai/field day in pre-school). This year I had to help set things up a bit as a "dad volunteer", but truth be told, we didn't do much, we just help hang the banners that spread across the field.
