DAVENP0RT
My wife and I are moving to Central America next year. Once we get there, we’re going to be building a partially off-grid house: electricity from solar panels with on-grid fallback, water from a spring on the property, and solar water heating. We’re hoping we’ll be able to grow most of our own veggies and compost whatever we possibly can.
Unfortunately, we’ll need a gas-powered vehicle due to rough terrain and a severe lack of EV charging capabilities in the area. That being said, we don’t drive very often at all here in the US and I expect we’ll drive even less once we’re down there.
Could’ve used one of these yesterday. My father-in-law needed help mounting a TV and we couldn’t find a stud to save our lives. We eventually discovered that the wall had deep studs due to ½ inch chipboard in addition to the ¾ inch drywall. We literally start randomly hammering nails into the wall to find the studs, which led us to that discovery.
My favorite YouTube channel, hands down, would have to be Sampson Boat Co. It is chronicling the ongoing efforts by a young shipwright to rebuild and restore a 112 year old wooden sailing yacht named Tally Ho. Episodes come weekly/biweekly, the cinematography is fantastic, and the people involved in the project are extremely skilled. As a woodworking hobbyist myself, it’s magical seeing the things they’re capable of doing. And also, wooden boat building is infinitely more complex than I ever would have imagined…
I would highly recommend watching the playlist with the episodes in chronological order.
Not sure how it can be too much money, it’s literally free to use. There are ads, but there aren’t many and not obtrusive at all. I haven’t really noticed them. I’ll probably buy the pro version just to throw some money at the developer. Otherwise, I wouldn’t mind just using the free version.
The amount of time it takes for our US kettle to reach temperature is ridiculous. My wife and I have a kettle that I only really use when I make us a pot of tea. It takes about 5 minutes to bring a liter of water to a boil and it doesn’t get much better with less water. If I’m just making one cup, I’m just gonna put it in the microwave.
I’ve seriously considered getting a 220V outlet installed just for a proper kettle. We like our hot beverages, so I kinda think it would be worth it.
Sometimes, my wife and I will make a comment to each other that makes perfect sense between the two of us, but to outside observers sounds like absolute gibberish. When one of us realizes this, we’ll follow it up with, “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.” Then folks get really confused.
My wife was talking about this recently. She used to wake up at 5:30AM everyday, take a shower, blowdry her hair and style it, put on makeup, and prep her lunch by 7AM. Then she’d set out on her 1.5 hour commute to the office.
Once we started working from home, all of that extra time went to sleeping well and relaxing.
Atlanta as well. The frustrating thing is that Atlanta has MARTA, but the state refuses to fund it and MARTA’s answer for everything is to divert funds away from rail to bus lines. But then the degraded rail service means more people drive than ride trains, thereby increasing gridlock, which causes bus service to suffer. So then MARTA diverts funds away from rail to bus lines…