OT - What are you doing right now?

nolaegghead

We just got our highest 'lectric bill yet this year.  $250

We generate about $100 per month with solar, so it jives with pre-solar summer bills in the $350 range.

Small house but no insulation except attic because it's almost 100 years old, shop is fully insulated, but 24k btu window unit...

nolaegghead

6 probe digital food thermometer on Woot!

https://home.woot.com/offers/tenergy-solis-digital-meat-thermometer-2

thetrim

Installing a hitch 

fishlessman

rich guys with ac's

SonVolt

Anyone remember that flick The Mosquito Coast? My AC’s powered by the heat and smoke of my Egg. 

tarheelmatt

NC_Egghead said:

Fried collards are on the menu and will be consumed. 

Went there last year and was able to meet Vivan.  Such a nice experience there.  

Be careful, there's some on here that don't like Vivian.  

saluki2007

nolaegghead said:

We just got our highest 'lectric bill yet this year.  $250

We generate about $100 per month with solar, so it jives with pre-solar summer bills in the $350 range.

Small house but no insulation except attic because it's almost 100 years old, shop is fully insulated, but 24k btu window unit...

What brand are your panels?  I just had a company come out to my house and give me an estimate.  Another one should be coming in the next week or so.  Is there a reason you didn't try and get 100% pay back?

GATraveller

I'm beginning to develop strong feelings about the Buffalo. 

nolaegghead

saluki2007 said:

nolaegghead said:

We just got our highest 'lectric bill yet this year.  $250

We generate about $100 per month with solar, so it jives with pre-solar summer bills in the $350 range.

Small house but no insulation except attic because it's almost 100 years old, shop is fully insulated, but 24k btu window unit...

What brand are your panels?  I just had a company come out to my house and give me an estimate.  Another one should be coming in the next week or so.  Is there a reason you didn't try and get 100% pay back?

SunPower panels.  I'm not sure what you mean by 100% payback, but we got a $25K system, after tax rebates it cost us $5K (Louisiana had the best state rebate for a while, it's over now).  We have almost broken even assuming $0.09 kw/hr.  We have net metering.  One half of our roof is facing south and is unobstructed.  We installed the maximum amount of panels on it (some rules because we're in a historical district decreased the number because of street offset).   The north facing roof would be too inefficient and my shop is in a shadow from too many trees to make it worth it.

Our winter bills are very small, but gas bill goes up.  95% efficient furnace helps too.

Sea2Ski

Sitting in the Anchorage airport 2 hours waiting for a shuttle. Just saw a non-neutered pit bull the size of a horse with a head bigger than a bears has come out of its crate and tackle the owner and kiss her face whimpering.  Was kinda cute actually.

frazzdaddy

Running around town procuring items for swmbo's birthday weekend.

SamIAm2

Late lunch - leftovers.

SamIAm2

lkapigian

      @nolaegghead people that away here in CA dont think I have paid a dime in years and always have plenty in the humidor 

great app right here https://weedmaps.com/app

WeberWho

Someone liked my parking spot when I was leaving Lowes today. The only problem was that she realized it a little too late. She put her car in reverse and smacked the other car behind her. She of course starts yelling at the other car behind her that she just hit. "Youz be following me to close"

You can't even make this stuff up. Than the lady apologizes to me for boxing me in. I stuck around just to make sure nothing escalated. They seemed civil and no cops were called. Both parties left peacefully.

Botch

Got the Saab fixed.  New seatbelt linkages are no longer being made, this shop had an extra used one laying around and installed that.  Already had replaced an ignition module that, according to the paperwork, was the last one in North America (and that was 3 years ago).  One of these times it won't be fixable anymore, but with a KBB trade-in value of $829, I'll just keep driving it until that happens.  

nolaegghead

Botch said:

Got the Saab fixed.  New seatbelt linkages are no longer being made, this shop had an extra used one laying around and installed that.  Already had replaced an ignition module that, according to the paperwork, was the last one in North America (and that was 3 years ago).  One of these times it won't be fixable anymore, but with a KBB trade-in value of $829, I'll just keep driving it until that happens.  

I think the "Live fast" part of your signature line begs the purchase of a midlife crisis mobile.  Life is to short to spend it waiting at the shop.

DoubleEgger

nolaegghead said:

Botch said:

Got the Saab fixed.  New seatbelt linkages are no longer being made, this shop had an extra used one laying around and installed that.  Already had replaced an ignition module that, according to the paperwork, was the last one in North America (and that was 3 years ago).  One of these times it won't be fixable anymore, but with a KBB trade-in value of $829, I'll just keep driving it until that happens.  

I think the "Live fast" part of your signature line begs the purchase of a midlife crisis mobile.  Life is to short to spend it waiting at the shop.

Time to get out your cot and head over to the Range Rover dealer. 

nolaegghead

DoubleEgger said:

nolaegghead said:

Botch said:

Got the Saab fixed.  New seatbelt linkages are no longer being made, this shop had an extra used one laying around and installed that.  Already had replaced an ignition module that, according to the paperwork, was the last one in North America (and that was 3 years ago).  One of these times it won't be fixable anymore, but with a KBB trade-in value of $829, I'll just keep driving it until that happens.  

I think the "Live fast" part of your signature line begs the purchase of a midlife crisis mobile.  Life is to short to spend it waiting at the shop.

Time to get out your cot and head over to the Range Rover dealer. 

That would result in more time a the shop.  Maybe an NSX (Hondas are reliable, I hear).

dharley

fishlessman said:

looking at my energy report and wondiring how i used 5 percent more this year

You used 57% less energy than your efficient neighbors. Great Good Using more than average

You     190 kWh   Efficient Neighbors     440 kWh   All Neighbors     794 kWh   Jun 6, 2018 - Jul 5, 2018 This comparison is based on approx. 90 nearby homes that are most similar to yours. Learn more.

Track your progress So far this year, you’ve used 5% more than last year.

I just checked mine. 5% more as well. I'm a licensed HVAC contractor. I have a 16 SEER, two stage three ton heat pump with a 96% two stage variable speed natural gas backup. All controlled by a wifi smart system, and I live in MICHIGAN. Since I got my egg, I cook over charcoal at least three nights per week. I think something is screwy here. 

nolaegghead

Friday afternoon curse:  Why does something always break on Friday afternoon?  I was ready to call it quits when all of a sudden 35,000 users lost permissions to half of the web portal.

Anyway, got it fixed, but JFC, this created by one of the other developers probably thinking they were in a test system.

SonVolt

SharePoint?

alaskanassasin

Birthday today! 

nolaegghead

alaskanassasin said:

Birthday today! 

Git some good steaks!!

nolaegghead

(assuming that is a powerful broiler/salamander)

PS - like your shop, post more pics

blasting

lkapigian said:

      @nolaegghead people that away here in CA dont think I have paid a dime in years and always have plenty in the humidor 

great app right here https://weedmaps.com/app

Here leafly is more popular,  or so I'm told.

nolaegghead

SonVolt said:

SharePoint?

Nope.  We don't use no stinkin' Microsoft products.

SonVolt

Was about to say. We use SharePoint as our Corp portal where pissing off 35,000 users on a Friday afternoon sounds like a typical day in the office. 

TEXASBGE2018

nolaegghead said:

SonVolt said:

SharePoint?

Nope.  We don't use no stinkin' Microsoft products.

Qlikview?

ColtsFan

Trying to decide if I like this setup for the Jr. Feels tall/awkward