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2024-06-24 23:58:04

I had reason to briefly be on LinkedIn today and I can confirm it is hell.

2024-04-17 20:40:40

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Day 1 complete. That old meter can will hang there until we get inspected and PEPCO comes out to transfer to the new service line.
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2024-04-17 16:05:11

😱😱😱
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2024-04-17 14:29:39

The electricians have arrived. None are attractive. Womp womp.

2024-04-17 04:17:50

If you were wondering how it’s going on Threads…
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2024-04-16 04:30:39

I get what “The Regime” was trying to do but it just didn’t hit the mark for me.

2024-04-16 04:25:34

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Yeah the scheduling just ended up being nutty. I’ll make Rick deal with the new floor install ins couple of weeks. 😂

2024-04-16 04:05:13

The rest of this week is going to be … something.
Tomorrow: painters coming to finish the outdoor work
Wednesday: electrical heavy up
Thursday and Friday: EV charger and induction range outlet install
All while negotiating the car lease for pickup on Saturday. Rick is out of town. 🙃🙃🙃

2024-04-15 18:46:37

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Indeed, that one is irksome. I get app updates almost daily and that unpins it from the taskbar too. But it doesn’t chew through CPU and memory on my comically underpowered work laptop anymore so I’ll take the trade off.

2024-04-15 18:41:10

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New Teams has its quirks but it’s way better than Old Teams IMO.

2024-04-15 14:08:01

Mister Tax Man took his money right on schedule today 😭😭😭

2024-04-14 23:36:56

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A bit more than $250 a month all in for 24 months. And the lease buyout price is reasonable at the end. These cars don’t qualify for the EV tax credit at purchase but leased ones do.

2024-04-14 23:34:35

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Yep. Gonna take that cash for the down payment on the lease and all the electrical work we’re doing rather than using home equity.

2024-04-14 23:27:32

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I mean it’s a 2016 in great shape with 32,500 miles on it… and they’re offering $13,400. We paid just a hair over $18,000 for it eight years ago.

2024-04-14 22:12:49

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Carvana is all set to come buy our old Honda Fit for a ridiculous price on April 30. If all goes well we’ll be road tripping to Connecticut in the new Kona in a couple of weeks!

2024-04-14 22:11:44

Test drove the Kona Electric today with the “by the grace of God” salesman. Loved it loved it loved it. A different dealer who’s been a pleasure to deal with over text is going to have the Blue one for us next week and we’ll get all the paperwork moving for the lease and hopefully just pick it up next Saturday.
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2024-04-13 16:20:18

By God’s grace 🙃
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2024-04-11 23:51:31

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Close to 10 years ago I was helping to decommission a cage at one of my customers’ data centers and found a rack of Windows 2000 servers that someone had “forgotten about” with uptimes in excess of 1500 days. Blessedly the network guy had really excellent backups and we were able to determine that he removed the routes to them years earlier, so they were just sitting there sucking up power for no good reason…

2024-04-11 23:05:04

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WINDOWS WHAT

2024-04-09 16:45:44

Me: sends an email with a list of questions to a car dealer, asking them to please reply to my email with their answers.
Car dealer: calls 15 times; leaves three voicemails. Finally emails back with a one line “when can you come in?”

2024-04-08 20:06:58

Two year lease of a Hyundai Kona EV for $199/month 🤔

2024-04-07 05:21:24

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💪🏻
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2024-04-07 05:20:32

Three months of crushing it. So proud of myself.
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2024-04-04 05:07:58

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5 days per pay period, so in practice it’s two or three times per week. This week is just two… and I’ve only been in one so far 🫠🫠🫠

2024-04-04 05:05:36

Boomer says night night
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2024-04-04 04:34:34

Office days feel so long how did I do this five days a week in the before times?

2024-04-03 18:31:28

Oh, hello new Samsung Bespoke induction range design 😍
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2024-04-03 04:04:49

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I’m disappointed we’re not trenching the conduit to the back for the EVSE because budget, but I’m hopeful they can run it along the back of the fence in such a way that we won’t really see it. Our neighbors have a chain link fence up against ours, so I’m going to have to ask them if the electricians can access the back of our fence through their yard, but they’re super nice so I doubt it will be a problem.

2024-04-03 00:38:38

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I still really don’t understand the problem this was trying to solve.

2024-04-02 19:46:46

✅ Electrical heavy-up, panel upgrade, induction range and EV charger circuit install scheduled
✅ Contract secured to fix and paint some cracked stucco and concrete, and replace warping fence pickets
✅ Scheduled in-home consult to replace 2nd floor carpeting
✅ Orville Peck tickets purchased
💸 💸 💸 💸

2024-04-01 21:18:26

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Yeah, but like… is there really *that* big of a risk buying a 2023 model year with only 8K miles on it, even if it was a rental?

2024-04-01 20:17:44

So many KIA EV6s on Carvana that were rental cars…

2024-03-30 18:08:43

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Just thanking the Gods that RHEL didn’t pick up the updated xz code.

2024-03-29 20:26:14

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Haha the whole “Chloe” series of videos is pretty funny

2024-03-29 20:23:00

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Jars of Clay because that’s what we used to listen to in Catholic Youth Group Easter retreats, and Chloe Sevigny because of this: https://youtu.be/WmC4HjCJ-8g?si=k7IFYKTYfjvlUYAS

2024-03-29 20:12:50

Easter weekend always makes me think of Chloe Sevigny and Jars of Clay.

2024-03-29 20:12:03

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He’s got them DSLs 😛

2024-03-27 20:59:08

Oh I am very excited for the new organization features in #HomeAssistant 2024.4… https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/03/27/release-20244/
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2024-03-27 16:44:54

I am so much happier at this job, and I’m only three days in.

2024-03-26 19:56:56

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Is this his first experience with health insurance? 😬

2024-03-26 15:06:37

This whole thing is completely nuts. The bridge just… crumbled. https://mastodon.social/@davemark/112161958738683364

2024-03-26 14:27:12

My #ebike charging automation seems to have worked well last night… it cuts off after the charger is drawing less than 20 watts for 1 hour. Great peace of mind for overnight charging!
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2024-03-25 22:25:40

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We’ll see. The $1000 DC tax credit is subject to available funds so I’d hate to lose out on it.

2024-03-25 22:16:15

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We have a long, skinny yard with quite a slope, so I suspect the trenching will not be cheap either. Need to decide if this is something we should do now while we’re having the other work done, or wait until we actually have an EV.

2024-03-25 21:24:40

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Yeah, it’s about 80 feet. And that doesn’t include the cost of the trench.

2024-03-25 19:14:10

Oof. Electricians are expensive.
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2024-03-25 19:13:49

T-Mobile’s service has always been marginal in my work building and now I’m in an interior basement office, so it’s even worse. Added a 15 day trial eSIM for Visible to my phone and it’s much better. Will have to see if it’s worth $25/mo for me.

2024-03-25 18:24:16

My new office came with a really nasty couch… 🤮🤮
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2024-03-23 18:54:32

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Haha I’m pan-protocol. Innovelli switched from Z-Wave to Zigbee, which is why I have Zigbee devices at all. This is their ceiling fan controller.

2024-03-23 18:41:04

Before and after. A much better use of space in my office to have the acoustic and lighter ebike hanging on the rack, and my slightly heavier ebike parked underneath.
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2024-03-23 17:26:20

Two Shelly 1PMs mounted in a box for my ebike charging station. I’ll use Home Assistant to automate cutting off the power to the chargers when they approach full, to reduce the risk of a battery fire.
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2024-03-23 15:58:04

Zigbee and Z-Wave in the same switch box 😱
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2024-03-21 21:30:22

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Yeah but the way this meters things is different and I’m going to have to set up a whole bunch of template sensors to get it to work the way I want 🤓

2024-03-21 20:55:29

Don’t do this at home, kids.
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2024-03-21 18:08:31

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The cynic in me thinks they were waiting for the EU to rule and see what Apple’s response was - and now they’re just doing a “hey, me too!”