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I went to the salon today and got my hair done.
I forgot to attend the coordination meeting on zoom today, and apparently I missed the battery backup proposal. I talked to the architect about it; it was hilariously overkill but I just said again what we’ve been saying for a while: we want some batteries, and then size the generator as small as possible for the long winter power outage possibility. But then I sat down and thought about the “three container sized battery” proposal for a 3 day winter power outage and look around at what I thought the power requirements of the house might be and I completely lost my shit because it _looks_ like they are basically just proposing batteries sized to replace the amount that comes in on the electrical service which is insane, because it, too, is hilariously overkill.
So I called the architect and said, look, if anyone really thinks that this is the kind of power we need for three days in the winter, we are stopping the entire project because I’m not on board with building a house that needs that much energy. And inevitably, no, if it wasn’t sized for the total service, it was at least sized for sustained peak load on all systems which is _insane_. Whatever. We’ll kick it down the road and do batteries + generator and if we literally will never need the generator apparently those things have decent resale value.
I had a nice walk with M.
I had a great phone call with A. She started a MW class, so we’ve moved from M to T. Normally, I _should_ have a call with K. on Tuesdays, altho those are canceled more often than not. She got some really sad news today so was not up to a call; maybe we’ll chat later in the week.
Last night I had a long phone call with S. her ex boyfriend has turned out to be considerably more awful than I had suspected. When I met him about a year ago, I was not super enthusiastic about him; he fell into the “seems nice” category. I certainly hadn’t picked up on this level of Bad, but of course it was chatting at kids birthday party at a climbing gym type operation so the charisma necessary to be just awful as a cheater is more than enough to come across as “seems nice” in a loud environment. My major takeaway at the time was that he seemed an awful lot like C.’s ex B, but I think that wasn’t quite the right read, honestly. S. and I planned another call on Thursday. It really sucked when I was devastated from the breakup in 1999 and my friends got really sick of hearing me talk about it, so it honestly feels healing to be the person to listen to S. now.
I forgot to attend the coordination meeting on zoom today, and apparently I missed the battery backup proposal. I talked to the architect about it; it was hilariously overkill but I just said again what we’ve been saying for a while: we want some batteries, and then size the generator as small as possible for the long winter power outage possibility. But then I sat down and thought about the “three container sized battery” proposal for a 3 day winter power outage and look around at what I thought the power requirements of the house might be and I completely lost my shit because it _looks_ like they are basically just proposing batteries sized to replace the amount that comes in on the electrical service which is insane, because it, too, is hilariously overkill.
So I called the architect and said, look, if anyone really thinks that this is the kind of power we need for three days in the winter, we are stopping the entire project because I’m not on board with building a house that needs that much energy. And inevitably, no, if it wasn’t sized for the total service, it was at least sized for sustained peak load on all systems which is _insane_. Whatever. We’ll kick it down the road and do batteries + generator and if we literally will never need the generator apparently those things have decent resale value.
I had a nice walk with M.
I had a great phone call with A. She started a MW class, so we’ve moved from M to T. Normally, I _should_ have a call with K. on Tuesdays, altho those are canceled more often than not. She got some really sad news today so was not up to a call; maybe we’ll chat later in the week.
Last night I had a long phone call with S. her ex boyfriend has turned out to be considerably more awful than I had suspected. When I met him about a year ago, I was not super enthusiastic about him; he fell into the “seems nice” category. I certainly hadn’t picked up on this level of Bad, but of course it was chatting at kids birthday party at a climbing gym type operation so the charisma necessary to be just awful as a cheater is more than enough to come across as “seems nice” in a loud environment. My major takeaway at the time was that he seemed an awful lot like C.’s ex B, but I think that wasn’t quite the right read, honestly. S. and I planned another call on Thursday. It really sucked when I was devastated from the breakup in 1999 and my friends got really sick of hearing me talk about it, so it honestly feels healing to be the person to listen to S. now.