I can’t really tell you about your situation, but my wife and I did the math for our ROI on a set of roof mounted panels by assuming that the power company would continue raising rates. We averaged the delivery increases and generation cost increases over the number of years we had been in our home, then ran that annual increase over the lifespan of the panels. Rather than being a twelve year break even point it worked out to about seven. In our case, Maine has okay laws about net metering so check what your state and municipality’s regulations about it are. Look at your overall financial picture. If you can’t do it without a loan, shop for your own loan rather than just taking the installer’s.

To answer your question anecdotally, this past summer we were very happy to only pay our grid connection fee of $18 monthly while our neighbors complained about $300 (or higher) each month. You might not hit your full generation needs, but you might make enough of a dent to make it worth your investment

All is well, far less free time now than this time last year when she was sleeping for eighteen hours.

I’m glad it was better! Fwiw my wife and I did a bunch of eye rolling during the snack breaks and on the ride home from several of the classes.

Our kiddo is doing really well, we hit 1y4m last week - she has all teeth except her 2 year molars (tons of fun), is transitioning from two to one nap a day (tons of fun), and is doing her darndest to use words for things, which is actually fun.

That’s awful. We were lucky enough to take a course from a doula who worked out of the hospital system we did our birth care through. I still have all of our materials plus an unused code for an informational app, and would be more than happy to send you a little care package if that would help in any way

Changed up my whole approach to a writing project - I’m finally making progress again and being a little less down on myself as a result.

Planting perennials & daydreaming about next year’s veggie layout and rotation. Hearing “aren’t your feet cold?” because I wear sandals until there’s snow on the ground

That’s actually the handle for holding it while you eat. Far fewer stringy bits get in the way if you pinch the bottom of it and split the peel from that end

But that’s how I remember to Rest, Ice, Compress, and Elevate injuries

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Will give you this picture of me holding a goat

Who knew halos were that sharp!?

Fun fact: in the northeast US and eastern Canada, you can support their entire life cycle by planting tomatoes and Monarda spp together!

The last episode of Sliders had the main character and troupe finally make it back to their original dimension after 5 seasons - Quinn runs up to the gate at his mother’s house exclaiming that he knows this gate and it’s been squeaky forever, only to open it with no squeak. Demoralized, they all walk back into the dimensional gateway and leave. As the gateway closes, Quinn’s mother runs outside - calling to him that she finally got the gate fixed but nobody’s there anymore.

How is Sliders not the top of this list, let alone even on it? I haven’t seen the show since it went off air 25 years ago and that last scene and fade to black still haunts me to this day.

I’ve given two of these after having been asked to do so during the reception (twice!). So here’s some advice from an ad-libber, no bromance required:

Tell a story about you and your friend. Maybe it’s how you met, or an event that showed you that they were the kind of person you’d do this sort of thing for - either way, say something about this characteristic of your friend will help support their relationship with their partner. Try to fit in a joke about an annoying aspect of this positive trait that friends or family might have made in the past.

If you know the spouse well enough, tell a short story about them and why they’re a good partner for your friend. Drop a joke about how they’ll (finally) be the sensible one who will reign in the annoying aspect you joked about earlier.

Say something about how great they are as a team, and express a hope you have for the two of them as they start this new aspect of their lives. Tie it back to how they deserve great things because of the things you said earlier. If you wouldn’t be the person standing there giving that speech without your friend, say so - regardless of whether you decide to speak about being trans during this speech or not.

Remember that laughter is what happens when expectations are subverted in a surprising way, that everyone loves a good callback, and that groupings of three are more impactful, and you’ll do great.

Almost any time we’re mentioned as a state

Tbh I sometimes wake up with a crick in my neck and do this to work it out

I’m unable to view it using Sync, so it might not be the app.

They always do, in spite of me asking them to stay tiny and fluffy

Someone on the town crew was out with the boom flail mower, mowing on the sides of the road. Ostensibly, it’s to keep the drainage channels clear and to reduce plants from reaching out into the road. Guy mowed my entire front row of ferns, skipped some lilies, then mowed down my flowering and decorative grasses. At one point, he must have lifted the boom to avoid an Iris, but then brought it back down on another flowering grass in the middle of my front gardens. They’ll survive, but my front garden is going to look destroyed for a few weeks at least while they recover.

In more positive news, we had some friends and their son visit on Sunday. My wife took the other ladies around to walk in the gardens at one point while I was cooking - I found out later that we’re part of the inspiration for some folks who are looking to start a sober living space!

There are something like twelve common names in english, it was introduced to me as “oregano brujo” (wizard’s oregano). It’s most strongly oregano in its aerosol phenols but when I’ve used it in meals (usually in a slow cooker) it’s got notes of the thymol that come through.