Twitter seems like it's being driven into the ground. The good news is that the people I follow there are starting to (or already were and I've just noticed) using Mastodon. I've made an effort to to start filling out my profile. You can follow at @jamesvandyne@indieweb.social. Thus far I'm really liking it. It feels like the internet before it all became siloed into 3 websites Twitter/Insta/FB.
I added graphs to Sunbottle. Right now I can see today's generation vs yesterday's generation, which is fun to compare. I've thought about maybe adding my battery storage levels, or buying / selling kWh, but going to keep it simple for now. Getting a Django project up on fly.io makes me want to try and get my blog/Tanzawa on there as well, so I can stop running my own server.
Thursday was Culture Day. In the spirit of the holiday, Leo said he wanted to visit Ikea. So we went and celebrated Swedish culture and ate meat plantballs. We picked up a couple of those 3-teir carts to help organize the washroom and to keep from piling stuff on the dining table (we can pile it in the cart instead! 🤣)
I'd been wanting to visit Kua'aina for a week or so, but I didn't tell anybody. It's been a while and their burgers are really good. Sunday, Leo woke up and said he wanted to visit the Aquarium with me. Whenever we visit the aquarium, we always visit Kua'aina. Two birds with one stone! Great minds think alike! All the phrases!
After the aquarium / lunch, we went for a walk on the beach and Leo played a bit in the water. It really is fun to just go and hangout with him. It's gotten a lot easier as he's gotten older, too because we can chat / he uses to toilet / mostly feeds himself. I know I'll miss these days when he's older/busier, so for now I'm just trying to soak it all up. Autumn beach days
Since I've started running almost everyday it a) (oddly) seems more sustainable and b) puts me within spitting distance of hitting my 100 runs for the year.
I released Sunbottle, the name gave to my solar generation/usage collector, as open source and have put it up at solar.jamesvandyne.com. My co-workers gave me some good ideas for different things I could calculate e.g. including the carbon intensity of the grid at the time and so forth. I might make a small API so I can include some data on my homepage as well.
It was Halloween! This year I actually stumbled upon a proper carving pumpkin in my neighborhood. Leo drew the face on the pumpkin and I did the carving as I couldn't find the little kid-friendly carving knifes you can find in the US.
We're slowly starting to graduate from animation-only movies to more story/live actions movies. We watched a Hocus Pocus as our first Halloween movie. Leo didn't find it scary at all, which was good.
Saturday was a rare Saturday where we didn't have anything scheduled or planned. We decided to take it easy and take Leo to ride his bike at the park next to sakai-gawa. When we lived in Texas, we used to bring Sophie with us all sorts of places (we also didn't have a kid). I feel a bit guilty that we can't do that as much here, so we brought her with us as well and she was all smiles and sparkly eyes.
I sent in my ballot for the 2022 mid-term election in the US. As I live abroad without a determined return date, Texas only allows me to vote in federal elections i.e. I have no say in the governor race. I understand the logic and mostly don't mind, except this year, I'd like to vote for Beto. This year I can only vote for my congressperson and as my district is gerrymandered the likelihood of my guy winning is slim-to-none.
Speaking of elections Lula won the Brazilian presidential election. I'd been trying not to read too much about it to avoid disappointment in the case where he lost. Certainly a win for the Amazon and by extension, the rest of humanity.
