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That important bag that we put into my checkin luggage βuntil we get to the airportββ¦itβs under the plane now. Oops. Hopefully thereβs no potty problems on the flight π¬
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Enjoying some Chinese bento on the Narita Express. βοΈπ«
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by JamesStarting our trip to Houston today. You can follow along on my Houston trip page.
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by JamesWe finished reading The BFG last night. Such a good book. Unrelated, I also now call flatulence whizzpopping.
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The Week #135
by James- Leo had a badge test at swimming. Last time he had a test, we missed half of the lessons for various reasons and he failed. He's been trying really hard since then. During practice directly before the test Eno-chan, the teacher, was praising him...and he passed! He's now an official owner of a a Jellyfish badge π. With this we could move him from the weekend class to weekdays class, so we'll now have 1 weekend day free, again.
- I had my first "viral toot" on Mastodon. It was about Ivory, the mastodon client from Tapbots, and also how I like how on this version of social media, we give cash to the people hosting and making the tools instead of data-mining privacy-invading advertising driven platforms.
- I put de-Turboing (and HTMXifing) the admin of Tanzawa on hold for a while. It's turning out to be a bigger chunk of work that doesn't lend itself to my usual 30 minutes -> hour in the mornings here and there development style. I also wanted to build make other tweaks to my blog that feel more important (recent photos on the homepage (β ), plugins need some re-working in a fly.io world, generating blogs from runs, better indieweb (or activity pub?) support, etc...).
- I generated my first cumulative megawatt hour (1,000 kWh) with my solar panels. I'm really looking forward to spring and summer when I can generate them at a much quicker rate.
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by JamesSince releasing the new top page on my site, I didn't like how my photos, which mostly come from me checking in somewhere, were hidden unless you were subscribed to my blog.
To fix this, I added a small image gallery like I used to have on my old blog years ago in college. It just shows the last 10 photos on my site. Might be fun to have a "randomize" button you could click to view more / different photos...A small gallery of my most recent photos -
π The Electric Shuffle
by JamesI can make some of my own electricity at home, but I canβt make my own gas. My point here is there are ways ordinary people can switch to healthier non gas cooking at a reasonable price point without engaging in institutional drama or politics.
As much as I hate my gas-stove for all of the reasons listed in the article and want to replace it β $3,000 or so (including upgrading electric in the kitchen) is a bit much right now. However, they make a good point about using smaller appliances to fill the gap. One could even use portal batteries / solar arrays to charge and cook off of them entirely off grid. Clever.
I reckon I could replace the majority of my gas range usage with a little portable 1 or 2 burner IH cooktop. When combined with my slow-cooker I bet we wouldn't even need to use the gas range at all...a $75 - $150 fix instead of a $3,000 fix to reduce carbon emissions and improve indoor air quality. Seems reasonable to me. They even make some with legs so they could fit in place of / over your gas range.- Tagged with
- co2
- induction
- cooking
- electrification
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Checkin to Ootoya (倧ζΈε±)
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Checkin to Single O Hamacho
My morning tap coffee. βοΈπ -
The Week #134
by James- After weeks of sunny clear winter weather, it's been cloudy and cold this week. Just in time for us to start a new billing cycling and for me to discover that my tariff calculation was wrong if usage was less than the max of the first tier. I fixed that bug and now I'm back to enjoying checking my savings page without having a heart attack at the cost.
- We've been planning a bit more for Leo's birthday party in the US. I was thinking Mario themed and literally the first image I see on Party City (a chain store in America that sells party supplies / balloons) is Mario birthday supplies. All of it is great and...surprisingly...not that expensive?
- Growing up I watched a great sitcom called That 70's Show about a bunch of bored teenagers doing things that teenagers did in the middle of nowhere. They rebooted the series with the original cast with a new show That 90's Show on Netflix and it's fantastic. I hadn't realized how much I missed Red, the hard-nosed dad.
