Over here in New Zealand we're just about out of daylight savings time
and soon to put the clocks back an hour at the end of the coming week.

Thanks for the daylight!

And, yeah, here in Germany we just set the clocks an hour ahead. I'm not happy about having to get up an hour earlier, but I am pretty happy that it's 7p and the sun hasn't set, yet.

It's a four day working week this week and next with Easter in the
middle.

I'm also looking forward to Revision, which is the Easter demo party. So I've taken off the Thursday and Tuesday as well.

Still lots of things to do for the event, but I'm glad that my 500-line ANSI salute to 19 films that entered the US public domain this year is at least to, "first draft done", if still a ways from being finished.

I'm also trying to decide on a photo to enter.

And also trying to prep juggling things (I have a new three-person pattern to try, if possible), and maybe possibly try something with code for either light up juggling balls (the documentation is... not much, and there's no API) or my WowCube that I basically never use, but seems like there should be _something_ neat that is possible.

Sunday night as I type this... really should get some sleep soon but
it's been fun tapping away at the keyboard tonight :)

I'm glad you're able to spend a bit of time with the hobby, and hopefully you're catching up decently well.

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On 29 Mar 2026 at 03:08a, Al pondered and said...

Good, and I hope it's going good for you as well. :)

It's been an interesting couple of months. We signed a build contract in early Feb and had hoped to have plans into our city council building department by now so we can obtain building consent... at this stage the company we've employed to develop the plans, arrange consent and the build the home have yet to submit the plans into council :(

So in short it feels like things are dragging and we're not as far down the track of the project as I would have liked to have been. We will chase up the company (again) next week... wish us luck!

We just sprung ahead a couple weeks ago. I hear that here in BC we are going to stick with daylight saving time and are not going to be
switching back and forth anymore. I welcome that news.

sounds good, it's a topic that comes up over here from time to time also. So far no change.

I am retired now. I always thought that when I retired I would have time on my hand but that is not the case!

I keep hearing that, it will be my turn to do the same in a few years (less now that I keep thinking there are!)

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On 29 Mar 2026 at 09:18a, The Wanderer pondered and said...

How's things with getting settled in?

we're settled in, but it's only temporary for about a year or so, until a home we're getting built is finished... but as you may have read in another reply it seems to be slow to get started :(

We installed solar on our house at the end of October, and I've been waiting for a perfectly clear day ever since (it was an extremely dark
and gloomy winter). Things are brighter now, but still waiting for what almost seems like a mythical day now. That said, we've been net pushing power to the grid for most of the past 10 days or so now, so things are definitely moving in the right direction.

how many panels did you opt to go with and what sort of inverter / battery setup?

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So in short it feels like things are dragging and we're not as far down the track of the project as I would have liked to have been. We will chase up the company (again) next week... wish us luck!

I hope things start moving in the right direction for you.

We just sprung ahead a couple weeks ago. I hear that here in BC we are
going to stick with daylight saving time and are not going to be
switching back and forth anymore. I welcome that news.

sounds good, it's a topic that comes up over here from time to time also. So far no change.

I would have prefered if they stuck with standard time but I am glad there will be no more back and forth.

I am retired now. I always thought that when I retired I would have time
on my hand but that is not the case!

I keep hearing that, it will be my turn to do the same in a few years (less now that I keep thinking there are!)

It is true. A am busy as hell now, in a good way but busy as hell. :)

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Re: Re: Hey there
By: Avon to The Wanderer on Fri Apr 24 2026 02:28 pm

How's things with getting settled in?

we're settled in, but it's only temporary for about a year or so, until a home we're getting built is finished... but as you may have read in another reply it seems to be slow to get started :(

Uh oh - I did read the other message and I hope delays don't drive up the cost of things for you. I get very tired of dealing with unresponsive businesses - it must be so nice to be so busy and have such money that one doesn't need to respond to (potential) customers!

We installed solar on our house at the end of October, and I've been

how many panels did you opt to go with and what sort of inverter / battery setup?

We have a 13KW system - 26 500W panels with 13 little inverters, no battery - the power utility is treated like the battery.

Since my last message, we've finally had some sun and I'm watching us catch up on generation from under-production during winter. We've generated 4x as much power as we've used so far in April, but that's only a surplus of around 750KWh so far.

But, as our weather gets warmer and the days keep getting longer, I think the system is likely to do everything we want it to do.

Having no more methane bill and what will amount to a $0 electric bill will be pretty nice for the next several months.
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