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If I could make a inter-hemisphere travel portal, I'd just sneak in at night and help myself to all the strawberries you will have soon

As of this minute, I'm going outside to get some strawberries.

I love home grown strawberries.

I find the idea of solar in Washington state kind of odd. A micro hydro turbine would probably do more for you. If you have enough drop on your property (50 ft) and enough battery storage, you don't even need a dam.

Actually, it apparently works pretty well. Well, except for the trees.

The correction factor they use for calculating annual watt-hours for this area is 1.1 -- in other words, a 10KW array of panels will supply 11KW of power annually.

That does not sound like much. Do you mean kilowatt hours? I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers. I sell solar panels, and am quite geeky as you know too, but I have never seen or used the term "Correction Factor." San Diego county has the highest density of solar panels in the United States, so perhaps such terms aren't needed here

We're you referring to temperature correction? Solar panels work a little better when they are cool, but more solar radiation is definately better than a colder panel. Don't get me wrong, I love solar. I just think that it is not the answer everywhere. There are a plethora of green energy alternatives, and solar might be of limited value in an area known for low cost power, and little sunlight. Cogeneration on your rocket mass heater would give you power when you need it the most.

Yeah, I meant KWH, sorry. I don't know the correct term for the multiplier they use. It's for calculating the size of the array needed to supply the desired amount of power, and takes into account the average sunlight hours per year for the geographical area.

I never was good with buzzwords. I tended to make up my own descriptors, even when I was an up-to-date geek. Many of them involved the term "thingy."

My Gbaby and I were driving today...well, actually *I* was driving, and she was "widing in Gwamma's twuck," when she started singing "You Are My Sunshine." I've sung it to her since she was a baby (she's 2 1/2), and today for the first time she suddenly started belting it out in the back seat. It was totally adorable, and I was so distracted that I didn't notice the GPS was taking me to the opposite end of town from the general area my daughter had described for the place where I was supposed to be picking her up. But the 30-minute detour was completely worth it.

Here's a recording I managed to make, while I was driving around the wrong end of town looking for a car repair place that wasn't there. (I sang a little too, but just try to ignore that part.)

I missed this post before, somehow.

I am SO gonna have strawberries.

But I would share. You wouldn't have to sneak. You could eat all you wanted, while we worked on my RMH.

That inter-hemisphere portal begs the question, if you could live in one part of the world and "work*" in an other part, where would those places be?

*in reality, if one had a portal like that, they probably would retire and would barter for everything, because they would always buy low and sell high without geographic restrictions.

My favorite version of "You Are My Sunshine" is the Ray Charels version. My daughter will sing along with that one too.

If you DO invent an inter-hemisphere travel portal, BW, you are required to send me a photo of yourself in advance of materializing in my greenhouse.

EDIT: I should probably mention that my hubs has his own hobbies, which involve projectile weapons, and I don't want him shooting any holes in my greenhouse. Or my Internet friends, either.

I would live where I do now, and work everywhere. The only thing stopping me from doing 100% locum tenens work, taking temporary positions here, there, and everywhere, is that I can't stand being away from my granddaughter for long periods. Travel portals would totally solve that problem for me!

Ixnay on the barter thing, though. I hate selling stuff (it's so much less complicated to just give it away), and am not very money-motivated. I have been known to accept a cool/interesting job that didn't even pay enough to cover my fuel expenses for getting there. And I was a single mom with 3 children and no other income. I think I was a little bit crazy at the time...fortunately, it quickly became profitable in addition to cool/interesting, so we didn't have to go hungry!

I choose lifestyle and people over money as well.

I just wish I had a business partner that liked filling out forms and ringing people. Then I might get an invention off the ground before getting bored and moving on to something else.

I had a perfectly working prototype of what I think was/is a very marketable (one on every car kind of thing) product that I dismantled to make some components for a irregular shaped lathe type device (to copy handmade fishing lures). I save a fortune on bearings, but I cant help thinking I might be missing out on some income

Forget work and travel, my priority If I had a travel portal, would be to sneak into a particular rich and newly crazy person's house at night and cut that thing of his head.

Oh, God, I HATE filling out forms! This is the time of year when all my licenses come up for renewal, 2 each for 2 states. For one of the states it is the year in which I have to submit all of my continuing education information, so I had like 12 pages of stuff to fill out. I was very seriously considering whether it might be worth just going back to school again and finding a different career with less form-filling, but then I remembered all the application forms for school, and realized I was trapped. Nothing stresses me out like having to fill out forms! Insurance credentialing is the worst--there are 40+ page packets of paperwork for that, for each insurance company whose patients I might see. Fortunately, the hospital employs people to do it for us, so I only had to fill out the first one, then they use that information to do all the other ones for me, and just check in with me now and then to make sure nothing's changed.


I'm with you. I also hate making phone calls. If I ever invented something marketable, my husband would have to be in charge of forms and calls, or the world would never see it.


An American, I'm guessing. We do seem to have the market on crazy, these days. All the more job security for me, hey! (As long as I can keep up with the stupid forms.)

My husband just told me we didn't win the $500M Powerball lottery. I hadn't expected to, since they have it rigged so you have to buy tickets to win, but apparently he actually bought tickets. Good lord, what if we had WON? I can't fathom having to keep track of $500M. Can you IMAGINE how many forms and phone calls having that much money would require? We'd have had to hire lawyers and accountants, and then worry about whether they were doing what they were supposed to do, and people would be bothering us all the time wanting some of the money, and our nice peaceful new place would be overrun...gads! I'm going to have to speak to him sternly about buying lottery tickets without asking me first. I'm very happy with my nice lower-middle-class lifestyle, thankyouverymuch.

[stuff deleted] as it's just rude. I think the man I refer to has some serious mental health issues, so I retract everything.