Sunday. Our basa bake dinner (with sweet potato and beetroot for another night)
The Crown in the evening.
Monday. Blerf meeting all morning. Electricians finally came to replace the inverter. My eyes got tired mid afternoon. It was a dark and rainy day, but the solar system does appear to be working. The battery got up to 84% in the afternoon without any direct sunlight. Frustrating evening because I was blind and headachey from not being able to see all afternoon.
Tuesday. Took forever to get to sleep then woke up around 5. Sigh. The battery went completely flat overnight. It's not supposed to do that, it's mean to sit at like 10%. So I got super stressed and grumpy. Then I couldn't get Redactle out because it wouldn't accept "Earth's" even though I'd put that in and it had matched two other incidences, but not the one in the title. Clear the cache they said. It'll fix it they said. Yeah right. I lost my entire browsing setup. Which means all my streaks and stats for all my online games are gone. The waffle one upset me the most. And I can't see. I had a full on meltdown because it was all too hard. And I haven't played any of those games since. Meh day. Stu did get Solar Edge to change the battery settings to not go flat. We're meant to be able to do that oruselves, but as with everything else by Solar Edge it hasn't worked properly. Had a drink and watched Star Trek IV in the evening because my eyes were too tired to concentrate on anything that required seeing anything on my computer.
Wednesday. Slept ok. Ok day. Was having a nice quiet morning then All The Things demanded attention at once. Made a nice salad for dinner. The sweet potato and beetroot I cooked the other night, with goats cheese, toasted pine nuts and bacon, with an honey, oil and lemon juice dressing. Annoyingly the bag of rocket I was going to use (that expired today) had gone all manky. So this salad really wasn't the same. It really needed the lettuce to lighten it up. It was still quite nice though. We won't talk about the heart attack I had on Friday when my poo was a burgundy chocolate colour!
Thursday. Did a bunch of planning for a big project at work. Did up all the doco and passed it onto the others to do when I'm on leave. Also looked at what logs we might be able to trim down to save space. Then had to be Neil all afternoon while he had bits removed. Made pizzas for dinner. Talked to Kit and Pete for a while in the evening (still too hard to do holiday planning in the evening because I can't SEEEE).
Friday. Woke up at like ~3am til like ~5am. Sigh. Did a bunch of holiday planning before work while I could still see. Had to be Neil again, and did some cleaning. I had a good eye day, and I could still see in the afternoon so did some holiday planning after work. I also went into battle with Optus. Last year when they put my number on a different plan, they set it up in a new account. But left the shared data plan number behind. Shared with nothing. I'd forgotten to stop the automatic payments on this account, so it was in credit. But the credit was not being used on the new account. Dumb dumb dumb Optus. So needed to get the credit transferred to the account which is actually costing money (the shared data plan is "free".. go figure). And figure out how to access both accounts. Because I can only access the old one on the website, not the new one. Turns out I can manage both of them from the app. So lame though. Made some creamy mushroom and bacon fettucini for dinner. Bad for the sweetie but he'd had a crap couple of days and needed the comfort food. Watched Star Trek VI together in the evening.
Saturday. Woke up at like 4:30 and never got back to sleep. Super busy day doing All The Things - house stuff and holiday prep. Overdid it on the computer though and ended up with tired eyes. Cooked butt beef cheeks for dinner and watched second episodes of Spy Among Friends and Death in Paradise.
Sunday. Today. Woke up at 4:30 and didn't get back to sleep again. Another super busy day doing All The Things. We I even cut the ivy back from the ensuite window..
Really need a longer ladder though. The sparkies had one that went right to the top of the tip of the roof.
Both days this weekend the Solar Edge inverter has lost contact with the server, so we haven't been able to see the stats in the app (or website). We have to go flip the switch on it to reset to reconnect. Solar Edge is CRAP!! The other annoyance is when it was sort of working briefly last year the panels were doing over 11kw. But I haven't seen them get much over 9 since they got it working again. I don't know if that's just because the angle of the sun is different or what. We'll have to wait til December to find out I guess. We had an inspector come Wednesday morning and they found the sparkie hadn't done a couple of minor things. So they were back again Friday to finish up. I asked him why, once the battery is charged and we're maxing out the 5kw back to the grid, does it say we're consuming ~3kw, when we're *actually* only consuming about 1kw. He had no idea. He said he'd find out and get back to us. He hasn't. #grunt.
Oh, and the neighbour parked on our side yesterday morning while he was shovelling gravel from his trailer. And hasn't moved his damned car back since. At what point do I pile a whole bunch of crap behind his car in protest??
Went on strike this afternoon because I'm sick of everything, so the sweetie is getting Chong Co for dinner.
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