Made it to a Hot Ol’ Summer Friday
Made it to Friday. Another hot one and then more rain for the weekend. But then so was last summer, when the first half of summer it seemed like most of weekends were rainy. But I’m waiting for the truck cap at least one more weekend, so be it.
Today is Friday. ☺️ It would be more fun if I was getting out of town, but it’s going to rain tomorrow and I’m not getting the truck cap until next week. Andy Ruth’s secretary said she would be calling me to set up the installation next week when it arrives at the shop. 💵 Hand over the big check, get it installed and then swing by Wally World to get a battery box and more plastic conduit and Pet cloth tape. I’ll reuse what I can from the old truck but the UV really attacked the conduit especially running from the solar panel on down. Think I have all the wire and connectors I need either from the old truck or in storage. The second solar panel arrives tomorrow.
It will be fun to get out of town, 🏕️ still hoping for Juneteenth Weekend, I just got to get everything moved over and wired by then. Should be able to do it but it’s cutting things tight with only one weekend after this remaining. And who knows about the future of gas prices, they’re expected to go up to around $5 a gallon by mid-summer, but who knows how high they’ll remain. ⛽ That said, with the extra solar, I should be able set up camp and leave the engine off for multiple days without worry. I feel like the SuperDuty should be very reliable, at least for a few years, and I think 🤔 I’ve figured out to manage batteries and electrical load 🪫 fairly well after all these years.
I ended up deciding to go to the forum last night about AI Data Centers. 🤖 Learned a bit, though not that much, as I’ve been fairly informed about the debate over Hyperscalers and even the “Edge” style data center proposed for old covenant site at Kenwood. Even if it’s not the 180 MW they are asking for in power allocation but instead just 10 MW as listed on the website, it’s still a lot of power. They really need to improve the efficiency of some of this AI stuff, though so much of it is hype, chasing potential demand, sought out on speculation, but facing incredible demand.
If your local 5-MW solar is waiting months if not years for an interconnection agreement, 🔌 it seems unlikely an already stressed grid is going to be getting a lot of data centers approved. Honestly, I can’t wait until the silly season is over, the market crash, and all this AI crap goes away. The free AI news article summaries and writing services for my blog is kind of fun, and I’ll be a bit sad 💵 when my paper worth drops some some 20% or 30%, but it never was real in the first place. Gives the activists something to fight. I mean if it was in the Albany Pine Bush, I’d certainly be there too speaking out.
It was such a nice night, maybe I should have spent it at Five Rivers 🐸 but other nice nights are certainly ahead for reading and enjoying the wildflowers, 🪻 though era of earlier sunsets will be here before you know it. I expect some real some swelters come later in the summer, yesterday got up into the nineties but with the dew point in the 50s, it certainly didn’t feel real warme especially by the time I got out of work with the breeze.
I was watching YouTube and reading about some of the different type of plastics. ♻️ Interesting to learn about the different histories, the chemicals, the various shit I’ve burned over the years 🔥 as in many years the bulk of my trash has gone up into smoke. I’ve been avoid Greek Yogurt and Cottage Cheese all winter as I’m very skeptical about Polypropylene recycling, though once I get my new rig up and working, and I’m traveling, I might enjoy some up at camp. And then I’ve been trying to learn as much about A. I. and energy use – what really is A. I. – not that hype put out by the commercial backers or the fear mongers. 🧑🏭 A useful somewhat technology for some purposes, but also over hyped – it won’t change world or come for your job, uses a fair amount of electricity, though in context, maybe not quite as bad as the activists in claim. 🔌 That’s kind of why I went to the forum put on by the retired RPI Facilities Manager who knows more then a little bit about electricity and engineering. He also was the town water engineer for a while, though kind of controversial at least in the minds of town GOP during his lecture. ⚙️
I got to head in fairly early, 🧁 as I need to swing by Hannaford to get cupcakes or some kind of sweets 🩷 for one of my employees birthdays, and kind of an end of session type party. Raspberry pancakes 🥞 for breakfast, making up some rice and lentils on the stove now for lunch. 🍴 Get through work today, and tomorrow depending on when the solar panel is delivered and how wet it is, I want to catch the Nature Bus 🚏 up to Thacher Park.
