Looks like things are looking up on the job front. I have agreed in principle to a 3-month contracting position doing some interesting work. If things work out it’ll convert to a full-time job.
It’s not in the bag yet, and its not a full-time gig, but it is encouraging. More news as things firm up.
After reading the N&O story about businesses generating their own power, it made me wonder what it would take to do this at home.
The typical residential power rates are pretty high. If I converted to a Time-Of-Use plan and found an alternative way to cover my demand during peak hours, I wonder how much money I could save? Certainly not enough to afford a big, honking, million-dollar diesel generator, but how about a bank of batteries and an inverter? Or a smaller generator (preferably powered by natural gas)? What would it take to cover my air conditioning?
Of course, I don’t use nearly as much electricity as would be required to make this a worthwhile endeavor, but its fun to imagine, anyway.
I successfully played with the kids last night and safely tucked them into bed. To my surprise, I found the energy to read my book (Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: His Life And Universe) and chat with Kelly before I went to bed. I also found my stomach much more open to food and drink, so I helped myself to toast and a glass of water or two. After spending the day fighting to keep things down, that was progress.
This was followed by a peaceful night of sleep. Upon waking, I got the kids ready to go, chatted with Kelly again, and took Hallie to her summer camp. T and I also stopped in at the office of $FORMER_EMPLOYER to drop some stuff off.
Kelly had called the Harris County (Ga) health department to get the pool checked out. That pool is considered a private pool and thus out of their jurisdiction but the fine folks there followed up with the resort owner to make sure the pool was properly maintained. It apparently was, or is, though the health department says that this far out, whatever bug may have been in the pool has long since disappeared. So we’ll never know.
Good to be out of the woods on this, though.
