Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Wednesday things

I have no themes to my posts this week, so please bear with me. I'm usually more organized than this. This week is all about survival mode! I'm catching up at home & at work after having been at a four day all day work summit last week, which of course is part of work, but took me out of my day to day productivity. I'm jet lagged (although almost over that, hurrah), I have a team member leaving at the end of the week, another one going on PTO, a huge work project due this week, and I need to wrap a bunch of stuff up for my PTO that starts next Wednesday afternoon. So, just a bit to manage. ;-) 

I did call around yesterday to try & sort out our solar production, and found out that our panels haven't been sending power to the grid consistently all year. So frustrated by this, as our solar company went out of business. We were previously sent monthly reports where we could track production. They went bankrupt a few years ago, and the reports stopped. We could then only track our production through the "true up" power bill at the end of each year. It was a bit higher last year (our true up is in February, and the panels stopped sending to the grid in October of 2024), but we chalked that up to increased prices & more usage. This year, I got the true up & it was crazy high - because it's our entire power usage for the year, and we are also paying $15/month to send power to the grid, which we are not doing. Anyway, because the company is bankrupt, we have to try to find a solar company that maintains these type of grids. Please wish me luck! As someone who hates waste of any kind, I'm very frustrated we didn't catch this earlier, and/or there is not better alerting. It took some effort on my part to track this down, so I suppose better late than never? I really hope there's an easy solution here.

I did go to my workout class yesterday, and sorted out dinner for tonight & last night (freezer leftovers), so that was progress. Still working on the library. For the Y, I don't want to sign up until next month, due to our travels, so I may put that one off a bit & focus on a solve for the solar panels instead.

Okay, on to today:

  • Workout class (I'm on the wait list, so if not, find another workout)
  • Meditate/language lesson
  • Be incredibly productive at work
  • Start getting items ready for packing (we leave in a week!)
  • Track down my parents travel while we're in NZ, so we can coordinate with Sam for airport rides
  • Decide on birthday gifts for Sam

What about you? What's on your list for today? Hope everyone is staying warm & having a productive &  positive day. 

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