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Feb. 4th, 2021 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeThe last 24 hours or a little less have been Much, and I would like them to slow down now.
So, first I got the news about my cousin and most of his family having covid. I went upstairs to bed and ended up staying up pretty late babbling at the boy, who snuggled me and listened and eventually we fell asleep when I had babbled myself out. Today his alarm woke me up because he had to get up and go drop off the car for maintenance, which evidently turned into a way bigger ordeal than it should have been. Ugh.
I finally managed to get up and start the day's classes with some reading. That didn't go very well, I kept having to read things several times over to make sense of them, and pretty soon it was time for solar panel call. That... actually went pretty well. We learned that a solar roof runs in series and solar panels on your roof run in parallel, to draw the analogy to the old Christmas lights problem. If part of a solar roof goes shady, the whole thing behaves as if it's shady, whereas solar panels don't. We learned that we can get a "battery" called a Tesla wall to stand as backup in case of a power outage, and how the solar panels would interact with our grid. We learned they're booked four months out, which is ideal really given our financing situation, that makes this a non-immediate problem for us and a reasonable thing to say "hey, we should have financing in about six months" and he can put us on a schedule somewhen.
So that went really well! I was optimistic! I went back to get some schoolwork done and heard the boy talking some more on the phone, turned out he was talking to his family, turned out his niece had been exposed to covid. No word yet on whether or not she's infected, I think? But while she's quarantining she's quarantining with the in-laws, not her own parents. Or not solely her own parents. Which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't in their seventies, not fully vaccinated, and Dad-in-law can't even get the vaccine because he had a Guillain Barre reaction to the flu vaccine a while back so no more vaccines for him ever. (Or maybe just no more flu and no covid vaccine?) So of course the boy's brother decides they're the ones to take care of the potentially infectious child.
So that happened, and then I was so aggravated and nervy that it took me probably forty five minutes to do a lab I could have done in twenty, being painstaking about it. Got lunch an hour late. After lunch was study group on Git, which was fine, I learned a few new things and had some things I was more comfortable with reinforced, and learned where to look up other things, and that was nice and relaxing. And then I started... let's see, around a three or four hour coding session that was a good couple hours longer than the class block needed to be, and most of it was doing one reading about writing tests. It involved some debugging of what the reading decided was proper code because no one had updated the reading, but I managed it, and I felt very pleased with myself.
Right up until something banged on the door.
Then I went wandering around the house with a knife in my hand looking for someone to stab in case it was an intruder.
After that was about two hours of hearing what sounds like wind, which wouldn't be bad since it would mean it was the wind knocking something against the house and not an intruder, except I have an anxiety issue around wind starting with living next to a forest but definitely exacerbated by the goddamn pine snapping in half across the backyard and in short, it is now 11pm on a Thursday and I have lost what few brain cells I had mustered together today to anxiety, nerves, aggravation, and brief moments of elation.
Can tomorrow please be calmer??
So, first I got the news about my cousin and most of his family having covid. I went upstairs to bed and ended up staying up pretty late babbling at the boy, who snuggled me and listened and eventually we fell asleep when I had babbled myself out. Today his alarm woke me up because he had to get up and go drop off the car for maintenance, which evidently turned into a way bigger ordeal than it should have been. Ugh.
I finally managed to get up and start the day's classes with some reading. That didn't go very well, I kept having to read things several times over to make sense of them, and pretty soon it was time for solar panel call. That... actually went pretty well. We learned that a solar roof runs in series and solar panels on your roof run in parallel, to draw the analogy to the old Christmas lights problem. If part of a solar roof goes shady, the whole thing behaves as if it's shady, whereas solar panels don't. We learned that we can get a "battery" called a Tesla wall to stand as backup in case of a power outage, and how the solar panels would interact with our grid. We learned they're booked four months out, which is ideal really given our financing situation, that makes this a non-immediate problem for us and a reasonable thing to say "hey, we should have financing in about six months" and he can put us on a schedule somewhen.
So that went really well! I was optimistic! I went back to get some schoolwork done and heard the boy talking some more on the phone, turned out he was talking to his family, turned out his niece had been exposed to covid. No word yet on whether or not she's infected, I think? But while she's quarantining she's quarantining with the in-laws, not her own parents. Or not solely her own parents. Which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't in their seventies, not fully vaccinated, and Dad-in-law can't even get the vaccine because he had a Guillain Barre reaction to the flu vaccine a while back so no more vaccines for him ever. (Or maybe just no more flu and no covid vaccine?) So of course the boy's brother decides they're the ones to take care of the potentially infectious child.
So that happened, and then I was so aggravated and nervy that it took me probably forty five minutes to do a lab I could have done in twenty, being painstaking about it. Got lunch an hour late. After lunch was study group on Git, which was fine, I learned a few new things and had some things I was more comfortable with reinforced, and learned where to look up other things, and that was nice and relaxing. And then I started... let's see, around a three or four hour coding session that was a good couple hours longer than the class block needed to be, and most of it was doing one reading about writing tests. It involved some debugging of what the reading decided was proper code because no one had updated the reading, but I managed it, and I felt very pleased with myself.
Right up until something banged on the door.
Then I went wandering around the house with a knife in my hand looking for someone to stab in case it was an intruder.
After that was about two hours of hearing what sounds like wind, which wouldn't be bad since it would mean it was the wind knocking something against the house and not an intruder, except I have an anxiety issue around wind starting with living next to a forest but definitely exacerbated by the goddamn pine snapping in half across the backyard and in short, it is now 11pm on a Thursday and I have lost what few brain cells I had mustered together today to anxiety, nerves, aggravation, and brief moments of elation.
Can tomorrow please be calmer??