Well, not really. I still have about 1 month. But I haven’t had a proper vacation yet. Atleast solar is interesting.

Sari, those boards are Warmboard flooring. Our house uses a radiant floor. Those grooves will contain piping that contains hot water. This way, the floor is warm (therefore the name). This is a much more efficient way of heating you up because we don’t have to heat up the air around you. We just directly heat you up through mostly conduction … somewhat like a stove.

Rewatching Samurai Champloo. The show’s quite a lot of fun - watch it if you get a chance.

Slightly tired, so this post will have to be short, but I need to post more. Perhaps this shall continue after sleeping for a bit.

First of all, boredom sometimes makes you do nifty things, like making this:

Last couple of days have been electrical rough-ins for solar. This means we lay down the bare bones of the electrical and data wiring. Being the genius that I am. I locked myself out, worked on the site till about 1:30am, then realized I had no keys… So I can’t get into my apartment, it’s 2:00am… and I need to get in some sleep before going back to the site at 7:00am… ><

So I bum out a couch at a friends place. While waiting for him to pick me up, I saw this outside…

Somewhere around 3:00am, his roommates barge in and one of the guys goes “HOLY SHIT! WHO IS THIS GUY ON OUR COUCH!? THERE’S SOME GUY ON OUR COUCH…” I didn’t really bother getting up. My friend came in and explained and I just continued lying down.

6:20am, I am woken up by friend as I had asked him. A little stop at starbucks to get a coffee and a muffin and on the site at 7:00am. I built a wall today! It was pretty fun. I was hammering nails in pretty well and some people said I was doing a good job… it felt good

Now its about 15 hours later. Have to go back out there at 7:00am… and need to work on the software side of things for smart-house… Oh well. Someday, I am just going to become an electrician or a carpenter…

On the good side of things, I did get back my keys and they weren’t like lost or anything… which would have sucked like 10 days before I move to the new house…

Well… time to work on more solar… yay.

Who doesn’t like free stuff? Thanks to a nice tip from Kosta, I ordered a free poster from:

http://expasy.org/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl

Scroll down and see the link to “order a printed copy” .. select a country and fill the form that shows up and BAM! Be sure to choose the “Biochemical Pathways” thing in the printed material request form.

You actually get 2 posters. They make no sense to me, but they are HUGE! And they have random stuff on them!