👍Maximum Derek👍

I never thought I’d laugh at memes about the number 4. When I wished on that ancient monkey paw to be smarter than most people, just it just make others dumber?

Every two years since (at least) 1980. 22 times, by my count, if you don’t count 2026 early voting.

I get it. This summer I bought a battery bank and portable solar panels so I can a) take some load off a circuit that is overtaxed in the summer and b) be able to very slowly charge the car in the event of an emergency.

A month after getting it, we got a notice on our door that they were working on poles and our power would be out for 8 hours. I kept my whole homelab, and refrigerator running the whole time and the entertainment center running most of the time. Any thought that I spent too much, given the probable utility, immediately disappeared. I wouldn’t call it pride in my decision, but it came damn close.