Cebu got hit by an earthquake. I never felt it, so don't bother asking.
We've been having a typhoon a week buzzsaw through here lately. The last one went south, so we just got some rain. Before that, it went north. A new one is coming and is supposed to maybe hit here or go north this weekend. No one knows.
The weather cleared up the day before yesterday and until noon yesterday. So we had time to shred and process plastic.
I think I need to build another warehouse ASAP. The dome needs to be taken down and a bigger building put in its place. I need storage for materials, and the spot where I'm storing them now needs to be cleared out and used for machinery.
I'm planning on getting the garden going again as soon as the weather clears up. I will hire someone to come in and pull all the weeds, rake out all the rocks that have come up through the truckloads of composted sawdust, and probably do something like a container garden or raised bed and landscaping. I have plenty of plastic lumber to do so. I also have a lot of carbonized rice husk to add to the mix.
The solar system is totally dead right now. The batteries are toast. My bill has more than doubled because of it. I'm considering going with a grid-tie inverter for now. The other inverter will go into storage until the budget is found to get batteries again. I also have to pull the panels off the roof. I will build racking for them out of my plastic lumber and put them on my deck. This way, I can clean them.
The solar spotlight I use indoors had its first failure. It no longer turns off during the day. It's just one unit. It will be about 20 bucks to buy a new light, snip the cable on the old one, and wire in a new one.
So far, these have been a very, very good investment because they are standalone. My house is lit through the night, even during cloudy weeks. Keeping them on the lowest light setting is the trick. So if you do this, get a big solar light and turn it to the lowest setting versus a small solar light on a high setting for the same light. It will last much, much longer.
The traffic and stupidity here are getting worse by the day. I have to laugh at these American dashcam videos where someone feels slighted by something small. Meanwhile, I've got 50+ mofo's driving the wrong side of the road. I was at an intersection waiting to turn left, and some asshole comes behind me, passes me on the left, then drives the wrong way down the street. Years ago, I remember thinking when reading about how Indians drive the wrong side of the road, that well, at least in the Philippines they may be bad drivers but they do not do that...
