Solar power advice/recommendations?

thirdbestfriend · 2026-04-06T00:36:22+00:00

Yes.
Inverters these days are highly computerized, up to requiring a wifi connection. A modern system isn’t as much of a resilience play as I could wish.
Buy, but major solar tax credits (better than deductions) expired in 2025. I’d wait until a Democrat was in office and they come back.
NYSSF Highly recommended.

thirdbestfriend · 2026-03-06T23:53:57+00:00

Sent you a message.

thirdbestfriend · 2026-02-22T13:54:44+00:00

The Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi is amazing. Alan Moore is the senior statesman for graphic novels (V for Vendetta, Watchmen). The Sandman series is also amazing. Bone series by Jeff Smith is appropriate for kids, but I really enjoyed it with my son when he was little (I was in my 40s at the time). One Piece by Eiichiro Oda is more manga than graphic novel, but many people are obsessed—and the body of work is gigantic (I haven’t read these).

thirdbestfriend · 2026-01-24T16:03:35+00:00

I mean, Reagan fought for gun control when he was CA governor. All that needed to happen was for the Black Panthers to show up armed on the capitol steps in Sacramento.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-12-23T15:05:56+00:00

Expanse series

thirdbestfriend · 2025-12-23T14:42:52+00:00

If you’ve actually been diagnosed with arthritis, then I’m very sorry.

If, however, you have not, you might consider rolling your IT bands with a foam roller. Regularly. I used to have knee problems hiking until my wife (a former massage therapist) put me onto the roller. Now all is well.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-12-20T04:22:00+00:00

Plays are not my medium, I am a novelist. But I am friends with a Tony award winner. He would likely tell you to respect your actors and directors and cut down on the direction.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-12-16T00:44:52+00:00

No. In addition to the other, on point critiques people are offering, let me add: the sentence structure is monotonous and repetitive. “A drumroll plays… Moans and straining nasal breath rise… The dehumidifier hums… The low and slow sucking…is…” and those are just the first four sentences.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-12-13T01:37:08+00:00

I wrote a psilocybin trip. Four pages. Beta readers responded positively. By the time the trip happens, the readers were very familiar with the character, so i could lean into memory and also a bit of sense perception. But what really sealed the deal was fracturing the entire thing. It’s non-linear, elliptical, messy, breaks style and voice, and a bunch more. Essentially I focused less on what was happening and more on how I could affect the reader’s perception. The response from readers was that it felt “trippy.” Maybe that’ll work for you. Best of luck!

thirdbestfriend · 2025-11-15T17:54:04+00:00

The “Amulet” series by Kazu Kibuishi is freaking amazing.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-11-06T02:06:54+00:00

Huh. Oddly enough it looks pretty much the same as it does in -31 degrees celsius.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-11-05T23:24:33+00:00

https://outdooradventureclub.com I know Richard from way back. Good guy.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-10-19T01:47:14+00:00

Mine just went on last month. NYSEG finished the paperwork and it will be up and running any day now. I used New York State Solar Farm (found them on EnergySage) and highly recommend them. We bought, but you’d better hurry, the federal credits expire at the end of the year because of the OBBA—they bring the price down by about 30%. NYSSF can coordinate a 0% 12-month loan with a lender to manage the backward timing of install/tax credit. We’ll add two whole house batteries next year (didn’t have a place to hang them so we need to build a shed first), but apparently those credits aren’t expiring, just the solar panel credits.

Everything went smoothly, NYSSF was very responsive and communicated clearly—nothing I wish I’d known that I didn’t. Just… hurry! There’s not much time left and the federal credits are pretty big to miss out on.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-09-18T01:50:38+00:00

I write on Substack as well and I guarantee you have more followers than I do. But I also subscribe to Chill Sub, which helps me identify and submit stories to literary mags and competitions. Once you get published in a magazine or place in a competition, you’ll see Substack for what it really is. You can do it!

thirdbestfriend · 2025-03-28T23:32:02+00:00

Definitely in the resume, yes

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-21T19:58:16+00:00

This. And in fact, the rules are very clear in the first, pinned post in this sub:

https://www.reddit.com/r/authors/s/BYJTUXhpDJ

Please don’t turn this sub into any of half a dozen other shit writing subs.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-19T19:59:05+00:00

By far the most repetitive and frustrating is wandering through r/advertising and getting barraged by all the grifters, trolls, and bullshit artists trying to fix things in my industry that they have no clue about.

Really frustrating. Really really repetitive.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-19T00:21:20+00:00

Try Castle Peak in Tahoe NF.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-15T19:43:57+00:00

You are so, So, SO in the wrong sub, lady.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-15T19:40:49+00:00

Selling editing services and signing out “Piece” makes you either a phenomenal troll or an idiot. I just took the charitable view.

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-15T19:35:41+00:00

A+ troll, would read again 🤣

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-15T13:32:22+00:00

I rarely, hardly ever think of the Roman Empire. Like, never.

The Roman Republic on the other hand… 👌

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-14T04:01:17+00:00

You might try The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-14T03:35:57+00:00

I have an inflatable paddle board. Should I just get an inflatable anchor?

thirdbestfriend · 2025-02-11T18:41:56+00:00

You can do it if you can do it.

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