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#today is #RepairCafé ... and we're also on the way to setting up a new branch in a smaller library nearby!

#today I having been plugging away at the new paper. I've nearly finished starting...
Well I am on course for a first draft this evening which will need at the very least heavily cutting down, or some more drastic action...
Tomorrow is #RepairCafé...

#today playing with Ki-CAD's schematic editor for my off-grid system diagram for the the first time in 10 years! 5 major revisions of #KiCAD in that time and it seems to just work! Hurrah!

#today we have been cleaning while blasting the #SouthPark #musical soundtrack."Shut your f**king face uncle f**ker" :catjam:

#today I have been at our TTK Energy Group meeting where we all seemed to have major announcements! Now I am home and doing some #QA work on a course for Surrey uni, and I have a HUGE pile of other work chores/tasks to try to work though somehow...

#today not doing much at all other than watching my tweaked energy system do its thing with occasional cloud and dips in grid frequency...

#today I must I must I must I must improve my paper (and try and get it to good draft stage, to share with supervisors). I will also be helping a friend with some legals, being a witness to a bit of admin. I also have a small wash of #NewScientist articles to read. Oh, and a bath, timed to hel…

#today did my part of the new 6-month PhD progress report, and sat with IT support for about half an hour to set up the Journal Club calendar event again after it effectively broke for 3 months!
#nowListening

SanderKlepper - Twitch
World of noise -its time to make some changes in the patch . fine tuning

#today I am not getting a #NewScientist splurge to read - what happened?
I am cheered in my #research by having just found that an apparent test error in the

#today I am about to lunch (like a student!) and will continue work on my paper while some of my family is at the Arsenal parade...

#today I'm not even going to try working on my paper as am at a friend's party this afternoon, and have a huge #NewScientist article backlog glaring at me! House in heat lockdown, though probably not going to get to 30C...

#today my mentee has submitted the #grantApplication, hurrah!

#today in at uni and, unusually, may try to actually get some of my #research #buildingModel work done today - there's some easy-ish clear next steps to take on the current model...

#today will include working through #NewScientist articles and meeting friends (including one over from the US) for beers...

Not looking forward to temperatures forecast to touch ~34C #today and tomorrow. House is already in heat lockdown mode https://www.earth.org.uk/manage-the-heat-Maltese-style.html…

Manage the Heat Maltese Style
Avoid your home overheating in summer by using your windows and blinds like the Maltese do on the Med! #BeatTheHeat

#today misc life admin today, including bellyacheing at the gas people who cut off our fossil gas supply fully (as wanted) but pointlessly wrecked the lawn etc because they didn't wait for us to be in!
In other news, a #research report has just been published that shows

#today it seems that Sunday morning is *obvs* the right time to hack in the boilerplate changes for my new draft paper! And I already made a bunch of edits to my mentee's position paper. Shoot me now...

#today I will ride the #NewScientist article wave, (re!)read the constitution of an org that I chair and at least draft my rousing AGM speech and agenda, work on my research, and join a brainstorming session (or two) on-line...
I'd be unconvinced that I'd really managed any of the &…

#today I have the #journal's template .tex building in my usual harness, so I am nearly started on that new paper - a whole week left to write it all!

#today some life/academic admin including for #ReplicationGames, and for the inventors' club. And really really ought to inch some progress on my #research

#today I did several hours of QA work for a new uni BA course (as one paticipant in a Teams meeting), which was pleasant and interesting, and I think that I managed to jam sustainability a bit more firmly into the new course! Tomorrow is meetings with friends but also I really really ought to do work on my #buildingModel

#today will be catching up on the #NewScientist* article splurge, tweaking heat pump settings again to try to get DHW to run fully from the Enphase, and #buildingModel stuff.
*Sitting nex…

#today have inched (well, millimetred) forwards on my #research #buildingModel and listened to quite a lot of mod synth and a little house... And our heat pump received its first annual service.…

#today my latest 'clever' attempt to finesse how my MacBook Air interacts with my off-grid system didn't really work, though is marginally better than it was before:
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-…

On Website Technicals (2026-04)
Tech updates: per-minute Eddi tweaks, Time Machine bug, virtual plug-in solar, merit order, intensity forecast, USB power wrangling...

#today have bathed, on my way to lunch with friends by #SL7 express bus!

#today is a uni day, and though my mind is currently on my #PintOfScience talk for Monday and catching up on email, I have some interesting #research stuff to think about...

#today I am visiting the Integrated Waste Management Facility #IWMF in #Southwark, a counterpoint to my recent visit to the Ernergy Recovery Facilty

Viridor Beddington ERF Visit (2026)
Sunray Recycling and Transition Town Kingston visited the Croydon UK site #EfW #WtE #generation #waste

#today I should (I will, I will!) send out notice mailers etc for Kingston Invents and Journal Club, I'm just lacking in spoons for at this moment.
I have had a good long hot bath, been for a walk, done my brief exercises (push-ups and squats).
I have also done a little bit of code and blog stuff.
And I've been watching the

#today really really should include some work on my #research #buildingModel - there is a risk that my repo will become self-aware and complete and publish itself as a paper in frustration waiting …

#today I am going to indulge in some #recreationalCoding for #dataVisualisation (ie knock up an extra #energy

#today having a difficult email exchange re my #research, but also helped my mentee move their #grant #application

#today did another tiny bit of #research #buildingModel stuff, joined a #Nesta Webinar, and worked wi…

#today I am off to see Beddington #ERF (Energy Recovery Facility, aka #Energy From #Waste

#today the #equinox/equilux is nearly here! Some think the engineering of #Stonehenge and #Mnajdra are…

#today I an going to a free #music #festival - #HanwellHootie - and I have full party-mode gear on. …