Joys of Water

There are lots of things I can take for granted. The one I've missed the most since starting this venture is clean running water. Back in the beginning of April, before fully moving up to my property, I contacted the local well drillers to see how soon I could get a well drilled. At the time I had expected them to have a two week lead time. I found out to my shock, and slight horror, that they were already booked through September. Fortunately, because I was what they consider a small job, they

Power of the Sun

Up until now I've been recharging a 1.5 kWh battery bank back in Massachusetts and then rationing that power throughout the week before I head back to recharge (amongst other things). Now that I'm actually living full-time up at my property there's a growing need to produce my own power. I do have a 5.6kWh solar array on order which should arrive sometime next week that I hope to be using at least in part within the next two weeks, but in the meantime I have to make due with a bit smaller of a s

Starting Over

Starting Over

This, my personal website, has gone through several iterations over the years. Back in 2010 when I first registered this domain name it was primarily a portfolio site of my game development endeavors. Much of the site, and the existing blog at that time, were powered by MovableType on the back-end which I had already been using extensively for my other websites. Ever since college I had planned to update this site to something more modern, but the ease of use of the old MovableType, and the bloa