Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Edward Abbey
It is morning. I did morning things. I made my cold brew coffee with oat milk, had my vitamins, and got dressed.
When I got downstairs, I noticed the cat bowls needed water, when I got to the cat food bin it was empty. There was more in the back of the van in the garage. I grabbed 2, 8 kg bags of cat chow and headed back to the bin. That got filled.
Time to feed them. That got done. I needed water, for them, which was also in the van, in 40-pound bottles. I carried one of those up. I got it opened and filled cat bowls.
Now it was my turn, although I had oatmeal instead of cat food. While I was eating, I put on another episode of The Rockford Files. I checked my Bluetti.
It was down to 9 percent. Back down I went. Gassed up the gen, got it outside, and started it. Great, my glorified power bank was charging. I thought I better check my solar bank, it was low. I put the charger on that.
I had two 12v AGM batteries I was going to use to revive my Redodo 24v LiFeP04. I drained it too far and put my BMS to sleep. It needed a shot of power in order for me to be able to recharge it. I had to wake up the BMS.
The AGM’s were extremely low voltage. I put a second charger on one of those. Charging the lifep04 would have to wait. In the meantime, I was charging everything I could. My headphones, air purifier, rechargeable fan, 3 Ryobi batteries, my mouse battery, the Bluetti, my DIY power bank, my laptop, and even my tablet. That is what I watch Rockford on. All are now being powered by fossil fuels. Thanks to the cloudy weather. Honorable mention goes to me for completely draining my new 24v LFP.
I still have a few more devices to go, my two bug-zapping led lights. One actually kills bugs, the other just makes a good flashlight.
Gotta go while the gen is running and my work is done, for now. I am going to kill a few bad aliens and a very evil bunch of AIs. WHAT? I did say they were bad.
