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We have a contract for solar installation that says "late March". The project manager started writing to us about a late December install. I wrote back that we were expecting installation in "late March." And they wrote back a bunch of "but our project schedule." AITA for writing our sales contact "What is going on? I feel like i am being treated like a project and not a customer"? I talked to our sales contact, and they noted the person was new, so hopefully the project manager received some gentle coaching on customer communications. I now have a message from the project manager, "Please note that there will be no movement on your project until January 2023 to allow our design team & project management to move forward with installs; to be completed by 2022." Which, as the sales guy points out, is better for them (as many customers, i'm sure, want to get the 30% tax rebate next year). I replied with my thanks. I feel frustration coming through the project manager's messages, they seem to want to understand. But hey, no, i don't need to explain.
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Finding beech nuts on the massive beech trees at Town Lake Park. Should i eat them or plant them? Glorious huge trees.
My vinegar has a mother! Last weekend i siphoned the liquid out from between the sediment at the bottom and "Kahm yeast," a less than desirable layer of yeast that grows on the surface. I was hoping such an exercise might mean i'd avoid the growth again. Then i saw a little something at the place where the fig-vinegar-to-be meets the air and the jar: more yeast growth? Sigh. Later i held it up to the light, and it looked different. Unlike the yeast which forms a film on top and cracks and tears with a slight slosh, this undulated. This is pure figs and water and environmental microbiotic critters, oh right, and purchased yeast. The first batch i had been more ad hoc with me jumbling a variety of advice into the mix. It's in the fridge as i was tired of fighting kahm yeast. I've used it with tahini for a sauce for roasted brussels sprouts and to "deglaze" a pan after making a tofu rice scramble. It's OK there. I begin to ponder accumulating a jar of fruit bits in a mush in the fridge to ferment and make more home made vinegar.
Less excited about wire worm damage in the first sweet potatoes i have harvested. I really need to get beneficial nematodes and whatever that stuff is that fights Japanese beetle into the soil. Along with a ton of amendments. Bah.
Excited about:
Finding beech nuts on the massive beech trees at Town Lake Park. Should i eat them or plant them? Glorious huge trees.
My vinegar has a mother! Last weekend i siphoned the liquid out from between the sediment at the bottom and "Kahm yeast," a less than desirable layer of yeast that grows on the surface. I was hoping such an exercise might mean i'd avoid the growth again. Then i saw a little something at the place where the fig-vinegar-to-be meets the air and the jar: more yeast growth? Sigh. Later i held it up to the light, and it looked different. Unlike the yeast which forms a film on top and cracks and tears with a slight slosh, this undulated. This is pure figs and water and environmental microbiotic critters, oh right, and purchased yeast. The first batch i had been more ad hoc with me jumbling a variety of advice into the mix. It's in the fridge as i was tired of fighting kahm yeast. I've used it with tahini for a sauce for roasted brussels sprouts and to "deglaze" a pan after making a tofu rice scramble. It's OK there. I begin to ponder accumulating a jar of fruit bits in a mush in the fridge to ferment and make more home made vinegar.
Less excited about wire worm damage in the first sweet potatoes i have harvested. I really need to get beneficial nematodes and whatever that stuff is that fights Japanese beetle into the soil. Along with a ton of amendments. Bah.
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