GM, #nostriches! Merry Mother's Day to all of you lovely mothers and mothers-to-be!!! We wouldn't be here without you. 😁💚🫂🎉

In other news:

RV toilets are kinda annoying. The seal on mine started leaking, which started letting fumes from the black tank through. Which was gross. But, being that I'm dumb, I didn't look up how to replace the seal until last night and I figured I'd pull the seal to clean it up since I have noticed some mineral buildup that's not easy to clean and figured that might be the cause of at least some of the leaking. Thankfully, I have a Dometic brand toilet, so I can access the seal without having to pull the ceramic bowl apart like the vastly inferior Thetford toilets. So I did. And gosh, the seal was crusty. (I'm not showing pics because it's gross and I had gloves on. Yuck!) I cleaned up the seal and reinstalled it after cleaning the ball valve as well as I could, too. So far, no leaks!

I also figured out the parts I needed to finish out the battery box build for my 5kWh battery pack. The next few days won't be producing much solar, so I have the system disconnected for the moment. This spring has mostly been cold and wet, so it will still be a while until I can add the next set of roof mounts for the next two solar panels. I want to wait until the average temperatures are above the application temperature for the roof sealant. That's rather important to prevent leaks.

I've also been annoyed at trying to install umbrel on proxmox. With the latest version of umbrel, it is not possible to use the previous easier method of installing umbrel via the terminal in proxmox. You have to set it up as it's own OS via an ISO image, which means I'm trying to find out how to pass through a USB stick to a VM in proxmox and that's not going well. I could just ditch proxmox and install umbrel on my tiny PC, but, that's less useful to me, I think.

I hope you heave all had a restful and pleasant weekend! Be well!

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