Everyone comes to education on different topics in their own time, but the immediate condemnation from your date without understanding would have turned me off. I'm thankful to have one partner fully in support of BTC. My other partner is freedom minded in some aspects, but has a mental hurdle with money not insured by FDIC. She is not ready for that level of freedom yet but also not dismissive in the same tone. I'll count myself lucky. Good luck to you!

I want to heat a cargo trailer to keep my supplies from freezing, maybe make it warm enough to work in. It’s got to be electric to be left on and unattended. If I'm just burning watts, perhaps I should put them to good use at the same time and mine some bitcoin.

Anyone have recommendations for a mining rig for such a purpose? I probably have 3000 Watts to play with, but I also need the abilty to ramp down when running my compressor. Is there a setup that can sense power demand and throttle back before the circuit breaker trips?

(circuit breakers being thermally driven, I know there is some time lag there).

#bitcoin #mining

Do you watch NFL football? Not Fuckin' Likely

As with any education people come to it in their own time. Keep cool and stack on, but don't stop providing info

I want some of that 3¢/kWh power! Any Chinese investors want to set up a collocation facility? My power rates are at 17¢/kWh and slated for an 18% increase!

For my business, I need a way to pay various bills either via ACH or mailed check that will cover a bill denoted in USD but settle out of my BTC stash. Then I could reduce dependency on my business bank account while still paying suppliers that only take USD.

Civil disobedience from everyone. Do what is moral in a free and fair exchange and let the IRS go screw. This is the only remaining avenue left to free individuals.

Imagine thinking the pervasive and insidious tyranny we live under should be accepted without struggle because it could be worse.

First blower door test. How did that result happen?!? That’s Passive House level! Certainly well above my target of “better than we used to build”

This is our 2nd new construction using Zip-R sheathing and trying to build an air-tight enclosure. It is our first blower door test except trying it on our own homes. 7ACH on the 1990s construction, 17ACH on the 1912 house. I’ve double checked the volume numbers of 36723 cuft which is the biggest determiner of the ACH number. We were blowing 350 CFM to hit our 50PA so we do seem on the right order.

Caveats to the test. We sealed all duct penetrations at the exterior duct terminus (makeup air, laundry, HRV). Not all of these are hooked up yet so the eventual dampers may not have been ready. Once HVAC rough-in is complete we will retest and sealing the interior of laundry vents or undampered fresh air intakes. But otherwise allow air leakage through exterior connected ducting to occur.

Also electrical and hose bibb penetrations are not yet complete.

This is monopoly framing. Fully encapsulated crawl and attic space.

18 sq in. Equivalent hole @ 4 Pa.

#newconstruction #construction #generalcontractor #investorlab #realestateinvestor #keepthecraftalive #yamhillvalley #framing #buildingscience #blowerdoor #carltonoregon #passivehouse

“Debt-fueled mass consumption is as much a normal part of capitalism as asphyxiation is a normal part of respiration.” — Saifedean Ammous

What a mess Keynes has made of our world. Adjust your time preference and restore valuing things other than consumption in your own life.

Seemed like a timely quote to come across in my reading tonight. Merry Christmas.

Now imagine adjusting it to the M3!

What bugs me is that Hollywood guns make a noise when you point them. Sometimes it’s a slide being racked without anyone touching it, sometimes it’s just a click, but it’s rarely silent.

From the Oregon Dept. of Justice today: “A new Oregon requirement … takes effect on January 1, 2024. … We will send additional information about how you can begin complying with the new law in the spring of 2024.”

So helpful, we’ll tell you how to comply 5 months after the law takes effect. Why bother? Just take your new law print it out on tissue paper on a 4” roll and we’ll use it for all its worth!

I should add TP to my shopping list…

I just had to troubleshoot a tenants unit. It was spinning in high but not in low. And the control panel I suspect as being the culprit is of course no longer available. So I guess it’s time for a new one.

I left my engineering desk job for real estate. I love building stuff so am a bags on builder everyday but working for myself; either to keep as a rental or sell after construction. Started in remodeling but am now doing new construction. Loving it, while growing a portfolio and taking enough income to be comfortable.

Thinking about being more of a lender in the next 7-10 years when my current development projects run out and my body asks to not be a carpenter daily. Not there yet.

I feel your pain while also being insulated from it. My work is almost all on spec, and the retail market on houses keeps rising given the huge demand and the challenges Oregon keeps putting in the path of development. So I’m able to absorb most cost increases without affecting my bottom line, it just gets past on to the end home buyer.

But skilled labor is typically less skilled and yet 25% more than it was 3 years ago. And of course subcontractors costs keep going up. I’m not a big enough GC to use a sub more than twice a year typically, so never feel I have enough pull to argue their pricing. Plus I’d rather have 1 or 2 I trust to price me fairly than to constantly be chasing the lowest bid.

If I can’t budget the price I’d rather reduce scope than try to crush someone else’s margins. But I get most GCs can’t operate that way and so are going to demand you absorb those costs internally.

You’re not in Oregon are you? I’ve got a bunch of flat work needed on my current job. We do our own form work before framing, so I know what’s happening to material and labor costs, but I don’t have the skills to make it look good on the flat.

We are the carbon they wish to sequester.

Took the gator out to the back field and spent 10 min picking the plums I could reach from the ground. I could bring a ladder back, or spend more time, but do I need a bigger haul for 2023?

Time for some lamb and plum couscous for dinner, some for munching on and the rest to turn into prunes. Also, have I mentioned my jobsite in Carlton has a plum tree? Been munching everyday.

#foodforest #permaculture #yamhillcounty #yamhillvalley #homesteadlife #grownostr

Poor Felix got attacked by a blackberry in his mane.

Come frame with us in the rain in Oregon. Even the best tapes don’t last more than 4 months. Even trying to wipe them dry of wet and sawdust everyday and give them a full pullout and rinse off weekly.

Eventually you just choose a brand where you only need to buy 3 a year and you like everything else about it. And since they nearly always break in the first foot, nobody takes my 35’ out of the trailer unless laying out a room over 25’. Milwaukees have had the best feel for me, but every now and then I’ll try some brands new “advanced coating” to see if I can get a tape to last all winter.