116 holidays and post boomers

From: starstuffharvestingstarlight [e-mail] Date: 2010-08-30 20:04:44 Title: holidays and post boomers

after a short holiday, i came back to our place, overflowing with guests again. a lot of people from boom festival. the boom crowd has been a revelation to me (thanks T.). a lot of interesting, beautiful people, something that the underground scenes i've been part of lack terribly. i may have been part of the wrong scene for a while and missing out.

D gave me great feedback on how people were taking care of the guests. slowly, but surely, openness comes. i think the main issue is language. there are small conflicts because of misunderstandings, which then develop into full conflicts for no reason. but actually, it's been pretty good. the guys started cleaning up and getting the first floor ready, and also put gas in the generator (for the first time). they are also taking better care of our guests, a great improvement in my view. we still face the usual self centered mindset, but it is evolving positively. 6 months, it's about time, right? at least the coke high is being used productively.

i guess even though i extensively explain the differences between solar and gas, clean and dirty energy, it doesn't register, since what matters is cold beer. so now that we have a generator, it will be used often for such things. but since i chose not to put gas in the generator, it also makes everyone aware of the energy they spend, and how much that amounts to in the end of the month. in fact, if we were to have electricity all day using the generator, it would be somewhere around 400€ a month.

my choice to put a generator up was to fast-forward the concert infrastructure. if musicians bring their amps, we can have gigs now with cold beer.

as for the solar energy, i've been lazy. i should finish the new panel i have in the works. our first DIY panel is now giving less power, due to a broken cell. i tried to move it for efficiency, ended up fucking it up. we're back to about 80W of power, which works on sunny days, but definitely doesn't for future days.

godspeed starstuff ☆★☆☆★★★☆☆☆☆☆