Capitalism.

But not Hercules. Which is my default after my Makita stuff got stolen out of a work truck.

No lynx native to my area. But a bobcat is always an option. Some legends tell of cougars. I can always hope.

The guy who just made a billion dollars with the metal clawed Canadian dude.

We had four cats die within a year. All orange boys.

Then one day I get a call from a place I'm doing Trap Neuter Release. Some mom just dropped three kids on a porch. I go grab the kids and set a trap for mom. I get the kids home. Three orange girls, two are bobtails. I've been on the hunt for an orange girl for years. Jackpot.

Really hoping we get mom because these are bottle babies. Get mom. Orange girl with even less tail.

I know I'm probably keeping mom no matter how feral she is. Definitely one of the kids too.

Time to make the decision. Which kid to keep. Wife vetoes me. We are keeping them all. Plus two more orange girls that will show up over the year. I have six orange girls. Probably more than anyone on the east coast. So much foster fail. So few braincells.

Eventually tame mom after 12 months and multiple attempts on my life. So many orange girls.

I picked up a Kill A Watt that shows peak usage so I can make sure the CA is rated correctly.

Thank you for the input on batteries. This has me conflicted because if there is just one battery and it fails the system dies. But if I have multiple batteries and just keone fails the system still dies and I have to replace every battery anyway since you can't mix and match. But that last option has more cables needed.

I have a basic handyman electrical kit so I can crimp standard household gauges 10 and smaller wires but will eventually have to get crimps for heavier cables.

I'd love a calculator where you plug in how many watts you need at a given volts and it tells you the inverter size, battery capacity including cranking amps and solar cell wattage for a given zip code so that I can minimize the amount of manual math needed.

And at what size system do I need a cooling fan? And how big does that fan need to be?

An issue we have this week is the hurricane. Multiple people on Facebook looking for a place to sleep that has power so they can run their CPAP. Any system capable of charging a tool battery (essential for chainsaws after a storm) is more than capable of running a CPAP overnight. And with a tool battery adapter you can charge a cell phone.

In my state I can both own a flame thrower and kangaroos. I have no plans at this time.

I foster extra spicy kittens and tame them so they can be adopted. Each time one bites me I think about how I have almost no insurance and this could be the one that unalives me. Those puncture bites are amazing. This little predator weighing less than 1% what I do can do me in with just their teeth.

My pet geese are so much safer.

The problems I have with that:

1. most power tools do not have 12v chargers
2. that limits the ability to charge multiple types of tool batteries without having a dedicated 12v charger for each brand of batteries. I want to be able to plug in a Makita, Hercules or DeWalt charger into the inverter so that I'm not brand locked.
3. if the 12v too battery charger dies the whole system is useless. By plugging a standard AC charger into the inverter you can pull a backup charger you pick up at a pawn shop and just plug it in.

The co creator of Deadpool, the guy that can't draw feet, the guy that obsessively draws pouches.

How did we get this many comments without a single Rob Liefeld reference?

Excellent

For a bit and then a rapid drop. The point is that crime rates have been crashing since the 90s and these people keep telling us that crime is up. They either don't know that or they are lying to us to knowingly manipulate people and not enough of them get called out on it.

Reminder: crime is at an all time low.

They play soccer on weekends.

I did IT for decades. I absolutely refuse to own a printer. I would rather drive to the library or UPS store on the rare occasion I need to print something than to have one of these gremlin habitats in my house.

Spotcliff?