As with so much else up here on the mountain, every project I tackle ultimately winds up tackling me. In fact my project eyes tend to be much larger than my belly of knowledge, though my stubborn streak and dogged perseverance tends to save me from myself more often than I care to admit.
Still....I try to follow the golden rule of life, one which has served me quite well. When I finally look around and find myself in a hole, the golden rule is to stop digging and climb back out. Thankfully I usually follow that advice.
This article is the first in a series to be posted over the next several weeks describing the hole I dug while designing and installing the first phase of our photovoltaic power system. Subsequent chapters with go into much greater detail about each section of the system. Please join me for chapter one.
What do you do when your opponent won’t play by the rules? Worse, what do you do when your loan ‘partner’ (aka ‘debtor’) declares Calvinball, where the only rule is there are no rules, and proceeds to go off the deep end? The result, to put it mildly, is utter chaos, at least for those who expect the (self serving) rules to be adhered to. After all, the central bankers’ henchmen admonish, we’re all civilized here. So come back to the table and play nice. “Do it for the kids,” they plead - the epitome of hypocrisy since their stacked deck and tilted playing field does precisely the opposite. Continue reading Yanis Varoufakis: The Straw That Breaks the Ponzi’s Back?→
This year has raced by - as in ‘Time flies when you’re having fun’. To tell the truth we were taken by surprise when we realized Two Ice Floes was coming up on its one year anniversary. On the one hand it feels like we are just getting started with where we would like to see this website go. But on the other it is hard to believe it has only been a year since we entered TIF mode with you our readers, acquaintances and new friends.
Even as we continue to discuss this initial mile marker and all its ramifications, we are both quite pleased with our efforts thus far and the path TIF has travelled during its first year. Most of all we feel fortunate to be in a place and time where such a diverse group of kind and thoughtful people can find each other to kibitz and share ideas. What we would give for the opportunity to gather all of us in the same room for a day or evening banquet in order to meet one another and have the opportunity to marvel at our unique group. Continue reading Two Ice Floes – The First Year→
