Satellite and Santa, If I didn’t step in, Pulled back from the brink

Yesterday I documented my thoughts on finally getting satellite maps for my Tesla along with my first real world use of Santa mode.

So during the day I once again called into the electric company to see if they received the email with required documentation to initiate the connection of my solar system to the grid.  Once again they said they had not received anything.  Prior to making the call I asked the construction manager to forward me the email he sent in which was dated last Thursday.  While I was on hold waiting for them to check to see if they got the email, just for the heck of it I resent the email from my email account.  Within 10 seconds I received a bounce error saying that the file attachments were too big.  Um, ok….problem identified.

The LCEC email system has a relatively small 10 meg file attachment limit.  10 meg used to be the standard maybe a decade ago but certainly not now.  Regardless, the construction manager should have received the exact same bounce message when he sent it on Thursday.  Perhaps he was too computer ignorant to act on it but I still found this frustrating.  If I would have not gotten involved we would have just been sitting here with nothing happening for days or even weeks, waiting for a response to an email that was never delivered.

I broke the attachments apart, splitting them into three separate emails to keep the attachment size down.  They were delivered successfully and a couple hours later I received a confirmation that the plans had no been submitted to the LCEC solar designer for approval.  The email said it could take 10-15 business days for the two way meter to be installed, more than the week the guy told me on the phone but less than the month the construction manager told me.  I am hoping LCEC under promises and over delivers, allowing me to get hooked up to the sun before Xmas or at least before the calendar flips to a new year.

So I watched the Eagles game last night.  It was downright atrocious for the majority of the time.  I laid on the couch emotionless and expressionless the entire game until the very end when I finally cracked a smile.  For the second week in a row the Eagles were poised to lose to an awful team, the Giants who had lost 8 games in a row.  Eli Manning had his first start in 10 games and he had a monster first half throwing for around 200 yards with two TD’s, putting the Eagles down 17-3 after another sputtering and hapless half of football by the offense.  Carson Wentz played with no confidence.  The receiving core which was already razor thin got even thinner when Jeffries got hurt, again.  By the end of the game their starting wide receivers was a guy that played QB in college, a rookie that caught six balls all year and some guy named Perkins.

The Eagles season which was already a dumpster fire looked like it was ready to be a dumpster fire pushed off a bridge if they managed to lose this game.  Slowly they started to move the ball.  On offense the Giants stopped moving the ball.  It was funny/sad that when Jalen Mills went out with some injury I actually felt better about the Eagles on defense, the guy is a walking time bomb IMO.

I talked last week about how there has been a disturbing lack of pressure performances on Carson Wentz’s resume.  Well last night I give him credit he finally had one.  Not only did he get the TD to tie the game late in the 4th quarter, in overtime he drove the team 75 yards straight down the field decisively to win the game.  He got it done when adversity was on his doorstep.

Now having to pull out all stops to beat a 2-9 team at home doesn’t say much about the long term viability of the Eagles.  My hope is that actually performing in the crunch for the first time in a long time instead of just talking about it gets this team’s head out of it’s collective ass.  Their wide receiving corp is decimated at this point, I’m not sure what they can do about it this late in the season.  Maybe Carson can give Nick Foles a call to get some advice on how to pull a teams ass out of the fire and win big games when it matters the most at the end of a season.  He did it twice.

Man I am tired….