 which was fine. So I took a Benadryl and lay down. By this morning, the effects are gone. I guess no more Mr. Wang's for me. I've had MSG side effects before, so I pretty much knew what it was. But it was still scary. I almost called 911. Glad now that I didn't.
So anyway, here are some of the fantastic quilts feature at yesterday's guild meeting.
I also hung my "Hootie Bunch" (Owls) quilt. But I've shown it so many times already, I'll didn't include it here. Again, I forgot to take my Nikon to the meeting, so I had to use my iPhone for picture taking--which, as you can see, I haven't got the hang of yet.
It will be one week tonight since my Sophie passed away. I haven't felt like doing much of anything these days. On one day, I think it was Thursday or maybe Friday, Andy and I picked up Sophie's remains and brought her home. Then we had lunch at Cracker Barrel. Yesterday, I watched the Bama game (they beat Miss State) while I finished binding the Owl quilt then quilted a little on the Trick or Tree quilt. My sister and I had tentative plans to go to church this morning, but she has a cold now, and I don't care to go alone. So maybe I'll sew some more today. Or do laundry. Or go back to bed.
Thanks for all your continued notes of condolence. You're the best.
This is the first time I've been in the sewing room since, last Friday or Saturday. This week is one I wish I never had to remember but which I know I'll never forget.
First of course, my sweet Sophie passed away on Sunday night around midnight. I was able to sleep for about 2 hour on Sunday night.
On Monday morning, Andy and I took Sophie's little body up to Dr. Rachel's for cremation. A hard, hard trip.
Then before I could even start to recover from that, it was Election Day. I had looked forward to that day with so much excitement. I was going to vote for the first woman president of the United States. I was going to dedicate my vote to all the awesome women in my life who had helped mold me.
I did vote, but not with joy and not with celebration. The loss of Sophie was still too much with me.
On Tuesday night, I watched the returns--and darkness descended. As I'm sure you all know by now, about 1/4 of the voters in this country gave us an inexperienced, immoral buffoon to hold the office of POTUS #45. One-half of the registered voters didn't vote, and about 1/4 voted for Secretary Clinton. (Actually Secretary Clinton received about a quarter million more votes than Donald, but they didn't fall in the right states for them to count.) It was inconceivable to me that America had elected a man who just a few years ago was a reality show joke, a man America loved to hate. That night, I didn't sleep at all.
But last night Skipper and I went to bed early, I read for a while, then went to sleep at a reasonable hour. Almost three days with no sleep finally did me in. I am still shakey, very shakey, today; but I feel like I'm recovering from Sophie's loss, if not the election disaster.
So to keep sane, I have sworn off any tv news until Trump is history or I am dead, whichever comes first. And I am going to throw myself into quilt making and book reading to keep my mind busy.
Thank you all for your kind condolences and words of love to me and the other furbies. I can tell that Skipper and Taco miss Sophie. Taco has started coming to me and lying on my chest for petting, and Skipper is even more clingy than usual. Bella? Well she's just still her same old antisocial self.
This is a hard post to write. It will be short. On Sunday night, just before midnight, my dear sweet Sophie passed from this life and went to be with her PopPop.  It seems her poor little body just wore out. The house seems empty without her. But she'll live in my heart for the rest of my days.Hmmm interesting..... Considering this was something where you actually traveled to another world where you've been in a past life or well just another life in general I have no clue what to say...

I mean what you did is amazing no matter how you did that but, at the same time it comes with the obvious feeling of being stuck in a false world right now, which is obviously pretty shit. And I am sorey for that but look at it this way you're technically not living a lie you much rather lived two lifes right now and now it's on you what you do with this information.Integrated building energy systems design considering...... design considering storage...
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storage technologies. To satisfy the site’s objective of minimiz- ing energy costs, the batteries have to be charged by grid power during off -peak hours instead of PV during on-peak hours. In contrast, we also show a CO2 minimization strategy where the common assumption that batteries can be charged by PV can be fulfi lled at extraordinarily high energy costs for the site.
Introduction A microgrid is defi ned as a cluster of electricity sources and (possibly controllable) loads in one or more locations that are connected to the traditional wider power system, or macrogrid, but which may, as circumstances or economics dictate, discon- nect from it and operate as an ‘island’, at least for short periods (see Microgrid Symposium 2005, 2006, and Hatziargyriou et al. 2007). Th e successful deployment of microgrids will de- pend heavily on the economics of distributed energy resources (DER) in general, and upon the early success of small clusters of mixed technology generation, grouped with storage, and controllable loads. If clear economic, environmental, and utility system benefi ts from such early projects are realized, momen- tum can propel the adoption of added microgrid capabilities as well as precipitate the regulatory adjustments necessary to allow widespread microgrid introduction.
CHP applications particularly have not hitherto been well de- veloped.
Th is paper reports on the latest eff orts intended to insert CO2 minimization, as well as storage (both electrical and thermal), capabilities into the microgrid analysis on a building level. In previous work, the Berkeley Lab has developed the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM), (Siddiqui et al. 2003). Its optimization techniques fi nd both the combination of equipment and its operation over a typical year that minimize the site’s total energy bill or CO2 emissions, typically for electricity plus natural gas purchases, as well as amortized equipment purchases. Th e chosen equipment and its schedule should be economically attractive to a single site or to members of a microgrid consisting of a cluster of sites, and it should be subsequently analyzed in more engineering and fi nancial detail (Stadler et al. 2006).
A common assumption in the scientifi c community is that photovoltaic (PV) and batteries can supplement each other and contribute to less CO2 emissions since renewable energy could be stored in the battery and used during night hours. We will pay special attention to that assumption and show that it is a very rough assumption and that it neglects important eco- nomic boundaries. Additionally, current piece meal practices in system design are not very useful to fi nd the optimal solu- tion. Th e energy fl ows in a building are complex enough that it is not possible to fi nd the best economic as well as environ- mental solution by trial-and-error approaches, and therefore, integrated approaches that consider the whole set of possible technologies are necessary. Th us, to access the impact on stor- age, PV, as well as solar thermal system adoption, two nursing homes, one in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in NYC are investigated with DER-CAM.
The Distributed Energy Resources – Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM) DER-CAM (Stadler et al. 2008) is a mixed-integer linear pro- gram (MILP) written and executed in the General Algebraic Modelling System (GAMS). Its objective is to minimize the annual costs or CO2 emissions for providing energy services to the modelled site, including utility electricity and natural gas purchases, amortized capital and maintenance costs for dis- tributed generation (DG) investments. Th e approach is fully technology-neutral and can include energy purchases, on-site conversion, both electrical and thermal on-site renewable har- vesting, and end-use effi ciency investments1. Furthermore, the system choice considers the simultaneity of the building cool- ing problem; that is, results refl ect the benefi t of displacement of electricity demand by heat-activated cooling that lowers build- ing peak load and, therefore, the generation requirement.
1. End-use effi ciency investments, which are currently under design, are not considered in this paper (see also Marnay 2008 and Stadler 2008b).
2. Three different day-long profi les are used to represent the set of daily profi les for each month: weekday, peak day, and weekend day. DER-CAM assumes that three weekdays of each month are peak days.
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