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Me and my dad just finished the shelves in my office.

I have a lot of boxes and I want them gone. I will start putting things in the upper shelves tomorrow.

The generator and emergency panel are working.

Yesterday, my dad installed a temporary cable to connect our generator to the emergency panel. (Until the large shed is built and has an inlet on the outside wall)

The panel has a hydro breaker letting the normal power go in and a generator breaker to which the generator is hooked up.

The way the panel is assembled, there is a piece of metal between the hydro breaker and the generator breaker so both cannot be on at the same time. (So the generator is not connected to hydro and vice-versa).

First, we started the generator. Then, we turned off the hydro breaker (the piece of metal allows both breakers to be off at the same time). Then, after a few seconds, we turned on the generator breaker.

What surprised me was that both of my UPSes accepted the power. At our old house, my single UPS simply refused the generator power and stayed on battery. This is the same generator.

My dad's theory is that there is now a constant load. At our old house, I only had my computers to power. Now, we have a water pump, water softener, UV lamp, my mom's office and a few other things.

Yay.

I have trouble putting a number on some things.

How do you feel on one to ten ? I just never know what to answer. I don't think like that.

Today, we invited my uncle, my aunt and their partners for lunch.

I really enjoyed it. Complete opposite to my sister's friends yesterday.

I guess yesterday it was more about what they were talking about than their presence that I didn't like.

Instead of making very large pages load fast, what about making smaller pages ?

It's hard to think when someone close is talking garbage.

Half an hour later and I feel much better. I guess it was too much for me.

It has been years since I have seen anyone outside of my close family.

Today, three of my sister's friends are here for dinner.

I dislike what they are saying and I hate being exposed to that. I just quickly ate and went to my room.

To me, some things are destroyed by being talked about. I like some things to not be put into words.

I have forgotten what they said, but it reminded me of how awful the "Inside Out" movie was when I first saw it ten years ago. I do not like modelling or "understanding" emotions.

I also feel they may think I am "wrong" to not be "open" about my feelings if they read this post.

Is it wrong to just want to stay alone and not talk much about myself in person ? Why would someone I don't know tell me how to live ?

Over the past few weeks, I have watched every Hell's Kitchen episode. All 23 seasons and yesterday's episode.

Now that I am watching Holmes on Homes, I feel less dumb. Go figure.

The question is not so much how we modify what we perceive, but rather if there even is something beyond what we perceive.