October 2025

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.

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.

Yesterday, me and my dad installed the bottleless water cooler in my office.

It is fed by our well. During construction of the house, my dad had a water line installed between the basement and my office on the second floor. (We also have one for the fridge on ground level)

I have been drinking bottled water for my whole life at the old house. My dad would buy large water bottles for our water cooler.

When we moved into the new house, we used the same water cooler and kept buying large water bottles for it.

I am now drinking our well water in my office. It tastes good. I will be using the bottled water in the kitchen until the last bottle is empty. Then, I will be drinking from the water dispenser of the fridge.

I just did a small electronic project.

I took the ringer from my grandmother's old 500 phone and put it in the gutted out antique phone on the garden floor.

The doorbells ring the four antique phones in the house.

We got that phone from our neighbour, kind of sad that they gutted it to hide a modern phone in it. The ringer was also broken, no continuity. So I put this ringer inside. It works great.