Another Lazy Day

Today is a Fast Day, as in no food. I think the fever & chills earlier in the week took a lot more energy out of me than I thought it did; I slept most of the day. Though I did get out of bed in the morning when the rain woke me up.

Rain at 8:52 am.

According to the Aix weather app it had forecast rain for that time of day. I took a screenshot later in the day as well since I noticed that the forecast had changed; which I know they do but I had never paid any attention to. It now no longer showed rain in the forecast until early the next morning.

At 6:44 am.

About 4 hours later.

Here is more information about the Tesla system. In the morning, when the photovoltaic panels are generating electricity, any excess energy goes to recharging the battery. Once the battery is charged, excess energy goes back to the grid & is available for use by others. For each billing period the amount sent back to the grid offsets any energy I have used from the grid, which is generally 0 kWh. At the end of the year everything goes back to 0; I have been supplying a lot of energy to the island! On the plus side, if I want to run everything with electricity plus totally air-condition the house, I should be able to easily do it! It will be interesting to see how much energy the Crosstrek will draw when I finally move there permanently. FYI On a sunny day the PV generates about 23.0 kWh.

Excess production charges the battery in the morning.

The dots on the line indicate flow direction.

Graphic representation of where power is going.

Specific data on power generation & usage.

It generates way more than I need.

Amount of time when the grid was down.

Today was a lot sunnier then Aix forecast.

Kai finally got a hold of his PCP. The doctor he spoke with said it was not meningitis; she had Kai do several things to see if increased pressure would make his headache worse, it didn't. He had a walk-in appointment for a drive-through COVID-19 test clinic; they told him he will get results back in 2 to 3 days. In the meanwhile, he is continuing to isolate himself from his roommates; so far no one else has had symptoms.

Just after lunch I got an email from Marjorie; I will be helping with the POD next Wednesday.

 

For dinner tonight I roasted some root vegetables. I chopped up the hakurei, carrots, and radishes from the CSA box, sprinkled them with olive oil, an herb & garlic mix, a little salt, & some fresh rosemary from the bush in the front yard. I also heated up some shoyu pork that The Potential Most Favorite Roommate made for dinner last night and had a salad with bacon bits.

The roasted vegetables.

I threw some roasted vegetables in the bowl with the shoyu pork.

I took 2 screenshots of the Kīlauea caldera thermal image, one in the morning, one in the evening. It looks like there was a little more activity in the evening based on a slightly larger area of heat seen in the image. I also found a helpful graphic that provides a lot of information.

There seemed to be more activity throughout the day.

This is a helpful graphic.

There were 82 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, bringing the total known cases up to 25,853. There were 3 new deaths now making the death toll 410; currently there are 1412 cases considered active. The 7-day new case average on Oʻahu is 70 with a positivity rate of 2.6%.

Kai Might Have COVID

I was awakened this morning by an IM that said, "Developed flu like symptoms last night. Fever, extreme headache, nausea." When I talked to him later in the day he still had not called his primary care physician or scheduled a COVID-19 test. But he did tell me that his neck was very stiff; which is not good. It could mean it is meningitis. Today was the 1st day of contact tracing calls I will be doing for him like I did for Eleta back in December.

I had a kale proothie this morning; it is the last of the kale from the previous CSA box. Even after nearly 3 weeks it was still in good condition; though I think it may have lost some of its nutritional value sitting in the refrigerator for that long.

When I went to get some ice cubes for my proothie I found this. The tray was frozen to the bottom of the bin. I texted The Roommates requesting that they not leave the bin directly on top of the tray. And also not to fill the tray so high it overflows when the bin is set on top of it. I have come across the bin freezing to the tray about once a week but never this badly; I had to tap the tray a couple of times to break the ice enough to get them apart. Then I had to melt ice chunks off the bottom of the bin so it would be stable. The Guilty Roommate will remain nameless at this time; if it happens again he will be shamed on social media!

As I was preparing dinner I became annoyed with the utensil storage situation. Mom insisted on keeping her most used utensils displayed in a teapot and not some Martha Stewart-style pitcher; the teapot had a lip that handles of many utensils would get caught on. I switched it out with a straight-sided cylinder with no lip that she used for tools that were infrequently used. I also sorted through those tools & pulled out the ones I know I had thought would have made a previous meal preparation a lot easier if I had the right tool! I deselected tools that neither I nor The Potential Most Favorite Roommate thought we were likely to use frequently; they went in to the teapot.

This is probably the look Mom was going for.

These are most of utensils in the teapot; rest had been used & I could not fit them back in.

The sorting process begins.

The Aix weather app forecast slight precipitation through out the day here; we just got a little sprinkle about midday and that was it until after dark. It forecast more precipitation in Kapaʻau & the Tesla app seemed to confirm that.

A slight drizzle just after lunch.

Later in the evening I received confirmation from Marjorie for the next LCC Vax 1.2 POD that I will be helping with next Tuesday. I had talked to her assistant, Ciza, earlier today & let him know I am available for all PODs so we don't have to stress out new volunteers who have never done data entry, like the women I met the other day. I did notice that none of them were on the list but 3 other people I have met, who are comfortable with data entry, were on the list. In the general announcement the Data Entry group deployment time has also now been changed to 9:30 am to 5:30 pm; everyone else is 7:30 am to 4 pm.

This is what I do.

This Kīlauea video is actually from Wednesday when I was dealing with the side effects of my 2nd COVID-19 vaccine. The still photos are from today.

The LG had a fairly upbeat weekly update this week. He has also made a proposal to open up travel more based on the amount of people vaccinated here in the state. He said there are now over 120,000 doses of vaccine that has been administered here; he said we are 1 of 2 states that have vaccinated more people than those who have contracted COVID-19 in the state.

There were 115 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, bringing the total known cases up to 25,656. There was 1 new death reported raising the death toll to 407; currently there are 1501 active cases. The 7-day new case average for Oʻahu is 79 with a 2.9% positivity rate.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e John, Maggie, & Kathy!

Back to Normal

Sort of. My temperature when I got up in the morning to use the bathroom and move my car was closer to my normal morning temperature on waking. But I did not sleep restfully last night; every time I turned over to my left side I would wake up because my arm was still hypertonic.

About half a degree higher than what I normally am at in the morning.

When I moved the car, the weather was a little cloudy. But I did not notice any signs of precipitation.

Twenty-five minutes after sunrise. It's recyclables pick-up day.

I went back to sleep after forwarding the Zoom meeting link from Dad's estate attorney Rowen to Curtis. It was for a meeting at 2 pm today. I also asked Curtis to call me at 1:30 to make sure I was awake. I must have been really tired; when he called he said I had answered on the 4th call he made! There are now a couple more things I need to add to the list of things to do to settle Dad's estate. FYI I think it is a good idea to get an estate attorney involved early on to reduce your tax liability at a later date; Rowen had a lot of good advice about ways the tax code allows for the reduction of taxes. He said it is because the people passing the legislation want to be able to pass along as much of their money to their beneficiaries as possible!

I don't really know what the Aix weather app forecast for this morning; I was not lucid enough to remember to take a screenshot of it after I moved the car so all you are seeing below is what happened after I woke up for the meeting with the attorney. It seemed fairly accurate for the time I was awake. Not really sure what it showed for Kapaʻau either, but the Tesla app showed there was much less insolation after about 11 am.

The repatriation of American Samoans stranded here is working as planned; 5 cases of COVID-19 were detected while those scheduled to be on the 1st monthly flight were housed in a hotel set aside for the program. Those who tested positive were removed to an isolation hotel to keep it from spreading to others waiting to return home; there will be another round of tests on Sunday for people waiting to board the plane. The total isolation period will be 10 days before they are allowed to board the plane; when they land they have to complete another 14 day quarantine and more tests. The measures are in place to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak in American Samoa which has limited healthcare resources. There are an estimate 1400 to 1500 registered for the repatriation program; I spoke with 2 of them earlier in the month who had come here last year for medical tests and got stranded.

 

There were 100 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, bringing the total known cases up to 25,541. There were also 2 new deaths reported, bringing the death toll up to 406; the current cases considered to be active is 1539. The 7-day average of new cases on Oʻahu is 82 with a 3.0% positivity rate. 

 

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Dave, Jerry, & Suzi!