That sounds like its worth wile even with the huge outlay up front. I don't know if you had the cash or if you had to take out a loan for it. that would be a pretty substantial loan.
I live up in New England and I dont use nearly as much electricity per month as you. Ive considered solar pannels myself, but it isn't as obvious a deal as it is for you (though with electricity going up and the cost of pannels going down, it will get there).
The two things I wonder are: 1) what do you do when you need to replace your roof? Around here roofs don't last 25 years.
2) for people who live in snowy areas, how does one clean off the pannels, do you have to climb up there after every storm or just accept that you don't get any power when there is snow up there?
I personally, as an IT geek who isn't even making above the local average for my trade, can afford a single family 1,200 sq foot house with a fenced yard (and a garage) that is a mile away from a subway line.
If I was willing to live further outside the city it would be cheaper.
Of course I don't have a kid to support so if your talking about 1 person supporting a wife and kid and a house then you do have to move a bit further into the suburbs.
As for living in Boston itself, your right, that's really expensive, but then almost nobody lives "in" Boston because it is a commuter city. Its also very very small, most cities in the US have a land area that is equal to the entire Greater Boston Area.
Boston is expensive, but the pay is good. Also, housing prices are way down from where they were 5 years ago when the market was totally crazy.
Depends on the life span of the panels. If its not longer than the loan itself then you are barely making anything off of it.
Also, since its a house, you have to consider resale. If the loan is 10 years and the panels last 10 years it might be a reasonable investment even if you barely make anything off of it. But if you don't get half the value of the panels back when selling after 5 years, its definitely not worth it.
I thought when the grid went down that synced panel set ups just cut them selves off from the grid, not that they cut them selves off from powering your home.
Anyone who is worried about walking in Somerville after dark has spent too much of their life in the middle of nowhere. Somerville is just the place that students and artists and hard working Brazilian immigrants live because Cambridge is too damn expensive.
There are plenty of things to complain about with Somerville but its not a dangerous place to live. Davis Sq is one of the nicer spots in the greater Boston area for night life.
talk to your wife about getting a non hormonal IUD. They are fantastic. None of the side effects or hormones plus your wife will still have those ovulation weeks when she really wants sex.
I get where your coming from, but variety is the spice of life.
I dont have sex with my partner twice every day, though the average might work out somewhat close to that.
Sometimes a quicky in the morning before work is really nice. Sure its only 10 minutes, but its fun and puts you both in a good mood. Other times, a nice hour long sex session can be nice, especially before bed, if everything runs very smoothly it might not even go quite that long... but other times it can go longer with more orgasms.
Occasionally you want to take your time so you bust out the toys and go for a 2-3 hour marathon.
And sometimes, if you've got an awesome partner, you just get a nice blow job while you watch the baseball game.
Actually, condoms are not 100% effective at preventing the spread of HPV. Its not clear if they help at all or not since HPV can be transmitted between patches of skin that condoms don't cover.
Women should really get vaccinated against the strains of HPV for which vaccinations are available. Men should too, but the vaccine is not yet approved for men. You can find places that will give it to you if you pay out of pocket, but insurance wont cover it for men, only women.
It depends. In some cases this can be a boon, but its also possible to take too long to get off. Once your partner has gotten off (possibly multiple times) and your still banging away for 20 minutes trying to get yourself off... well they get a bit sick of it and natural lubrication tends to wane causing chafing and discomfort.
It can be an issue, but its probably not as common a problem as men getting off to quickly.
Really? I find lifestyles to be terrible and they always seem too tight and I'm not a magnum user.
I use Okamoto Beyond 7, I find they fit well and are the least invasive. Ive considered trying out the kimono's, people I know who use them like them a lot.
Your right that this does work, but not entirely because you are being rude.
What matters is that, you have your own life. She doesn't have this image of you sitting at home waiting for her call, you are out, doing your own thing, living your own life and she is too. Sure, there are things you share but not every minute of every day.
Being hyper attentive often comes across as smothering, women don't like that... men don't either. Its important to avoid loosing yourself in a relationship.
There is a balance to maintain between being totally aloof (which will eventually get old and she will find someone who pays a bit more attention) and being hyper attentive. It sounds like you have found that, but your comment could lead someone to just try being a dick. While this might get you laid initially, if your goal is a long term relationship, its just not maintainable.
Lister: Sometimes, I think it's cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once bought a pair of shoes with Artificial Intelligence. 'Smart Shoes' they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they could always get you home. But he got rattled one night in Oslo and woke up the next morning in Burma. You see, his shoes got bored going from his local to his flat. They wanted to see the world, you know. He had a hell of a job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they'd show up again the next day. He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down.
Rimmer: Is this true? Lister: Yeah. The last thing I heard, they sort of... robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn't steer, you see.
Rimmer: Really?
Lister: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away about it. He went to see a priest. The priest told him... he said it was alright and all that, when shoes are happy that they'd get into heaven. You see, it turns out shoes have 'soles'.
Rimmer: Ah, what a sad story. Wait a minute. [Thinks for a minute] Rimmer: How did they open the car door?
Personally I hate the fact that I need a facebook account to keep up wiht friends I live within a few miles of.
One of my friends recently got engaged. Ive known this guy for 15+ years. We have always been close, we traveled to Europe together. He is part of a tight knit group of friends who have known each other since high school. I see him fairly regularly, once ever couple of weeks at least.
How did he inform his 5-10 oldest friends that he had chosen to take a major step in his life. Did he call them, did he put together a small email detailing how he proposed and so forth? No... he updated his fucking facebook relationship status.
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
I mean sure, that's a reasonable way for your freshman year roommate who you haven't seen in person for 5 years to find out that you are engaged, but your close friends, you cant even put together a couple of sentences and send out an email?
I get the appeal of these sites, I do. Its a great way to maintain minimal contact with people you wouldn't usually see or keep track of. To keep a tenuous thread of communication open where it otherwise would have failed. The problem is, it doesn't stop there. It encourages all communication to go through this source and people start thinking of their friends as names on a screen rather than people they see.
Sure, you don't have to be a punk like he was... but the existence and use of these sites certainly encourages people to do just that.
Could this correlate to an increase in unemployment? I know when I was unemployed I spent a lot more time on the internet in general. Not so much on social networking sites, but they weren't nearly as popular back then.
very true, which is why we have breathalyzers that show how intoxicated someone is on their prescription drugs.
oh... wait... we don't?
How ever do we manage.
Sure, its illegal to drive high, but there was a time when we couldn't tell how drunk someone was either. Prohibition wasn't a good idea then and it isn't a good idea now.
there are plenty of short term mental illnesses that require treatment to get better. Sometimes they can be treated without chemicals (like the spa, or behavior therapy). Just because they are correctable instead of just treatable doesn't mean they aren't mental illnesses.
if only we could balance that out by somehow making some of those things dark. Its a shame that once you paint something white you can never paint it black again.
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That sounds like its worth wile even with the huge outlay up front. I don't know if you had the cash or if you had to take out a loan for it. that would be a pretty substantial loan.
I live up in New England and I dont use nearly as much electricity per month as you. Ive considered solar pannels myself, but it isn't as obvious a deal as it is for you (though with electricity going up and the cost of pannels going down, it will get there).
The two things I wonder are:
1) what do you do when you need to replace your roof? Around here roofs don't last 25 years.
2) for people who live in snowy areas, how does one clean off the pannels, do you have to climb up there after every storm or just accept that you don't get any power when there is snow up there?
I personally, as an IT geek who isn't even making above the local average for my trade, can afford a single family 1,200 sq foot house with a fenced yard (and a garage) that is a mile away from a subway line.
If I was willing to live further outside the city it would be cheaper.
Of course I don't have a kid to support so if your talking about 1 person supporting a wife and kid and a house then you do have to move a bit further into the suburbs.
As for living in Boston itself, your right, that's really expensive, but then almost nobody lives "in" Boston because it is a commuter city. Its also very very small, most cities in the US have a land area that is equal to the entire Greater Boston Area.
Boston is expensive, but the pay is good. Also, housing prices are way down from where they were 5 years ago when the market was totally crazy.
but you would get that even if the team wasn't winning championships, unless they really really sucked.
Of course if they did suck, that would be counted as a big negative.
Depends on the life span of the panels. If its not longer than the loan itself then you are barely making anything off of it.
Also, since its a house, you have to consider resale. If the loan is 10 years and the panels last 10 years it might be a reasonable investment even if you barely make anything off of it. But if you don't get half the value of the panels back when selling after 5 years, its definitely not worth it.
I thought when the grid went down that synced panel set ups just cut them selves off from the grid, not that they cut them selves off from powering your home.
Anyone who is worried about walking in Somerville after dark has spent too much of their life in the middle of nowhere. Somerville is just the place that students and artists and hard working Brazilian immigrants live because Cambridge is too damn expensive.
There are plenty of things to complain about with Somerville but its not a dangerous place to live. Davis Sq is one of the nicer spots in the greater Boston area for night life.
yea, but seriously, Boston is a bad place to live because the sports teams win? That's pretty fucking weak.
This isn't too much of a problem for me personally, I just wanted to educate the previous poster.
Some guys, however, have this same problem even if they aren't using condoms. Those are the guys you have to feel really sorry for.
Alternative:
IUD. They come in non hormonal varieties, are reliable and reversible. Your wife will still have the same interest in sex.
There is a lot of FUD out there about IUD's but they really are fantastic.
IUD. IUD. IUD!
Seriously, I cant believe that these are so uncommon these days. They are reliable, fairly fool proof and come in non hormonal varieties.
talk to your wife about getting a non hormonal IUD. They are fantastic. None of the side effects or hormones plus your wife will still have those ovulation weeks when she really wants sex.
Seriously, look into it.
I get where your coming from, but variety is the spice of life.
I dont have sex with my partner twice every day, though the average might work out somewhat close to that.
Sometimes a quicky in the morning before work is really nice. Sure its only 10 minutes, but its fun and puts you both in a good mood. Other times, a nice hour long sex session can be nice, especially before bed, if everything runs very smoothly it might not even go quite that long... but other times it can go longer with more orgasms.
Occasionally you want to take your time so you bust out the toys and go for a 2-3 hour marathon.
And sometimes, if you've got an awesome partner, you just get a nice blow job while you watch the baseball game.
Variety man, its good stuff.
Actually, condoms are not 100% effective at preventing the spread of HPV. Its not clear if they help at all or not since HPV can be transmitted between patches of skin that condoms don't cover.
Women should really get vaccinated against the strains of HPV for which vaccinations are available. Men should too, but the vaccine is not yet approved for men. You can find places that will give it to you if you pay out of pocket, but insurance wont cover it for men, only women.
It depends. In some cases this can be a boon, but its also possible to take too long to get off. Once your partner has gotten off (possibly multiple times) and your still banging away for 20 minutes trying to get yourself off... well they get a bit sick of it and natural lubrication tends to wane causing chafing and discomfort.
It can be an issue, but its probably not as common a problem as men getting off to quickly.
Really? I find lifestyles to be terrible and they always seem too tight and I'm not a magnum user.
I use Okamoto Beyond 7, I find they fit well and are the least invasive. Ive considered trying out the kimono's, people I know who use them like them a lot.
Your right that this does work, but not entirely because you are being rude.
What matters is that, you have your own life. She doesn't have this image of you sitting at home waiting for her call, you are out, doing your own thing, living your own life and she is too. Sure, there are things you share but not every minute of every day.
Being hyper attentive often comes across as smothering, women don't like that... men don't either. Its important to avoid loosing yourself in a relationship.
There is a balance to maintain between being totally aloof (which will eventually get old and she will find someone who pays a bit more attention) and being hyper attentive. It sounds like you have found that, but your comment could lead someone to just try being a dick. While this might get you laid initially, if your goal is a long term relationship, its just not maintainable.
ProTip:
The wierdos are often awesome in bed.
the best jokes contain a kernel of insight.
Lister: Sometimes, I think it's cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once bought a pair of shoes with Artificial Intelligence. 'Smart Shoes' they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they could always get you home. But he got rattled one night in Oslo and woke up the next morning in Burma. You see, his shoes got bored going from his local to his flat. They wanted to see the world, you know. He had a hell of a job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they'd show up again the next day. He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down.
Rimmer: Is this true?
Lister: Yeah. The last thing I heard, they sort of... robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn't steer, you see.
Rimmer: Really?
Lister: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away about it. He went to see a priest. The priest told him... he said it was alright and all that, when shoes are happy that they'd get into heaven. You see, it turns out shoes have 'soles'.
Rimmer: Ah, what a sad story. Wait a minute.
[Thinks for a minute]
Rimmer: How did they open the car door?
Personally I hate the fact that I need a facebook account to keep up wiht friends I live within a few miles of.
One of my friends recently got engaged. Ive known this guy for 15+ years. We have always been close, we traveled to Europe together. He is part of a tight knit group of friends who have known each other since high school. I see him fairly regularly, once ever couple of weeks at least.
How did he inform his 5-10 oldest friends that he had chosen to take a major step in his life. Did he call them, did he put together a small email detailing how he proposed and so forth? No... he updated his fucking facebook relationship status.
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
I mean sure, that's a reasonable way for your freshman year roommate who you haven't seen in person for 5 years to find out that you are engaged, but your close friends, you cant even put together a couple of sentences and send out an email?
I get the appeal of these sites, I do. Its a great way to maintain minimal contact with people you wouldn't usually see or keep track of. To keep a tenuous thread of communication open where it otherwise would have failed. The problem is, it doesn't stop there. It encourages all communication to go through this source and people start thinking of their friends as names on a screen rather than people they see.
Sure, you don't have to be a punk like he was... but the existence and use of these sites certainly encourages people to do just that.
Could this correlate to an increase in unemployment? I know when I was unemployed I spent a lot more time on the internet in general. Not so much on social networking sites, but they weren't nearly as popular back then.
very true, which is why we have breathalyzers that show how intoxicated someone is on their prescription drugs.
oh... wait... we don't?
How ever do we manage.
Sure, its illegal to drive high, but there was a time when we couldn't tell how drunk someone was either. Prohibition wasn't a good idea then and it isn't a good idea now.
there are plenty of short term mental illnesses that require treatment to get better. Sometimes they can be treated without chemicals (like the spa, or behavior therapy). Just because they are correctable instead of just treatable doesn't mean they aren't mental illnesses.
if only we could balance that out by somehow making some of those things dark. Its a shame that once you paint something white you can never paint it black again.
not only that, the pain they use on roads is terrible for traction. Even just stop lines can be brutal for motorcycles.
You would have to add the pigment to the actual road material for it to be at all practical.