What I Wore #1

I wore an outfit for work yesterday that just made me feel enormously sexy!  This is me trying to strike a provocative pose over the pool table:

I have decided, I am going to take full advantage of the relaxed Friday dress code to explore sexy ......

An Anniversary!

Today is the anniversary of the installation of solar panels at Montoya Mansions!

In my first year, I have generated 1636 kWh. This is comfortably more than the predicted 1400 kWh for my first year's production, and alters the payback threshhold in my favour: if the price of electricity exceeds 14.042 p per unit, my solar setup has cost less than the electricity it will generate over 25 years (accounting for deterioration).

The timing of my feed-in tariff payments has fallen nicely, such that each payment is due almost exactly halfway between an equinox and a solstice; thus, they correspond to the seasons as counted by duration of daylight. My first payment was £117.75 on 3 August; then £73.88 on 3 November. The sun could barely be bothered to rise in Winter, leading to a dire £29.12 on 3 February (although it still more than covered the £1.82 per week standing charge). Come 3 May, I expect to receive another £70 or 80 for the Spring (this payment and the Autumn one should be fairly similar, by symmetry: the graph of day length vs. day of the year is sinusoidal).

When I get my storage batteries and UPS plumbed in, I should be able to save even more, as I won't need to pay for all the electricity I will be using in the evening .....

Hey! I'm out to my co-workers!

Tonight, I officially came out as transgender to my co-workers, at the works christmas party.  I went as Julie, not ${BOYNAME}, and was accepted thus by everyone.

Think my boss must have suspcted for awhile; because if he's been looking at my out-of-hours activities like any decent hacker would then he must have spotted "Julie Montoya" signing some code that was embarrassingly similar in style to ${BOYNAME}'s code  (he writes like a girl anyway, in a girlie language).

I love you all <3 <3 <3