Misc. notes Jay Hannah wrote.
Log: 2026-08-10 Jay 2026-08-07 Jay and Steve 2026-08-05 Jay 2026-08-01 Jay and Jay Every 2-3 days: Check grinder. If anything is wrong, power off with switch G. Check 2 mouse traps. Leaves off of 4 tubes: Chlorination tubes can be lifted and swished off in the water. South dechlorination tube can not be lifted. Just turn and swish those. Verify 30m aeration cycle (10 on, 20 off) is running.
81 MW: Just west of Omaha: Platteview Solar Project 5 MW: Just north of my house, east of Fort Calhoun 12.6 kW: My house, theoretical max: 20 panels "south-facing" 12 panels "east-facing" System installed late 2025 (new roof, panels, mains, plug for outside emergency generator). Finally activated by OPPD Feb 12 2026. Solar system designed, installed by: New Energy, LLC . They also replaced my roof…
2022-11-21 Wisdom / reading recommendations from my father: Me: What was your book about ~Living in the Gap? Engaging in the pains of the world even though it's uncomfortable to do so? Dad: In "A Hidden Wholeness," Quaker author Parker Palmer writes about "living in the tragic gap--a gap between the way things are and the way we know they might be. It is a gap that never has been and never will be…
[ Written by our DM, not Jay. ] DISCLAIMER: I'm doing this entirely from memory, so there's a good chance I'll miss stuff. If I spell anything wrong, misstate a detail of the adventure, or anything else, let me know. This is intended as a tool to be referenced later when we have forgotten all of this and I want it to be as accurate as possible. Death House The Village of Barovia The Village of…
Dive numbers (dates) locations 165-172 (2026-05-11 through 15) Dive Fair Helen , Marigot Bay, St. Lucia. 156-164 (2025-08-10 through 14) Grand Cayman, East End, Cayman Islands. 154-155 (2025-07-12) Rock quarry, Atlantic, Iowa USA. 150-153 (2024-12-22 through 26) Pacific Coast Dive Center, Playa Flamingo, Costa Rica. 134-149 (2024-03-27 through 31) The Junk live-aboard : Richelieu Rock 🤯 and…
Experience: 30 years of computer programming. In 2023 my career veered off of large scale back-end development (DBs, APIs, etc.) and into "DevOps" (gluing dataflow tools together w/o building large bespoke ones in house). My title is "Data Engineer" but I wouldn't say I'm doing much of that. 2026-05-07 VSCode -> GitHub Copilot -> Claude Sonnet 4.6 is extremely good at AWS monkeying + Terraform.…
Via scuba diving, I collected things about my grandfather here . Via genealogy, I collected things about my grandfather here . On Earl's birthday (he would have turned 106 today) Mom asked me to tell her a story about grandpa. Some candidates: Some memories of the farm in SE Iowa: Playing croquet in the yard, hammering those wooden balls through the stakes. The big trees, the walnut tree. The…
2025-08 (bacterial sinus infection?) Aug 6 Normal 6-month dental cleaning, w/ x-rays. No problems, x-rays look good. Aug 10-14 Scuba diving in the Cayman Islands I got a few headaches at depth. Not unprecedented. 10 years ago my ENT doctor told me for deep diving: Double my 20' safety stops (3 -> 6 minutes) Use Oxymetazoline HCI 0.05% over-the-counter nasal spray before first deep dive. And that…
The filmmaker and Q&A at the sold out premier of " My Omaha " Oct 14 2025: --> "My Omaha" trailer: "My Omaha" made many references to another Omaha documentary: A Time For Burning (1966). And interviewed that filmmaker. "A Time For Burning" is not fucking around. No punches pulled. "My Omaha" is much softer in tone, even while much of the foundational content hasn't changed over those 59 years? If…
[ writing-prompt-s ] Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up. sadoeuphemist Arepo built a temple in his field, a humble thing, some stones stacked up to make a cairn, and two days later a god moved in. “Hope you’re a harvest god,” Arepo said, and set up an altar and burnt two stalks of wheat. “It’d be nice, you know.” He looked down…