Chapmans, Kev. It's in Fairlee. Walk in beer cooler full of VT beers.

Well shit. I had no idea that flight path went right over us. But just checked the map and sure enough. That explains it all. Thanks!

I here you. I got priced out of my hometown and wound up in Vermont due to the relatively low cost of real estate. Sucks everywhere.

Since you’re going to WRJ, you could drive through Quechee— there are some touristy shops there.

https://www.quecheegeneralstore.com/

That could be a factor.

If you can make it to Warren, that is my favorite general store in all of vermont. Cozy little nook and a gorgeous drive there.

I started out with sunrun, their quote was almost double the quote from catamount. Sunrun also did a couple of salesman double-speak type of things that I called them out on and eventually made me terminate the relationship.

Buderus makes a fine machine.

Agreed, condensing boilers are flimsy, maintenance intensive parts consuming messes most of the time. The efficiency gain is more often than not outweighed by the ridiculously short service life and frequent downtime/costly repairs.

Same goes for inverter driven mini splits, and gas forced air furnaces. Designed for efficiency, and to fail just outside the warranty period.

At age 62, I can remember when there were no digital resources in the library. My children are in college and I rarely see them with a book. Although they are able to access a great deal of information online (without a great deal of effort, I might add), their laptop computers don't allow them to see very much of it at one time. When I was a college student, I'd have at least 6 books open at once when I was writing a paper—like having 6 computer screens to look at. It's not the same when you have that many browser tabs to switch back and forth between (I know because I am now a professional writer). I also find that my children don't search as widely as we used to when researching a subject. They'll use the first couple of pages of internet search results and call it a day. When you're browsing in the stacks of a physical library, you come across things that wouldn't even make it onto page 10 of your search results. A book by a small publisher, some other student's dissertation, and so on. I also remember the pleasure of handling the volumes themselves. Paper from the Soviet Union had a particular smell (a good one). Early 20th century book bindings from Germany were extraordinarily crafted, like art objects. And when I wanted to free myself of distractions, I would decamp to the Chinese literature section, where I could not read anything at all. I don't miss having to type up my work from handwritten manuscripts, often cut up and taped back together as part of the editing process. But I do have wonderful memories of the books I learned from, all those pages turned by the students who had gone before me.

100% true. You should have more upvotes.

Recently replaced a junk 10yo triangle tube pristige high eff propane boiler with a buderus oil boiler in my own home. This is after pulling my hair out servicing high efficiency boilers and having to replace them when they are only 7-10 years, yet still servicing oil boilers that are older than me!

I'm not knowledgeable on the sports side of things, but on the library side of things, you will find that this decision is way more costly than keeping things as they are. An institution that values learning in any capacity should understand that not everybody wants to stare at a screen all day.

You have to save money somewhere. The library and sports programs seem like two good places to do so. Everything is online anyway.

https://www.tvfool.com/

HVAC tech here. I would recommend keeping your boiler and supplementing with a decent wood stove. That's what I do. Thermostat stays at 50 at all times other than weeknights and weekend mornings when I boost it up to 60 while running my wood stove to get up to temp fast. Then I drop it down to 50 again and let the wood stove heat it up to 68. I've use about 100 gallons of oil this year in a 1925 2500 sqft house using this method. Yes it's cold when I go get my coffee in the morning. Easily fixed with thick sweats and a decent pair of slippers.

The issue with almost all high efficiency boilers and heatpumps is that they are considered disposable after 10 years. Not worth maintaining or fixing after that.

Electricity is only going to rise in price. As more people buy electric cars and install heat pumps there is going to be more stress on the grid which means rising prices to maintain and supply more.

This also mean less of a demand on propane and oil, and who knows, maybe it will start to drop in price as well. I would at least give it another year or two to see how the prices fluctuate.

Yup, gonna need some actual proof of that before even acknowledge it's true.

I'm sure I'll be waiting for awhile

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Fantastic! I love it. We invested in a clearstream antenna and put it where the satellite dish used to be. We get all the major network channels for free!

I wish it was just trolling. It'd be easy enough to do, but not what I'm doing.

So switching from using the word tyranny to govern and trying to make it sound like government? As in, the college is a government?

You do know that a college may "govern" but your now just using it as an adjective. They can also administer. Hell, they could even dictate!

But just because they are dictating, doesn't make them a dictatorship. Just as governing, doesn't make them a government.

It's not a government, it's also not tyrannical. Giving them wheels also wouldn't make them a bicycle.

yup and not a word from our fearless leaders

SunCommon used to lease, but I'm not sure if they still do or not. I've never even broken even with the design they came up with over a decade ago and we regret it. We're tired of having inches of snow stuck on panels after storm and when it finally comes down, people have to carefully time leaving or entering our house or you might end up with a mound of snow coming down on you all at once.

I've been tasked lately with writing press releases and articles on the state of solar panel recycling in the U.S. It's still new territory, and now some of the first panel installations have reached end-of-life and homeowners who bought rather than leased don't always find it easy to recycle them. It's raised concerns with me as to what will happen to mine in another 9 years. Originally, I was told they'll likely just give them to me rather than have to take them down and fill all the holes, but I don't want them to stay. If I ever do solar again, it will be yard-mounted, or even better, I'd rather sponsor panels on a solar farm.

The concept of course its not new. But the actual real decision that is affecting my campus and the other VSU campuses is.

This isn't new.

From 2010- - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-dawn-of-the-bookless-library

https://the-digital-reader.com/why-college-libraries-are-going-bookless/

\https://www.library.gatech.edu/library-next

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/college-students-arent-checking-out-books/590305/

Library isn't closing. They are trying to make it more like a gathering space for students to do all kinds of collaborative things. High Ed libraries have been going this way for at least a decade now.

From 2010- - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-dawn-of-the-bookless-library

https://the-digital-reader.com/why-college-libraries-are-going-bookless/

\https://www.library.gatech.edu/library-next

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/college-students-arent-checking-out-books/590305/

Be better and don't sink to his level: Let's not have anyone get hurt/killed. Banyai is a bully; don't let him turn you into one too.

I think he is just in over his head from how he imagined it.