My vote is to drive all the way to Quebec City and go to Le Continental. Nothing like it in Maine. Been around since the 1950s, serving classic French food. The fillet mignon en boîte is flambéd tableside by a dude in a white tuxedo. Spend the night in the heart of old Quebec. Le Chateau Frontenac is a 3 minute walk away, and there are a bunch of less expensive boutique hotels within a 5 minute walk. Breakfast at La Buche in the morning (also nearby, super casual but a nice modern take on classic Québécois food and good mimosas).

Tree line is only about 15-20 feet from the side of my house with panels. We selectively thinned some of them last fall, which helped, but we still get a lot of shading on the bottom half of the array in the fall and winter.

Find somewhere with off-road diesel if you can (cheaper)

November has been pretty terrible for me.

Produced 400kWh, consumed 1mWh (I do most of my heating with heat pumps)

I ran a deficit of 100kWh in October,

On track to offset around 88% of my electricity for the year. Need to thin out a few more trees and/or I think I can squeeze another row of panels using a horizontal (landscape) orientation at the top of my roof where they won’t have any issues with shading.

I run a surplus May-September. April is usually break even, and October can be break even depending on weather. November - March I run a pretty big deficit due to the heat pumps.

I just looked at my bill and it just says “distribution minimum charge”. For some reason last month’s bill was even less than usual- there was a minimum distribution charge for 7.48 and a minimum charge for “stranded costs” of -0.84 so my total bill was $6.64. It’s been over $8 every other month though.

Versant minimum is $8.xx (going on 14 months with my array, no complaints)

As someone that lives here, November has been great this year. We had some absolutely awesome weather early in the month. Spent a little time walking around town on the weekends. Enough stuff was open and there were a few people out and about so it kind of felt like a normal town.

Yes.

There are a decent number of shops that at least stay open through Christmas, and there are always a handful of restaurants open.

It was an obvious joke making fun of republicans that think their opinion is as valid or more valid than facts that contradict said opinion

I’ve worked a remote job for a company outside of Maine. They applied for a Maine taxpayer ID and their payroll system withheld Maine income tax. When you work remotely you owe income tax to the state you sit in while you work.

The fact that I was their first Maine based employee actually delayed my start date by one week because it took them longer than they expected to get a Maine tax ID.

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Interesting— Around here no one will do a leased tank larger than 250lbs. My supplier in Maine definitely won’t do a large leased tank (and certainly not a buried one) unless you purchase it from them.

If it’s a buried tank you probably own it.

> I have two husbands, one got called into Goodall for mass casualty event, and another one is a cop in Wells and currently deployed to Sanford Highschool.

I don’t think their problem is reading comprehension— it’s that you write nonsense.

It’s very good. All grass fed and great flavor.

I get all my beef from Heartstone farms. They do shares and you can also order individual cuts (what I usually do). Just placed an order for $450 in ground beef and steaks with free delivery.

https://www.heartstonefarm.me

I rode on an awesome electric ferry in Iceland. Maine should get one of those

https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2020/11/28/major_advantages_to_running_ferry_on_electricity/

Mountains in New Mexico get some serious fucking snow.

It’s also why LePage won reelection. It was an off year election. Rural turn out was way up due to the bear baiting referendum, while the vote in greater Portland / the coast was down. I’m 100% convinced Michaud would have won by a couple points otherwise.

Time to move.

I don’t think any airlines are flying direct from Bangor to Boston anymore, so you need to go through LaGuardia. For a direct flight Cape Air from Trenton or Rockland would probably be the best options.

https://concordcoachlines.com/stop/bangor-me/

Bus is the easiest if you don’t have a car.

I believe the chemical engineering program is quite good.

Back when the paper industry was big in Maine, they invested a lot of money in the engineering school at UMaine — specifically to the chemical engineering department. That allowed to to build quite a good reputation.

The college of engineering has some beautiful new facilities thanks to some recent alumni and corporate donors.