I had a stroke of inspiration last night: add tangerine zest to the chocolate chip cookie recipe.  Wow.  I don’t think I’ll ever make cookies without doing that again.  Just the zest of one tangerine.  Why didn’t anyone tell me?  Why doesn’t everyone do that?

Several folks have asked me about battery backup for solar and being more grid-independent.  I predicted that it’d probably be 2017 before that really started to happen, and that it’d be expensive.  Turns out I was way off.

http://www.solarcity.com/residential/backup-power-supply

I really don’t know the cost, but the numbers I’ve heard bandied about are very reasonable.