I am now legally permitted to sell house drawings in the Province of Ontario! Phase two in my devious plan to make extra money while accumulating the resources to build my own solar-heated house, and the home within, can now begin.
I got home from our TronnaDope, where I had the great pleasure of dinner with the charming and beautiful HazelNutCoffee, Lissla Lissar, and Kythereia, as well as the handsome and gracious (and generous) Cerowyn, and much good food, drink, and conversation was had by all. They did have to discourage me from hauling out my laptop and attempting to wirelessly connect to the Dope [sup]just one little post?[/sup][sub]Please?[/sub][sup]I can stop any time I want[/sup] Afterwards we walked down to Bloor in the warm summer night, abd HNC and Kythereia continued west with me to Queens Park so we could introduce HNC to the angular pointiness that is the Lee-Chin Crystal.
When I got home, I found the certificate of permission from the Ministry of Housing (“do not fold”) in my mailbox (folded).
I also found an RS-232 serial interface cable for my HP48; along with my RS232-to-USB cable, I hope to get it working to transfer programs between my HP48 and my Mac.
I also found an email birthday card, because today is my 44th birthday.
So this has been the best birthday in a while, most of all because of the good company of a TronnaDope.
Of course, this will be in Central Ontario, and you’ll have to brave the bears (which have been known to try to get into the house through the skylight) and the mosquitoes (which have been known to suck a chihuahua dry in thirty seconds).
Well, I didn’t know about the letter or parcel until I got home. And it was HNC’s night; I didn’t want to take away from that. I alm ost did at one point, but then the conversation turned in another direction.
And congrats on the next phase of your cunning plan! Pretty soon you’ll be able ot unplug yourself from the grid (in a manner of speaking) and laugh whenever Hydro commercials turn up on TV.
And, yes, that’s part of the plan. When my friends who live in such a house didn’t even know about the big blackout of '03 until I phoned them, I knew there was a better way.
Ugh. That would have been quite cool during that blackout. “The power is out? Oh, you mean your power is out. Mine’s just fine!” But being a highrise dweller, I got hit like everyone else. It was candles, batteries, and sinks full of ice all around for two and a half days.
Happy Birthday, Sunspace! Now that I’m all designing landscapes on my computer, I expect to be a sub-contractor for your solar houses, for my low-maintenance, low-water use, sustainable yards.
I’m trying to figure out whether Alberta has the same allowance for “designers” that Ontario does, and the issue is… murky. I know Quebec doesn’t; to sell plans there, you have to be an architect or engineer.
Floor plans, wall sections, excavation plans, roof framing layouts, wiring and plumbing diagrams, details, etc. The things one submits to the municipal authorities to get a building permit. The things the contractor builds from. House drawings.
