Much more than anything else, this blog is just a repository for things that I learn, enabling me to cement the learning process by listing and recounting the steps involved in a new process. So I make no apology for the fact that the blog hops from topic to topic and appears to have no external consistency whatsoever.
Month: January 2018
The Alexander Technique and the Commercial Kitchen
At the commercial kitchen where I’ve recently started working, we served 137 meals yesterday in less than 8 hours of opening. Each of these meals includes a number of sequences or steps to complete to turn out the meal in a matter of minutes.
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The Summer Economy
Life changes rapidly; one minute I am down running a business in Kapiti and the next minute a short stopover to visit my unwell mother leaves me with a totally new job on the Coromandel Peninsula.
Geographical features that make Otaki Motel a good location for solar panels
Our solar power installation is now set up and in recent articles I’ve addressed how our solar installation is currently generating more than 50% more power than was initially forecasted based on NIWA data. The savings we’ve achieved have also been on the high side, cutting our bill down by around $93 during our first month and by around $150 during our second month. In fact, our monthly daytime consumption for last month, at 170 kWh, was the lowest number we have ever consumed during any month in recent memory.
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