Wrapping Up Tuesday

Okay, I did not go to the jail at 8:30. Instead, I decided to work on “The Unintended Consequences of Art”. 

Odd how a work that was over a hundred handwritten pages five years ago is now down to 34 pages on the computer. It is gone from short novel to long short story. I think this is the third revision. Maybe it is the fourth. Mostly, it has been streamlining the opening. The rest will be retrofitting the remainder to the slimmer opening. 

Now, I need to catch the bus, if my revised plans for today are to have any success. The sun is already warming my front room, and that makes me indolent. The plan is to be out while it is really hot.

A good thing came from the delay: a meeting for SNAP tomorrow morning was arranged.

Later. 

9:37 AM.

Well, I got to the sheriff's. I am now on a yearly reporting schedule. As usual, I got a little reading done at the jail - more than I get done at home.

Then I went to Payless because I forgot a few items last week. 

I got back here around 1 PM. Things were getting a little troublesome by then - the heat was getting to me. After lunch, perusing the email, working on a few posts for this blog, I decided it was time for a siesta. Ninety minutes and I would get the laundry done. Only 90 minutes turned into 3 hours. That is, instead of being mobile around 3:30, it was almost 6 PM. No going to laundry. I worked on dinner, dishes, and blog posts.

It is now 9:09 and time to call it a day. It is hot and humid here.

Oh, yeah. What effing stupidity is this:

 EPA cuts funding for lower-income solar program, including more than $117 million for Indiana by Rebecca Thiele (WFYI)

The $7 billion Solar For All program set up under the Biden administration aimed to lower residents' energy bills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin made the announcement on X Thursday. He said the agency plans to follow the intent of the "One Big Beautiful Bill."

"EPA no longer has the authority to administer the program or the appropriated funds to keep this boondoggle alive," Zeldin said.

Lower-income Hoosiers are more likely to live in older, less energy-efficient homes that use more power. Advocates said putting solar on these homes not only lowers their energy bills, but also reduces the need for more power plants — which all electric utility customers pay for.

The funding cut comes at a time when the average Indiana resident's bill has gone up by $28 a month since last year. Mo McReynolds directs Indianapolis's Office of Sustainability.

"Indianapolis, compared to other cities our size, has a particularly high energy burden — meaning the ratio of an average household income that gets paid toward their utility bills. We're particularly good candidate for a program like this," she said.

Alison Becker is with Solar Opportunities Indiana, a coalition helping to mange the grant funding. She said, without the federal dollars, most of the solar projects the group oversees won't move forward.

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