I’m beautiful and tough like a diamond…or beef jerky in a ball gown.

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Cake day: July 15th, 2025

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  • Back in the day, I worked in the corporate office for a retail clothing chain (IT department, so not down in the weeds), and I can’t speak for H&M like you gave as an example, but for the one I worked for we didn’t design anything.

    We had a department of people called “buyers” who would work with various clothing vendors directly and wholesale bulk-purchase items for the stores. Their job was to basically figure out what was in style, what would sell, in which of our markets it would sell, and order them to stock in the stores. Not all stores carried the same styles/designs/whatever. e.g. We stocked college sports apparel only in markets near those colleges, our stores in warmer regions rarely carried winter apparel that we normally stocked in colder regions, etc.







  • I just got my two 314 AH batteries and 10KW inverter yesterday, so I’m not at the “spare solar power” point yet, but a lot of people will have a second electric water heater (in “front” of the main one) that acts as a dump load and pre-heats the water before it gets to the main tank.

    I’m looking at getting a Slate EV truck hopefully next year, so that will also charge from my installation.

    Grid-tie and exporting surplus PV generation isn’t an option for me due to electric company shenanigans.

    I suppose when I do get to the excess PV point, I might just buy additional batteries