Darn: My building’s 5-month project denying roof access has extended to 13 months.

January 17, 2025 by Joshua
in Blog

My building’s routine maintenance project that began keeping residents from roof access last March is now extended to this March, as my building manager informed residents earlier this month. The delays mean I have to keep walking ten or fifteen minutes each way to Washington Square Park to charge.

Argh.

The building manager wrote me in early December, “The plan is for the work to be completed in December.” So she knew at the time it they wouldn’t finish that month, but didn’t communicate openly with me. I don’t like when people are slippery and deceptive like that.

I don’t see an alternative to keeping charging in the park. I could reconnect, start using grid power, and pay to hurt innocent people, but I prefer living by values embodied in sayings like, “Live and let live,” “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” and “Leave it better than you found it” that we don’t practice as we used to.

Today I was joined in the park by a video crew from Japanese television recording my life. They say the coverage may inspire people in Japan. I look forward to finding out.

In the meantime, we’re past the winter solstice and already I see significantly more direct sun, fewer shadows, and longer duration of solar access. It’s also colder, but nothing to complain about. I just go out and charge.

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