A bit of a milestone moment today, we are scheduled to begin installing solar panels in advance of our Wireless Wide Area Networking project. We need to do this at 9 of the 17 sites that we will connect. It is a really exciting moment for us here.
This project has been slow to come about mainly because no one here is really an expert in all the things that need to happen.* In addition, it took time to get funding, figure out how to pay our partner Inveneo, there were issues getting the right network plan**, and just dealing with various third parties.
* I've bored you enough with this part already.
** Long story on this one, but in short: we had a design, we didn't have a design, we had a design. In the wake of all the back and forth, we lost about 3 months on the project. Lesson learned: do all this up-front before the contract is signed.
We are still finishing up a few loose ends (and a major trip up), but we are comfortable enough with the movement of things to begin installing the solar panels. Even though we have put a lot of energy into this, I do not find myself very excited. It is just sort of a preliminary (albeit) important step for the project. I guess the excitement will really begin once we are actually installing radio equipment at the sites. Then I will know we are really underway.
As will all things related to this project a bump in the road is to be considered normal. The company had a vehicle breakdown early this morning and that delayed them by at least 5 hours, it might perhaps set us back one day. I'm not too upset, I think I have conditioned myself for such things and I have built in some extra days in the schedule.
Once the installers are onsite, maybe I'll get more excited.
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