In just over a week we'll be the proud owner of our first home! Super excited. It's really fun, even though it's stressful. Boxes are a rising invasive species in our apartment at the moment. I have the luxury of taking 5 weeks PTO to move and take a quick break in southern France mountains. (My comp is such that I get 6 weeks per year and can buy up to 4 weeks extra for less than my day rate. I also learned today that I get two extra days PTO just for moving! It's generous, even for Europeans, as my SO is less lucky.)

Now that I'm one of those lucky millennials with a home ("in this economy?!") I get to bother myself with problems like the imminent gas crisis. I'm still on the fence whether I want to prep and buy heaters. The new variable price energy contract I have to take has rates that are 422% of what they were a year or two ago (3.38 instead of 0.80 euro / m3). I'm expecting them to rise to 5 or 6 euro. Ideally I'd renovate my house to be full electric and maximize solar. Getting any contractor now however is nearly impossible and they're all going for "fuck you we're busy" rates. Heat pumps have waitlists of over a year in some cases too. So this winter there's probably only room for low hanging fruit improvements.