My county offers compost from yard waste for $7 per loader scoop. You have to haul it yourself on the handful of weekends it’s open, but it’s a way better deal than buying from any of the landscape suppliers. Similar programs aren’t quite ubiquitous but they’re more common than most would realize. If your city has leaf collection, you should see if they offer compost.

I built some large raised beds that would have been a fortune to fill with bagged soil or from a landscape supplier. So I was really happy to find out about my local program.

Your UPS might not protect from brown outs. You would need an online double conversion or line interactive ups to protect from brown outs. Many consumer ups’ are just standby.

I take it that the last two weeks have been cacophonous for you?

US mobile. The data pool pricing model works out to be pretty price competitive among the mvno’s for the way we use two lines. They also claim to be the only mvno that doesn’t get low priority on congested towers.

Half of Japan would be North American? I didn’t expect that.