3 months later...ugh.
For the other people in the marina, several years later, so I guess we're doing pretty okay.
We don't have a cable going to our boat. It's unsecured wifi, but it works great (after going down the day after it first went up). I need to run some speed tests on it to see if it'd be good for gaming, but really, I'm just happy we don't have to move. I didn't feel like staying at work or a public place to get my graduate school homework done and we were looking into a marina in Cocoa Beach for that reason (Cocoa is 30-40 minutes from my work, currently we're 10-15).

On that note, I start a master's program in Systems Engineering at the end of the month. It's designed for people who work at my company. We'll be taking four classes a year (one at a time) in lock-step every week with a two week break between classes. So no fun monthlong adventures for at least 2.5 years!

Regardless we still haven't replaced the battery bank with anything. I have my heart set on lithium ion, but we're wondering with new anti-fire technology being developed for lithium ion batteries. You can read more here. To quote, "When the battery reaches a critical temperature (160 degrees Celsius in this case), an integrated flame retardant is released, extinguishing any flames within 0.4 seconds. Importantly, the addition of an integrated flame retardant doesn't reduce the performance of the battery."

Maybe we just want to get an AGM battery in the meantime and play with lithium ion when this technology pans out. Maybe it doesn't work on large scale batteries. Maybe it does. Who knows! Even if this proves to work we might not see it in application for 5 years. Or maybe from the Note 7 fiasco we'll see it as a federal mandate on all new lithium ion batteries by end of year. Technology is perplexing.

On an unrelated note, our water onboard tastes terrible and we've been going to bottled water or just drinking milk/tea. I think we need a water filter, and not just a faucet-mounted filter (because our faucet has a really weird size and probably can't hold a filter). I think we need an under-sink filter. On the one hand, it'd have to be installed under the sink and that would require finagling or making a door to access the under-sink area easily. On the other hand, we've been wanting a door to access the under-sink area anyway. There's a lot of untapped (harharhar) storage there!