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resemble lukewarm pea soup in most of the characteristics
Monday, October 9 2017
Down at the site of Gretchen's new screened-in porch, I cleaned out the dirt from around the bottom of the post I'd set up yesterday. Rains had caused more mudslides on the sides of the hole, and, yet again it was a big mess of huge earthworms and sticky red clay. After getting all of that out of there, I mixed up two 80 pound sacks of concrete and poured a nice footing around the bottom of the post, filling the three foot hole to a depth of 12 inches, which isn't a lot of support against the leverage of a 16 foot 4X4. So the ropes will remain until the hole is filled in with more material and perhaps some carpentry work is done.
My main achievement in the remote workplace was building an update script to revise stock levels based on a CSV sent from a fulfillment house. Amazingly, the fulfillment house had no other way to provide stock levels, which is odd, since those can fluctuate wildly as new stock is supplied. Fortunately, my uploader can actually be automated if I trigger from an email-inbox-checking cron job.
Meanwhile, weather conditions have continued to resemble lukewarm pea soup in most of the characteristics that matter. It's very humid and so warm that I had a fan blowing on me for most of the day. That's unusual during this part of the season.
This evening, while I was still working, Eva and Sandor came over, mostly to deliver a cake baked by Sandor's mother. Such cakes are uncommonly yummy, because they are only mildly sweet and contain chunks of the sort of fruit Gretchen and I like. This one, for example, contained sour cherries. Though I rarely eat dessert than isn't Ben & Jerry's vegan icecream, I had a piece of that. But I couldn't really hang out for long, because I was trying to help my colleagues in the remote workplace prepare for tomorrow's release of the new store.
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