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Wednesday, November 14 2018
I did another effective Ramona-only extraction from the bed this morning. I took her on a brief poop walk on about 50 feet of the Farm Road, and after pissing, Ramona gave me the look that implied that was all she had to do. So great, I turned around and headed towards the car. At that point Ramona thought better of the situation and pooped. Good girl!
I took Ramona with me when I drove to the Red Hook post office to mail off the problematic Silicon Power SSD I'd RMA'd. While near the center of the Red Hook, I visited the Ace Hardware Express to see if they had any good options for motion-activated light switches. It turned out that they carried no such devices. I ended up buying a light socket with two wires built-in, since that was something I'd needed the other night when I was testing a Lutron occupancy sensor that hadn't worked in the Brick Mansion. (In using a problematic socket that shorted early in my test, I'd managed to throw the laboratory circuit breaker for perhaps the first time ever.)
My main workplace achievement today was using LoginMeIn123 to remote into a client's computer, where I installed the latest version of that Electron app I've been working on. In testing, it did almost everything exactly as it should, with the one exception being that it was printing two copies of something. Since I'd never actually seen how the application was supposed to work, it's not surprising something was a little amiss. When I looked at my code, I saw that I'd accidentally made a line that looked like
aggregateString += aggregateString + thingToBeAppended;
instead of
aggregateString +=  thingToBeAppended;

But in testing I noticed that the first way was the only way to trigger the necessary control codes. Had I not made that accident, the control codes I definitely needed to work would've never worked! Now, though, I had to figure out how little of the initial aggregateString I needed to send to the printer to get it to obey the control codes.
After work, I had a plan to drive to the Rhinebeck Williams Lumber to see what their motion-activation options were. But I made the mistake of heading south on 9G instead of 9W, and when I tried to cut over on a little side street called Eagle (or was it Peacock?) Road, I soon found myself in a warren of cul-du-sacs, cursing the very notion of roads that don't go anywhere and the society that would build such things. By the time I'd extricated myself from that, I was no longer in the mood to visit Williams, especially if it meant waiting one extra time for a light to change at the place where 9G crosses US 9. So I drove straight home, ending up in a bit of a traffic jam at the US 209 Esopus bridge replacement (because by now it was as close to "rush hour" as we have in this region).
Back at the house, I decided to buy myself a night of drinking alcoholic beverages by creating art, so I painted this small painting of a triplet of poison ivy leaflets. This may or may not end up being a gift for a friend on Friday.




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