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a few canterelles for my tacos
Monday, July 22 2024
Before I got out of bed this morning, I heard some asshole drive into our driveay and beep the horn. That's the kind of thing that really is not supposed to happen. Was it an irate neighbor? The dog warden responding to another complaint by our unpleasant neighbor Roseanne? I didn't even have my pants on, but after putting them on and going outside otherwise naked, I saw a stout youngish man wearing a crisp reflective vest walking towards me. He said he was from the local highway department and was repaving some cul du sac down in Hurley that he took pains to describe for some reason. He said he would have leftover asphalt and wanted to know if I wanted him to pave at least part of our driveway. He acted almost as if it would be free. That would've been a no-brainer, right? But not for me! I'm well aware of a particular scam called the "asphalt paving scam," which typically starts with a paperless agreement and ends with thousands of dollars of unanticipated expenses. I said I was not interest, and the man apologized for disturbing me and went back into his large unmarked truck, where there was another man waiting for him.
Now that I have a fairly good reporting module for my ESP8266 Remote Control System, I can interrogate the data in new ways, perhaps figuring out where information (such as the power coming from the solar panels irrespective of how full the battery is) might be hidden. Once I started using the reports, though, it quickly became clear that the system could benefit from syntax coloration and formatting (both for JSON and SQL strings stored in the database). I'd realized this before, back when building earlier reporting systems, but it's an easy feature to dismiss as a "nice to have" until you find yourself looking at a minified JSON string trying to figure out where edits might go. I had ChatGPT help me with getting such syntax coloration working. At first it was suggesting I use TinyMCE with a Prism plugin, but when that totally failed to work, I tried TinyMCE with a Highlight.js plugin, in both cases using code ChatGPT suggested as the framework. But when neither suggestion worked, I turned to CodeMirror, which worked pretty well. But its formatter was breaking my HTML-style tokens, the placeholders that get replaced with values from a form. So I asked ChatGPT to just write me a SQL formatter. It produced something that wasn't all that great, but it will do for the time being.
At 3:00pm I took Charlotte for a walk on a similar route to the one we'd taken yesterday. Again I found chanterelles, though the only container I had for them was a single hand. Still, I managed to get them home, and they found their way into four tacos I would have for dinner at around 6:00pm. Before Gretchen got home, I made a relatively small amount of bean glurp using a single big can of black beans, canned crushed tomatoes, half an onion, and a half block of tofu. I also cooked up a small amount (less than a cup) of rice, since that was all we had. Gretchen and I watched three episodes of Jeopardy! (though I'd kind of left by the third one) and in the last one we saw our mousey archivist go down to defeat at the hands of a gangly young white man given to unpleasant gesticulations.
I had a slight hangover from yesterday, so I took a nice bath, which I ran kind of hot despite the season. (It had been pretty hot yesterday, though today had been relatively mild.)
Some sort of lushly-growing plant on the slope above the Stick Trail a quarter mile from home. I suspect it to be a ragwort.
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Detail of a single plant. I'll have to come back and look to see what kind of flowers it develops.
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