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rain brings the canterelles
Tuesday, July 23 2024
This afternoon Gretchen drove up to Albany to hang out with Rochester Jasmin and her mother. They would eventually eat at a very mediocre African restaurant (Umana Yana, I think) that, among other offences, served stale injera. It was a rainy day, so Gretchen also planned to spend some time in museums and walking around the bleak mini-North-Korea of Empire Plaza.
Meanwhile, I spent a fair amount of time reorganizing some of the logic for the backend tooling of my ESP8266 Remote Control system, much of which grew up organically, with a bit of the chaos one gets when that happens. Later I added some fun new features to my Networked Spelling Bee system, including the logging of every word attempted. It might be fun to show how many plays different users make to show who plays by brute force and who doesn't. (For the record, I myself use brute force on occasion, though I would probably use it less if people could see I was playing that way.)
Since the new reporting system for the Remote Control system is looking at the same database server where the Spelling Bee database resides, I can easily write reports to interrogate Spelling Bee data just by including the name of the Spelling Bee database ("game") in the table path.
A lot of rain had fallen last night, but by this afternoon it was merely cloudy. I figured the rain would've made the chanterelles pop out of the ground, so I took a bag when Charlotte and I went for another walk up the Chamomile Headwaters Trail. This time I gathered something like a pound of them, though they were tricky to untangle from the debris they were in (which included things like moss, sedges, and pine needles).
On two occasions today I made myself burritos using leftover bean glurp and perhaps too much cucumber. I thought the cucumber would add a nice cool crunch, but when there was too much or the pieces weren't cut small enough, it detracted more than it added.
One of the many things I'd brought back from my childhood home last week was an old heavily-modified 8088-based personal computer. I'd added numerous I/O devices, blocks of memory, and audio features, and I thought maybe it would be nostalgically entertaining to boot it up and relive the glory of my understanding of digital electronics back in the early 1990s. When I turned it on, it seemed to be doing something initially. But by the time I tracked down a working composite monitor, it had died. Evidently its power supply had failed, which isn't too surprising given than the last time I'd powered that thing up might've been 1994. (I do remember it being fully functional when I filed it away in the honey house attic, an occasionally high-temperature environment that probably degraded its electrolytic capacitors.) It's doubtful that thing is good for much more than scrap at this point.
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