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Neville anticipates a shortcut Saturday, January 11 2025
This morning I made a box of medium-shells pasta, which I ate with Rao's marinara sauce and "Eat Meati," a mushroom-based faux steak having a carne asada flavor profile. (I have no problem blurring the lines between Mexican and Italian food.)
At around noon, I took the dogs (both came!) for a walk up the entire length of the Chamomile Headwaters Trail and then homeward on the Stick Trail. Neville anticipated me taking a shortcut, since I usually do, so he cut over to the Stick Trail well before I got to it, and I found myself coming up on him from behind.
I made further progress on implementing features in my ESP8266 system for specifying processing functions to run when storing sensor data (say, turning a distance measurement into an elevation measurement) or when presenting it (such as converting Celsius into Fahrenheit).
Recently I took delivery of some FRAM memory modules, which are like EEPROMs except they do not experience wear after being repeatedly written to. Today I thought of one possible application for them: the storage of sensor data when the ESP8266 is unable to connect to the internet. I already have a provision for stamping data with a timestamp that is different from the one at present, so in theory I should be able to detect that there is no internet, store data in the FRAM, and when internet access is restored, the ESP8266 gradually goes through its stored sensor data and sends them one at a time to the backend. I described how this would work to ChatGPT, including the data structure I wanted to use in the FRAM, and it dutifully spit out some code that I can use pretty-much as-is.
Meanwhile Gretchen had a leisurely breakfast in Rochester, stopped on her way home in Seneca Falls to see a museum about women's rights, and then went to see Dar Williams at the Ramble in Woodstock. Before she returned home, I painted yet another small painting of Charlotte. This one is based on a photo that makes her look kind of fat, but at least she also looks happy. (Gretchen hadn't liked that she looked sad in the paintings I'd given her on Christmas morning.)

Today's painting of Charlotte.
Click to enlarge.
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