01: New Years, 2025 - Pici and television enhanced with the antics of Floridians.
02: multiple landlording chores - Gutters, rat ingress prevention, plumbing, and electrical work all in a single pseudoephedrine-powered day.
03: energy drink signal to myself - Also: small cellphone life-extension batteries vs. lawnmower batteries for powering remote devices.
04: drifting Adirondack snow - To get connectivity restored to some features at the Adirondack cabin, I make another rare visit to it in its winterized state.
05: nightime drive from the land of drifting snow - Facilitated by good music on the radio and a state trooper uninterested in me.
06: first stir fry in decades - Another feat made possible with ChatGPT.
07: testing the air at Brewster Street - A professional sets up some equipment to see if the air there is full of lethal asbestos fibers.
08: howling winds from Canada - The cold snap continues and a good result from the air test at Brewster Street.
09: engineered incompatibility - Why the Panasonic brand sucks.
10: poking the bear - Why we're back to being mad at our Brewster Street tenants.
11: Neville anticipates a shortcut - Though today I don't actually do it. Also, ChatGPT comes up with some handy FRAM code.
12: Getting started with ferroelectric RAM - I have to remember to skip the useless write-protect pin.
13: Oscar's trip to Vulture Rock - Euthanasia is never pleasant, even when the animal being euthanized is making you furious.
14: ancient nasty carpet fragments - Now that Oscar the Cat is gone, I can work on making my laboratory environment a little more pleasant.
15: wine for kids - I buy a big bottle of Manischewitz.
16: a cold day for walking around in Manhattan - Gretchen and I go to the City specifically to do the things that she likes to do there, and I don't complain because it's a birthday present from me to her.
17: secular temple in Manhattan - We visit the main branch of the New York Public Library.
18: hinge pins - While cleaning and repainting the steps of the laboratory, I accidentally lock myself out of it.
19: unimpressible children - Our neighbor Georges brings his two little boys to Gretchen's 54th birthday party, and nothing I show them makes them anything but bored.
20: leftover noodle mini-party - Fern brings her friend from her PhD program over for leftover noodles and wine.
21: fresh paint is molten lava - The dry air of peak winter helps me rapidly paint the various color patches on the laboratory floor.
22: sending serial debugging commands - I needed better debugging options to get to the bottom of some problems in ChatGPT-generatd FRAM code.
23: being a neighborly handyman - Installing a couple lights at the house of our increasingly-elderly neighbor, Andrea.
24: ice blockage - Hot water fails in some of our bathrooms.
25: white kids making black music - Seeing the School of Rock students perform works by Kool and the Gang and Earth, Wind, and Fire.
26: new temperature sensor for the solar panel - It wears out after nineteen years. Also, problem with a stovetop igniter, and Gregg & Lynne's daughter's use of ChatGPT.
27: testing DeepSeek - I try out my 'He's Vegan Now' prompt. And a surprise birthday cake for our friend Lynne.
28: ChatGPT finds hard-to-find programming errors - I give up and post several functions into ChatGPT along with a description of the observed issues.
29: brief respite from the cold - But strong winds suggest more cold air is not far away.
30: things to do with bicycles in Rosendale - A bike-friendly trail system behind the Rosendale Theatre.
31: icy hill rescue - A sheet of ice prevents Gretchen from climbing up the hill back home from a Pamela Anderson movie.