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Saturday, February 1 2025
Nancy and her dog Jack came over this morning to go walking in the forest with Gretchen and our dogs (and, since this was a special walk, Neville actually went). Later Nancy had some coffee and sat with us in the living room. We mostly talked about all her friends from back in college who are moving to the mid Hudson Valley. It's where leftie white people go to die; the soil is filled with our bones.
On her drive back home, Nancy dropped me and a snow shovel off at the Chevy Bolt where I'd parked it last night. It would've been easy to extract it had I not been a little too arrogant as I backed it back onto the road, but I ended up running into a log (I just hit it with the right rear tire) and that absorbed all the momentum I needed to make it. After that, the wheels just spun in the crunchy snow. But all I had to do was put some sticks behind each of the two front wheels to get enough traction to make it to the asphalt.
This evening Gretchen cooked up the leftover chili with some imported Salvadoran tamales I'd bought at Hannaford. They were sweeter than the kind of food we prefer, since the second ingredient was sugar, but I managed to eat two tamales. We eventually watched not only Jeopardy!, but also an episode of Shark Tank, the one where I guy comes up with an unnecessarily complicated furnace air filter design that communicates with a server to tell you when it is time to change it.
Throughout the day, I worked on adding code to my ESP8266 Remote Control firmware allowing it to communicate via I2C with a DS3231 or DS1307 real time clock (RTC) so that it would be able to know what time it was without needing to access the internet. Most of the functions to get this working were already present in the code for my Ahmed Mohamed clock. It was handy that I already had a system in place for sending commands to the ESP8266 via serial, as I could use that functionality to both set and display the time on the RTC. Ultimately, though, I will want that time to be set by the NTPClient whenever the ESP8266 has access to the internet.
Another thing I did today was to paint a tiny (two inch square) black-and-white painting of a Tyrannosaur skull.
At some point this evening I went outside with a coffee cup and scooped up some snow, which I then drenched with scotch to make myself a "stranded loon."
Today's painting.
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