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the ice lingers
Wednesday, February 19 2025
I took a recreational 150 mg dose of pseudoephedrine this morning in hopes it would help me return to building out my ESP8266 FRAM storage features. After work, Gretchen would be going out for dinner and then seeing the new Led Zeppelin documentarty Becoming Led Zeppelin, so I had hours of time to myself in the house. Initially, though, the cleaner would be cleaning up the other parts of the house, forcing me to hole up in the laboratory.
I thought later I'd want to drink, so I bought myself the ability to do this by painting a small canvas with that meme you've seen of a pedestrian standing in front of a line of Cybertrucks, a reference to the famous photo of some unarmed democracy protester in Tiananmen Square standing in front of a line of tanks back in 1989 (but modified, of course, to represent the repressive forces now at work in America). My painting didn't end up being all that good, but it's always worth while to try.
Today's painting of that Cybertrucks-in-Tiananmen-Square meme. Click to enlarge.
This afternoon Neville came with me and Charlotte when I walked most of the length of the Farm Road and back. It's still just as icy as it was a few days ago, as temperatures have remained below freezing.
Ultimately the energy from the pseudoephedrine mostly went into my Spelling Bee project, though I did begin work on mapping out where some stored values needed for keeping track of which FRAM records have been sent to the backend are to be stored. With the Spelling Bee project, I had ChatGPT come up with some code allowing me to easily add window-closing buttons to some of the DIVs that behave like windows for displaying various things like statistics and user lists. This code had to be tweaked a bit to do exactly what I wanted, but ChatGPT continues to be a much more responsive and cheerful replacement for StackOverflow, and it greatly increases my productivity when it comes to writing software.
The other major thing I accomplished today was finally putting the pet door together in a such a way that the dogs will no longer be able to destroy it. I added an internal wooden piece at the bottom to glue the plexiglass and aluminum frame to and then secured everything with small pan-headed screws. Since none of the silicone I had was performing correctly at low temperatures, I ended up using Gorilla Glue as my adhesive.
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