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Brigitte's crazier sibling
Tuesday, March 11 2025
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We had another gorgeous springlike day, with temperatures rising into the mid-60s Fahrenheit. Conditions were so lovely that Gretchen spent part of the afternoon on a chaise longue in the driveway while the dogs lounged nearby. Eventually Charlotte and Gretchen got too hot and had to relocate.
This evening while Gretchen was off at pilates, I took advantage of the nice weather to rebuild the west end of the Chamomile Wall, which terminates at a large multi-trunk northern red oak on the east side of the Stick Trail. That was the first part of the wall that I built, and when I started it, I had no idea it would end up as tall and long as it is. So the west end rested on a chaotic jumble of stones. I pulled all the loose stones from near the bottom away and then built a new south-facing footing, starting with large rock and then building up with smaller ones that I tried stack as tightly as possible. I then rebuilt the northern facade, mostly leaving the core of the wall alone. Near the top, though, I built in a void spanned here and there my thin stick-like rocks that ultimately supported a large sheet-like slab forming a roof. As I was up high on the nearby talus slope gathering that slab, I turned around to see Brigitte, Crazy Dave's chonky brown Australian shepherd, had run up behind me. She ran away the moment I saw her, and I didn't see her for at least twenty minutes as I finished working on the wall. Had Charlotte been there, she would've attacked Brigitte, so I was glad she hadn't followed me when I'd left the house.
Mdd>About 20 minutes later, as I was finishing up at the wall, one of Crazy Dave's other dogs, one of the grey ones with crazy eyes, came charging over, barking at me relentlessly. I tried to hell her/him that it was okay, but he/she didn't want to hear. Brigitte also was there, but she remained silent. Then I heard Crazy Dave calling in the distance, so I thought it best to retreat, since Crazy Dave gets uncomfortable when he sees me in the forest. He was hiking up from his cottage to the Stick Trail, something he does most evenings, and usually I know enough not to be there during the times when he is coming through.
Later this evening, after Gretchen finished up a long online training session for NYAF (where she wants to become an intake coordinator), she and I watched both Jeopardy! and the first episode of the third season of The White Lotus, where things are already getting juicy.
Using the MrChromeBox method, today I was able to install Debian Linux (which is probably my favorite Linux) on two Chromebooks here in Hurley that are based on Intel processors. (I think I have two other Intel-based Chromebooks at the cabin, but they still get updates, so I can leave them be for now.) In addition to those Chromebooks, I have four or five (depending on how functional they have to be to be counted) other Chromebooks that are built around ARM processors, and there is no easy way to upgrade them. Over ten years ago, I'd managed to use something called Crouton to install a parallel Linux OS on my first ARM-based Chromebook, and I used it for awhile like that. But the annoying startup process it required eventually caused me to go back to just using it as a Chromebook. It might be easiest to just build a web proxy allowing me to strip out all the incompatible crap in modern web pages, making it possible for the old version of Chrome on those ARM Chromebooks to render it acceptably. (I've already made it so all the web pages I control look great and operate great on an old Chromebook.)
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