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an editor for many-to-many meta data
Saturday, November 15 2025
I woke up early again this morning, and again took the opportunity to putter away for hours on my ESP8266 Remote Control system's web framework. I managed to implement a new feature that, when a tool is configured correctly, will bring up an editor for the mapping relationship that connects many-to-many records. This allows me to edit meta-data about the relationship itself. One common feature of such meta-data is sort order (which is something this system already can handle). But there could be an arbitrary amount of meta-data, such as information about the number of specific items being referred to by the many-to-many relationship or perhaps the name of the many-to-many relationship or the date it was created.
After going back to bed and sleeping for some hours, I awoke and eventually took Charlotte for her morning walk. This time I took her down the Gullies Trail for a half mile or so and then returned on Stick Trail. As I did so, I was a little nervous that Charlotte might lose her Tractive tracker, as some of the rubbery clips securing it had come undone since Gretchen had attached just before we left for Europe. This is the second Tractive tracker I'd tried, and this particular one has a battery life nearly long enough to supply tracking data for the entire time we were in Europe. But by now its battery was dead and if it were to fall off, there would be no way to find it (it's even olive green, which would make it hard to spot even if I knew generally where to look). Fortunately, though, it didn't fall off.
Later this afternoon before picking up Gretchen at the New Paltz park & ride (where she would be arriving by bus from Manhattan), I took the dogs (both came) for a brief walk west of the Farm Road. Now, though, I was starting to be concerned about it being hunting season and not having put bright colors on either me or the dogs. This point was driven home later as I began my drive (with both dogs!) to New Paltz. As I went down Dug Hill Road, I passed three or four big pickup trucks parked on the side of the road. These were obviously hunters, and more at one time than I ever remember seeing. I have a feeling that Trump's stupid tariff war's effects on the price of beef have put more pressure on hunters to come back from the forest with free meat to eat.
When Gretchen got off the bus at the New Paltz park & ride, I let the dogs out of the car, and they ran up to her excitedly, not having seen her in nealry two weeks. Charlotte was particularly overjoyed, though Neville (who has seen it all at this point) seemed more subdued.
Gretchen and I ended up having spaghetti and french fries at the Plaza Diner in New Paltz (still the best spaghetti in the Hudson Valley). I didn't have much news to report, but Gretchen told me all about hanging out with her long-time friend Mary, doing organizing work for her long-time (and increasingly decrepit) 85-year-old clutter-busting client Wendy on the Upper East Side, and seeing the musical Ragtime with her fried Kia (who, as a film and television writer who votes in the Tony Awards, attends musicals for free and can bring Gretchen as a plus one). Gretchen didn't have great expectations for
Ragtime but loved it.
Charlotte with a balloon we found along the Stick Trail today. Unusually, this one is not made of mylar. Click to enlarge.
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