01: another beater waiting for a free rabies shot - I spend two hours crawling slowly through a free rabies clinic at the Ulster County SPCA.
02: Neville and Charlotte cross state lines - The first time we've ever brought our dogs to the Watergate in Washington, DC.
03: protest at the Kennedy Center - Also a failed excursion to find a golden toilet sculpture.
04: south to the cabin down the Potomac - We visit a log cabin that Gretchen's parents bought as a rural retreat.
05: verdant Takoma Park - We check out a $1.2 million house that Gretchen's childhood friend just bought.
06: actually enjoying a game in the absence of alcohol - Playing a sort of charades in Woodstock.
07: fetching an unnecessary wrench - An unexpected leak at the boiler of a rental house.
08: palpitation update - Omega-3s supplements may have cured my worrying heart anomalies.
09: bolt extaction success - Breaking counts as removal if the stump of the broken bolt is embeddedin something that can be removed.
10: Forester brakes finally fixed - Having overcome various difficulties, I could finally fix all the problems with our Subaru.
11: a poorly-researched history paper - What I dressed as for a past-lives-themed birthday party.
12: Paul Klee at the Jewish Museum - We see some art and eat some vegan food on the Upper East Side, and then I fix the Chevy Bolt after we get home.
13: my brake nightmare is over - The Subaru passes inspection on the third attempt after nearly $2000 of work.
14: return to the Adirondack cabin, 2026 - After a 4.75 month absence.
15: snow cracks - I find lingering snow in some deep fissures in the bedrock near a cliff.
16: new beaver pond - An unexpected body of water on West Bifurcation Creek.
17: tastes like poison - Some good database-constraint auto form validation and limits to how much I can drink alone.
18: fiddlehead season, 2026 - Pictures of ferns and other buds, some trail maintenance on the Gullies Trail, and updates from a direct action to save laboratory beagles in Wisconsin.
19: a test simulation of a social situation - My father appears on a cruise in a dream as a cool rainy day begins.
20: not being the most supportive husband - Gretchen returns form the action at a beagle farm in Wisconsin, and I fail to muster an appropriate amount of interest.
22: Gretchen does not like linguine - Meanwhile, I find it nearly indistinguishable from spaghetti.
23: three-year-old silver maple - Finally processing a pile of salvaged wood from Ray & Nancy's place.
24: finally using a VPN - I needed to get Bittorrent working. But we also pay for media by buying movie tickets for Project Hail Mary.
25: socializing with needle and thread - I find a chore I can do while socializing.
26: Writers Resist Revival at the Bearsville Theatre - Gretchen is one of the three emcees.
27: saved by a barking dog - Not finding a dinner conversation particularly interesting, I take advantage of a complaining neighbor to leave the restaurant early.
28: yet another way to store configuration - I already support FRAM, so why not store configuration data there?
29: remote-control Charlotte - She responds to audio commands from a great distance. Also: ChatGPT tells me about RTC memory and a tradwife neighbor with freerange chickens.
30: cheating on my LLM - After driving to the cabin and finding ChatGPT had misled me about RTC memory, I strike up a converatyion with Google Gemini.