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7/2/2023, 4:50:20 PM

It’s hailing.
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7/2/2023, 4:33:47 PM

I went out and picked up a kitchen island table someone was giving away because it was solid wood. It’s $90 for 16 sq. ft. of plywood at the hardware store, maybe $60 at the lumber yard.

This is about 12 sq. ft. of solid wood. So this is at the least $120 of wood in just the sheets, not even counting the 2x?s.

All that said, we might actually use it as a table in the basement.
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7/2/2023, 3:53:27 PM

PT back stuff. I woke up stiff, then did some furniture disassembly that put me in awkward positions, so I wasn’t sure it was a good idea to exercise the back further. Really could use a back meter.
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7/2/2023, 3:40:50 PM

The guy has wanted chain for years, so today, we finally got it.
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7/2/2023, 10:25:44 AM

There’s some good vintage audiophile grifting here.
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7/1/2023, 11:51:02 AM

“It smells like someone’s been cooking, and it smells good.” —The guy, accidentally commenting on Canada.

It is noticeably smoky and hazy today.
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6/30/2023, 9:41:58 PM

The guy spent 60% of the day reading books that he's already read. I was a little worried that he was just killing time at this point in the summer, but at the literal end of the day he was really jolly.
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6/30/2023, 2:58:59 PM

The Stick, a catalpa tree we transplanted from near the fence last year is actually alive. We had just thought it was going to be a stick until a couple weeks ago. New shoots have grown, and though they’ve been chomped, they live.
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6/30/2023, 2:57:29 PM

The snakeroot has been chomped but lives and can battle the knotweed.
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6/30/2023, 2:57:00 PM

It’s nice under the tree today, despite all the mulberries and knotweed. Katt got this bench which has been the most effective lawn apparatus to date.
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6/30/2023, 2:45:24 PM

Further complicating the backyard wildlife situation
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6/30/2023, 1:14:15 PM

Ab stuff, 12 pull-ups. I continue to be unsure whether I should be moving back to doing my regular workout or not, which I guess is just life as a 46-year-old.
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6/30/2023, 11:04:08 AM

In the “words you’ve read but never heard spoken” file today: The guy pronounces “Edith” like “edit” with a “-th”.
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6/30/2023, 8:50:11 AM

Keyboard occupied!
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6/30/2023, 8:49:51 AM

Lobstered tail!
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6/30/2023, 7:21:08 AM

I saw the Guardian headline “Victims speak out over ‘tsunami’ of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp”, which actually about there being a lot of fraud on Zuckerberg platforms. I thought it was going to be about a lot of people getting tricked into believing a tsunami was happening, which seems just as possible to me.
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6/29/2023, 11:44:52 PM

Over the years, I've bought four of those $5 Raspberry Pi Zeroes (limit 1 per visit) at Microcenter. I put one to work as a Pi-Hole, which blocks ads across our home network. (Well worth it.)

The other three I just let sit in a drawer, which I felt bad about. I mean, a 1 GHz CPU and 512 MB RAM for $5! That's like a Dell Inspiron with a Pentium III ($1000 alone in the Y2K) right there.

So, today, I bought $40 worth of adapters (8x the cost of the computer), dug a 5W/2A power supply out of my horrible pile of old AC adapters, and hooked it up to my old TV.

And it eventually worked! I got it on the wifi, then thought maybe I could look at some resource-light web pages like this one.

That didn't really work. The terminal is snappy, but most of the GUI stuff has a very iPhone 3G kind of vibe — you type some stuff, wonder if the OS locked up, then it responds. Just starting Firefox takes a while. (Chromium isn't even supported on the Zero W.) After you enter the url, it's tens of seconds before anything starts to render.

Though I will say it's kind of an achievement that a modern browser can (eventually) load a web page on this thing.

So, doing stuff with the web is not something I'm going to be doing with the Pi Zero, and I'll have to come up with something else.
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6/29/2023, 6:31:30 PM

I dug up the half-dead nutsedge that was under Crushhenge I. The roots are tough, but they don’t form one big rhizome the way knotweed does, which is nice.
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6/29/2023, 6:29:54 PM

PT back stuff done.
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6/29/2023, 4:53:42 PM

The groundhog does not like being seen.
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6/29/2023, 4:44:51 PM

Milestone! We have not gotten the basement humidity down to 50% in over a week.
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6/29/2023, 3:58:27 PM

Once again, well, there it is. Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and UNC

That’s what White supremacists want this court for: Entrenching inequality and maintaining their ill-gotten advantage.
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6/29/2023, 2:01:39 PM

No one ever says "homefulness."
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6/29/2023, 12:57:50 PM

Cilantro in the ramen is super effective! How have I not done this before?
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6/29/2023, 12:46:19 PM

The climbing hydrangea has touched the fence! It can now start climbing up it.
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