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why I used to like smoking pot
Friday, December 7 2018
At noon, I drove into the center of the village of Red Hook to take advantage of the branch there of my bank, the Mid-Hudson Valley Credit Union. There I made a rather large deposit, and the young woman working as teller there didn't treat it like it was anything unusual at all. I then drove to the Red Hook Hannaford to buy some groceries, some of which were for work (rawhide dog bones, kombucha, and dry-roasted peanuts) and others were for after work (a six pack of Lagunitas Little Sumpin' Sumpin', now only $9.99) or home (Mr. & Mrs. T Hot & Bold bloody mary mix, a half gallon of Naked-brand mango smoothie). I'd brought an Amy's frozen Mexian meal to work yesterday and intended on eating it today, but in the end all I had for lunch was some peanuts and kombucha.
By now I was really into the weeds of the Python app I am migrating to Electron. I'd entered the "huh?" phase, wondering, for example, why a large amount of the work being done by the program was the duplication of records in tables having no primary keys. I know the code reflects decisions made in the 1980s, back before modern database concepts were well understood, but I'm starting to get why nobody has wanted to work on improving this code for decades.
On the drive home, I went out of my way to visit, you guessed it, the Tibetan Center's thrift store before it closed at 6:00pm. I knew about an old Linksys 54GS router there (generally regarded as a classic hackable router). It was still there, as was a nice stainless steel ruler. Both things together came to $3. Unfortunately, though, once I got home I realized the router was a version 7 model, one with only two megabytes of Flash. So I couldn't find any open source DD-WRT firmware to flash on it.
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