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estimate makes me feel richer Wednesday, May 22 2024
It was a hot, muggy day, though I spent most of it in the laboratory. I never ran the air conditioner (which would've been easy, but there were cats were out on the laboratory deck, meaning I couldn't really close the window). So instead I ran the fan, which was good enough. Most of what I was working on was tying together the weather data graph, the inverter data graph, and device control in the web pages related to dynamic cabin data. I created a set of top-level tabs for navigation between them and then worked to make the tabs show up in the same place in all the pages. But no matter what I did, I couldn't get the tabs to align across the different pages, even after paring them down to the bare bones. I finally ran diff on the two pages to see what was different and it turned out that one page had <!doctype html> at the top and the other didn't. Something about that one invisible tag made the HTML space itself differently. [I've working on this a long time but never really knew that setting doctype to html triggers standards mode, otherwise HTML renders in "quirks mode."]
I already make plenty of use of the pages I was interlinking. But with them connected, the experience was suddenly so fluid and intuitive that I found it now perfectly suited my curiosity. It was now something of a cabin web-based dashboard. In time, I'll probably add other things such as weather forecasts and surveillance video (something I'll probably have to implement with a Raspberry Pi).
Late this morning, Isaac came back with a quote for a new roof on our Hurley house, and it was very reasonable (under $25,000), which came as huge relief. (That roofer Andrew from earlier in the week had said that a new roof on our house, even with their stupid demands that I first rip off the solar deck, would probably be forty to fifty thousand.) This had the effect of making me feel tens of thousands of dollars richer than I had been feeling. I've generally allowed myself to feel "broke" ever since I lost my job back in July, even though this isn't anywhere close to true. But with the news of how cheap we'll be getting a new roof, suddenly I felt like I could spend money freely again. I checked out some dual-zone mini-splits ($2000 seems to be the best price) on eBay.com and HomeDepot.com, since I'd like to install such a thing at the cabin, though I didn't actually buy anything at all.
Further buoying my mood was interest being expressed by a potential employer. I'd been letting my job hunt languish, but in the last few days I've gotten back into it a little more aggressively. Today's nibble, though, came from a potential employer I'd sent an application to months ago.
This evening after taking the dogs on another walk east of the Farm Road, I made spaghetti so it would be ready when Gretchen came home from work.
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Neville on the walk today, here wallowing in the puddle at the beginning of the Chamomile Headwaters Trail. Click to enlarge.
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Gretchen says Neville still has a few tiny quills lodged in his chin. He freaks out when we try to extract them. Click to enlarge.
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