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May 2025 01: no more prison work for Gretchen
- One of her secret letters to an inmate is discovered.
02: our printers are all crap
- It's technology designed to infuriate.
03: overflowing signed four byte integer
- Saving a count of milliseconds causes trouble in about 25 days.
04: the nesting loons on Lake Edward
- And a sweaty hike back east in the drizzling rain.
05: Cinco de Mayo at the Bear Cantina
- Gretchen tells our friends about her now-ended prison career while I drink free shots of tequila.
06: like a poorly-detailed Uber
- Picking up friends from Scotland from the bus station in the time of Donald Trump 2.0.
07: purple pie and auto checkout
- Doing local commerce with our Scottish visitors.
08: excellent African ground nut stew
- I eat that but do not drink any wine offered by one of our Scottish guests.
09: Lez Zeppelin at the Colony Cafe
- We even bring our Scottish guests.
10: I'm good at multiple choice trivia
- On the dock and playing card games with our Scottish friends.
11: a quick drive past North Korea
- By which I mean downtown Albany. We show it to Scottish friends.
12: six person dinner date inertia
- Sometimes you have to get up and leave your restaurant meal, preferably before dessert.
13: wrong sandwich while injecting my story about oil tanks
- Trying to contribute in the court of the lunchroom king.
14: fast-reading large language models
- They can be counted on to read and comprehend everything, but they still fuck up eventually.
15: even more alienated from my species
- Quince de Mayo and pickup up seedlings, among other things.
16: a porcupine for Gretchen and a beaver for me
- Encountering large rodents 100 miles apart in New York State.
17: OBD2 ideas
- Brainstorming about how to gather data from a Chevy Bolt with ChatGPT.
18: Halfway Brook
- A big loop in the Adirondack woods involving a tributary of Virginia Creek and a ditch near the cabin.
19: Neville digging amid the boulder jumble
- It delays our return to Hurley.
20: improvised landlording
- Doing two chores that required improvisational skills.
21: soup weather in late May
- I make another improvised soup.
22: surprisingly big electrical and beer sections
- The options for buying these things along US 209 are better than you might expect.
23: even Australian tourists
- Australian friends arrive on a surprisingly full plane to the newly-unwelcoming United States.
24: borrowing from 3D printing techniques
- Our Australian friends see the westward extension of the Chamomile Wall.
25: flavor scream
- Biting into French lentils in a vegan lasagna with our Australian visitors.
26: Charlotte and I drive to Woodstock
- The first time I drive anywhere with just her. Later I get pulled over while drinking a road beer without any consequences.
27: like a crazed banshee
- Charlotte didn't want to go for a walk but did want to do a lot of barking.
28: free https
- I get a free SSL certificate but it kills data from the cabin for seven hours.
29: compelling pickled papaya
- The best part of some filipino take-out.
30: tech meltdown in the Adirondacks
- Gretchen fights with a slow connection and profile creation on a couple laptops.
31: as if being hit by a baseball bat
- Sliding down the front steps at the cabin and ending up with an injured back.
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