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hardware watchdog needs petting
Saturday, September 13 2025
location: 940 feet west of Woodworth Lake, Fulton County, NY
This morning I returned to my work getting I2C slave software on the LGT8F328P and, following ChatGPT's suggestions, I managed to get it working, though not very well. It turned out that the master was spending so much time petting the slave that it couldn't actually transmit sensor data to the server. But after I added a yield() and some code to limit petting to once every five seconds, the watchdog-slave started working. Later when I limited the watchdog petting to once every twenty seconds, it worked even better.
Later in the day, Gretchen was down at the dock finding it too cold to swim. I visited her down there with a boozy drink in my Yeti cup but didn't really feel like kayaking. So instead I took Charlotte for a much-needed walk. We headed through the woods to the north border of our parcel. I explored some cliffs along East Bifurcation Creek just before it exits our parcel and found some deep fissures and even a small cave, both carpeted with a thick layer of pelleted porcupine droppings.
From there, I hiked west to the jumble of rocks in and around where the overhang where I thought about building an Anasazi-style dwelling. There were large voids under and among rocks there that I hadn't seen before.
This evening, Gretchen suggested that I make spaghetti, so that was what I ended up doing. I even fried up a pan of onions, pieces of portobello mushroom, and tempeh to thicken up the sauce.
Later, down in the basement, I began the process of wiring up a switch for a new light that will be going into the basement bulkhead entrance area. But I was having trouble threading a wire from it through the wall to where it needed to go, and none of the pokers and wires (which I was using as makeshift fish tape) were working. While down there, though, I made great progress on refining the new Arduino slave firmware. I also added yet more shards of old CDs to the styrofoam wall in the bulkhead entrance.
Later Gretchen and I played two rounds of Bananagrams, and I narrowly won both times. (She tends to lead through most of a game, with me only rallying very near the end.)
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In the middle of the night, I awoke a little more stoned than I expected to be from some moldy old cannabis I'd eaten that evening. [REDACTED]
A small cave used as a porcupine den near the bottom of East Bifurcation Creek. Click to enlarge.
A large split in the cliff rocks near the bottom of East Bifurcation Creek. Click to enlarge.
A thin bed of narrow strata in between more massive strata in the gneiss bedrock near the bottom of East Bifurcation Creek. Click to enlarge.
A chipmunk on a tiny knoll of moss surrounded by lycopods. Click to enlarge.
A large roofed void in the boulder jumble (I could fit inside this one). Click to enlarge.
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