01: bifurcation bypass - The beavers who built the dam in West Bifurcation Creek had to also dam up a bypass to East Bifurcation Creek.
02: firewood salvage procrastination - Because I don't want to face the difficulties of parsing serial data in a cold basement.
03: bad vibe code and a hangover - Dealing with some terrible AI-generated code while temporarily mentally handicapped.
04: gothic firewood - Old semi-rotten silver maple isn't fun to work with, but it looks kind of crazy once stacked up in a woodshed.
05: Taco Tuesday on Cinco de Mayo - We celebrate with our dogs at the Bear Cantina, and the dogs get a lot of love from fellow celebrants.
06: intruding into the throw-away part of asparagus - Bend it until it breaks and then take the top part and the top-most inch of the bottom part.
07: not a funky man cave - Gretchen returns to the cabin for the first time since last October, and yet it wasn't too nasty despite all my solo uses of it.
08: firewood along the north retaining wall - Gathering wood at the cabin and wanting to talk about things other than activism.
09: debugging an ESP8266 serial parser - The stages it took to get it working on a cool foggy day at the Adirondack cabin.
10: Gretchen visits Dominic Ciffs - We do a complete walk of the bifurcation creeks and Gretchen decides to rename West Bifurcation Creek.
11: updating from 100 miles away - After cooking another meal from dried beans, I, for the first time, update ESP8266 microcontrollers in the Adirondacks from here in the Catskills.
12: procrastinating video editing - Instead I start to obsess about serial parsing.
13: garbled parse data debugged - That was difficult! I also extract a hydronic radiator from a neighbor's house. So now I have to work on procrastinated video editing.
14: Gretchen lies down on a restaurant's bathroom floor - Fortunately it was in one of the more pleasant restaurant bathrooms.
15: a working payphone in Preston Hollow - Also, our favorite Schoharie café has been replaced with a white trash tattoo parlor.
16: unpleasant stone gathering - Not a good task when slightly hungover and in need of food. Also, a cormorant at the dock.
17: the black mud of Franklinton Vlaie - I stop at a handy doggy rest area south of Middleburgh on the drive back from the Adirondack cabin.
18: return of the caterpillars - A hot summery day brought them and their predators out in great numbers.
19: video and websockets - Two indoor tasks on a day when it's too hot to be outside
20: L.Y.E Parklet - I discover what appears to be a guerilla park made on the street across from the Wall Street rental.
21: long walk to that ugly pond - Hiking with the neighbors past lots of caterpillars and their damage (and a waterfall too).
22: kids doing Bowie - A cultural-community event at the Woodstock Theatre.
23: poor former cheerleader Kim - I am not the only person my brother calls repeatedly.
24: testing a 3D magnetic sensor - It works great and can be made very small.
25: pillows and cradles - Learning about New England forests from a forest gnome similar to my late father.
26: thinking of a Chamomile Creek trail - A beautiful day in May while mildly euphoric on kratom sludge.
27: unexpected race condition - The new websocket-based communication channel exposes a precarious timing issue.
28: an ordering bug - I fix yet another ESP8266 bug before Gretchen and I drive with the dogs to the Adirondacks.
29: troubled molar and heart palpitations - Probing my inflamed gum with a tiny screwdriver and trying to read William Gibson, I wonder if at last I might be falling apart.
30: a multiheaded sunflower - Impulse purchases at Parker's Flowers on the way back from a carriage-bolt-buying errand.
31: not a great phone call from a Hurley landowning scion - We might soon have three new house off the Farm Road.