01: successful long-distance I²C - A working magnetometer at the end of a 21 foot telephone cord.
02: you always need more concrete than yout think - Enlarging a bottom step at the Brewster Street rental.
03: when a famous author sends you an email - Artificial intelligence is destroying everything that crypto couldn't.
04: pine sap urn repair - Patching leaks in broken ceramics with salvaged pine sap.
05: a man from the gas company - We do a complete walk of the bifurcation creeks and Gretchen decides to rename West Bifurcation Creek.
06: the similes (and snake-like smiles) of Flannery O'Connor - Reading one of her short stories at the Adriondack cabin.
07: K-Rock and gin - After Gretchen and the dogs leave, I find a boneheaded metal station and listen to that while drinking gin-based beverages.
08: hauling rocks, wood, and lumber in a Chevy Bolt - It's not a big vehicle, but it's more capable than a wheelbarrow
09: not thinking in Old Hurley - A veterinarian asks if I have a sharp knife and I wonder why the libary is closed, assuming incorrectly it is Monday. And then I almost witness a car crash.
10: ChatGPT helps me get the AmeriGas API working - It's amazingly effective for translating Python Home Assistant code to PHP for my ESP8266 Remote Control system.
11: mock orange on the lower Chamomile - I find a small flowering tree while walking up the creek bed.
12: must complete puzzle - After getting to the cabin, all I can make myself do is complete the Diego Rivera mural puzzle.
13: mysterious quills in Charlotte's back - After a long adventure west of the Adirondack cabin, Charlotte reappears with a sprinkling of porcupine quills in her lower back.
14: korean food and odd time signatures - Driving to Catskill and seeing a performance of two of Gretchen's friends who happen to be in a band together.
15: bittersweet jihad - Finally doing something about a vine (wisteria, not bittersweet!) that has been attacking trees I planted so long ago that I can now climb 20 feet up into them.
16: Neville's heuristics never fail - He walks up the Valley of the Beasts for the first time in years.
17: fixing a stack of dangerously-stacked stones - Filling in the voids around rock held aloft by a narrow peak.
18: what to do with activist momentum - I ask Gretchen about her anti-animal-experiments activism on the way to the Adirondack cabin.
19: rock salvaging with a paddleboard - There is no edge to have to lift them over.
20: things heard on country music radio - Ice-cold long-necked beers and the horror of Chinese solar panels.
21: the fathers of retard rock - The local meathead station decides not to play the few women in their playlist because it is Father's Day. And I decide it is so stupid I have to hear something else, eventually finding the perfect station for my tastes.
22: Mexican Monday with tacos and friends - A delicious meal with friends who may be staying in our basement at some point.
23: Taco Tuesday with friends - A delicious meal with an old colleague from Mercy For Animals.
24: some practical calculus - I need to know how many watt-hours I have actually collected from the off-grid cabin's solar panels.
25: walking-around-money leak - It's hard to hold onto cash when you don't have a wallet.
26: parking beside another Bolt - Arriving at the Adirondack cabin the day after Gretchen went there in a different Chevy Bolt with a friend.
27: spiegeltent comedy - After driving back from the Adirondacks, seeing a famous Trump impersonator at Bard.
28: in the shade of a crabapple tree - Visiting the next door neighbor on a sunny morning.
29: Neville in a deep pool of black mud - Also, Charlotte continues to piss off neighbors with her barking.
30: anti-barking evening routine - We lock them in the house at around the time they like to go off and instigate things with Crazy Dave's dogs.