Your leaking thatched hut during the restoration of a pre-Enlightenment state.

 

Hello, my name is Judas Gutenberg and this is my blaag (pronounced as you would the vomit noise "hyroop-bleuach").



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Biosphere II
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Detroit
Irving housing

got that wrong
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Arduino μcontrollers
Backwoods Home
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   September 2026

01: the very last 36 inch balusters - I take the last of what I need from a chaotic pile at Lowes.
02: arguing with a supertaster - Managing to get Gretchen to eat a meatless hamburger crumble that does not taste good on its own.
03: sawdust and other annoying debris - Processing wood away from the work site.
04: answers to my heartworm questions - Though they came from an LLM, they smelled too true to check.
05: unexplained quartzite - I find an abundance of it in loose material along the lakeshore but not in the nearby bedrock.
06: wind generator proves too heavy - Due to its weight, a failing elbow, and yellow jackets, I couldn't install it as I hoped.
07: arborio rice with low-effort chili - Recovering from the numerous little health problems leftover from the weekend while remaining somewhat functional.
08: microSD hell - Just trying to make a network camera out of a Raspberry Pi Zero.
09: an unhelpful Apple - Sort of getting an old MacBook Pro working again, and Neville gets his second heartworm shot.
10: discolored chanterelles - I eat them despite a cloying fishy flavor, and later I experience diarrhea.
11: entrenchment of a recently-developed habit - Neville seems comfortable again, though now he's whining whenever he feels a want. Also, Gretchen leaves for her big trans-New-York march.
12: a case for road beers - Why I drink them. Also, changing the station when a Jelly Roll song begins to play.
13: Canal Lock Ten - Meeting Gretchen and the marchers along the Erie Canal east of Amsterdam.
14: George P. Snyder Community Park - I find it with Mapquest after Google Maps lets me down.
15: wind generator erected - After the marchers leave the cabin for the last time, I wrangle some massive stones and raise up the generator atop its mast.
16: worm theatre - Almost hitting a fawn on the drive back from the Adirondacks with a slow leak in my tire.
17: an unexplored gulley - I discover a spectacular landform only a quarter mile from home.
18: my one job with respect to Neville - And how it seemed like I'd failed to live up to my responsibilities.
19: bear scat on the Gulleys Trail - It's black for some reason. I also use a backpack to recover good pieces of bluestone from an ad hoc mine above the Stick Trail.
20: crappy AI-generated YouTube videos - They're not always labeled, but they always disappoint.
21: huge load of bluestone - But it's only about the weight of three humans, and I drive it to the Adirondacks.
22: difficult-to-explain mast support geometry - See if you can make any sense of what I wrote.
23: stepping on a wet beanbag - I am not sure when Neville pissed on it.
24: a couple Department of Corrections police at my door - And they're there to to talk to Gretchen, perhaps about one of her prisoner pen pals.
25: range anxiety - Panic sets in after the only fast charger at a remote Thruway service area turns out not to work on my drive to meet Gretchen near the end of her march across New York.
26: march from North Rose - The culmination of the two week march that came out of Gretchen's brain back in the spring.
27: back home from the march - I drive us southeastward across New York.
28: fetching the Forester - We drive to an unfamiliar part of Cottekill to retrieve a vehicle loaned to a friend Gretchen had made on the march.
29: fallen limbs from the nor'easter - A forest full of sticks from trees killed by various plagues.
30: unexpectedly long afternoon nap - I laid down next to Neville and next thing I knew it was 3:30pm.