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Went home, had a salad, then rested for the evening. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.11 Today was a little warmer. Work went well, and I started on a set of alterations to Para-Gilbertsville. This will be ongoing for a while, but should solve the identified pain points. For church, I started writing an application for interactive access to information on our missionaries. I'm hoping to have it be a useful, but still somewhat fun thing that'll make it easier to learn what's going on in the field. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.10 It's a little warmer today, though still cold. I did finish with "The Regicide Report" and will start a new series tomorrow. I wrote a small Flask application for work to reformat a report we use to generate count sheets for physical inventory checks. Then home, dinner, and bed. No personal project work today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.09 Back to work. With services Fri - Sun, there wasn't really a break, so I'm pretty tired. And not sleeping well. I'm doing some work on the new RetroForth for iOS. Mainly in the Obj-C & Swift code. Specifically: I'm trying to get a terminal emulator functioning for interactive use. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.08 Three sessions today. The first two are done (later than the schedule, which is fine), with one remaining at 1317. No net issues today, (Evening update): all of the servies went well, and I've been home for a few hours. It's very cold still, but should warm a bit later this week. No programming or reading today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.07 Very, very cold today, and a lot of wind. Three sessions (one split, the last one combined), which went well. Minor network issues due to the wind. I took a late lunch walk, and made it home around 1600. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.06 Today was the first day of Missions Conference. We had a night session after work. It started with a meal, then the service. It ended up being a late night. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.05 It was another busy day at work. I charged most of my devices & packed things for tomorrow, and am now trying to get some rest. I haven't finished The Regicide Report yet but will by the end of Saturday. Tomorrow will be busy with the start of the mission conference at church. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.04 Wednesday. Church tonight, and some prep work for the missions conference. I'll be trying to record & stream both parts of the split session on Saturday, so am doing some work to support this tonight. I'm doing my daily computing under SSH on the reMarkable Move today. I don't have an ilo-unix, so am just using the basic ilo with line buffering. It's not great for (termina) programs, but works well for the standard applications. And using the basic line editor is still good enough for me. Maybe I should do an ilo.blocks w/o the termina stuff and just a more minimal overall system? ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.03 It's Tuesday. More snow & ice melting, and work is getting a bit busier. A lot of quoting, and some of these are pretty decent in scope. Didn't do any programming today, but did start backing up data from the devbox to the rsync.net zfs store in prep for a reset of the devbox to become my prod server (it'll replace the linode I use now) with FreeBSD. This is part of some cost-cutting efforts on my part. I'll have a series of tech changes to help with this, and some non-tech adjustments as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.02 It's still very cold, but warming enough during the day to melt the ice a bit. So that's nice. After work I found out that my youngest son was suspended from school until at least Thursday. This is *very* troubling for me. We've grounded him as well, and he's going to have to give up some fun activities through the end of the current school year as a result. Not pleasant. Hopefully he learns from this. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.01 February begins, bitterly cold. We had some RF issues with the lapel mic in the services, and I saw some issues with the wifi and streaming. Will look at those further. Lunch was a bit of pizza. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.31 We put about 5qt of oil in the van. Not good. I took a walk, had some coffee, and a bit of chicken. Then home, more prep on the next cairn story, and a little reading. No programming today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.30 I'm retiring my use of the AiPaper Mini. It's a tad too big; the cold front light is annoying; and I dislike the AI focus. I'll keep using my others (Supernote Nomad, reMarkable Move, Boox Go 6) for now. In the evening, we set Ben's computer up on the TailScale net. I did some work on the Watt Tally code today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.29 Continued some work on Taurea. I think the 4x variation is my preferred one, so I'm going to focus on this for now. It's very handy on the tablet or on a desktop. There's a possible storm coming this weekend, but hopefully it will shift off the cost. I don't want more snow. I decided to work on a revived Watt Tally. I had some big issues in the original, so this will be good to get to a better state. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.28 Still cold, and not much meltage on the snow and ice. I've been working on billing issues today. Dull, but necessary. For Konilo, I did a little more cleanup in the (std) blocks, saving 3 more cells, and reduced the block count by 1. I may try to do some work on the RetroForth code tomorrow, but it's less fun in some ways. Church tonight. I'll push my blocks now, and write more tomorrow (as always). ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.27 It's still slow at work, but was a tiny bit busier than Monday. Finished the new transfer printer program. Charles Stross' new book The Regicide Report is out. I'll start reading it tomorrow. It'll be a fun end to the month for books. In ilo, I did a version using an sqlite3 database for the blocks I'll use this to explore a version-control scheme (one of a few that I want to try out). ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.26 I made it into work (thanks to Wyatt for a ride!) and the day was very boring. In the afternoon I typed up my cairn updates & sent them to Arland. Some minor notes updates today, and did some work on updating the transfer labels programs for Gilbertsville to remove the hard coded list of branches & printers. I slipped on the ice on the way out. No serious injury, but a little beat up on the palms & knees. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.25 The streams went well, which was nice. I watched remotely (both the streams & via the cameras), so I was able to help a little. About 9" of snow, and some ice. It's cold, and overly bright as a result of glare. I finished the core of the current cairn story, but need to type it up for Arland. Might do that tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.24 Cold today. I went for a walk, had lunch, did a bit of reading. In the evening, went to the church & showed Jackson how to do the basics with the ATEM for live streaming. We'll do more on this later. No services tomorrow, except for the live stream. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.23 We set up the other three cameras at church. And then prepared at Denney for the incoming snowstorm. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.22 I was able to order my plane tickets for the Grenada trip today. So all that's left for big expenses here are lodging & food. And a lot of research into the customs process, deciding what to pack, and general preparation. It looks very likely that we will be getting a lot of snow (for this area) over the weekend. Not happy about this, but will try to deal with it as best as I can. Tomorrow I need to run to the church to check out the cameras; AgentDVR isn't showing them being up, so something may need to be done on the laptop. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.21 I've decided to play around a bit on my block map. I'm going to do a bit of a cleaner separation in a few areas. Currently it's set with 1024 for system blocks & applications, 1024 for the glossary and manual, 1024 for personal data, and 1024 for WISP. I think I'll partition this slightly better, with a clearer separation between the system blocks, standard applications, my private applications, space the glossary and manual a little, increase the data blocks, and set up an area after the WISP reg- ion for things like my DecAdv logs. So not a major change, but a little refinement. Evening update: layout is setup, and I have a sanitize script to rebuild a clean ilo.blocks from my personal set. Now to finish moving the blocks around & sync to the repo. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.20 I finally have ilo running on the TTGO VGA32 ESP board. Not yet supporting the PS2 keyboard, but the VGA display is functioning. I'll try to get the keyboard going once I find where it went. So I now have Teensy4, RP2350, and ESP32 systems. For cost, I want to use either RP2350 or ESP32. I'll make some decisions on this soon. Church tomorrow. And another work day. Doing some reading this evening. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.19 Monday brought a return to work. I'm still tired, but a little less so. Work was uneventful (probably due to the snow & today being a holiday). Much of the time was spent putting out salt & dealing with the remnants of the storm. My evening was spent working on Patengi (adding batch conversion of formats, and more improvements to the reader module, which is now using epub.js) Then dinner, a bit of reading, and bed for some rest. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.18 Sunday, and more snow. All day. This wasn't in the forecasts, and made the day annoying. Tammie wasn't feeling well, so I asked Jackson for rides to/from the church. Services were ok, but attendance was light. The roads are still a mess, and I'm hoping it'll be a little better tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.17 Saturday. Despite the forecast calling for just a dusting, we did end up with some snow. I took a walk, got cold & wet, but was able to pick up a copy of "Twelve Months" (newest book in the Dresden Files). I spent the afternoon reading my new book, then dinner & bed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.16 Friday. Still very, very tired, but was able to get through the day. Hopefully I can get some rest tonight. I did a little work on the new patengi code, starting on an epub reader. This won't be quick I think, and I may look at uing the epub.js project for this. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.15 Church went well last night, but I wasn't able to get much sleep so I'm still very tired today. Dealing with a few work things, doing a bit of reading, then just going to bed. Being exhausted isn't fun. I started a revival of my old patengi application for managing an ebook library. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.14 Last night was bad for my glucose. It's exhausting. I made it through the work day, and did some work on label printing. Now at 1700 I'm off to church. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.13 The passport paperwork arrived at the Philly office today, so it will hopefully be processed soon. Six new API functions added, and about a third of the main parts of the nww Para interface are done. No cairn again. Sorry Arland. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.12 It's monday, so back to work. I've started on a new native-ish (python + tk) interface for Para, using the API. The basics are done, but I've found a few places that were missing in the API, so will start writing those functions tomorrow. Not done with the cairn story yet. Been too tired to feel like playing. I mailed in the passport renewal paperwork. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.11 Sunday. Minor technical issues, but the wifi is back so I was able to stream the sermons. In the afternoon I got my passport photo and picked up some prescriptions. No computer work today other than church. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.10 Today was a men's breakfast at church. This was from 0800-1030. Afterwards it was raining, so I deferred walking. Probably will try to get in a walk after church tomorrow. A little reading, and a lot of resting. Some minor cleaning in the house. Not a bad day. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.09 Again, not a good night for sleep. I'll take some melatonin ton- ight. At least my glucose was good yesterday. It did dip a bit low during the night, but came back up pretty quickly and didn't spike high. It was busy at work today. I resolved several problems, and was able to complete a bunch of API updates and make a start at a Python + Tk interface to Para. This is intended mostly as a test ground for a more native set of front ends for it, though it'll likely be a bit before I can start the actual desired ones. Kids have an activity at church tonight, and I have a breakfast meeting tomorrow. That'll wrap up for today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.08 I didn't sleep well again, so am quite tired. But coffee helped, and I was pretty productive at work. I'm continuing work on the para-branch application, making more changes that should help improve stability and factor better between the front end and backend. (As before, I'm using CC to help here, since my RSI issues would otherwise mean delaying this. I'd rather save my actual typing time for my personal programming efforts rather than the business ones). Evening was picking up groceries, more insulin, and paying a few bills. Then an attempt to sleep. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.07 Tired (still not sleeping) and feeling a bit unwell. And I lost a bag with my insulin, so that's stressing me out. Work was stressful today, but I did get in a little time on my solo cairn game, and then went back to dealing with many, many headaches. Only programming today was work on para-branch, adding per-IP configurable timeouts to help make things easier at the slower LV store. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.06 No sleep last night. I'm *very* tired this morning, and still feeling a bit unwell. At work, I'm doing some database work on our in-house order mgmt system. This will reduce the number of queries needed to build most output significantly, which I think will help with perform- ance. I also added a thin caching module. Then I worked on two new reporting tools for some parts of the data. For konilo, I added `when` and `unless` as aliases for `if` and `-if`. These give a little different feel when reading, which I like. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.05 Back to work today. Still not feeling well. This evening I'll start gathering my Cairn notes for Arland. I did a little work on a (cairn) utility in konilo to help with creating characters and other bits of world building. I am having severe pain in my left hand today. This will impact what I can get done this evening. Probably not going to do much programming tonight. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.04 Church today. The wifi is still down, but I was able to do the streams since Comcast didn't block non-HTTP traffic on the non- activated new modem. Not feeling well, and my blood glucose reflects this. I was able to do some reading today, which was nice. I'm about 85% done with the Powder Mage trilogy, so I'll have to decide on something new to start soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.03 It's very cold today. I ended up reading until around 0300, then bed for a while to rest, before a lunch, walk, and coffee. In the afternoon I worked on the notes on my Supernote, then had dinner before taking a few minutes to write this post. I will now resume reading until I decide to shut down for the night. More to come tomorrow. Hopefully a more productive day, but I am feeling a bit unwell, so it's hard to be certain at this point. If I don't feel better, I'll prioritize resting when I can until this passes. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.02 It snowed (lightly). Not enough to be a real issue, but enough to be annoying. Next week should be a little warmer, which will be nice. I'm working on the update to Konilo's startup blocks. The change will have them load the stdlib, applications, and such only if EXTENDED is not defined already. And I add one (std) block that defines this. So you can build a fresh image, then load once and do a `rom:save`. Afterwards you'll have fast startups, and if you prefer the old behavior, just don't do the `rom:save`. I'm going to rebuild the manual from the ground up, to reflect changes made, and try to get it to a more useful state. I'll start on that tomorrow I think. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.01 January 1; a new year begins. Today was resting in the morning, visiting with mom & Arland in the afternoon, and a late dinner. At mom's we had the Christmas gifts from her & my sister. It was a nice time, but we were all pretty tired when we got home. No programming today, other than writing a bit with sitelen ilo. I did backup my WISP blocks and set up for this year. Tomorrow I'm nominally off work. (In that I need to open/close the store, but am not actively working.). I'll probably try to do a bit of development on a few of my personal projects, and maybe get the paperwork for a passport renewal filled out. ----------------------------------------------------------------