Saturday, February 10, 2024
Feb 10 (Sat) - Update
I used the van to get to coffee this morning.
So to put some miles on it. Seemed to take forever to warm up. Small crowd at the shop for a Saturday, but there it is.
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I left coffee at 10-ish, went straight home, and went straight to the lower level craft room where Kim was creatin’ more hexagons for coasters. I refreshed my memory on where I left off on the exhaust fan project, did some thinking about next steps, then got to work on the next piece of the puzzle.
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The next piece of the puzzle is the duct that will pass through the basement window from inside to outside. I cut three of the four sides then tidied up the shop a bit and went upstairs for lunch. I had an Impossible burger, bun, and fixins.
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I just paid a medical bill, such stuff is gonna be interesting between now and three years from now when medicare starts. I tried to pay the bill on-line using Pale Moon but their server wasn’t having it, throwing a 403 Forbidden. I could have fiddled with the user agent to try to get past that I used a different browser instead. It doesn’t need to be this way but ginormous corporations make it so. Bastids.
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I’ve had it up to here with news for the time being. I canceled the local newspaper and am steering clear of what very little social media I ingest. There’s a few sub-reddits that I find useful. Vintage advertisements, beauty shots of military aircraft, and national defense.
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A week ago I began weaning myself off of YouTube. It was my go-to for coding tutorials and music. But Google got greedier and had to enshittify it so I quit cold turkey.
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Back some time ago I mentioned a thing named Radio Garden, a free on-line resource that started out as a research project but grew into something practical. There’s thousands of radio stations that ‘broadcast’ over the internet, Radio Garden makes it oh-so-easy to tune in. I found five stations that play cuts from movie sound tracks and nothing more. No adverts, no dee jays, just one piece of movie magic after another.
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Two stations are in Romania, the others are in Germany. I turn the volume down real low, just loud enough to hear above the background noise. Sometime I use my noise-canceling headset. Stuff helps me focus when I’m working on the SimDocs database app..
Speaking of which, I had said it was time to fire up the database. I think that was several weeks ago. Turns out that was premature. I’ve been researching apps in general. I discovered the need for sessions so I’m working on that now. The app will set a session cookie then use it to ensure visitors see what they ask for. Interesting stuff if you’re me. Cheers.