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just a lovely spring day in our old stomping ground. Had my first sizzler at the shopping bag, eaten at Rock Point park, where we had a garden plot 10 or so years ago. Now sipping an iced coffee at scout. Pretty much checked all the boxes.
bluebird day...very out of character for VT in April. A good day for eclipse viewing, coffeeshop staffing, synth playing.
About to scope out a barn and PA for an eclipse viewing party on the other side of the valley.
well, had finally got the luddite.institute gopher server up and running at home, but one powr outage later, the system is down. unsure of the reason.
A wild weekend full of unprepared drivers and crowded mountains. Audis abandoned on the side of the road, FWD sedans with all-seasons failing to gain any traction...mass hysteria.
Been spending a bit of time lately with games like fwarf fortress and found a neat single player pencil-and-paper game called Delve. a lot of offline fun!
Recording the first tape of mad river valley modular no. 3; a collection of drones and background noise. for meditation and other non-listening needs.
Literally cut off mid-thought. The valley was hit hard, looks like most of the outages are in our region (that, and down near hartford/white river jct). Currently posting from my e-reader tethered to my cell. Writing on e-ink is fun.
A heavy snowfall last night, causing intermittent power outages and bright flashes. Trees
Been pretty quiet around these parts, mostly due to working on the luddite.institue server. But realized I can ssh in from termux and do some tinylogging on my phone.
If there was going to be a topic that turns the most boring social network into a flamewar, I suppose aFfOrDaBlE hOuSiNg would be it. Interesting to see young late-stage capitalists use YIMBY tropes to build flophouses.
Interesting think pieces over the past day or two on gaming out the civil trial: what happens to the weaponized NDAs? Is attending a trial where summary judgment is set just a ploy to convince lo-info voters he can predict the future and prove "the game is rigged"?
Reconnected the grid to the synth and re-acquainted myself with its key layout. E350 drone + rings lead = win
Up in burlap to watch a game show at the Flynn. What a world...
A sense of accomplishment from yesterday, the tree is finally bucked and ready for splitting.
Good to reconnect with those who have been close, but geography interfered with.
Failure to follow regular order grinds new work to a halt, only can run in place. We live in that moment where inertia carries an object counter to where it will ultimately end up.
A day of work cutting and lawn work hit a bit harder than usual; some stretching and remembering two old postures (the lion, the bear(?)) helps a bit. Worth habituating.
Headed out to the best lil' festival ground in the state. Unfortunately no toubab krewe, but lespecial and the motet will be there.
Ran into some old neighbors today, really nice to catch up with folks from the Burlington ONE days.
I opened my tsumego pro app for the first time in months, then saw this linked on Mastodon. Baader–Meinhof aside, nice looking website, clear on mobile.
Tinylogging from the new office setup in the cat room. Need to plan strategic defenses from Kepler/catbox interactions, but the view out the window is nice and there is the potential for working out on the deck. Studio is going to be interesting to plan; the key is no wires visible. The old studio could have been from the house in Lain.
After a morning pouring coffee for folks at the Mad River Taste Place and an afternoon on the Phen loop, spending an evening with the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey circa 2005 and a cider of mine from 2013. Cider is clean and slightly sweet, seems to have avoided the ravages of time so far. The JFJO is electric, playing plenty of "modern standards", or at least in that tradition. Jason Smart on the drums; intentional drumming that isn't afraid of spaces.
Began the tonic syrup journey tonight, first batch informative as to what parameters to tweak.
Playing around with a dithering tool, which can make anything instant lo-fi vaporwave:
Today was spent tidying up from two large trees being cut down in our yard. Chainsaw, wood splitter, rearranging the woodshed. As they say, wood heats you three times: when you cut it, when you stack it, and when you burn it.
dusted off the old xmpp account (smm@jabber.sdf.org) and seeing what's what. Dipping a toe into the tildeverse though a neat xmpp-to-irc service.
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K is updating her website, there have been a lot of new and changed things this year! I did a re-read of the site and found this old article on iced coffee. It even reads well on lynx!
Just a rather nice day out here. Hiking, art at the Bundy Modern, good meal/ice cream (non-dairy pineapple :chefskiss:). Tomorrow will be all chainsaw, all the time.
The Bundy Modern - Waitsfield, VT
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Giving the house the deep clean it never had. Carpet shampooing is immensely satisfying when you dump a gallon of black water down the drain.
All of my microblogging so far has been courtesy of this very nice text editor. Also functioning as my to do list and master note keeping app on mobile. Extremely versatile!
Not Gemini, but still smol:
A weird end to vacation as we come home to a house we cannot sleep in. The main floor smells of plastic sheeting. Blowers run continuously. Had a slumber party in the roastery watching Downton Abbey with the pets, who both seemed gratified to be home. Kepler cut his paw; it's healing but he needs to keep off of it.
Afternoon at Little Wolf, pour over via machine ("Tone"). Talk of slow growth, best coffeeshop principals.
The right to work, to be maintained while working, and to share the product with all who want it.
Added my name to this open letter.
Just hiked "cross country" (4 km) through woods and bogs, past the school and a farm to get from the rental to the family.
Reading the RFC to get the hang of this; pleasantly straightforward! Tried to set an avatar, hope it comes out right (first time delving into Unicode symbols).
Tinylogging from the ocean. Rockport lives up to its name.
