Hot and humid. Still dry too. Crunchy grass. It got well above 100F yesterday and was still 84F at midnight. There was a breeze which helped. I mostly worked indoors, but going out to cut stuff was like an oven. Probably the same today too.
Did my interior trimout for the window. I have two “soldier course” bricks to mortar back into place and the project will be finished. I might try to do that today, depending on my back mostly. Had some drama with the A/C in yesterday’s comments, so I didn’t get home last night.
My plan for today is to sleep, get up, maybe do the brick work, and then head home. I’ve got a ton of stuff to do to get ready for my event, and I feel a little behind. A lot of it is “winging it” and just doing what I did last year, but I do have some new stuff to sell too. That should at least get a quick checkout.
We’ll see what actually happens. It’s always something…
So stack and prep, then the big things turn out to be smaller things, and the drama goes away.
nick
Tired today. The dog had some problem last night, coughing, licking, etc.. For comfort, my wife let him out of the crate where he usually sleeps. So he decided to herd the cat for the rest of the night. The cat was not amused. Neither were we…
Teaching today (functional programming). Tiny class – weird – last year I had 20, this year only 7. Make for a nice, personal experience. I suppose fewer are choosing a programming career, because of the worry about AI.
Programmers will still be needed. We fossils remember when the math teachers thought the calculator would be the death of math in school. Sure, we all use calculators, but knowing how to add and multiply remains an essential skill.
I think AI and programming will be much the same. Programmers will increasingly become requirements engineers, but knowing how to program will remain an essential background skill.
Ing’s Pulling Through practicalized Kearny’s Nuclear War Skills illustrating MacGyver methods for air filters, Geiger counter, etc. There was a bit about growing sprouts for a quick salad. Our hero had a well buried tunnel ‘tween house and barn for the bones of a fallout shelter and a collection of early 1900’s antique tools and machines to facilitate a mostly electricity free existence.
Close quarters existence with family and others drove the plot. I enjoyed it, but haven’t seen my copy in a long while as paperbacks remain boxed up in storage.
Tuesday. Good morning.
The wildfires near the BOL are still not under control, but are said not to have spread much overnight due to some light rainfall yesterday.
A forester buddy sent me video taken from a helicopter. Awesome and terrifying, especially as the fire seems to have progressed from the fens into the spruce forests.
Some firefighters in hospital suffering from smoke inhalation, and one other seems to have suffered a heart attack while working. No fatalities, and no homes destroyed, but many still evacuated.
Keep up those prayers for rain and calm winds, please!