Just a Walk On a Fall Day
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Took a walk with Mitzi yesterday morning. Beautiful day, but kind of chilly. Temps in the 40s.
One of our neighbors was out loading his truck. I'd met him before, but he hadn't met Mitzi yet, so we stopped by to say hi. Nice guy, in his 70s. He's an electrician and actually wired the house we live in. We talked to him about getting a generator connection.
The EcoFlow 3 Pro battery/inverter power station and spare battery arrived. Very heavy. Charged them both to 85% since they're mostly going to sit idle unless they're needed. I need to put a load on it to make sure the inverter works, but haven't done that yet.
The news has me kind of in a funk. Spent some time yesterday playing around with Virtual ][, figuring out how to get Beagle Compiler working. I use a disk image that I can transfer to a micro-SD card and use in the Floppy Emu with the //c (or the //e when I get one up here). I want to get the programs configured so I can switch efficiently between Program Writer, an Applesoft BASIC editor, and the compiler.
Everything works if I boot from a 5.25" disk image of Beagle Compiler, but I'd like to be able to run it from a 32mb virtual HD image. When I try that, it fails for some reason. Research continues.
Kottke linked to a Kickstarter effort for a book about the Sphere personal computer. I'd corresponded with Ben Zotto a couple of years ago when I encountered his web site about the Sphere. I backed the project because it's a pretty remarkable story that I think deserves a book, not just a web site.
Caitie is in NYC as of this morning, visiting a friend. On Monday she'll take a train up to Albany and I'll meet her at my Mom's where we'll visit and spend the night. Then we'll head out here to Winterfell for a couple of days. I'm hopeful that the weather cooperates, but you never know.
It turns out that the house the OM-3 grip was delivered to is next door to the house with the Trump sign. I drove up there a couple of days ago, but no one was home. Tried again yesterday, but brought a note to leave in case no one was home. This time there was someone home. Tillie (Tilly?), a charming woman and her dog Obie (golden-doodle). She said she did get the package, didn't make the connection with our place down the road and stuck it back in the mailbox.
I enjoyed meeting Tilly and invited her to drop by anytime.
So I checked with the Post Office, and they recalled the package and thought I'd refused delivery, so they returned it! So now I need to reach out to SmallRig and see if I can get it shipped back to the proper address.
I'll be down in Watkins Glen tomorrow for the No Kings protest. I love America and I hate what Trump is doing to it.
And the beat goes on...
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