Breathing

14:43 Sunday, 2 August 2026
Current Wx: Temp: 69.35°F Pressure: 1010hPa Humidity: 92% Wind: 16.28mph
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Slowly beginning to get back in the groove after the departure of our guests. I was exhausted Friday and Saturday, and didn't sleep well last night, but today I've been able to make some progress on getting things back in order around here.

Loren offers a keen bit of insight on Apple's Upgrade program. Pay attention, or pay someone else!

I ordered a new Magic Mouse yesterday when my wrist started aching as I was using the track pad. Maybe varying the way I interact with the machine will reduce the risk of repetitive stress injury. (I should probably also practice more keyboard shortcuts.)

Michael offers some worthwhile relationship advice in case there are any single people reading the marmot. Intentionally oriented toward the younger demographic.

Another Mike offers a link to a story about modernity's layers of technical debt and problems begetting problems. Have to get to the root causes, and they are deep.

The slab got poured on Friday. Brad met with a friend to go over the plans and come up with a plan for framing the load-bearing walls so we can set the floor trusses.

I woke up at about 2:00 am, thinking about the plumbing the ducting and worrying how they might be competing for the same space. I really think anyone considering building a custom home needs to decide how they want to do their HVAC first. Ducts tend to be larger than pipes, which is why a hydronic system is often a big advantage. Hydronic piping is smaller than drain piping, and it's flexible, so it's relatively easy to route.

We'll figure it out, but it does cause a certain amount of anxiety and consternation.

The low-voltage lighting order is in and paid for, but we hadn't picked out the DC ceiling fans yet. So we did that yesterday. It was then that I realized that the only time you really care about how a ceiling fan looks is when you're buying it.

Because after that, it's mostly invisible. Which just means, don't obsess over how the damn things look!

I spent some time this morning getting Captain's Log caught up with email. I wasn't able to really do much in the way of recording things when our guests were here. As I got the latest emails recorded, I noticed I hadn't been keeping up with tagging entries so I did that too.

And that exercise also exposed a number of little utilities I'd purchased, but looking at them in the email, I couldn't tell you what they did. So I went back and found the web sites and included links and descriptions in the text of the entry. More about that later.

Maybe.

Hulu is streaming The Devil Wears Prada 2, Mitzi watched it the other night and I caught most of it. Gorgeous photography, and I thought the story was entertaining.

Hulu also has a two-part National Geographic documentary about Troy, which was fascinating.

Well, enough about all that.

The beat that can be counted is not the beat...

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