Weeknotes continue! Tried to write daily posts but only managed one before the week happened. Catsby finally found food he loves (baby food in a jar), printed an army of tiny polar bears and fleshy-looking pink reindeer, friendship ended with Fortnite and now Warframe is my best friend, and spent way too much time thinking about game streaming with Sunshine & Moonlight while pondering whether to turn my gaming PC into a basement server. [ ... 1181 words ... ]
Miss Biscuits has been taking excellent care of Catsby lately. I caught them last night with her giving him a thorough bath while he lounged next to me on the couch.
She hasn't been here long, but she's turned into the queen-slash-mother of the house. Watching her methodically clean his face while he just accepts it with that resigned cat expression is pretty heartwarming. Especially given all the medical adventures Catsby's been through this year.
Missed home during work travel, managed Catsby's 7 medications with 3D-printed organizers, got deeply affected by two books about outsiders and robots, accidentally won at Fortnite twice, set up the BBS ADVENT calendar, and collected musical earworms. [ ... 1574 words ... ]
Grilled a whole turkey for Thanksgiving, fell deep into the smart litter box telemetry rabbit hole for Catsby's health monitoring, reinstalled Fortnite and got weirdly fascinated by their copyright mashup achievement, published my short story "Emerald Halo", and spent way too much mental energy worrying about ADHD and creative writing schedules. [ ... 1910 words ... ]
This short week was dominated by Catsby feeling unwell (but with Miss Biscuits providing excellent nursing care), a deep dive into Home Assistant dashboard shenanigans to track dehumidifier power usage, discovering new games (Demonschool and Wanderstop), and revisiting whether Neil Peart was actually Canada's best rapper all along. [ ... 1063 words ... ]
This week I revived the weeknotes habit with some tooling tweaks, fell down rabbit holes about BBS-era writing styles getting mistaken for ChatGPT output, dealt with Catsby feeling under the weather (but Miss Biscuits providing excellent nursing care), discovered some wild musical connections between Feist and Peaches, got excited about build-free JavaScript, and bookmarked way too many things about AI (as usual). [ ... 1732 words ... ]
Our 15-year-old solar inverter died this week, which kicked off a lot of thinking about technology longevity and why IoT devices don't have 15-20 year plans. Also: anxious cat parenting with smart litter boxes, Miss Biscuits winning over Cosmo, buying a nostalgic boombox off eBay, bouncing off and back into Xenoblade Chronicles 3, contemplating tea as a booze replacement, and way too many bookmarks about AI coding tools. [ ... 1896 words ... ]
Wrestled with my Synology NAS trying to get a Debian VM running, started learning Kubernetes and Argo Workflows, watched Catsby and Miss Biscuits become friends, populated my BBS with text files from textfiles.com. Also: no, I don't need to build a BBS Door that controls Home Assistant lights. (But maybe I do?) [ ... 1063 words ... ]
Our cat Puck died last night. He would have been 15 in July. That’s pretty good for a cat, all things considered. [ ... 906 words ... ]
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