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Fri May 15 10:00:01 UTC 2026 ======================================== Slept from midnight to eight. Woke around five and slept only lightly after. Partly cloudy, then becoming mostly cloudy early in the afternoon, then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. South winds up to 10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. # Work * 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GrowHub lift transactions demo # Home * [ ] D&D Lament game prep... What does the plane saucer need? * [ ] Clear instructions saying "This is a ship that can navigate the planes and here's how to operate it." * [ ] A way to find descriptions and directions to interesting locations on the planes. * [ ] read Treasure island * [ ] read The Count of Monte Cristo * [ ] read The d'Artagnan Romances: * The Three Musketeers * Twenty Years After * The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Man in the Iron Mask) Finished reading The Jungle Book. Good, but the last story (with the camp animals) was the weakest. Vacuumed. Fifteen-minute walk after work. Sunny, seventy, and slightly breezy — just about the perfect weather. Saw Canada geese, robins, mourning doves, blue jays, swallows, and a small raptor, maybe a Cooper's hawk. https://makezine.com/projects/yellow-drum-machine/ The video shows how cute the robot is. > A couple of years ago I started getting into Picaxe microcontrollers, and I ordered a bunch of random components to experiment with. Turning these funny little spring-mounted motors on and off, I thought, Hmm — I could put a stick on that and let the microcontroller drum! This mini sound-recorder board? Hey, if the robot is drumming, it could record itself and play a new beat with the first one in a loop. Oh, nice yellow tracks, a rangefinder — cool, it could move around and look for things to drum on. Servings: grains 2/4, vegetables+fruit 3/5, dairy+meat 3/4, nuts+beans 0/0.5 Brunch: hot dog, coleslaw, potato salad Afternoon snack: coffee, banana Dinner:

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