The new washing machine is… it’s got more programmes than the previous one, and more flexibility too! I’m…
/me rubs thighs enthusiastically…
Apologies to those of you on pnut,io who saw the multiple postings when my rssupdatepnut app failed; all I had to do was add code to overwrite the previous post date file with the latest post’s date, if they were different.
That expression ‘it never rains but it pours’ is very much in effect right here right now.
The washing machine died yesterday, with my work shirts inside, undies and socks, and a couple of irreplaceable t-shirts. The door locked, no water drained. Yes, I did indeed turn it off and back in again!
I also turned off the cold water inlet valve. Yes I did. Yes.
No, not entirely.
It’s surprising how much water can accumulate in a short timeframe on a tiled utility room floor. And how long it takes to mop it up!
Even the guys who replaced it couldn’t get into the machine, even after taking the back off.
This post should have been entitled ‘The Tale of the Lost Undies’.
A mish-mash of themes follows; it’s been a while since my last confes, er… blog post.
Um… Python programming is addictive. If I could use it at work to do engineering I’d be even happier!
Now:
Started last October, m second-ever Python script: PigPen, a social networking app for the https://pnut.io social network, Mainly feature-complete where features exist; apart from those that don’t work. A mentions or messages alert companion application would be a good thing to write, sometime.
Crypto, a cryptocurrency notification and alert application, designed to send regular, timed messages over the Pushover system. Now with added 3-graph goodness of the previous 24 hours’ movements! Currently also sends messages to my dev channel at pnut.io, but it currently seems a little pointless.
rssupdatepnut, periodically checks an RSS feed (currently my blog, but it could be a news feed) for updates, which it should eventually post to pnut.io and other networks. Designed to run periodically. Incidentally, the publication of this post will be its first live test!
The future:
I’ve set myself a few professional goals for this year. Yes, 2018.
My maths skills have atrophied; I’d like to be re-updated to engineering college ONC level by December. A project would be good, to inject a bit of real-world reality into the proceedings.
Organisation and working ‘smart’: I’ve adopted the Bullet Journal logging and diary system. With a bit of luck it’ll help end my indecision and tendency to bury stuff. One of its strengths is the ‘Migration’, where incomplete tasks are pushed forwards during the weekly and monthly reviews.
Personal goals too!
Reliability would be great!
I missed February’s pnut.io #ThemeMonday. Sorry all, it’s been an odd, kind-of crappy start to the year.
Other:
Two rather expensive days, emotionally and financially:
£130 - Loki cat to vet:
` Suspected congestive heart failure
£ 30 - Loki cat followup:
Heart problem confirmed, not acute
£612 - 4 new tyres + tracking:
Highlighted by just-about reaching the vet
£327 - Ruby overnight vet visit:
Who ate 1/4 pack of Smarties and the chocolate off a Crunchie bar? (Chocolate: poisonous to dogs.)`
I looked over earlier, spied my wife eating milk chocolate, decided to emulate the dog so knelt down in front of the settee. Getting no satisfaction I shifted position, into a wet patch Ruby dog had created not long previously.
It was cold (it’d been sprayed.)
I… I looked up after a stifled expletive, to find my wife laughing. The chocolate? All gone of course.
Don’t attempt to emulate the dog, you can’t beat millennia of evolution.
I know my place.