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Oct. 24th, 2022 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zkaStarted typing, then realized, "where did I leave off?"
Where DID I leave off, on Dreamwidth? What happened in my last entry? When was that, which house was that ???? The mind boggles
... Oh, it was over a year ago! September 2k21. Let me dump the abridged version here. We're dog dads again, Brandy is our Saint Bernard + Poodle mix, she turns 1 year old this Wednesday, yay! The mountain house was sold at a profit, we have shut the door and walked away, done with that magical and terrifying ordeal. We moved to Portland in August, NoPo neighborhood, I like it here.
This house has: my office, a reading nook, a spare bedroom with my clothes, a hot tub, a garage, and (as of yesterday) my basement laboratory, I haven't used it yet, but I'm excited to finally be unpacked enough to do anything.
Current project: another e-Paper triptych, this time with a limited color palette (better contrast and saturation). I have all the parts, and the software is basically ready. I need to solder everything, debug hardware issues, and build the enclosure. Here are screenshots from the simulator:
Generating images with stable-diffusion! Lots of images, gonna need a big SD card for this thing. I wrote a microcontroller framework for processing images (including loading and decoding PNGs), it's easy to crop / scale / dither / generate a bitstream for e-Paper.
Also got an electronic drum set, finally! I need more practice, and that's my final answer
So, yeah! I'm not dead, yet. More updates later? Our house has been sick with illnesses this month, I'm mostly recovered, but I hear Brandy coughing downstairs. Busy taking care of fam and stuff, all the time it seems :\
The Very Long Pre-Celebratory House Bring-up Phase
Where DID I leave off, on Dreamwidth? What happened in my last entry? When was that, which house was that ???? The mind boggles
... Oh, it was over a year ago! September 2k21. Let me dump the abridged version here. We're dog dads again, Brandy is our Saint Bernard + Poodle mix, she turns 1 year old this Wednesday, yay! The mountain house was sold at a profit, we have shut the door and walked away, done with that magical and terrifying ordeal. We moved to Portland in August, NoPo neighborhood, I like it here.
This house has: my office, a reading nook, a spare bedroom with my clothes, a hot tub, a garage, and (as of yesterday) my basement laboratory, I haven't used it yet, but I'm excited to finally be unpacked enough to do anything.
Current project: another e-Paper triptych, this time with a limited color palette (better contrast and saturation). I have all the parts, and the software is basically ready. I need to solder everything, debug hardware issues, and build the enclosure. Here are screenshots from the simulator:
Generating images with stable-diffusion! Lots of images, gonna need a big SD card for this thing. I wrote a microcontroller framework for processing images (including loading and decoding PNGs), it's easy to crop / scale / dither / generate a bitstream for e-Paper.
Also got an electronic drum set, finally! I need more practice, and that's my final answer
So, yeah! I'm not dead, yet. More updates later? Our house has been sick with illnesses this month, I'm mostly recovered, but I hear Brandy coughing downstairs. Busy taking care of fam and stuff, all the time it seems :\
The Very Long Pre-Celebratory House Bring-up Phase
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Date: 2022-10-26 06:02 am (UTC)Do you ever see yourself moving out into the boonies again? Or has your Mountain Law hunger been satiated?
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Date: 2022-10-30 06:04 am (UTC)I honestly can't imagine moving to the boonies again. It would have to be an extraordinarily special place: beautiful, with enough amenities and good food, and in an area where we didn't feel like political aliens.
Actually, it probably won't happen. We've still overloaded with responsibilities; to our animals, jobs, and each other. I can't imagine tending to acres of land again. The hunger has been quenched, and slithered back to the pit from whence it came. It was the loneliest adventure :\