Missions app is approved, so will start getting the content in place this week.

Evening was just reading a bit.

I also worked on an update for Paipera. It's a big overhaul of the application, adding bookmarks, highlights, daily reading, search, and more configurability.

Evening was spent at church. We had a financial lecture, and it ran about 4 hours. Long, but enjoyable overall.

I'm tired now, so heading to bed. No reading or programming tonight.

Tammie had an accident with the van. So it's out of commission for at least a day, and maybe more. I'll probably walk to work tomorrow. Or maybe hassle John or Gene for a ride.

I began a `longform` vocabulary (similar to WISP, but for much longer writing). It'll be a bit before I share it, but I've made some use of it already, with an article on portability and perf- ormance.

Some wifi issues at the church tonight. Will investigate.

In the evening I had to fix an issue with the beta of the time- card app on iOS, and it's now in TestFlight.

Possibly a little more snow tonight/tomorrow, but hopefully only a heavy dusting.

We've dug out somewhat, but there's still a lot in the parking lot so our van (which has some engine issues now) is stuck for the day.

I went for a walk in the afternoon, as it switched from a light rain into snow. By 1600 it was getting heavy, and we ended up with about 8-10" by midnight as I write this. Going to bed now.

During the afternoon I did some work on the web side of Para Timecards, which is getting close to ready.

It was blissfully free of snow (most of the lingering snow from the last storm has melted), so my walk was pleasant. But we may get hit again tomorrow.

Dinner was a salad, then spent the night resting.

Evening was spent reading, and updating some notes in prep for the weekend programming project.

We had interviews between 1100 and 1430, then inventory in the evening until I had to leave for church.

Still having low glucose issues at night and not resting well, which is hurting my productivity a bit.

I did help a bit with inventory in the evening.

Picked up groceries after church.

No personal coding or reading today.

I did a little work on ripanga and some more cleanups in my blocks.

Took a lunch walk, had coffee, and then headed home to read & rest.

Despite this work went well, until 1530 when my glucose crashed again while at the counter.

Went home, had a salad, then rested for the evening.

For church, I started writing an application for interactive access to information on our missionaries. I'm hoping to have it be a useful, but still somewhat fun thing that'll make it easier to learn what's going on in the field.

I wrote a small Flask application for work to reformat a report we use to generate count sheets for physical inventory checks.

Then home, dinner, and bed.

No personal project work today.

I'm doing some work on the new RetroForth for iOS. Mainly in the Obj-C & Swift code. Specifically: I'm trying to get a terminal emulator functioning for interactive use.

(Evening update): all of the servies went well, and I've been home for a few hours. It's very cold still, but should warm a bit later this week. No programming or reading today.

I took a late lunch walk, and made it home around 1600.

I haven't finished The Regicide Report yet but will by the end of Saturday. Tomorrow will be busy with the start of the mission conference at church.

I'm doing my daily computing under SSH on the reMarkable Move today. I don't have an ilo-unix, so am just using the basic ilo with line buffering. It's not great for (termina) programs, but works well for the standard applications. And using the basic line editor is still good enough for me.

Maybe I should do an ilo.blocks w/o the termina stuff and just a more minimal overall system?

Didn't do any programming today, but did start backing up data from the devbox to the rsync.net zfs store in prep for a reset of the devbox to become my prod server (it'll replace the linode I use now) with FreeBSD.

This is part of some cost-cutting efforts on my part. I'll have a series of tech changes to help with this, and some non-tech adjustments as well.

After work I found out that my youngest son was suspended from school until at least Thursday. This is *very* troubling for me. We've grounded him as well, and he's going to have to give up some fun activities through the end of the current school year as a result. Not pleasant. Hopefully he learns from this.

We had some RF issues with the lapel mic in the services, and I saw some issues with the wifi and streaming. Will look at those further.

Lunch was a bit of pizza.

I took a walk, had some coffee, and a bit of chicken. Then home, more prep on the next cairn story, and a little reading. No programming today.

In the evening, we set Ben's computer up on the TailScale net.

I did some work on the Watt Tally code today.

There's a possible storm coming this weekend, but hopefully it will shift off the cost. I don't want more snow.

I decided to work on a revived Watt Tally. I had some big issues in the original, so this will be good to get to a better state.

For Konilo, I did a little more cleanup in the (std) blocks, saving 3 more cells, and reduced the block count by 1. I may try to do some work on the RetroForth code tomorrow, but it's less fun in some ways.

Church tonight. I'll push my blocks now, and write more tomorrow (as always).

Charles Stross' new book The Regicide Report is out. I'll start reading it tomorrow. It'll be a fun end to the month for books.

In ilo, I did a version using an sqlite3 database for the blocks I'll use this to explore a version-control scheme (one of a few that I want to try out).

Some minor notes updates today, and did some work on updating the transfer labels programs for Gilbertsville to remove the hard coded list of branches & printers.

I slipped on the ice on the way out. No serious injury, but a little beat up on the palms & knees.

About 9" of snow, and some ice. It's cold, and overly bright as a result of glare.

I finished the core of the current cairn story, but need to type it up for Arland. Might do that tomorrow.

In the evening, went to the church & showed Jackson how to do the basics with the ATEM for live streaming. We'll do more on this later.

No services tomorrow, except for the live stream.

It looks very likely that we will be getting a lot of snow (for this area) over the weekend. Not happy about this, but will try to deal with it as best as I can.

Tomorrow I need to run to the church to check out the cameras; AgentDVR isn't showing them being up, so something may need to be done on the laptop.

Evening update: layout is setup, and I have a sanitize script to rebuild a clean ilo.blocks from my personal set. Now to finish moving the blocks around & sync to the repo.

So I now have Teensy4, RP2350, and ESP32 systems. For cost, I want to use either RP2350 or ESP32. I'll make some decisions on this soon.

Church tomorrow. And another work day. Doing some reading this evening.

My evening was spent working on Patengi (adding batch conversion of formats, and more improvements to the reader module, which is now using epub.js)

Then dinner, a bit of reading, and bed for some rest.

Tammie wasn't feeling well, so I asked Jackson for rides to/from the church. Services were ok, but attendance was light.

The roads are still a mess, and I'm hoping it'll be a little better tomorrow.

I spent the afternoon reading my new book, then dinner & bed.

I did a little work on the new patengi code, starting on an epub reader. This won't be quick I think, and I may look at uing the epub.js project for this.

I started a revival of my old patengi application for managing an ebook library.

Six new API functions added, and about a third of the main parts of the nww Para interface are done.

No cairn again. Sorry Arland.

Not done with the cairn story yet. Been too tired to feel like playing.

I mailed in the passport renewal paperwork.

In the afternoon I got my passport photo and picked up some prescriptions.

No computer work today other than church.

A little reading, and a lot of resting. Some minor cleaning in the house. Not a bad day.

It was busy at work today. I resolved several problems, and was able to complete a bunch of API updates and make a start at a Python + Tk interface to Para. This is intended mostly as a test ground for a more native set of front ends for it, though it'll likely be a bit before I can start the actual desired ones.

Kids have an activity at church tonight, and I have a breakfast meeting tomorrow. That'll wrap up for today.

I'm continuing work on the para-branch application, making more changes that should help improve stability and factor better between the front end and backend. (As before, I'm using CC to help here, since my RSI issues would otherwise mean delaying this. I'd rather save my actual typing time for my personal programming efforts rather than the business ones).

Evening was picking up groceries, more insulin, and paying a few bills. Then an attempt to sleep.

Work was stressful today, but I did get in a little time on my solo cairn game, and then went back to dealing with many, many headaches.

Only programming today was work on para-branch, adding per-IP configurable timeouts to help make things easier at the slower LV store.

At work, I'm doing some database work on our in-house order mgmt system. This will reduce the number of queries needed to build most output significantly, which I think will help with perform- ance. I also added a thin caching module. Then I worked on two new reporting tools for some parts of the data.

For konilo, I added `when` and `unless` as aliases for `if` and `-if`. These give a little different feel when reading, which I like.

I am having severe pain in my left hand today. This will impact what I can get done this evening. Probably not going to do much programming tonight.

Not feeling well, and my blood glucose reflects this.

I was able to do some reading today, which was nice. I'm about 85% done with the Powder Mage trilogy, so I'll have to decide on something new to start soon.

In the afternoon I worked on the notes on my Supernote, then had dinner before taking a few minutes to write this post. I will now resume reading until I decide to shut down for the night.

More to come tomorrow. Hopefully a more productive day, but I am feeling a bit unwell, so it's hard to be certain at this point. If I don't feel better, I'll prioritize resting when I can until this passes.

I'm working on the update to Konilo's startup blocks. The change will have them load the stdlib, applications, and such only if EXTENDED is not defined already. And I add one (std) block that defines this. So you can build a fresh image, then load once and do a `rom:save`. Afterwards you'll have fast startups, and if you prefer the old behavior, just don't do the `rom:save`.

I'm going to rebuild the manual from the ground up, to reflect changes made, and try to get it to a more useful state. I'll start on that tomorrow I think.

No programming today, other than writing a bit with sitelen ilo.

I did backup my WISP blocks and set up for this year.

Tomorrow I'm nominally off work. (In that I need to open/close the store, but am not actively working.). I'll probably try to do a bit of development on a few of my personal projects, and maybe get the paperwork for a passport renewal filled out.