Wednesday Short and Rushed

I am in PDX and have less than an hour until my plane boards. I was too tired to write last night, and now I am rushed.

Events on Wednesday were reduced as everything was canceled. No game with Z and dinner with Dondrea ZZ also did not happen. Instead, I managed to clean the house, getting the kitchen and bathrooms looking cleaner with mopped floors, and generally picked up things.

I finished the blog in the late morning, paid my bills, and even placed bids on stamps on Hipstamps. I showered and ran the laundry. I stripped the beds, washed all my new pants (now shortened and slightly longer to break in more), and loaded the dishes into the dishwasher (I had forgotten to run them until the evening and ended up putting them away in the morning just before heading out).

I charged the car the night before and now boarded it to get a haircut. I also received my books from NYC, and I am now reading my used copy of How the Irish Saved Civilization for my class. It is about an hour, and then I head to Carl’s Jr. for a Western Burger. I take this home and watch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Sadly, my insides care not for the burger, and everything leaves quickly, and I am running to the restroom often while trying to clean, pack, and get ready. Ugh!

Happy now to have the extra time and avoid making the same runs elsewhere, I get the house looking better and smelling better. I remake the beds. I fold and put away the clothing. I packed most of the clothing I needed for the trip in my luggage, and remembered the coat and swimming trunks on Thursday morning, so I added them before heading out.

Sorry, boring day inside, primarily working to get the house better. I prefer to return to a clean (or cleanish) home.

My bids fail, and I discover that the same stamps were for sale for less and in better condition than the ones in the auction. I ordered those instead and let my bids go. I do increase some bids on some hard-to-find items. I also notice that many items I listed as-yet-to-be-in-my-album are thousands of dollars. Well, that may explain the open spots, but I have often filled a slot at 1/10 the price if I wait a few years. I just bought an 8A for 1/5 the price.

I finish my day on my new Raspberry Pi 5, doing some basic Python coding and loading additional libraries for my use. I email myself some code and add it to my work. I will post it to GitHub, I think, as an improvement. This is my silly calculation of the value of Pi by one of the more indirect (and slow) means. I include my usual headers and run time calculation. I like my Python well-documented.

I also updated the Python chess example I made. I am not sure I will explore writing chess programs, but I have a start.

And with that, I was too tired to go on. I was soon asleep, but like most travel days, I woke a few times.

Thanks for reading