From 8f3ff24898a12ca9b437bfadb14a77c106e710d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:03:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Tuesday, Moeke's birthday --- content/blog/wk5day2.md | 82 ++++++++++++++++++- static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0847.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0849.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0856.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0857.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0858.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0859.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0860.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0862.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0863.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0847.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0849.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0856.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0857.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0858.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0859.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0860.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0862.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0863.JPG | 3 + 19 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0847.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0849.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0856.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0857.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0858.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0859.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0860.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0862.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0863.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0847.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0849.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0856.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0857.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0858.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0859.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0860.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0862.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-08-27/IMG_0863.JPG diff --git a/content/blog/wk5day2.md b/content/blog/wk5day2.md index ffe81f3..94149b3 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk5day2.md +++ b/content/blog/wk5day2.md @@ -1,7 +1,85 @@ --- -title: "Week 5, Tuesday:" +title: "Week 5, Tuesday: Moeke" date: 2024-08-27T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- {{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/beatport-nora.png" alt="Credit: Beatport, Youtube" >}} + +In the morning, Marina joins me downstairs where I am having my morning coffee - the task at hand is +to blow up birthday balloons and sign Moeke's card. Marina made a really fancy one (she scrapbooks +and makes port- and birthday cards that _Hallmark_ would be jealous of. This one for Moeke is +elaborate, as it folds open in two different ways. We both sign the card -- Quinn did so before +leaving for work this morning -- and I blow up baloons while Marina inflats the _Happy Birthday_ +sequence. We hang it up while Nicole and JPH are shopping at _Media Markt_, possibly for a birthday +gift? + +Upon their return I find that yes, earbuds is the gift this year - and I help Moeke install them on +her iPad and find a charger for them. We then have a brunch with tasty sandwiches and (for me at +least) boiled eggs and ham. We spend some time just talking and planning the rest of the week. +Tomorrow we have a dinner at _Rössli_, our local restaurant in Brüttisellen, and I'll be +doing the Equinexit so I explain to the family a bit what all of that means. + +After lunch, the parents sit outside in the yard reading a book, and I seek a less hot spot in the +basement. A delivery came in the mail today - a few new/different RS485 USB readers from +Aliexpress. I plug one in and connect it to one of those modbus Ammeters I got earlier. Booyah - +works on the first attempt: + + +``` +pim@summer:~ $ for i in 8 24 40; do mbpoll -b 9600 -P none -0 -a 1 -t 4 -r $i -c 1 -l 100 /dev/ttyUSB0; done +[8]: 203 +[24]: 500 +[40]: 1000 +``` + +Noice! This shows register 8, which is "Current through Coil A, in units of 0.01A", so 2.03A, and +register 24, which is "Frequency through Coil A, in units of 0.1Hz", so 50Hz, and finally register +40, which is "Current Transformer winding count on Coil A", which is 1:1000. Seems to be in working +order! I play around with the current, going from 10W to 50W to 400W, and it's all within reasonable +distance of my digital ammeter. Progress! I pasted it here mostly so that I don't forget the +`mbpoll` arguments I used to get this to finally work :) + +Moeke wants to eat chilly con carne for her birthday - well okay then! Marina also whips up a batch +of beef tomatoes with buffalo _Burrata_ and a vinaigrette, which we munch on as a starter. The +chilli tastes great, and I put some of the hotsauce (garlic and habanero paste, really) on it, which +is nice. I eat a little bit too much - as do my tablemates it seems - so after dinner we take a +short walk to the _floof chickens_, once again they are nowhere to be found, so we make a detour to +a second chicken coop in the neighborhood, but the chickens there are also already inside. Did we +really eat all the chickens?! + +On the way back from the walk we pass by an old mansion called _Landheim Brüttisellen_, which +is 150 years old. They have a cute cart being pulled by a number, and I notice that the wooden +statue of the person in the cart has a cellphon in their hand. Cute detail. We also bump into a +neighborhood kitty who wants to be petted; but she's a bit of a fickle one because she wants to be +petted except she does not want you to pet her. She comes closer, hangs out, and the moment you +reach out she will back off a few meters. But, I snuck in a little petting anyway. Cuz that's how I +roll. + +At home, we watched somewhat of a lame SciFi romcom, called _Moonshot_, from 2022, featuring Cole +Sprouse alongside Lana Condor. The storyline is super lame, but luckily the acting is too, so we end +up just hanging out on the couch watching it and taking it as-is. I think maybe _Stowaway_ would be +a better plot around the same theme, but hey. You win some, and you lose some. + +Tomorrow morning I will bike to Equinix to clear out IP-Max's rack. I decide not to have that +proverbial nightcap, and fall asleep pretty quickly. I think I'm entering the state of mind where +things don't have to go quick and fast - perhaps I've decompressed to the point where I can enjoy +the little things, and as well the _Dolce far niente_ (Italian: softly doing nothing). I mean, if +the highlight of the day was eating chilly and petting a grey cat on our cul-de-sac, then I think +I'm pretty _zen_ for the moment. + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-27/IMG_0847.JPG" caption="Marina and I inflate (and later blow up) several balloons for Moeke and Pepe, whose birthday is two days apart." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-27/IMG_0849.JPG" caption="The ammeter is reading 2.03A while the digital current meter says 1.87A, I'll calibrate each one once I have a running firmware, but this is good progress!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-27/IMG_0856.JPG" caption="The ESP32 microcontroller is reading the ammeter, great success!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-27/IMG_0857.JPG" caption="The starter tonight is a beautiful buratta with beefy tomatoes and peppery rocket salad" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-27/IMG_0858.JPG" caption="The mains tonight is a bowl of chilly con carne, which really does hit the spot" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-27/IMG_0859.JPG" caption="The backup chicken coop (eg. floof no. 2) also reveals no chickens today." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-27/IMG_0860.JPG" caption="Our local Landesheim turns 150 years old this month. So much culture in such a tiny village!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-27/IMG_0862.JPG" caption="The kitty wants to be petted, except she does not want you to pet her." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-27/IMG_0863.JPG" caption="Cole Sprouse also has a kitty (a stowaway just like him)" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0847.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0847.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4d2b24 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0847.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:03ed0f9cee69f564bc00d841fe491e38045e29a971296cbda33ade9f9f611130 +size 1059490 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0849.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0849.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3044e90 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-27/IMG_0849.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version 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