Starting the year with the SD card in my phone crapping out, hopefully that’s not a bad omen

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PROGRAMMING ADAFRUIT FEATHER LCD IN CIRCUITPYTHON

For anyone else who got an Adafruit ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT Feather over the holidays and wants to program its display from CircuitPython, the following is the incantation needed to get everything set up: import adafruit_st7789 import board import digitalio import displayio # Take control of the display. displayio.release_displays() # Turn on the display’s backlight. display_backlight = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.TFT_BACKLIGHT) display_backlight.direction = digitalio.Direction.OUTPUT display_backlight.value = True # Set up a driver object for the display.

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How to know it’s nearly winter: Our short hair cat is insisting on having a lap to stay warm on at all times

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Well alright then, I guess the iCloud Drive synching on Windows can’t handle too many changes at once without bogging down and missing some of them. Hopefully I didn’t accidentally destroy or corrupt anything…

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13 years together and still going!

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It is really hard to tell what window has focus in Windows 11, especially with two monitors 😅

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Starting to see the first signs of fall color!

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Ugh. Mail on macOS didn’t send an important email a couple of days ago, no idea why not. Very frustrating

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One surprise extra medical later, I think I have done all the prerequisites to be hired by our local transit authority as a subway train operator… 🤞🏼🚇

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Whoops I did not mean to use the proverbial cattle prod to get myself through today 😅

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It’s a run out of TP kind of Friday

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Why does cream cheese come in a bag inside of a box? It’s truly bizarre packaging if you compare it to say sour cream

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Looking at current trends, laptops as a category are probably going to lose headphone jacks in the next few years. It feels cheap to take it away but I also can’t remember the last time I plugged in headphones to my laptop

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I’m planning what I am going to bring on a trip, and it’s rather annoying that my phone is the only device I’ll have to bring a specialized charging cable for 🙃

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Up-to-date Chrome OS running on a Mac Pro from 2008 is pretty wild to see

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Edge has to hold some sort of record for having the most stuff on screen when you open a new browser window..

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One of the battery modules attached to our house’s solar panels hasn’t been working right for months, but it figures the second a technician is out here, it doesn’t show the issue anymore 🙄

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It’s my second week of being between jobs and I’m having a heck of a time letting of the feeling I have to be doing something

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Four days away and the cats are both purring and nipping at my hands. Mixed emotions at their purest

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Huzzah we managed to win our first kickball match last night, and it was even a shut out!

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Last night was a redo of our opening night for kickball, it went much smoother compared to last week. Our team lost, but I got 2 runs in which felt pretty good!

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This lentil based taco recipe was pretty good. A little too much tomato flavor if you add salsa, but otherwise quite tasty with spring onion, avocado, and queso fresco

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