Hello again folks.
After my mishap a month ago, M15o helped me find my way back to the pub.
Since a lot has changed in a month and I have found more leisure time, I guess you'll be seeing me around more often.
Bartender, I've been craving some spiced buttermilk so please whip me up a glass.
~key
spiced buttermilk?? i recently bought some buttermilk entirely by accident, when i had been meaning to purchase cream. i buy dairy products from a local place so only the caps on the glass jars are different. buttermilk has a transparent white lid. cream has an opaque white lid. whoops!
maybe i'll be able to make it palatable after all, so i won't have to toss it.
more importantly, i'm glad you found your way back, and also that you have more leisure time.
Hey ~keystone, welcome back!
Spiced buttermilk? Hmmm, That sounds very similar to Lassi, the one with spices ... :) Maybe I should try, and let go of that lemonade just for the afternoon ...
~bartender? Welcome back from your vacation, too! I'd like some spiced buttermilk, too. Thanks! And no, Smudge is no adequate help regarding bartendering. But, you know "Hund hat Herrchen, Katze hat Personal". Contrary to a dog, a cat always has servants :-)
Cheers!
Glad to see you too ~ew.
I've tried Lassi before and it's similiar but if you look up "Sambharam" you'll find exactly what I mean. 1 part Sour curd/light yogurt whisked with 3parts water, ginger, green chilly, shallots and salt all mixed well with some torn curry leaves . Straining is optional. Truly a perfect summer beverage that's not sweet.
How's life been otherwise?
I'll try that yogurt drink ... sounds delicious.
Life? Busy of sorts. Not the usual sort, though. I suffered an eye injury twice and I'm basically home and getting impatient and grumpy. I cannot see much with that eye, no 3D effect, no driving, no lengthy staring at the screen, no reading a book. Sounds almost like a vacation --- except it isn't one. :-/
For what its worth: I have resumed programming microcontrollers after a long hiatus. And I'm making slow progress. Just that my patience is a bit low (see above) doesn't really help. Maybe another two weeks before resuming a more normal life.
I also have made an entry to ROOPHLOCH 2023. And Solderpunk liked the fact, that I tried something new to me. So not everything is bad, of course.
I see. Being tied down at home does sound like a blessing and a curse. I like the feeling of staying in on a cozy cold morning but there's also a thrill in going out on a bike no matter the time of the day.
I didn't know that you were a tinkerer, what do you intend to use the micro controllers in?
This is the first I've ever heard of ROOPHLOCH and Solderpunk. Sounds interesting.
tinkerer
Yes well. I have been working with microcontrollers for over 20 years now. I do have an assortment of such thingies though out the house. They record temperatures, humidity, pressure, the height of water in the cistern and things like that. And through a substantial chain of software collecting and storing this stuff periodically, I can point my web browser to an instance of "Grafana" and see todays or yesterdays or last weeks values changing during the day. I do NOT use any of that for automation. But I can look back into a load of data covering more than 10 years ...
The current iteration, i.e. the fourth generation of this stuff for me, focuses again on stability. I don't want to reprogram any of these wonderful magic toys over the course of the year. They should just work, even if I don't look after them. But that is a tall order, I can now say from experience. The new item in this iteration is a much newer radio component, so maybe playing packet radio rather than transmitting bytes individually may help this remaining "just why the hell does it lock up a few times per year --- and a power cycle does NOT suffice!"???
So, why do I bother? Well, keeps my mind occupied and me out of trouble.