---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.07.08 I did a bit more work on my startup blocks, getting them down to the core stuff I use daily. This puts my full initial system at 10,507 cells. The entire system would need around 18,919 cells, with the various extra applications and most amusements loaded. I finished backfilling many of the WISP blocks, though I still have about two weeks of missing entries since May. I'll try to finish those tomorrow and Friday. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.07.07 I added a few new words to Konilo today. The first three are for input related QOL improvements. c:get/Remap and c:get/remap let me optionally remap input keys, and c:get/LocalEcho lets me set c:get to echo the read characters locally if the terminal isn't set up to do this. I also added KONILO.VERSION to get a version ID for the rom, which may be useful in the future. And I removed ?jump, which hasn't been used in a very long time. You'll see me filling in backlog entries in WISP this week. I have a mix of handwritten notes, and notes on one of my mobile offline devices to trancribe, but should be able to get this all updated over the next few days. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.07.06 I pushed the updated ilo spec to the server. This expands the details on the architecture and instruction set, but is much longer than the previous one. In the near future I'll do a mini-spec that tries to provide a reference for those with some familiarity with ilo, though not being a fully fleshed out spec for implementers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.07.05 Sunday. Still hot, but a little less so. Heat should break late tonight. Church went ok. I'm still dealing with the eye issue, and was tired, and a little lagging in keeping up with the verses. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.07.04 It was very hot and humid today. I only went outside briefly; it wasn't a good day for a walk. My left eye is swollen, and painful, more so than last night. No discoloration in the eye itself, so hopefully not something too serious. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.07.03 Friday. Off work, but it's too hot and humid to really do anyth- ing. I spent the day resting, reading, and thinking a bit on the next steps with Konilo. My left eyelid is a bit swollen and sore. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.07.02 Back to work. Still recovering from the heat exposure the last two days. Working on a less verbose startup for my personal Konilo. The full release version will probably keep the longer one. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.07.01 MSF class #2. It was even hotter, though I had (barely) enough water for the day. I was wiped by the end, and failed the skills test at the end due to issues with stalling the engine from a start. I'll have to practice with a clutch more. Though I didn't get a license yet, I learned a lot, and feel satisfied in that. I might redo the classes when it's cooler, but definitely not when it's still in the 40's. Church went ok, but I was still very tired during it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.30 MSF class #1. It was very hot, I ran out of water early, and by the end was totally exhausted. Our instructor wasn't great, with an accent and very quiet and hard to hear clearly. I did learn a good bit, though I'm having a hard time with the clutch and stalling. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.29 Monday. It's hot, and the start of a weird schedule for my week. Work, MSF, MSF, work, off, then the weekend. It's been a while since I had a week with this few days at work. The heat means no using the mac (it's in an un-air conditioned part of the house), so I won't make any headway on the Retro & Konilo iOS updates for a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.28 Sunday. I was very tired in the morning, and had a bad headache. After the morning service, I went for a short walk, then rested for two hours. In the evening, I completed the MSF e-Course so I could print the completion info for the course on Tuesday. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.27 Big thing today was Kim's wedding. Was at the church from noon until around 1700. I recorded the ceremony, and it went pretty well. The wedding means I don't get a break this weekend, but that'll hopefully be ok. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.26 Pizza day at work. There weren't any leftovers this week, which was good. After work, I headed to church to help with the rehearsal of Kim's wedding. The actual wedding is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.25 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.24 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.23 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.22 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.21 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.20 I took a walk in the morning rather than later in the day. A stop for matcha, some reading, and then worked on ilo-wasm & ilo-vhdl in the afternoon. I also completed a little more of the MSF e-Course. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.19 WASM: I was able to get it far enough along to run a small test rom, so further debugging should go faster. If my hands hold out this might be done next week. Tonight I'll do a bit of Xcode work on RetroForth/iOS and maybe make a bit more progress towards the terminal emulation. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.18 I pushed the Fortran 77 & 8088 ilo to the repository today. On the WASM side, I'm still getting a lot of traps, so there's definitely still bugs in my code. Going through and trying to do smaller tests to isolate the issues. For WASM, I'm using wasmtime. This might be easier if I were to just use something like Zig to cross compile, but I'd rather not do that. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.17 Fixed some parts of the bike today, so I was able to ride a bit. Lunch was a Cuban, and then off to church where I worked on the slides with Kathy before prepping the scriptures. In the evening, Stardew Valley. I tried running what I've written on the WASM side, and ran into traps on errors. I'll work on that tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.16 I was able to fix the last parts of the block i/o in the F77 code, so the Fortran 77 version is done. This will be added in a couple of days after I do some more testing. No work on the WASM today. I also updated my Supernote's firmare. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.15 I decided to resume work on a couple of partial ilo implement- ations I had done: Fortran 77 & WASM. I'm probably nearing the end of my implementations, apart from lower-level ones. The F77 one was largely done, in the sense that I have a lot of individual functions written, but it's not all tied together. Today was mostly spent connecting the pieces, and starting to debug the block i/o code. The WASM is much less complete, so is likely to take a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.14 Church went well. No issues with the equipment today. Still a lot of hand and left arm pain though. I set up a hitoria repo for the working block set I use. I'll do some testing on this, and consider what I'd like to change. (I don't want to publish until I'm satisfied that it works well for my purposes). ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.13 Today I had a few vaccinations scheduled. Due to some issues with the insurance company, only 2 of the 4 planned occured. And it took about 90 minutes to get sorted, which was quite annoying to start my day. It was hot & humid. I did go for a walk, and had some matcha and a coffee, but on the whole, today wasn't great. In the evening I have a lot of pain in the arm with the two vaccination shots, and some hand pain. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.12 A busy Friday at work. Tammie took Glen & Arland to eye exams at 1700, so I didn't get picked up to go home until after 1800, making for a quite long day. I played a bit of Stardew Valley in the evening, and read for a while. I have a few days left to transcribe into the WISP blocks. I'll try to do those over the weekend or early next week. For now I have an increase in hand pain that'll slow down any significant typing work. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.11 I set up the pre-extended konilo rom for my ilo-x86-dos work. As expected, this makes startup very fast, and it feels usable to me. Some quick numbers on the startup times: 4.77 MHz 8088 3m 32s 12.5 MHz 286 25s 33 MHz 386 9s I've done some more work on hitoria as well. I'm hoping to have this get to a functional state this month. I wanted to work on retro-ios, but it was too hot in the living room to sit at the mac. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.10 Today is my anniversary. I gave Tammie a small necklace with a silver rose and a ruby accent. For ilo-x86-dos+vga, I have character rendering working, and started on terminal emulation for the termina vocabulary. I'm also going to do an ilo-x86-dos+cga or +ega version for lower resolution displays. I'll be switching this to use a pre-extended ilo.rom so I can cut out the bootstrap process and save time during tests. My work on hitoria is also continuing. Still stubbing out a lot, but actual code is compiling, and some functionality is working. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.09 More work was done on ilo-x86-dos. I identified an issue with the lt and gt opcodes, and corrected this. I've also begun a VGA capable version (ilo-x86-dos+vga) that supports a 640x480x16 screen. Working through the character drawing stuff now. I scheduled the MSF classes for 2026.06.30 & 2026.07.01, so with a little luck I'll get my class M license on the 1st of July. For the class C, I basically just need to learn to parallel park and I can schedule a test for that. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.08 More work on ilo-x86-dos. I have it running pretty well now. There's a lot left to do: debugging further, trying to make it a bit faster, and rechecking to make sure I'm not using anything not present in the 8088/8086 instruction set. But it's running, and my basic tests have worked. A bit reflective: I'm enjoying writing my daily notes by hand and updating this in batches currently. Not going to give up on this log, but updates will be somewhat infrequent as I transcr- ibe my handwritten notes into it. Weather is going to get unpleasant this week. Particularly on Thursday & Friday. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.07 Sunday. Just church today; I wasn't feeling motivated to do any work on my projects. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.06 I started on hitoria, a proper vcs tool for ilo.blocks. This will use an sqlite3 file as a backing store, and provide for history, diff, merges, etc. Hitoria does draw from my numerous previous experiments in trying to build a VCS for blocks, so it's not completely new. I expect a lot of this to come together fairly quickly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.05 Back to work. I'm a bit tired, but enjoyed my day off yesterday. Updated Xcode, and ordered a new phone (Z Fold 7). I'll try this for a while and see if it's good or not. I did some prototype work on a terminal emulator in Swift. I'll need this eventually to support full RetroForth & Konilo on iOS. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.04 It's my birthday today, so I took off work. I was able to rest, then did some driving practice before going out for chili, steak and chicken for lunch. Evening was reading, and a little work on a new ilo for DOS. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.03 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.02 I'm not feeling well today. Some stomach issues, dizziness, and a continued headache. I'm going to reduce my online footprint somewhat. I designed a new protocol (basically gemini w/o the TLS parts). I'm going to move some of my stuff over to that, and then gradually migrate the HTTP parts to use an HTTP -> inati gateway. I'm tired of the modern web. I'll publish inati soon, with Python, C, and RetroForth code. This won't help my projects grow, but I don't think I care. As long as my needs are met, I'm good to explore more minimalist approaches. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.06.01 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.31 Church went ok. There was a brief network glitch in the morning service. I drove to/from church for all services. So a little practice was accomplished. A walk in the afternoon. Hand pain is returning, and I have a migrane today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.30 I spent a few hours at the DMV, and obtained my class C & M permits. Time to finally get a drivers license. Afterwards, a short walk, tea, lunch, then home. Reading & some Stardew Valley in the evening. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.29 The end of a stressful work week. It won't be a very relaxing weekend either. I picked up new glasses after work, which was nice. These are progressive lenses, so are a bit odd compared to the simple ones I had been using, but hopefully will help reduce eye strain when reading. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.28 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.27 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.26 Spent some time transcribing notes from my handwritten WISP into the digital one. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.25 Today is a rare day off work, with it being a holiday. I was able to rest, play some Stardew Valley, and generally just enjoy being at home. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.24 Church. We had an afternoon lunch followed by the second service which meant I had time afterwards for a walk. It rained in the morning and evening, but not during my walk time. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.23 Rain all day. I got a bit wet, but not overly so. My walk was pleasant, and I was able to read for a while. The DMV office was closed, so I wasn't able to take the written permit tests. I'm quite annoyed by this. I may try to go on Tues or Thurs if it's not too busy at work. I picked up more CGM sensors and installed one (to activate tomorrow). Also did a little work on the new Paipera, trying to get this ready to submit for release. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.22 Friday. Work week is over now, though I had a busy evening with an eye exam, ordering new glasses, and a little work in Xcode. The Supernote received a big update, adding in a new pen, Inkhub for sharing stickers & templates, an some bug fixes. Very nice. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.21 My new world building dice arrived. I realized I forgot to order the dungeon layout version, so I'll need to get that later. Reading: took a break from October Daye to read Out Law. In the evening, I did a haircut, mounjaro, and tried out a new LED booklight for the Supernote that arrived. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.20 Church went well, though there was a brief network issue with the ATEM. Some storms in the evening, but Arland made it a few minutes before they rolled in. Pizza for dinner. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.19 Finally feeling a little better, and able to eat a bit. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.18 Still dealing with this stomach bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.17 Having connection issues at Church. The host side of the bridge got moved, which is the probable cause. I'll try to check it a little more frequently. The evening service was outdoors. This was pleasant, with a nice breeze. Just streaming, no slides for this one, which gave me a bit of a break. Chili after church, then I developed a stomach bug overnight. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.16 It started out cool, but warmed up a lot during the day. Later walk than normal, picked up insulin, and had lunch. In the evening, Ben & I made our chili for tomorrow's chili cookoff/fellowship. It turned out very good. Won't win (too unconventional), but I love the taste. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.15 It was a bad day for stress. Work was more annoying than normal, and the dr. wouldn't fill in my paperwork for the DMV, so I had to push off the DMV visit until next week, after I get a chance to visit an urgent care for a quick physical. No reading today. I worked on ilo-vnc, adding in ZRLE. This is much faster than my broken hextile attempt, and seems to work correctly. It does add a libz dependency though. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.14 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.13 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.12 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.11 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.10 Mother's Day. Church services went well, though I did see a brief network drop during the AM service. Grocery shopping after church, and a late dinner. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.09 Hand pain currently, so no coding today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.08 Hand pain currently, so no coding today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.07 Hand pain currently, so no coding today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.06 Dustin was down today. We had a meeting with Derek and Bob S, then lunch. Over lunch we discussed some things regarding future plans at work. No issues with the chuch service. Hand pain currently, so no coding today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.05 I filled out the forms for Ben's DL application. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.04 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.03 Church. No issues with the sunday school, but did have minor glitches with the AM slides. Evening was ok, other than a brief network dip. Lunch at Olive Garden; kids were at Mom's. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.02 It was a pretty good day overall. I took a look at the MC test area and car test area at the DMV; it'l sclearly set up for slow speed testing on the MC side. Reading in the afternoon, over a coffee, then some walking. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.05.01 I reset the Boox Go 6. Just going to do KOReader & Termux + ilo. The month end AR stuff is done, so I'm ready for the weekend. There was a weird glucose spike in the evening, I don't know why since it didn't appear to be from food. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.30 It was an ok day. My morning glucose was high, but I was in range most of the day. I picked up a hard case for my iPad. No coding today. Did some reading in the evening. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.29 Glucose high again this morning. Took mounjaro. At work I cleaned up my desk, and filled in the my DL paperwork. Light rain in the evening, but I made it to church before it began. Service went smoothly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.28 Worked on a port of Poraka into Konilo. I set up a WISP journal on my Supernote. I'll probably start handwriting my journal, and transcribing to this digital one periodically. (I like the digital form, but would like to start typing less frequently to try to stave off more RSI issues a little). ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.27 Back to work. I spent my pre-work & break time on transcribing the old WISP entries from my handwritten notes, and a little time playing around with a new index note layout. I'm pushing my current WISP blocks. There will be updates to them as I continue to go through my handwritten notes and fill out the missing days. It looks like it's mostly a couple of days in late March at this point, so maybe one more day of reading in the journals and writing out a bit? ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.26 Tammie is sick, and I've started to feel a bit sick myself. Not ideal, especially now that I was finally feeling better after whatever I came down with in Grenada. Church went well, with no notable issues on the tech side, apart from an accidental mute on the ATEM. I'll watch for that more closely in the future. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.25 Saturday. An early walk, some coffee, lunch, and groceries. Then reading for a few hours. Not stressful, and I feel mostly ok. Hoping that I'm past whatever has been ailing me. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.24 Working on AR & month end preparations at work. As with yesterday, we got really busy in the last half hour of the day. This is annoying as we're short handed after 1500, so I ended up being late getting out again. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.23 Work went ok. I'm feeling slightly better, which is nice. I did get stuck late at work with a couple of last minute customers. For ilo, I finally finished the cal(1) rom. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.22 Wednesday. Work was pretty quiet, and so was church. I assembled the new rack and moved my camera setup into it. Much nicer than having everything loose, though I will need to do cable management and adding a patch panel into the rack. I also want to get a rack mount voltage conditioner for it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.21 Today was long. Work in the morning, then test drives & buying a car. We got a 2022 Hyundai Tucson with 21k miles. It's the first fairly new vehicle we've bought, so hopefully it'll serve us well for many years to come. I worked on ilo+x11, making more optimizations to the display code, so it's a bit faster and much less stressful on the X11 server. I note that I'm not really doing much better, though I have a tiny bit more energy today. Hopefully I'm getting over whatever has been troubling me since the Grenada trip. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.20 Back to work. We looked at a couple of cars, narrowing down to a few possibilities. Hopefully we can make a decision in the next few days. For ilo, I worked on a VM with JIT. This is functional, but ends up being slower than the standard one. I'll look at it more in the future. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.19 Church. This went ok, though my response times are still sluggish and I have been having some difficulty focusing. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.18 Saturday. My first rest day since the Grenada trip. I was able to sleep in a bit, and took a walk, but shorter than normal. I'm going to try to get back to longer writing this week, but we'll have to see how it goes. I'm still tired and feeling off. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.17 It's Friday, thankfully. Tomorrow will be a rest day which I need, so maybe I'll feel a little better after that? ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.16 The streak of feeling unwell begins. No notable fever, but the lingering tiredness, lack of focus, and aches are getting very annoying now. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.15 I continued to feel unwell. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.14 Feeling tired & sick. No programming, reading, or writing today; just work & rest. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.13 I worked remote today. Not a rest day, but a little less stress than going into the office. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.12 Church. I ran the slides & livestream, but am still very, very tired from the trip. My first actual rest day won't be until Saturday. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.11 At MIA this morning. Not really able to sleep. I watched our bags while Dusin & Wyatt walked for a while. Had an espresso when Starbucks opened, then finally boarded around 6 AM. The flight home went smoothly, and we got back to PHL around 1030. Then getting home, unpacking, and trying to rest. Steak for dinner. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.10 Final day. We went back to the church in the morning to finish the grout in Coco's classroom, then headed back to the Air B&B for a quick cleanup, packing, and heading to the airport. Along the way we stopped in the central rainforest, saw a monkey and some nice scenic views. Our flight back was delayed (the plane from MIA had some mech. issues), so we didn't get to MIA in time for our connecting flight home and will have to spend the night in the airport. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.09 We finished the downstairs tiling, including grout, and placed all of the tile for Coco's classroom upstairs. We'll have to go back in the morning to finish up, but that shouldn't take too long. The next 500 blocks arrived, but too late for us to help move them. Other things today? We installed a pressure reglator to fix a major plumbing issue, moved some downspouts for the rain gutters and completed some touchup painting. I finished cleaning up most of the work site, and putting in covers over electrical wiring in the basement. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.08 We finished with the downstairs tile, and Dustin, Wyatt, and Jerry stayed very late to get the main tiles in Coco's room upstairs placed. We'll do the cuts tomorrow. The roof brace work is done, and we hung a TV for song lyrics & other things. I started some cleanups of the site. This is the point where I first got a noticable sunburn. Not good, but at least it's at the end of the trip, not the start. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.07 More on tiling. We have most of the downstairs finished, and expect to complete the cuts & placing of tile tomorrow. In the sanctuary, we worked on the rebracing of the roof, and it seems to be going well. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.06 Work began on various other projects, including touching up the paint, concrete repairs, and a project to remove some not very effective supports for the roof in the church sanctuary. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.05 Sunday. We had church in the morning (no evening service today). Then back to the Air B&B for a bit of rest, before going back in the evening to work on the tile until around midnight. It was hot (as expected), and the humidity was up due to rain in the morning & early afternoon. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.04 Joe & I headed to the capitol to buy a tile saw. We stopped at several places along the way, but didn't find one until we got into the capitol. We picked up this, some better tile spacers, and made arrangements to have the rest of the tile delivered on Tuesday. It was nice spending some time with Joe and seeing part of the island. When we got back, I resumed helping with the tile. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.03 So it ends up being that local masons are doing most of the work on the blocks, and we'll end up working on other projects. Joe has tiles (24x24) for the existing classrooms, so we are going to work on those. I cleared out the downstairs classrooms for this. We then discovered that the walls are very much not straight, so there'll be a lot of cuts to do. Our initial layout didn't work well, and the angle grinder was struggling to do the cuts on the hard & brittle tile, so we'll need a tile saw. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.02 First work day in Grenada. This went poorly. We started off well. The first 1k blocks arrived, and we moved them to the raised foundation. But part way through (a couple of hours in), were getting tired & thirsty, and then discovered there was no water on site. This lead to some dehydration issues and broke our pace. I did particularly poorly without adaquate water, a combination of dehydration from travel, lack of sleep, and the heat. I ended up needing to retreat and rest/hydrate for a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.04.01 Flying to Grenada. We left around 0300 for PHL, then flew out to MIA around 0600. This part went pretty smoothly. At MIA, the outgoing flight was delayed to wait for connecting passengers, then for weather. We ended up leaving about 90-110 minutes late. The flight from MIA to GND was quiet, and we arrived about half an hour behind schedule. Not too bad. Initial impressions after being picked up & taken to the Air B&B The afternoon/evening is hot, but manageable. Kind of like some trips to Florida. Roads are terrible, narrow, and driving is not pleasant. The construction quality we saw as we drove is quite varied, but some things are not good there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.31 Grenada trip tomorrow. Finished up at work early, then headed for a dinner, and some rest / final packing. Not going to get much sleep until we arrive, so stopping here for today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.30 I worked on a cal(1)-style program as an ilo rom. This isn't quite done yet, but probably about 80%. I probably won't finish it until after the Grenada trip. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.29 Final Sunday before the trip. Guest speaker today, so that made things a bit interesting for me. I like the occasional variety. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.28 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.27 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.26 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.25 Month end for statements is done. Church in the evening went well, and I'm off to bed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.24 Began month end prep at work, and started telling people that I will be out of the office for the Grenada trip. This will use a lot of my time over the next week, helping to make preparations, so writing here will be light for a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.23 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.22 It's Sunday. About a week left before the Grenada trip. My focus will be on things relating to this, at least in the evenings. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.21 After careful repacking and some rewrites, it's down to 915 mem- ory cells. This is small enough, but I might be able to get it a fair bit smaller yet. I'll wait on that though. We went out looking at cars today. I have some notes on a few possible types. Now to actually find something we can afford. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.20 I added the # sigil to the assembler, and also wrote a disassem- bler. So this is now functionally complete. I have another day of work (or two?). I'd like to get it down to under 1k cells so I can leave most RAM free for the user. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.19 Well that's done. The assembler has been written and tested, and it works pretty well. I'm going to add support for the # sigil to allow inlining values, but otherwise I'm happy with this. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.18 For today's adventure, I decided to work on the monitor rom for ilo. I ended up rewriting most of it, and it now works. I can: load blocks, save blocks, enter values, display values, and call functions. Tomorrow I'll try to do an assembler. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.17 December Adventure Day 3: today I wrote Poraka, a small BASIC interpreter for ilo. It's written in ilo assembly, and supports line numbers, PRINT, INPUT, LET, IF, GOTO, REM, END, BYE, and RUN keywords. Variables are integer only. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.16 December Adventure Day 2: today I wrote BrainDead, a Brainf*ck interpreter for ilo. It's a little thing, written in ilo assem- bly, that runs the handful of BF programs I had on hand for test purposes. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.15 December Adventure Day 1: it's the start of a DecAdv week in March. For this I'll be doing a variety of small projects. Today was work on RetroForth for iOS. I finished ripping out the old network code & replacing it with a new Swift implementation that's much more reliable and massively smaller. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.14 It's a Saturday. I went for a walk, bought new boots to replace my worn out shoes, had lunch, and spent some time going over the plans for the Grenada trip before doing some more research into motorcycles. I think if I go this route I'll be looking at a smaller bike or motor scooter, at least initially. My needs are basically all local, though it'd be nice to find something fairly light that can handle highway speeds on occasion. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.13 Victor has a friend who loaned us a Toyota rav4, which we are using while we start looking for a new vehicle. The younger kids had a bowling event in the evening, and I just rested. Dustin suggested I look into getting a motorcycle license, which seems pretty straightforward, and would open up more options for me. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.12 I think I'm done with the work on Bedside Clock. I'll run it for a couple of weeks and then release if I don't find any bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.11 It's Wednesday. I had Arland doing the slides & live stream at church, and just did the livestream notes. We'll repeat this for the next few Wednesdays until I leave for Grenada. We are going to move the April trip for Tammie & the kids into the summer. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.10 I did a bit of work on RetroForth for iOS, and then a little on Paipera. Too tired today to do more. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.09 I've done some work on Para, getting proper init services and moving the Python to run under gunicorn. Then a little tuning on the prod server. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.08 Sunday. Church went well today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.07 It was a nice day, and my Saturday walk went well. I updated my notes for the Grenada trip, had some coffee and tea, and a light lunch. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.06 Tired. I just worked, had dinner, then an early bedtime today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.05 The insurance company is totaling the van, so we will need to find a new vehicle. I'll probably borrow from my 401k to get the funds for this. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.04 It's Wednesday. Halfway through the week, time for another dose of Mounjaro, and just four weeks from the Grenada trip. I'm having Arland run through the Wednesday services now to get more comfortable doing them while I'm away. Tonight went ok. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.03 The van was evaluated; we should have a result in the next few days. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.02 We're still waiting for the insurance adjuster to evaluate the van. Hoping for a good outcome. I'm pretty tired, and busy planning things with regards to the Grenada trip, so my next few days might not have much writing. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.03.01 Sunday. Jackson gave us a ride to & from church since our van is in the shop. The services went well. We had a few visitors today including a few I've not seen in a few months to a couple of years. Missions app is approved, so will start getting the content in place this week. Evening was just reading a bit. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.28 Saturday. I went for a walk, had some chicken, ordered a few groceries, then stopped for a coffee. Evening was spent reading and doing a little work on the Missions app for church. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.27 It's been a busy day at work, dealing with inventory & billing issues. And a little more prep for month end tonight. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.26 I see that @eli_oat is running a December Adventure for a week in March (see https://eli.li/december-adventure-march-2026). I will participate, so look for notes on this between March 15 & 21. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.25 It was a very busy day at work. I'm entering the evening quite tired. Arland will do the slides at church tonight; I'll watch the ATEM and audio. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.24 Back to work. I walked in (about an hour), then had a full day. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.23 The snow continued into the early afternoon, and we ended up with between 14-15" total. Work was cancelled, as was school for the kids. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.22 Church went well, though lower attendence than normal. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.21 Realized this morning that it's been a bit since I synced my WISP blocks, so doing that today. I feel better rested, so plan to do a bit more today. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.20 Friday. It was a long day. One interview, a lunch meeting, and inventory in the evening. I left work around 1730 and started at 0630. Dinner was a salad, then spent the night resting. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.19 No inventory today. Work was busy, and I have a project to start (building out a timecard application). Evening was spent reading, and updating some notes in prep for the weekend programming project. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.18 Wednesday. Arland did the slides for the church service, and it went well I think. We had interviews between 1100 and 1430, then inventory in the evening until I had to leave for church. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.17 Dustin was in Gilbertsville today, so no inventory. Work went pretty well, and I made a little more progress on the Missions application in the evening. Still having low glucose issues at night and not resting well, which is hurting my productivity a bit. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.16 Its Monday, so back to work. Some interviews today, a lunch meeting, and a evening code review for some changes that I will deploy in Para this week. I did help a bit with inventory in the evening. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.15 Sunday. Services went well, and I was able to do some work on the Missions Board application. I hope to have it ready by the end of the month. Picked up groceries after church. No personal coding or reading today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.14 It was a cold Saturday, and a bit wet. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.13 Yet another night with low glucose issues. I'm still tired as the work day begins, but hopefully will do a little better overall. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.12 I had a bad night with low glucose. It lead to me getting almost no rest, and then being exhausted all day. My glucose remained low all day and into the evening. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.11 Today was a little warmer. Work went well, and I started on a set of alterations to Para-Gilbertsville. This will be ongoing for a while, but should solve the identified pain points. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.10 It's a little warmer today, though still cold. I did finish with "The Regicide Report" and will start a new series tomorrow. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.09 Back to work. With services Fri - Sun, there wasn't really a break, so I'm pretty tired. And not sleeping well. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.08 Three sessions today. The first two are done (later than the schedule, which is fine), with one remaining at 1317. No net issues today, (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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.07 Very, very cold today, and a lot of wind. Three sessions (one split, the last one combined), which went well. Minor network issues due to the wind. I took a late lunch walk, and made it home around 1600. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.06 Today was the first day of Missions Conference. We had a night session after work. It started with a meal, then the service. It ended up being a late night. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.05 It was another busy day at work. I charged most of my devices & packed things for tomorrow, and am now trying to get some rest. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.04 Wednesday. Church tonight, and some prep work for the missions conference. I'll be trying to record & stream both parts of the split session on Saturday, so am doing some work to support this tonight. 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.03 It's Tuesday. More snow & ice melting, and work is getting a bit busier. A lot of quoting, and some of these are pretty decent in scope. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.02 It's still very cold, but warming enough during the day to melt the ice a bit. So that's nice. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.02.01 February begins, bitterly cold. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.31 We put about 5qt of oil in the van. Not good. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.30 I'm retiring my use of the AiPaper Mini. It's a tad too big; the cold front light is annoying; and I dislike the AI focus. I'll keep using my others (Supernote Nomad, reMarkable Move, Boox Go 6) for now. In the evening, we set Ben's computer up on the TailScale net. I did some work on the Watt Tally code today. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.29 Continued some work on Taurea. I think the 4x variation is my preferred one, so I'm going to focus on this for now. It's very handy on the tablet or on a desktop. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.28 Still cold, and not much meltage on the snow and ice. I've been working on billing issues today. Dull, but necessary. 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). ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.27 It's still slow at work, but was a tiny bit busier than Monday. Finished the new transfer printer program. 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). ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.26 I made it into work (thanks to Wyatt for a ride!) and the day was very boring. In the afternoon I typed up my cairn updates & sent them to Arland. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.25 The streams went well, which was nice. I watched remotely (both the streams & via the cameras), so I was able to help a little. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.24 Cold today. I went for a walk, had lunch, did a bit of reading. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.23 We set up the other three cameras at church. And then prepared at Denney for the incoming snowstorm. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.22 I was able to order my plane tickets for the Grenada trip today. So all that's left for big expenses here are lodging & food. And a lot of research into the customs process, deciding what to pack, and general preparation. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.21 I've decided to play around a bit on my block map. I'm going to do a bit of a cleaner separation in a few areas. Currently it's set with 1024 for system blocks & applications, 1024 for the glossary and manual, 1024 for personal data, and 1024 for WISP. I think I'll partition this slightly better, with a clearer separation between the system blocks, standard applications, my private applications, space the glossary and manual a little, increase the data blocks, and set up an area after the WISP reg- ion for things like my DecAdv logs. So not a major change, but a little refinement. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.20 I finally have ilo running on the TTGO VGA32 ESP board. Not yet supporting the PS2 keyboard, but the VGA display is functioning. I'll try to get the keyboard going once I find where it went. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.19 Monday brought a return to work. I'm still tired, but a little less so. Work was uneventful (probably due to the snow & today being a holiday). Much of the time was spent putting out salt & dealing with the remnants of the storm. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.18 Sunday, and more snow. All day. This wasn't in the forecasts, and made the day annoying. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.17 Saturday. Despite the forecast calling for just a dusting, we did end up with some snow. I took a walk, got cold & wet, but was able to pick up a copy of "Twelve Months" (newest book in the Dresden Files). I spent the afternoon reading my new book, then dinner & bed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.16 Friday. Still very, very tired, but was able to get through the day. Hopefully I can get some rest tonight. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.15 Church went well last night, but I wasn't able to get much sleep so I'm still very tired today. Dealing with a few work things, doing a bit of reading, then just going to bed. Being exhausted isn't fun. I started a revival of my old patengi application for managing an ebook library. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.14 Last night was bad for my glucose. It's exhausting. I made it through the work day, and did some work on label printing. Now at 1700 I'm off to church. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.13 The passport paperwork arrived at the Philly office today, so it will hopefully be processed soon. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.12 It's monday, so back to work. I've started on a new native-ish (python + tk) interface for Para, using the API. The basics are done, but I've found a few places that were missing in the API, so will start writing those functions tomorrow. Not done with the cairn story yet. Been too tired to feel like playing. I mailed in the passport renewal paperwork. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.11 Sunday. Minor technical issues, but the wifi is back so I was able to stream the sermons. In the afternoon I got my passport photo and picked up some prescriptions. No computer work today other than church. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.10 Today was a men's breakfast at church. This was from 0800-1030. Afterwards it was raining, so I deferred walking. Probably will try to get in a walk after church tomorrow. A little reading, and a lot of resting. Some minor cleaning in the house. Not a bad day. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.09 Again, not a good night for sleep. I'll take some melatonin ton- ight. At least my glucose was good yesterday. It did dip a bit low during the night, but came back up pretty quickly and didn't spike high. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.08 I didn't sleep well again, so am quite tired. But coffee helped, and I was pretty productive at work. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.07 Tired (still not sleeping) and feeling a bit unwell. And I lost a bag with my insulin, so that's stressing me out. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.06 No sleep last night. I'm *very* tired this morning, and still feeling a bit unwell. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.05 Back to work today. Still not feeling well. This evening I'll start gathering my Cairn notes for Arland. I did a little work on a (cairn) utility in konilo to help with creating characters and other bits of world building. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.04 Church today. The wifi is still down, but I was able to do the streams since Comcast didn't block non-HTTP traffic on the non- activated new modem. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.03 It's very cold today. I ended up reading until around 0300, then bed for a while to rest, before a lunch, walk, and coffee. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.02 It snowed (lightly). Not enough to be a real issue, but enough to be annoying. Next week should be a little warmer, which will be nice. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2026.01.01 January 1; a new year begins. Today was resting in the morning, visiting with mom & Arland in the afternoon, and a late dinner. At mom's we had the Christmas gifts from her & my sister. It was a nice time, but we were all pretty tired when we got home. 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------