Very lazy day watching the snow fall today.. We got somewhere between 18 inches and two feet of fluffy snow. I just love the snow and the quiet and clean it brings to everything. Diane and i went out on cross country skis with the dogs this morning to enjoy the powder.. Gabe went to smugs .. The roads were so bad that it took 2 hours to get there !
I just lazed around the house and worked on a couple of projects. One thing im pleased to report is that i finished the innards for a musical project im doing for a friend. It involved designing custom circuit boards and a bunch of pretty fancy embedded arduino code. I finished populating the 6 boards and testing the code today. There’s something very satisfying about making a bunch of uniform doohickeys from scratch .on the left you see the breadboarded prototype.

I also worked on a project I’m doing for work involving traffic prediction in a town in france.. Im coding in python which i love doing. Its kind of fun getting to know a towns roads that i haven’t visited in almost 30 years
A croissant for the person who can recognize this city by this map.

The big news fro the day was that we all came hoe to find that one or both of the dogs had gotten into a Christmas stocking and eaten 16 nice pieces of chocolate candy. That was pretty strange…since they never touch our food without our permission.. The temptation must have been just too much. What a mess.. I know that chocolate isn’t good for dogs.. But so far, so good. They’re both about 60 pounds so they’d have to eat more than that to do themselves real harm.. But I’m guessing their tummies will be off for a few days.

Ok.. Thats it for the day.. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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