I woke up feeling kinda sick.. fever and a bit of a cold. I was determined not to let it screw up the end of my vacation. we ended up having a really nice quiet day.
Max, Becky. Violet and I took a nice long sunny walk down by the creek.. turns out Becky had the same thing.
Then Max, DIane and I drove downtown to check out our favorite toy store Doodlets.. It”s An amazing place.. tons of stuff nobody needs.. which is what makes it so fun !
ax and becky had planned a dinner with us at a. really nice New Mexican place called Saxon this evening.. but both Becky and I were sick.
I was sad to miss it, but Max and DIane went on their own which was really nice. they had a great time.. This place is known for its Mole.. and they bring you a ‘flight’ of mole sauces to let you choose just the one. .
Diane brought me take out of some yellow tail tuna tartare. and soem of her fish entree.. both were delicious. !!!
Fun post thanksgiving day.. I woke up feeling kinda coldy.. but still felt like being outside. Diane and I walked down to the railyard ro the excellent craft fare there In the spirit of Black Friday shopping,
Thne we went over and got Max and Violet and took a great long dog walk in the Frank Ortiz dog park
Onb the way home we stopped at the ffed store for chicken feed and rabbit nest stuff. They didnt have a scratch block, but luckily max and becky had one that only been eaten by the ratsd a little.
I had the honor to feed it to the girls. They were very appreciatine !
Later in the evening, our good freind Steve stopped by. Steve and Kate live in Pennsylvania.. but he was Coincidentally here in Santa Fe visiting his mom. We all went together to the TumbleRoot roadhouse where Detrioit Lightning.. a great Grateful Dead cover band was playing. THe lead gitarist was Max and Becky’s freind Ben from MeoWolf. He was awesome !!
Mid show, Ben called his dad up to play bass on a few songs. It was a fun and proud moment to get to watch ,!
Im defntely coming down with a bug.. no worries. tas fun to be here. anyway
Happy thanksgiving everyone. I’m so thankful for the love and wonder we have in our lives. .. and we’re so happy to be here with Max, becky and Violet.
It had snowed a bit last night .. and it was cold and clear
DIane and I got there around 10 to help wiht cooking and cleaning. It was fun to be useful / Mx was in charge oif the turkey
Before dinner most of us (max, becky. Chad, Chris, Autum and Violet ) went for a walk outside.. On the way we foudn this hawk on a tree enjoying her/his thanksgiving dinner
Violet loved getting outsiude
THen it was back to prepping dinner
It was a great meal. Autumn opened it by reading a piece on gratitude by Tigre. a local artist that nearly everyone at the table had worked with. (including me.. I helped them a bit witht eh fear beast out at teh playa in 2022) TIgre died tragically in 2023. .. His connection with this group was very powerful
I’m very thankful for this day. .dfor my family.. and for all of you out there I love. nite all, nite sam
It was a super chill day. .> We began wiht an emergency shopping run for cranberries, etc. (the shops were absolutely crazy busy) . and a search for a turkey roasting pan with a rack. 2 places we tried were sold out.. At last we found one
THen back to teh airbnb. DIane headed over to work with Becky on gettign ready for thanksgiving. I got some work done .. I;m enjoying using ChatGPT to help me write programs ot wrangle large data sets. It’s given me suer powers to create new tpyes of data abnalysuis that would have taken me forever to code by hand
LAter on. I started thining more about ChatGPT and other large-language modells (LLMs). I decided to apply it to a project I;d long wanted to do. . I’ve been keepign this blog for 18 years.. and despite sometimes gettign behind, i’ve always kept it current.. I can account for all but 3 days (!) of blogging in 18 years.. thats kinda cool.. no ?
anyway.. i’ve always wanted to explore wahat it would take to print my blog just for a family keepsake.. I’ve tried several wordpress plugins.. and book services.. but 18 years of blogging made the thign to large..
So this afternoon. I sat down tieh ChatGPT and together we wrote a powerful program for converting my blog and all of its dyslexic ramblings and pictures into printable PDFs’ .. It soudns easy.. but trust me it wanst.. By the end of the day my AI pal and I had written a python program that crawled my entie blog using the wordpress API.. and formatted into a series 205 monthly PDFs. THe program then compiles those into 18 yearly PDFS. and finally a complete version of my blog.. pictures iand all (though some of the linked pictures have disappeared over the years 🙁 ). I ran tthe proigram over night..
Want to guess how big that is ? .. its over 41,000 pages (!!!) mostly pictures.. and about 1.6 GB of data.
I/we also wrote a mode that only kept the text of the blog. My goal is to feed that into an LLM like chatgpt.. to hopefully give me soem insight into my own blog stay tuned on that !
Back to the day.. Later in the afternoon. I broke from work and Becky. diane Viloet and I went on a great walk in the Frank Otriz dog park. Violet loves runnignthrough the catus and palyeing wit the bazillion other dogs doign the same thing. I’m always touched here how mcuh people love their dogs. I we loved ours !).. there place has truibutes liek this all over.
Diane came hoime with a really amazing macrmae stand he’d made for becky. Shes sellign soem of her beutiful macreame plant holders ant a holday fair coming up .. The artistry on both the macrame and the stand were incredible. THese pics dont do them justice
TOnight we all cooked together and hung out. >> Shrimp scampi on garbanzo noodles.. and great conversation abotu life, love and making stuff
Its great seeing our kids living and enjoying their lives ! I lvove this family so much !
