Wednesday 16 February 2022

An ordinary day. I arose after a sound night’s sleep. That’s surely one positive aspect of my prostate cancer adventure — I’ve been sleeping very very well. Not that I had trouble before…

I did my usual breakfast routine: turn on the espresso machine; while it’s warming up, I heat up Katie’s oatmeal and make her tea; I put bread in to toast, go out and fetch the paper, make the espresso, and sit down with paper, espresso and toast. After that I practice piano for an hour or so.

The distinctive feature of the day was taking the Audi in to get some recall work taken care of — without the upgrade, in about a week the car will begin putting up error messages because some sort of cellular service from AT&T has been sunsetted. There are a couple of other recall things to get done. I also learned that I needed to have my 40K service done, even though I’m only at 32K. I pre-paid for normal servicing when I bought the car, but did not realize, or had forgotten, that the agreement expires — in this case on May 2nd. So that is being done too, and it looks like it will take until tomorrow. As I got a loaner, it’s not big deal.

After a brief stop at home I went out for a walk along the river. I did probably about a mile and a half. Not much, but it was my first outing since surgery, and so I didn’t want to push it. It was good to get out, and walk through the woods along the river. this time of year it is pretty much a brown and white experience.

Then I came home, and did various ‘clerical’ things for a while, and then tried my hand at some more web programming. I was exploring how to create embedded flash cards in my web page. My idea is that there are a number of things I’m trying to learn, and it would be nice to be able to access them all from my workspace page. I found a tutorial for building basic flashcards, and followed it, and when I finished it didn’t work. I tried it using the final files they allow you to download, and those didn’t work either. I’m guessing that they’re probably quite old, and something, somewhere has changed. But is it JavaScript? Or the library they used? Or something about the json file the data is stored in? I will return tomorrow and see if I can get a debugger/developer view that will give me any insight. I looked around for more recent examples of flashcards as well, but most I found were about 10 years old, and not as close to what I wanted as the original tutorial.

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