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I didn’t get to vote last night 🗳️

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I walked down to the liburry and the line was insane so I headed home. I was inclined to vote against the library bond as it involved closing the Delaware Avenue entrance, years of construction, noise and dust and because I figured higher taxes would only further increase the rent.

Nice sunny but cold morning today. ☀️ I am catching the middle express bus 🚌 downtown and I’ll walk possibly on the Plaza before catching the earlier shuttle 🚀 over to the Enterprise. Making good progress on the database update 💾, I need to talk to the development team about creating a scriptable output to the report writer.

This weekend I’m staying in town 🔒 but I plan to search 🔎 more for the bike 🚲 lock early Saturday morning. Go for a good ride and maybe work on some code. 🖥️ Then go out and see the folks 👨‍👨‍👦 on Sunday. I might take off the second half of the week to do something fun out of the second half of the week. Maybe the Adirondacks or the Catskills or a few nights in Rennselaerville. Who knows. If I don’t find the bike lock, I will get an ordinary security cable and lock – I don’t have to worry as much as the bike is now a year and a half old and I don’t leave it parked 🅿️ downtown as much. Still annoyed as it’s not the first time it’s bounced off the bike but I always quickly noticed it and grabbed it in the past.

I tell you that I wasn’t at all disappointed 😥 about the library bond failing. I would be so inconvenienced by the construction 🏗️ and loosing easy access via Delaware. I’m sure the library board will come up with a new scaled back Paygo project like they did about twenty years ago to keep the library up to date. 📚 I still really like the library and I use it regularly – primarily for the Wi-Fi but the proposal wasn’t right. Ever since the dust up with Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace ☮️ over use of the community room for a controversial pro Palastine speaker, I’ve been no fan of the library board.

Thursday is somewhat more fun when you take off Wednesday 😀

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Nice morning, I would have probably ridden in had I had my lock and wasn’t bringing my laptop back into the office.

That sun ☀️ is nice streaming in through the bus 🚍 windows. All night into the morning I was feeling a bit achy and I didn’t sleep well 💤 for no reason in particular, maybe it was the screen time I spent into the evening at the library. Honest I wasn’t abusing caffeine ☕ yesterday, just had my usual percolator pot of coffee and none of caffeine pills or the office coffee. I’ve been having some issues with the jitters lately plus I didn’t want to get so jacked up while my big jacked up truck was getting inspected. 🛻🔍

I was noticing in a picture of my bike 🚲 I took on Saturday that my lock 🔒 was missing so that cuts the search 🔍 area down on Saturday. I plan to get out and look early Saturday morning. Going to be cool but by then it looks the rail trail should be mostly free of ice. ⛸️ Riding in this morning probably still would have meant hitting some ice, though probably not the rough crap I was riding on day. I actually think I remember taking the lock off and putting it in the basket which probably means it’s at home, 🧺or maybe in my truck. If not, if I need to replace it’s I’m just going to go with a heavy security chain and a standard lock – I don’t park downtown any more and I’m less worried about theft at my suburban office where the bike rack is clearly visible to security.

Glad my car inspection is done. 😀 No costly mandated repairs required at least right away. 🔧 They didn’t flag anything at all. It’s good, I should now be able to get away at least after Christmas, though I’m also thinking I might do a day trip or an overnight before Christmas. I am going to take off the week after Christmas, I’m considering going out to the Finger Lakes but I’m not fully decided on that point. It’s kind of a long trip, and thw weather can be dicey this time of year.

No SQL Databases

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If you ask me, I tend to think No SQL is a lot of hype – no relational databases as they are called are old as computing and data structures, and are the kind of thing you learn about in an elementary data structures class in college where they teach you about things like C structs and pointers. Key value stores aka hash tables are basic components   of most modern programming languages like Python, R and C++.

It’s not to say that the don’t have a roll – indeed many implementations of such data structures are much faster, secure and efficient than any one person could construct with a few lines of C code. But revolutionary? Worth the hype? No. No SQL isn’t going to replace SQL and relational databases anytime soon.