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Andy Arthur

After getting COVID at the end of 2024 and sleeping through much of the holiday season, 🛌 it's good to be up and back at my game again. It's cold and dark this time of year, 🥶 but I figure focus on learning and working, while counting down the days until Punxsy sees or does not see his shadow. 🐻

Cold and blustery Tuesday ☃️

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I was on the fence but I decided to do my morning walk and it was worth it. Crisp but with the face mask it’s refreshing.

Good morning, Happy Tuesday. ☀️ I almost thought about riding in this morning but I think with the wind 🍃 and the issue with the brakes I’m going to bus 🚍 it in this morning. It is still early January after all. Plus I have a Save the Pine Bush 🌲 Zoom.

It’s actually not that cold out, the wind is a bit misleading 🌬️ though the full face mask helped as did planning my route so most of the walk I wasn’t directly in the wind. 🚶 Time to shower 🚿 and get ready to catch the bus. Keep hearing an occasional loud clicking noise downstairs though it’s near the fridge but I don’t think it’s the fridge. I’m thinking it’s a mouse 🐁 but I can’t find it.

Been continuing to study slots and signals in Qt6. 🔁Truth is I’m not totally unfamiliar with the concept – I’ve written Qt for nearly a decade on and off in python for QGIS plug-ins but I’ve never really understood the concept fully especially as it applies to the C++ library. 🖥️ I think becoming good at Qt can teach me a lot. Now is the time to learn in the cold and dark of winter. 🌨️

Morning folks

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I was listening to the wind this morning and wasn't going to walk but it's actually quite refreshing out. 

Taken on Tuesday January 7, 2025 at Delmar, New York.

I got to admit that I really like that big brass lamp I got for my office 🛋️

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It’s such a warm color though it doesn’t throw all that much light even with a 200 watt equivalent LED bulb as the shade is probably old and the plastic less translucent. But with the other lamp in my office it’s actually brighter than it was with just the other lamp. The small lamp now has a hundred watt equivalent bulb. I really like it.

Walking laps in the Plaza this evening. Catching a later bus home as I want to get more exercise as I’m trying to rebuild my body and feel better after COVID. Then it’s going to be cold and dark out so I’ll reheat that bread I cooked this morning and warm the soup, have a good dinner and retire to bed to read.