Pete's Log: Zeitgeist
Entry #2068, (Life in General, Word Games and Puzzles)(posted when I was 43 years old.)
When I left home yesterday to pick up JB from daycare, there was a helicopter hovering overhead. A Metra train was stopped across the crossing nearest us and I could see lots of flashing lights at the next crossing East. Apparently there was a pedestrian fatally hit. Sounds like there was one train stopped at the Brookfield station and the train that hit the pedestrian was an express. Sometimes people get impatient and forget that the crossing gates can be down because of more than one train.
New weekly COVID cases in Brookfield have fallen by about half since their peak two weeks ago, but we're still at roughly the level of the previous peak last winter.
Wordle is everywhere. xkcd referenced it. The New York Times bought it. Curious to see if that means it will show up in my NYT Crossword app.
I've been intentionally avoiding any Wordle strategy discussions, and it seems like there are a lot of them out there. I have this vision of doing some word analysis of my own on /usr/share/dict/words before I read what anyone else is doing. But I haven't found the time for that. So I'm muddling along with my starting word "arise" which seems to work ok. I like trying to get the vowels early.
Still waiting for that elusive second two guess day.
Jamie and I invested in an IR thermal imaging thingy. So far it's confirmed what we already knew: our house is not good at keeping heat in. JB likes it too. She walks around the house with it, pointing it at things and very earnestly repeating things she heard us say about the insulation and windows.
HackerBox 0075 arrived yesterday. I still haven't put together HackerBox 0074 yet, even though I'm excited to do so. HackerBox 0074 did come with a hat though that is now my favorite winter hat. It features the open source hardware logo. I like it.
The Pete's Log On This Day page has been triggering lots of thinking lately but I can't seem to get anything down in writing on the day in question and then the moment passes. It's apparently been twenty years and two days now since my first tattoo. I can't decide if it feels like longer than that or not.
I'm very tired.