Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:46:03 GMT
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I've wondered how I managed to ride with the same pair of batteries for four years. Well, I didn't. My battery usually lasts until the indicator is on 1/4. Now it dies at just under 1/2. Maybe this battery DID break the charger. It always blinks red when you plug it in now, instead of showing steady green. New charger on the way. I think I won't plug it into the more-used battery.
Fortunately, I have a back-up bike that I can use when the primary is down.
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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:01:18 GMT
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https://Elmlog.org is up. It doesn't say much, yet, but that's coming.
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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:09:08 GMT
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I've decided to use this as my primary text editor for posts (those that don't need Emacs editing capablities). I'll post them here on the blog, first, then copy to or link from elsewhere.
Hoopla! Oink! Oink!
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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:51:30 GMT
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Had a couple of days with no high above freezing, and lots of snow on the bike paths. People don't realize that cold snow is only as slippery as any similar crystal powder. Except when it melts or gets wet. The water will refreeze, and be VERY slippery. But there were lots of dry spots today, so I expect the sun to do its work on them tomorrow, too, even from behind clouds.
People make big holes in a frozen snowy surface. Hundreds of them make for a very bumpy bike path.
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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:10:07 GMT
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I already missed yesterday. Sigh... Blogging every day will be hard. But it will get easier once I write Elmlog.
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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:05:33 GMT
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http://feedland.com
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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:44:21 GMT
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Maybe I'll follow Dave Winer's lead and blog every day, with short posts, and occasional long stories.
Or maybe not. Time will tell.
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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:58:02 GMT
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I can still write Blog posts with Lisplog. The server has been humming along, unused, for a long time now.
I plan to rewrite Lisplog in Elm, enabling markdown for data entry, as well as HTML.
Elmlog is the natural name. I'll investigate domains.
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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:27:43 GMT
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This is my third foray into partaking of the evil weed, the first two being ended by illness, my body reacting to toxins it didn't like by forcing me to detox for a while.
I'm doing mostly distillates. With some flower mixed in from time-to-time.
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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:11:55 GMT
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I actually moved into the new house BEFORE buying the new car. I needed the old F-150 pickup to carry stuff from my son's house to mine. Memory is bloody weird. Somehow, the car story arose in my mind before the house story.
My daughter-in-law put me in contact with the realtor who had helped them find their house, five years ago. She spoke with a glorious Tennessee accent. Had I known how few people I'd meet here who grew up speaking Tennessee, I would have paid more attention. I picked houses in my price range, which meant the low-rent districts. I wanted to be able to pay my mortgage, my auto loan, and food, with still some left from my social security check. Yeah, I know. Social Security is on its last legs. Thing is, it's been on its last legs for twenty years. Hopefully, it will hold on a little longer before the Federal Reserve manages to send the US dollar into hyperinflation.
I saw about five houses. The first time I saw the one I picked, I thought it was on too big a road. But the second time I saw it, I realized that though MLK Jr Ave is a big road, it actually had very little traffic. It took a while for the mortgage stuff to come through, and my son and his wife grew tired of me being in their little house, so I moved into an Extended Stay America room for two months. Learned a lot about West Knoxville there, before moving into my house in East Knoxville.
The house was obviously flipped, with middle-priced components inside, but it was nice, and still is, over three years later. I moved in in August of 2021.
The house has a large living room and large bedroom in front, with ten-foot ceilings, a kitchen, small bedroom, work room, bathroom, and hallway behind that, with standard eight-foot ceilings. It's perfect for an aging bachelor, with a guest room, so I can have occasionally overnight company.
There's a quarter acre lot in back, surrounded by a wooden fence, with storage shed, and a smaller lawn in front. I have a small electric mower to maintain the grass.
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