I spent the morning working on bringing Home Assistant up to speed on my Raspberry Pi (appropriately). I got the basic system before stopping for lunch, and I had high hopes of getting the critical automations installed by mid-afternoon.

It was very windy outside – the lights flickered a bit while we were making lunch, but stayed on until 12:50 while we were cleaning up.

The weather has improved, but we’re still in the dark. At least we had an extra hour of daylight this week!

The last few days have been mostly rainy, so I’ve been doing things on the computer (as if I wouldn’t have been doing things on the computer anyway).

I got most of the District 101 Toastmasters code back in operation and talked with someone who would like to get involved in maintaining and improving it.

I fixed a “nonce error” in the code I use to extract selected entries from Tripit and put them on my Google calendar. The “nonce error” seems to happen if my code sends requests too quickly; I’d tried to fix it a few weeks ago by trapping the error, sleeping for a second and retrying the failed request, but the fix didn’t do anything. I found out the problem yesterday – a comment saying “Sleep a second” is not nearly as effective as actually calling the function to sleep a second.

We did manage a few walks between the storms (and during the storms, too!), so it wasn’t a completely sedentary weekend. And our neighbor’s tulips are blooming already, which is a nice sign.