What started as a good year just fizzled away. Some things I’d planned are now on hold until next year and I’ll probably just do the outdoor maintanence bits than need doing, eg. dissconect micro irrigation tap timers and call it a day at that for this year.

Once again, it’s felt like a string of things going wrong and, while I tried to put a brave face on it, the cat getting knocked down was probably the last straw. I went from trying to encouraging a stray to finding a new friend and little ray of sunshine to loosing it in a relatively short time scale but it seems just “par for the course”. Also, my back flared up on the first day of some trivial (ICT) course I went on to see if I could still do something and hasn’t really died down since which has lead to numerous sleepless nights as well as lack of willingness to try some types of mobility.

I’ve been playing with Java hacking instead for the last couple of weeks. First was for a logging meter, eg. this and now I’m dabbling with a SANE (scanning made easy – mostly on Linux and sort of like TWAIN on Windows for scanners) library.

So far, I can scan/preview, set most of the options SANE reports a driver has and allow the creation of “presets”. Timewasting really in one sense as it’s never going anywhere but something to doing another sense.