{"id":2707,"date":"2009-03-29T15:33:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T22:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:57:58","slug":"while-the-cat-is-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/29\/while-the-cat-is-away\/","title":{"rendered":"While the Cat is Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday the mouse&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>worked on electronics all day, filling the kitchen&#8211;&gt;dining room table with electronics. And I didn&#8217;t clean it up!<\/li>\n<li>Made scalloped Russett potatoes in porcini and (macaroni and cheese) cheese sauce. And I (dare I say) boiled them! And they were fantastic<\/li>\n<li>Cleaned up the kitchen and it stayed clean. I used 1 fork, 1 spoon, 1 plate, 1 bowl like a true bachelor. And they got cleaned when I finished.<\/li>\n<li>I ate 1\/2 of lunch and 1\/2 of dinner standing up in the kitchen :-)<\/li>\n<li>Went to bed after 3, when I was too tired to keep my eyes open. Got up at 9:30 the next day<\/li>\n<li>Scheduled to go out to dinner on Friday and to a rockin NIMBY party on Saturday<\/li>\n<li>Played the music I wanted as long as I wanted all night<\/li>\n<li>Put together a RBBB Arduino and Serial Display LCD board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Friday&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Went to the Box Shop to pick up some things<\/li>\n<li>Had lunch with Kurt to tell him about SWARM&#8217;s experience at Coachella (Papalote on him!)<\/li>\n<li>Went back to the Box Shop to pick up some things (oops!)<\/li>\n<li>Finally installed electric outlet in garage so I can charge my car battery. I hadn&#8217;t run the car in a week and I couldn&#8217;t start it because the battery was low. :-((. So, after considering it for more than a year, I installed an electric outlet so I could use this fancy desulphating battery charger (BatteryMINDer BM12248) \u00a0that SWARM owns.<\/li>\n<li>Bed time: 5:30am :-)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Saturday&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nimby5year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2717\" title=\"nimby5year\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nimby5year-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nimby5year-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nimby5year-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nimby5year.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Went to NIMBY 5 Year Anniversary Party (note in the photo the metal tracked robot trouncing over the heap of wooden pallets, with large multi-colored flames dripping a flammable liquid onto the fire-ball and onto the pile of tinder. SQEEEEEE!) <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/life-size-mousetrap.avi\">See the Life Size Mousetrap drop a safe on a cake (3mb AVI file)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tried to make a case for the T. Pen with plastic. Failed (so far)<\/li>\n<li>Bed time: 5:30am :-)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then Charlotte came back.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday the mouse&#8230;. worked on electronics all day, filling the kitchen&#8211;&gt;dining room table with electronics. And I didn&#8217;t clean it up! Made scalloped Russett potatoes in porcini and (macaroni and cheese) cheese sauce. And I (dare I say) boiled them! And they were fantastic Cleaned up the kitchen and it stayed clean. I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}