Good day at the Lincolnshire show yesterday. Rain kept off and by the end it was tshirt weather. Bumped into a lot of folk we knew. Bought six pairs of black working socks for a fiver. Gawd knows when I’ll use them but at five quid it doesn’t really matter. Also bought some sausages and a pair of sketchers trainers/shoes. Been meaning to source a pair of trainers for a while.
Healthily tired when we got home and settled in front of the cricket on the telly. Wasn’t particularly hungry so had a single sausage sandwich later, ie one sausage and one slice of bread, toasted. Would have had an early night were it not for the fact that THG had the football on so I hung around
Got a few things to do this morning. Already tweaked the python script to use the gemini flash version instead of pro for the will transcriptions I’ve been working on. The pro version was burning through too many credits.
This AI stuff opens up lots of possibilities. I have to manually check some names, especially place names but the effort level is orders of magnitude lower than manual transcription. Plus I wouldn’t have been able to sort the script so quickly aaand the knowledge of how to manoeuvre the way around the workings of the image viewer on the NLW website was pretty specialist. I don’t think they want you to be able to scrape their website. Anyway, it’s sorted.
Now sat in the conservatoire with the doors open listening to cheerful birdsong. THG has gone swimming. On the way here I took a look at the sandals I had planned to wear yesterday but had to abandon as a strap had broken. Figured a bit of superglue might do the job but it won’t. A new pair beckons. They do get heavily used over the summer. I reckon they last me maybe 4 or 5 years. At least new sandals won’t pong to begin with.
Gonna be a warmun today. Golf this pm. Second coat of wood preservative on the scaffold planks this morning, when I eventually get going. Tomorrow I should be able to build the actual table top and then all I need to do is figure out how to attach it to the base. There will also be the question of how to lift it but that is for another day and the (able and enthusiastic) assistance of a pal or two.
Blossoms continue to emerge in the wildflower meadow. All good.