I am finding SO MANY BUGS.
It’s good because I’m finding them now, and the iteration time is short.
It’s bad because I am running out of time.
But it’s also good because now the system is getting better.
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Discovered and acquired low sugar sweet chili sauce and Thai chili wing dipping sauce!! (yisss so tasty) I love all the keto friendly sauces by this company and would probably use them even if I wasn’t watching carbs.
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My friend Isi, (the one that I met up with awhile ago in person while he was in the country, he’s just been in America for work) has this grumbly old man cat who’s very chumby and hates people. He’s had a tough go of things, and doesn’t warm up to people at all really- Isi is his favourite person in the whole wide world, but even then, the little meowmeow usually only comes close when it’s bedtime and chooses to sleep on top of his leg or whatever, he does his own thing most of the time in the house. Unless he’s bothering Isi’s other pets, since he’s fascinated by the aquarium. He runs away a lot, and hides in the closet, or growls in Isi’s bedroom when people are over, including his petsitter. He’s not really mewch of a people purrson.
Today was really exciting, because he’s been living with Isi for months, but only just today made biscuits for the first time ever, and it was on Isi’s arm. SO cute. Huge wins for kittycats and their friends today.
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We have almond coffee creamer that tastes EXACTLY like a thin gingerbread cookie, not the chunmky ones with molasses and caramel, even though it says it tastes like a pumpkin spice latte. This works out marvellously for me, as someone who can’t handle lactose, and who loves gingerbread.
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The sky surprised us with a huge load of snow this morning. Well,… huge for these parts. Which is not that much.
It was enough to make a snowman and throw snowballs at eachother though, and that’s all we needed.
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After having misplaced it while moving into my current apartment & assuming it lost for several months, I found the knife I got after releasing Universal Hologram! Kind of silly, but it’s precious to me.
(it was in the pocket of my blue fur coat, duh)
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Somemeowdy brought home some little treats from their dinner out and I just ate a cannoli for the first time and I think I just ate like one of the yummiest things I’ve ever stuffed into my face. You know it’s good when I’m taking even tinier mousebites than usual to prolong the eating experience. It had pistachios and cream(?) and candied strawberry and it was chocolate and it was so delicious. I don’t even think I could crush a whole plate of them like I thought I might want to after looking at it because those bites were so satisfying. (Taking normal sized bites for most people it’d probably be like one or two?) Delicious little morsel for meowmeow treaties. A mewrsel, even.
I tried a bite of the tiramisu and it’s not really my jam (a lot less sweet and more sharp/sour kind of than other tiramisu like little cakes I’ve had in the past) but the mushroom pasta is for tomorrow’s breakfast. Apparently it was nearly 30 dollars for the tiny little box which certainly raised my eyebrows but if it’s as good as the cannoli…
They kind of laughed while watching me eat and went ‘see, it is that good, right?’ since it’s a fairly common occurrence for meowmeows to bring back home treats for one another. This totally kicks the ass of my procuring a fullsize of their favourite chocolate bar recently though, or the multipen for their work.
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I just remembered a solution I used a few years ago for a different project and I think it’ll solve a lot of bugs in one impact if I apply it to my game.
It’ll take a hot minute, hopefully just a day, but the maintenance boosts should make a huge time difference later.
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Very cool.
I’m fond of my Laguiole knife. I bought it while on hiking vacation in the south of France. It’s been in the little pocket of my rucksack ever since. Great for kindling and cutting cheese and baguettes. I don’t need the corkscrew anymore for myself, but it’s still nice to open a bottle for other picknick companions.
It’s a kind of memory magnet. A lot of great moments are connected to this fine piece of foldable cutlery.
Picture from Google images. Mine is the exact same model and colour.
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Can confirm it only took a day. Code is much more maintainable now.
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Long - tech for seniors with memory and disability issues
My dad due to circumstances beyond our control lives in a house by himself. He’s had two strokes and diabetes and mostly moves via wheelchair and has a permanent catheter; he’s visited by a nurses and my cousin who lives in the neighborhood and is also an RN. I live 45 minutes away in a different state and drive there once a week so it’s really difficult keeping tabs on him since he has major trouble using cellphones - both with his lack of manual dexterity and understanding how they work and remembering what to do. I finally spent a lot of money and got him a “RAZ Memory Cell Phone” which is designed for seniors with dementia and memory problems.
It’s ironic that it costs as much as an iPhone to make the phone do less but that’s exactly what it does - he just has big touch buttons to call people and 911 in emergency. The tricky fun part is I can monitor and control the phone remotely if he gets hung up - I can update his contacts, I can turn his access to the dial pad on and off, I can set big text reminders, I can GPS locate the phone, I can set it to auto-answer on speaker if he’s not near the phone so it practically works like an intercom. I can set “quiet hours” so he’s not calling my cousin or anyone else repeatedly in the middle of the night not realizing it’s the middle of the night. I can control the phone volume and disable his volume rocker and power switch.
Today it actually worked as it should - I checked the GPS and noticed he was at his house at 4am, then at 11am he was in the middle of a cornfield near his house, then at 230pm he was at another address a couple blocks west of his house. I called several times and heard no room or TV noise at 2:45pm and got no answer.
Long story short, he stayed up late and slept in and the GPS is just not address accurate, which is good to know. He actually woke up and saw my text sticky I sent to his phone asking him to call and dialed me on his own volition. Totally worth it!
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Depressing questions for Hanon and anybody living with a dementia patient
I’m thinking about one of these for my mom. The trouble is that she can’t really talk anymore, but she still tries to call people, so I’m wondering if maybe we should just deal with the iPhone issues until the bitter end. Texts have gotten so difficult that we have daily meltdowns about them-- this morning she tried to call my cousin, who replied with a text saying she was at the vet with her dogs for their yearly checkup and she’d call back when she was done. From this text, somehow my mom inferred that my cousin is dying of Covid, and there was a huge tantrum about the whole thing. I am constantly having to ask people not to send her texts with any extraneous information, but for some reason that’s difficult for everybody.
Was there any issue in giving him his new phone? Did he miss being able to text? I am torn about whether or not to force something like this.
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Long response to Amanda
I am lucky in that my dad does not have dementia specifically, he just has occasional scattered thoughts and concentration and memory problems and aforementioned dexterity problems pressing tiny buttons or sliding switches.
This phone is specifically designed for dementia patients in mind. It does not text and does not do voicemail. I have used the reminder function to basically put a text message on the phone as a substitute for text “hey, dad, call me”, but the user cannot respond to it. (You can put automatic timed reminders for medications and such, and remind them to charge the phone at certain battery levels.) The text message/reminder can only be controlled by the designated user from a phone app or browser app online.
The big gain for this phone is remote management, quiet hours that you can create and select which contacts apply to quiet hours, disabling of power button and volume - my dad was constantly gripping his previous phone at the volume rocker and turning the volume all the way down where he didn’t realize it was on silent. For me the win was being able to remotely force it to answer on speakerphone - this helps my dad. I got him a wireless cradle charger that sits on the low wall between living room and kitchen where the phone lives so it rings twice and picks up automatically and he doesn’t have to scramble to get to it and then fumble to answer within six rings. He can hear and speak to it from both rooms.
It has a dedicated “call 911” button that warns them “do you really want to call 911 yes/no”. They also have a ‘capture’ service you can pay ~$100 per year for where any 911 call first goes to a screener who understands that the caller may be mis-dialing and will ensure the caller needs help before summoning 911 if necessary. It also will send a text to the phone’s remote manager allowing them to automatically cancel a 911 call. I don’t know if your mom is the type who will call 911 for any perceived problem, but that seems like a good option to help with that as well.
You can also remotely view the call logs to see if they are trying to dial out in the middle of the night or who is calling them, and you can disable calls from anyone not in the contact list if your mom is the type who’d get taken in by phone scammers. Anyone can call the phone even during quiet hours, unless they are not in the contact list and the phone is restricted to contacts only.
If she’s not talking, this may not be for you, but there are are other phones that RAZ puts out that are designed for visual and hearing impaired that might offer different or possibly better solutions like a text-only phone if she’s not able to speak for a voice call. Their support is extremely responsive and friendly and helpful if you have questions.
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Oh, other cool thing about above phone - it’s unlocked, so you can stick an existing sim in there and you pay for cell service however you want; you only need subscribe to the 911 screening service if you need it.
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SpringThing progress. It’s a little annoying not having the cute little arrows, but moving around the tiles works around that issue with buttons well enough.
It’s coming.
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(you can create fake arrows by creating a link to the other passage as a comment so it doesn’t apprear on the page but it does in Twine 
ex: /*[[PassageNam]]*/ )
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Can also use the <<button>> syntax with <<goto>> 
<<button "text">><<goto "PassageName">><</button>>
edit: whoops, missed the (very important) button bit of your original post! Edited; and Josh’s suggestion below is a good one!!
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If this is SugarCube, you can also use the double-bracket link syntax with some macros, e.g. <<button [[Onward, Reginald!|On with the story]]>> and that’ll give you the arrows. Doesn’t work if you’re computing the link destinations, but as Manon said you can stick them in a comment if you want.
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Thanks everymeowdy for the help! :3
In a bright spot, I just remembered that I had another bottle of vitamin D somewhere, and ferreted around in my book bag until I found it. The sun has been non-existent in my life as of late, so I’m thrilled about the find.
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It’s weird being through with my game. With only a few weeks off, I’ve spent 30-40 hours a week on it since early 2022, with a decent sized ramp-up before that. Of course, I didn’t know Inform 7, so that’s part of it. I guess people like to bag on I7 in some circles, but there seem to be a good number of folks who wouldn’t be writing IF any other way. I’m one of those people.
So yay, I7. But the game is done, and there’s suddenly so much free time. I could start the next game–it will take a long time, too–but I should probably play some basic-ass videogames for a while.
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