Things I've done recently

Saturday we worked for hours up at the church helping to remove the black rubber mulch from one of the playgrounds (it was going to be relocated to another, lesser-used playground on the campus) and installing new, lighter colored (thus less heat absorbing/radiating) and non-tracking (to avoid marking shoes and floors; they're about to put new flooring in the preschool building) mulch. There was a LOT of mulch on that playground! It was a lot of hot, hard work! 

Sunday night I moved a console piano from our living room to the ex-dining room. Shouldn't have been a huge deal except that the casters on this old piano don't work properly, so we had to first put it on furniture sliders and then slide it from one room to the next. We rearranged a little more furniture, too. We're turning the ex-dining room into a sitting and music room/study. It's exciting! 

Yesterday I took an old leather sofa to Goodwill. It's a 5 part thing: 2 seats center section, two storage sections, and two recliner end pieces. Loaded into the back of the truck solo. Fortunately the Goodwill workers helped with the unloading. 

Over the weekend I also managed to get Ollama properly running on my Windows machine to serve LLMs on my local network (by default it only serves to the machine it's running on, not over the network). I then set up a Raspberry PI mini computer and hooked up "nanobot" on it, pointed at my Ollama, and set up a Discord script for it and connected it to a private Discord server that my boys and I are on. Now we have a chat that includes a locally-hosted AI in the mix. Nothing spectacular has come from it so far, but it's an interesting exercise. 

I've also been working on my "AI book generation engine" (running the local LLM for the AI); I think it may be at a point where I'm ready to dive into the manual editing process (i.e., it's finally produced reasonably viable first draft copy). I'll let you know when the final product is available. That engine itself was built with AI from an iterative process. 

Later this week I'm taking a Penske truck to Atlanta to pick up living room furniture, bringing it back here, swapping it out with my current LR furniture, and taking that up to my daughter's place north of Hattiesburg, then going to church with my youngest Sunday, when he's going to be preaching his first sermon that evening. 

What a week!