GRG's Miscellany

 OMFG, I have been intending to make this bloody loganberry trellis for SO LONG!  And I've finally done it! Somehow, this weekend, I managed to get my sorry ass out to the workshop and cut, assemble and paint the damned thing.  It's just two A-frames joined by a couple of cross beams - nothing fancy.  It is about 7ft to the top of the A-frames, and it supports the loganberry canes at about 6ft (so I can put nets over them to stop the damned pigeons getting at them). I'm still not sure why my brain was so strongly rejecting the task of building them.  It might've been the amount of wood piled up in the workshop, making it feel unsafe to even go in there.  The new school year starting was probably also a big factor.  Anyway, it's done now, and it feels great to not have it hanging over me any more. Now I can start planning my next task...a better USB joystick with SPRINGS.

Last Month's Projects: Physical make: Loganberry frame/trellis.   This still didn't happen. :( BUT! All the timber that was clogging up the workshop has now gone (except for the bits I need for the trellis).  So this might actually get done this month.   Coding make: Turning my Silkworm tribute into an entry for the DOS Games Fall Jam .     The deadline was extended for another couple of weeks, so I'm going to continue with this.  I've learned a lot about how enormously fat the standard C++ libraries are in terms of how they bloat up the size of the final executable.  The .exe is limited to 64kB in 16-bit real mode, so having 'cout' take up 6kB of that is just unreasonable.  <iostream> also needs to go, but I don't need to murder that just yet.   Reading: My Past & Thoughts by Alexander Herzen.   I finished it! :D   The book made really interesting reading, tying together lots of disparate things I knew about 19th century Europe and really brought