Spooky

 There was no need for an early start. Zoe wasn't due to start until 10:00, so Ellie didn't need to come to us first thing. We had a quiet, leisurely breakfast as we read the news and caught up on social media, while drinking our coffee and tea and munching on breakfast.

Once we had kicked into gear, we caught up on various household chores before Di headed to the sewing room to bury herself in her current project. I experimented with the ideas I had formed yesterday regarding automatic filing of photos. The theory was great, but the implementation was troublesome because of the way Google Drive deals with files from different owners in a shared folder. ChatGPT came up with some suggestions, but they seemed needlessly complex. I would have to ponder.

I walked into the village, listening to the first chapters of the latest Harry Bosch novel by Michael Connelly. I settled in the barber's chair (removed my AirPods) and let him loose on my luxurious locks. Twenty minutes later, feeling light-headed and cold around the ears, I thanked the barber and headed back home.

During the cooler months, we do enjoy homemade soup for lunch. I dug out the soup maker and made my first offering of the season. I chopped onion, parsnip, carrot, butternut squash, and red pepper, then added a handful of lentils, a little garlic powder, and a little paprika before filling with water and firing up the machine.  Twenty minutes later, we had a very pleasant soup which was hotter than the surface of the sun.

Di returned to the sewing room (I think she's looking for the invisible zip she fitted this morning). I returned to my little challenge. I discussed the situation with Claude (another AI system). It too came up with some very complicated ideas and code. I told it that the code was both impenetrable and unmaintainable, and I would rewrite it in Rexx. I had shared another of my programs with it earlier. The next thing I knew, it had written the new program and mimicked my style and technique so perfectly that I was quite taken aback. It was very good code and, though I found two small bugs, it worked within a couple of test cycles. It was quite spooky.