Blog2017 ≫ Glorious day again

Have had some little exercise, took the boys and their bikes down to the seafront for a little ride. Then had to run back up the hill with them when I remembered I had left a pan on. Luckily was on low, and all is OK...

Have achieved a few minor things today, fixed the disco lights in the boys bedroom, swapping out the power supply from the balcony ones. So managed to get one good set of lights out of two broken ones. Will replace the balcony lights again one day. Now trying a bit of coding, great idea for a day off! Realised it's not really easy to quickly set a timer on any of our home automation, for example to set the slow cooker to go off in 4 hours. Right now I have to add an event to the calendar, and then rerun the scheduler. It should be a one liner that I can do by clicking something on the phone app, so fixing that here1...

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Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed + father to two, I'm a full stack web engineer, + I do js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation + other diy stuff, history, family tree stuff, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.