Woke up with a headache. Tried to wait out the headache. Tried to ibuprofen the headache. How about breakfast? How about lying on the couch? Reading? Closing your eyes? Taking a nap? Headache, headache, headache.

Got to RC kinda in time for Ranjit’s excellent Arduino exploration talk, which made me super happy. My appearance made the audience three people, which was kind of a perfect size. Alicia asked really good questions. I’m starting to think maybe I’ll finally take the leap and try some hardware stuff. I want to hack a dress so bad.

Went for a sweets & coffee walk with a few folks, came back and did Positive Peer Pressure time with Alicia so we could get some blog stuff done. Introduced her to Paper in case she wanted to draw anything for her posts; she ended up creating a great graphic explanation of her recent explorations with py2app (which she presented last week!).

The one code-related thing I started digging into at the end of the day was “how do I pull a small amount of relevant data from Dark Sky’s alert objects?” I want to be able to print a little bit of alert info in Weather Balloon if it’s relevant (and, “happily,” we’ve had two days in a row of air-quality alerts this week, so I have the data I need to play with).

Turns out alert objects are lists that contain dictionaries (two, this time; looks like that’s because there are two alerts: one from NJ, and one from NY. Sigh). My love for bpython grows — I’m enjoying it even more than IPython (!). It’s not perfect, but nothing is, and it’s still a joy to play with.

And now it’s time for art night! Postcards? Friendship bracelet? Cloth-pad sewing? Time to find out!