Oh, right: Thursday got busy.
The current toaster projects (three of them, related but different) had an outbreak of Interesting. There was a functional requirement on one of them that I hadn't noticed before (it being mostly in somebody else's department) that... well, at first glance it looked like a significant hardware change would be required. Then I realized that the timing would probably allow doing what's called for with just a minor tweak... maybe. So now I gotta come up with a new plan and do a test implementation to make sure the revised approach will in fact work.
And, backache or no, there were chores that wouldn't wait much longer; in particular, the chicken coop needed cleaning Real Soon Now, and given that yesterday afternoon had favorable weather conditions for dealing with straw, it seemed to be Time.
I dragged a fishing magnet back and forth across the top of the driveway and caught quite a few roofing nails. Guess I'd better keep doing that until no more nails appear.
Today, got to work on the toaster stuff. Maybe tomorrow I can play Tonka.
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