25-XI-2011.

Woke up in a flurry of abstract thinking. Trying to remember what was it - it fits in a box, sized perhaps as a box of cigarettes or larger, probably fits in a hand, is possibly metal and with a screw-on lid (but not necessarily, it may be software), is made to withstand 103 to 107 of something (watts, percent, degrees, pressure?) but may have recently been made to 130 or 300 - something with a 3. Met that in a few cases of something in the last few weeks. Writing it down here in case I remember later what it was.*

Woke me up with a question what to do - she lit up the fire in the boiler, as she's doing for the last couple of weeks, and the power's gone. The air pressure is up to 1030 millibar, so the draft through the chimney is weak, and there's a lot of smoke and it burns slowly. My conclusion is that any extra pressure built in the boiler would go through the system, with the pump being the weak spot - but then the pump was built for water at 60 C or even 80 - so maybe the natural circulation would suffice to prevent any disaster. OTOH... told her to just shut the lower door on the boiler and the fire would suffocate.

Of course, the power came back minutes after she did that.

The kittens, the remaining seven out of eight, have grown to become a constant circus on the terrace. They eat a lot, are getting fat

There was no serious rain since july. It's about -4C outside, and the first powdery snow is falling. Donald, one of the four kittens born in may that we kept, has encountered a hedgehog in the yard. The hedgehog is slowly moving, probably looking for a place where to estivate.

The web app is progressing nicely - just the damn passwords don't get saved properly when the user changes them, this time just a matter of when are they padded, before encryption or after, because in one case the padding spaces are encrypted, in the other they are not.

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* eight years later - no, still no clue.

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