What did you do this weekend?

Went to a car parts swap meet, third table in guy tried to pressure me to buy something because somehow if I didn't give the money to him for what I was looking at it would go to Biden...
Not sure the logic on that one.

Most of the stuff I was interested in was the same price I could buy it online, if not even more expensive. The one thing I did pick up was a new torque wrench (from a non-idiot or at least one that kept his political opinions to himself) to replace my cheap one, got it for 30% less than I could online, so that was nice.

Did see some other great (sarcasm) things while I was out in the countryside at this swap meet. Like an SS sticker in a bathroom stall and a bronze bull statue where the sculptor really wanted to capture what the Texas heat will do to a bull. Worth mentioning that the statue was right in the middle of the walkway going into a gas station, it was of a longhorn bull, the horns were right at eye level for an average male, and clearly not the best placement because something must have happened as they were later wrapped in cushioning to keep from gouging out the eyes of one of the fine and upstanding citizens of east Texas.

Also went to an Argentinian steakhouse with friends for dinner, probably the best steak I've ever had in a restaurant. Now need to compare it to other Argentinian steakhouses around here.

I helped take my grandma out to the town she grew up in, visiting some relatives on the way. She moved to the city when she was 14 to work as a live-in maid for a couple.

Her home town once flourished (a little) due to being near a train depot, but now it's home to ~80 and about the only thing there is a dog food cannery.

The relatives were a stop on the way. They hadn't been given more than 15 minutes of notice. "We weren't sure how far we were going to get" wasn't an excuse, but it wasn't my call, so I scrambled to switch from navigating to read faded addresses and #'s from a chaotic rolodex. They were incredibly sweet and hospitable, quickly gathering three generations of three families to a central location. Luckily they had some amenities for the handicapped which made it a perfect half-way point.

My grandma was confused on the way there, insisting we were going the wrong way and wouldn't make it. That made it really heart-warming when she was the one to point out her old home when we got close. I'd otherwise have to rely on the color of the roof to guess at it. The owner came out while I was taking pictures, but they were friendly, just curious.

From there we went to the graveyard where her family and her extended relatives all were buried. I learned I'm distant kin to the Huhmann's? Her family had planted a little bit of zoysia grass at a gravestone and it eventually spread until all the cemetery was covered with it, somehow still maintained by the local church. I guess that's become a bit of local folklore, since a few people knew that.

It was a long day of driving and I'll have some neck/shoulder pain today, but everything went a lot better than I could've hoped for. This may be the last time my grandma's able to make this sort of trip so I'm glad we could manage it.

Among many other things, I drove a car for the first time in a long time! I'm not super anxious to do it again, but it's motivation enough to get my license renewed when it expires soon, so that's another item on the to-do list.

I've also been playing around with some ideas for bucketization/quantization of values in Rust - the problem itself is not super difficult, but designing a nice API is pretty hard. So far, I've got two basic prototypes going: an almost object-oriented one with a Bucketizer struct, and a purely closure-based system where you pass a list of ranges and outputs into a higher-order function and it returns a customized closure that does the bucketization. I almost prefer the former just because it's more straightforward, but I'm going to try writing a few examples with each.