My visitors went home today. I always have a tough time getting used to 
having a houseful of people. Then I do get used to them and miss the buzz 
of conversation when they leave. 

I am suddenly reacting to insect bites. In the past, I never got any 
swelling or itching. This year, my bites are big red and yellow welts 
and they're miserably itchy! Weird. 

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In the thinking-out-loud category, I was pondering how to (unofficially) 
package up my radio streaming app for Debian this evening, and the 
funniest thing occurred to me: that I could stick a teeny-tiny C program 
into the .deb package to serve as a launcher for the python script.

Voila:

#include <stdlib.h>

int main (void){
    system("python3 /path/to/program_name.py");
}

The little C program would be called program_name and would be installed 
in /usr/bin or somewhere else in the path along with program_name.py. 
The user types program_name and the C program launches the script.

There are a number of utilities that will "debianize" your python script 
for you, but I like to know how things work, even if the method of 
getting there is hacky.

Take care, my subterranean friends...