Making some cutting boards, not sure why, maybe my table saw is cutting a bevel or something, but the parts didn't line up perfectly, so now I have to flatten a couple end grain cutting boards. Which is rather difficult to do. I hope I burned some good calories throwing my bench plane back and forth for awhile.

In the context of what's behind it; a wide-ish river being funneled through a concrete construction, it makes sense to be careful about the currents. But void of any context it looks completely different:
"⚠️ Interdimentional portal Ahead ⚠️"

I just tossed a fistful of pistachio shells into my mouth.

April 8th is Rex Manning day. And my knowing that probably lets you narrow my age down to within about a 5 year range.

Its been idling a bit rough too.

For the first time in two decades of my tumultuous relationship with the coldhearted mistress that is Microsoft Windows, I am glad that it turned itself on. It didn't update itself. It didn't even bluescreen for no reason and update itself in its confusion.

The torrent finished downloading about an hour before I got home, and by the time I noticed it finished, the elusive seeder was long gone. I feel oddly at ease. I feel oddly... responsible. For propagating knowledge to future seekers.

Is this dull enough for here?

Have this terrible photoshop bodge job as an offering of my goodwill.

Except it wasn't all the dull because some yahoo decided to save 5 bucks by returning to AutoZone a cheaper part from Amazon.

Took me 2 hours for a 10 minute job because the parts didn't fit, and that snowballed into using so many tools and spare parts to get it all good and solid.

And since I do work on my car, I needed this to be as solid as I could get it because I don't want that pointed hood latch, with 100 lbs of hood to fall 4 feet into the back of my head when I'm in the engine bay and someone or the wind knocks into the car.

I'm still slightly uneasy about it, but maybe that's just the anger. The only AutoZone with this part in stock is 30 miles away, which is where I got it when I had an errand on that side of town. And this part now clearly has some surface level battle scars since I've been working on it. So even if I made the drive, I would be at the mercy of the manager believing me over the guy they already got scammed by.

I had to take a minute today to find the thread because last night I was having an otherwise unremarkable dream about being in an airport. But at some point I told the person next to me that I had picked the wrong crayon on Lemmy (#4 from the linked thread) and I needed to ask the desk attendant for a blue one.

So one time I unlocked my mom's car with the remote from inside the house. I took a little while to leave though and the car has an automatic thing where it automatically locks again if left for a few minutes.

When I finally got to the car and pulled the door open, the relock triggered literally as I was halfway through opening the door. So it was kept half closed. Kinda like when you close it but don't put enough force into it? Hard to explain. Anyway I felt like I was being pranked.

58.6GB of map data just to make sure I've got all of Europe covered and then some. I will probably never drive to Portugal. But now I can.

Took the same route as always. Took about the same amount of time. Was a nice temperature out. But its almost always a nice temperature out.

It makes me happy, and I regret nothing. (yet)

I had some. It was gross.

Cheaper, no added sugar, and just as convenient.

I usually get the polyurethane dipped, but I decided on more expensive foam nitrile pairs, based on the blurb about enhancing positive grip. I prefer them to the poly.

One of our interior doors is warped, so you needed to apply pressure for the last 1/4 inch (6mm) for it to latch.

I figured I could rip out the little trim stopper pieces and reattach them in a better spot.

So I got a pneumatic brad nailer from Harbor Freight (I splurged on the $50 one) and got to work.

It worked! Now the door closes as it should.

I switched my config files to lua. I haven’t changed my config file for almost 10 years, except for minor tweaks.

they're not even half frosted anymore

So I chatted with ChatGPT about it, and wound up at the end of the conversation with ChatGPT wanting to design a video game controller especially suited for raccoons, so they could play some sort of Tetris-like game, to keep themselves entertained and maybe curb their curiosity-based destructive behavior.

I was lazy, so only did the side mirrors and both front door windows.

I usually just use gas station squeegees, so using the Windex and a cloth towel was a step up and got it really clean.

It's so nice looking out the side mirrors. I keep looking at them and marveling at how nice the world looks. Like when a person gets their first pair of glasses and sees the world in detail for the first time.

It's been a week and I'm still smiling about the clear view. Luckily it hasn't rained in that time.

I only get rain, no snow, so I keep telling myself the side mirror rain guards aren't useful at all for me.