A little over 4 miles. Just walking around the neighborhood, but it felt good!

It took me 2 days; Day 1 shopping and removing the old one - it died the stupid computer won't run the machine parts death that most things do these days Day 2 was dumping the old one, picking up the new one and going to the hardware store for things like an outlet and box and drywall saw. Then it took me something like 6? hours to figure out putting the new one in and trying to do a good job despite not knowing what the hell I'm doing.

I don't get how installers do this stuff so quickly and every single day. My back hurts. There's a bag of parts I don't know what to do with. There's no kick plate and there's rubber shit hanging down from the door of the new dishwasher and I don't know what it's supposed to stick to?? The new dishwasher is like, 1/4" (quarter of an inch) skinnier than the old one, so now there's a gap on the side of the cabinet that I don't know how to solve.

I'm both proud that I got it in and it seems to actually work and stuff.... but because there's some jank in there I'm not sure whether it matters or if I should worry about it or embrace it or what.

I'm also worried that it's gonna break in a couple years anyway despite my best efforts or whatever and that I'll have to go through this all over again.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

It took me 2 days; Day 1 shopping and removing the old one - it died the stupid computer won't run the machine parts death that most things do these days Day 2 was dumping the old one, picking up the new one and going to the hardware store for things like an outlet and box and drywall saw. Then it took me something like 6? hours to figure out putting the new one in and trying to do a good job despite not knowing what the hell I'm doing.

I don't get how installers do this stuff so quickly and every single day. My back hurts. There's a bag of parts I don't know what to do with. There's no kick plate and there's rubber shit hanging down from the door of the new dishwasher and I don't know what it's supposed to stick to?? The new dishwasher is like, 1/4" (quarter of an inch) skinnier than the old one, so now there's a gap on the side of the cabinet that I don't know how to solve.

I'm both proud that I got it in and it seems to actually work and stuff.... but because there's some jank in there I'm not sure whether it matters or if I should worry about it or embrace it or what.

I'm also worried that it's gonna break in a couple years anyway despite my best efforts or whatever and that I'll have to go through this all over again.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

He went to a yard sale with his mom and this is what he picked out.

I am not sure what happened to my underwear but it seems like the count is dwindling. Also a couple got worn out and had rips and I tossed them. Finally, I decided to order some online. One package got here a couple days ago (I misplaced it at first and just found it) and another is getting here on Friday of this week. Colors are navy blue and slate gray for the most part.

We are forever infested with squirrels here. They cavort on our roof and patio cover (making such a racket), they chew on our wood siding making holes or at least gaps for rats, they chew the lead boots on our plumbing vents causing leaks. They cannibalize our lawn furniture cushions for their nests. Squirrels are bad!

Last year I employed a tube trap affixed to a fence leading up to my garage and cleared out about 20 tree rats in about 2 weeks. Life was good for a while but they are back and today I redeployed the trap and within 3 hours I had my first customer. I wonder how many I can get this time around. I have self-imposed 2-week limit on my efforts because I will never be done if I don't set a limit.

I know I will never win the squirrel war but I will win the short term battle.

However, I also ordered a new head unit and learned I'll have to take the knob off in order to get the new radio in, so I did some redundant work. Mildly frustrating to have to repeat the steps. The car front seats are also not comfortable while working on the center of the cabin. I've never been in another car with such rigid left and right sides of the seat parallel to my legs.

Some of the cupboard doors in our kitchen started to ever so slightly skew over the years. It's been bugging me for weeks, so today I finally took the time to realign them neatly. Took me about two minutes and now everything looks tidy again.

A couple of knobs in my house got loose ober the years. As in the screws are partially stripped and can't be properly tightened anymore.

This morning I took the knobs off, stuffed wooden match sticks into the screw holes, and put the knobs back on.

All fixed and now tight as a drum. Very satisfying!

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.