🚗 Getting the state inspection for my wife’s car

The Twitter API changes are really biting this week. The posts of several smart people I followed using Feedbin are no longer available. Took me a couple of days to realize it. I don’t blame Twitter. These folks should have an rss feed by now.

🤔 Wondering why my emoji vocabulary count is about 5 but some people know like 100…

🎮 Playing Tales of Arise on my Steam Deck

Banzai Bill with corrected outer shell

Thanks to @KimberlyHirsh I found a new coffee bean I love: Counter Culture Big Trouble.

Love the wavy clouds in the sky

👍 Wrapping up the Banzai Bill 3D print

My first print of the Bullet Bill/Banzai Bill model. Turned out great with nice tolerances except I choose random seam for the outer shell which looks like a mess. I’ll redo it.
Model: https://www.printables.com/model/347114-bu

OK, I lied. Sort of. I just decided to go ahead and order the 3.9 upgrade kit. Supposed to ship in June so that is later this year, right?

Just watched Prusa’s promo video for the MK4 and I’m even more excited about it. Definitely going to upgrade at some point this year.

This announcement from Prusa is fantastic. My MK3S+ works great but at some point I’ll probably do the 3.5 of 3.9 upgrade option:

Original Prusa MK4 is here: Always perfect first layer, high-speed printing with Input shaper, 32-bit platform, Nextruder, MMU3. SHIPPING NOW! - Original Prusa 3D Printers blog.prusa3d.com/announcing-or

😥 Just found out our 4 year old fridge needs a repair so expensive it doesn’t make sense to do.

⛈️ Enjoying the sounds of rain as a mild thunderstorm rolls through

🎮 Tinkering with my new Steam Deck.

YouTube whine

I’ve generally liked YouTube but for the first time ever I sent them feedback. The app on my iPad has been taken over by shorts and movies in spite of me clicking the “no interest” button. They reappear every few minutes. I heard their business isn’t good so I guess they’re desperate. Takes a lot of scrolling to get past that crap to what I might want to watch so I’ll use it less.

I’m curious what whole bean coffee folks are fond of as an “every day” cup. Mainly beans available in the US but more broadly is fine too! Interested in trying something new. We lean a bit toward dark roast. ☕️

👏 Monday’s aren’t always bad. Like this morning I found out, to my surprise, I won’t need Mohs surgery.

A multi-color Easter egg with some candy for my wife. Based on 3DPrintBunny’s model and printed using Amolen dual color filament. My wife was pleased.👍🏼 thangs.com/designer/3dprintbun

Now that I’ve ordered a Steam Deck I’m going to have to build a game wishlist. I’ve been a console gamer for the most part so I have some work to do. Suggestions welcome (not into battle royale or multi-player games, tend to play solo).

⚠️ Finished some larger prints, now switching to a 4mm nozzle for detailed prints

After being a subscriber for years and downgrading my ProtoMail & VPN subscription over a year ago I’ve decided to cancel it entirely. I’ve wanted to do so for the past year but it took time to migrate all references to that email. The VPN often doesn’t work without fiddling an Apple’s Hide My Email does what I want. Now for a new VPN plan.

😴 Up too early. But going to try to get some 3D prints done to start the day.

Pulled the plug on Home Assistant. As some folks warned me, things that were working fine just suddenly stop working and finding out why is a whole project unto itself. Looks cool but in my case not worth my time.

I made a thing. It is a holder I mount in the garage to keep some tools handy.

My first time imagining something and creating it in CAD software. I used OnShape after seeing a video demo. I’ve tried using Fusion 360 to create things a few times and always gave up. I also found frustrations with OnShape due to my ignorance but I could overcome those.