🍷 Prepping to take my wife to dinner at a local wine bar 👍🏼

Today I took a chance printing a figure on my MK3S+ without any supports in spite of Prusaslicer’s warning. It failed about 2/3 done at a point where support was clearly needed. I haven’t played with supports much so seeing exactly where it failed was educational. And now I can manually paint on supports to minimize filament use.

😴 Dozing off on the sofa. Call me grandpa.

We’ve subscribed to Discovery+ for some time. It was low-priced and had some good non-scripted content we enjoyed. Now that it is being consumed by “Max” the price for ad-free viewing is jumping big time and the press release on content mentions none of the shows we like. Another good thing comes to an end.

🍳 Grilling season is in full swing!

It is in the mid 60F’s and our back patio is a glorious place to be

The Lyrics to this Zac Brown song really hit me with the feels this morning:

“See the love in my woman's eyes
Feel the touch of a precious child
And know a mother's love”

Happy to say I’ve experienced all these things. So blessed.

music.apple.com/us/album/chick

Somehow over Easter dinner the subject of the Skylander games came up. As soon as we finished eating the 13 and 19 y/o ran upstairs to find all the old characters and relive their childhood. We spent a fortune buying the characters in the day 😂

I keep expecting to see a remake pop up one day.🕹️

Our table is set for the Easter celebration. We’ll have a wide range of beliefs at the table which makes coming up with the prayer (my task) a bit of a challenge. But it is worth the effort.🙏

🚘 Waiting to pick up our son from a physics exhibition

🚗 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.