My wife always rolls her eyes when she sees me venting a container of chicken stock so I can pour faster... 🤔🤔🤔

Time for a lot of mirepoix

This week on Counting Stuff, to close out the year a hobby post on how gemstones are cut if you ever want to do it, with lots of hands on photos! #hobby #gemstones #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/making-shiny...

Trying out a friend's game nau

This week on Counting Stuff, to close out the year a hobby post on how gemstones are cut if you ever want to do it, with lots of hands on photos! #hobby #gemstones #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/making-shiny...

Finally safe home after vacation trip

>.> Saw some clickbait fluff article titled something like "just got a 3d printer? Here's how to avoid hobby burnout" and my addled brain is like "hobby burnout? Is that when you get one hobby and layer on another 3 to feed the fire?

Guess who's on a cruise but so addicted to the internet that he paid 67 bucks for internet's for the trop

Lol this cat does numbers

I must be on some list somewhere if I'm getting random people blocking me

Merry Christmas

Omfg pixiv app stop automatically clicking into certain ads in a shitty and probably TOS breaking manner wtf

I'm secretly amused that out of all the gifts the 6yo got this year, they're the most hyped about the blank sketchbook. Even more than the vol2 unico book they wanted.

Between AC7, AC6 and Assetto Coursa, I think we can establish that I am a sucker for games with AC abbreviations ..

Ok can someone make ace combat 8 release faster? Also armored core 6 sequel when fromsoftware. wHeN?!

Weird how in my 30s I had like less than 10 white hairs and then I get to 40 and my body is like "whoa there. We got a quota we need to catch up on"

amusingly, I RARELY use my 0.3L mini ultrasonic cleaner. I thought I would use it for jewelry but i ain't fucking risking putting the wife's engagement ring in there lest it crack some hidden flaw in the stone, my eyeglasses are a mess regardless, and nothing else really FITS in it

and thus, I ordered a 10L (honestly ~5L usable capacity) ultrasonic cleaner for $100 because some shit just needs proper cleaning

OMFG, so my humidifier gets disgusting inside, as they do, and on a whim I took the removable plastic pieces and stuck them into my tiny tiny 0.3L ultrasonic cleaner with a bit of bar soap best I could... and the gunk just flew off in seconds!! I wish I could put the whole damn machine in

う～ん、コミケ行けないし、国際通販はチョーめんどいし、同人誌ならたまにデジタル版があるけど、同人音楽のデジタルって殆どみないよなぁ、若い時代は頑張って、買って、一回あけて、FLACにしてたんだけど、今はそれやってない

lol, my end of year "fuck it, i'm gonna just write about a hobby this week because it's the last post of the year" post comes in at 3,053 words, BEFORE the end-of-post footer material. Also 8 photos. I'm guaranteed to be beyond the ~180kb bar for gmail shenanigans. NO REGRETS

My feed is seriously lacking in C107 品書き

Bet no one's ever had to force fill a hot water heating system with a pump in a 5gal bucket through a plastic 1/4 tube before thanks to a broken fill valve that I can't get parts for yet. But it fuckin worked!

FINALLY, got an adapter to make an old aquarium water pump to connect to the 1/4 tubing i need. AND a different adapter for a much beefier floor pump if I need THAT. only took like a dozen attempts and all sorts of fucking shenanigans

you know you're up shit creek when, in order to get a really weirdo set of adapters, I'm asking an AI tool to generate an OpenSCAD file to slap together the unholy combination of "1/2 BSP thread to 1/4" hose barb"

ok, one thing I've found AI tools useful is helping me figure navigate weird niches like fuckin' pipe threads. I had a broken aquarium pump that had a weird thread I couldn't figure out (wtf is "13mm metric threads" in piping?) but apparently it's something else completely, a 1/4 BSPP aka G1/4"?

le sigh

This week on Counting Stuff, a reminder that software interactions are rooted in social conventions, and those actually change over time. Which screws with UX research shelf life #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/software-int...

oh man, I think in 6 years writing, this is the FIRST time I have TWO posts ready and scheduled to publish because one goes out tomorrow and the other goes out next week =O

and I guess today is the day i tell a plumber to fuckoff i'll do it myself

Grabbed a 2x2 gridfinity er16 collet box online to print but didn't realize it didn't come with a cover so have to manually CAD up a shitty cover now =×

SO! My latest wild project! Someone put together 3d printed plans and parts list to use a ER16 collet spindle w/ speed control, fwd/rev, also a 3-pin din for micromotor handle. I always wanted something like this so bought the files and slapped one together over the week

ok, over time I've come to really like this automatic wire stripping tool because it can *consistently* cut insulation and strip it out at the same length thanks to the mechanical stop... made putting together the spindle project I was assembling today so much faster striping 16awg wire

... ooooh so I'm supposed to screw on the tip to the tool AFTER I slide on the rest of the soldering retaining nuts and sleeves and stuff *dumbass aura*

booooo my soldering station iron isn't compatible with the brass insert tool bit I have so have to do it the hard way

Whelp at this point I will have a big assortment of m3-5 sized nuts, bolts, and brass threaded inserts because various projects needed one or two and you just can't reasonably buy one or two and have it shipped

=__= was going to put a project thing together and somehow I... forgot to stock M5 nuts and am blocked by those.. wtf

Funny how after the layoff in October I could essentially sleep as long as I want (assuming I send the kid to school and come back to nap if I want to) and on average I just get about 1 more hour of sleep....

I always find it funny how when the cat jumps up onto something, it somehow calculates the force enough so that it loooks like it's floating up the last few inches onto the destination

So on this week's impulse silliness, I gave someone $25 for some 3d printer files and BOM, for essentially a 3d printed box that holds a PSU + a ER16 collet spindle, plus designs for various small lapidary adaptations (I need a small wet rock saw) and it's going to be ridiculous and sketchy and lol

So my slowly dying CPU experiences more crashes as the temps drop (seems to be a voltage thing, overvolting slightly helped stability) and since I didn't want to keep adding more voltage, I had an epiphany last night.... run Folding@Home it seems to be working?

=__= whelp, both headlight low beams went out at the same time, pulled one bulb and it looked ok, so started checking the relay and the fuses... nothing looked off turns out both bulbs just died =___=

Someone asked me what kind of book works I write and I couldn't think of anything serious but part of me wonders if "how to fucking collect actual data" might actually be reasonable in this day and she

it was inevitable.... got annoyed at having to apply the grease to various things by hand, and Ih ad a bunch of those large plastic syringes, and suddenly i'm packing one using a butter knife 🤣 but now i have a cheap applicator

was looking into faceting competitions and apparently the 2025 grand master one is a giant pain in the ass to cut 🤣

microwave was acting up and apparently I had to grease the door latch interlock mechanism, so of course I'm now walking around the house w/ a tub of grease looking for any moving part that squeaks

Done! #gemstones there was a fair amount of fudging to get everything to come together at the end. But in the end a chunk of synthetic ruby rough turned into a 4.4ct oval mixed cut stone! First time trying an oval design and learned quite a bit.

OK And this is what happens when I can put a proper frickin' camera w/ macro lens and post processing on a gemstone =P phone cameras are crap for proper photography

OK And this is what happens when I can put a proper frickin' camera w/ macro lens and post processing on a gemstone =P phone cameras are crap for proper photography

Done! #gemstones there was a fair amount of fudging to get everything to come together at the end. But in the end a chunk of synthetic ruby rough turned into a 4.4ct oval mixed cut stone! First time trying an oval design and learned quite a bit.