Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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And slowly we move onwards
So after the last post, it’s not exactly been a hive of progress making activity. And I have to admit, today I’m feeling pretty negative*, more and more I’m finding it hard to feel positive about where the US is going, and more and more I’m finding it hard to feel positive about my place…
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OrangePi One Home Assistant
This is my list of things I threw at the wall trying to make it work – and could obviously be rationalized into only the things you actually need to do to make it install. But since I’ve got it to “running” (with a lot of help), then I’m not going to go back and…
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Deliberate productivity and the curse of overwhelm
So, intermittently I’m overwhelmed by the magnitude and number of jobs ahead of us. We still need to: And that’s before we get to: “oh yeah, and make the bedroom, furnace, coat cupboard and office doors…and install them” and “oh yeah, and build the deck.” Oh, and of course, there’s maintenance. Stuff needs painting, stuff…
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Future perfect
There are so many points in my life where there’ve been these big deciding things. Forks in the road. Places where things could have gone so differently. Sometimes I’ve known about them, sometimes I haven’t… Random shit like, as a teen I’d go to London with one of my very few friends. We’d often go…
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Accidental Productivity, and Psion failures
Today I was unintentionally more productive than I intended to be. I’d not intended to be productive, well, maybe a little productive, but it got out of hand, like it usually does. Although I did spend nearly 2 hours just sat on the sofa reading (Annalee Newitz, The Terraformers – it’s excellent so far). It…
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Another upgrade, and another fix, and endless errands
Yesterday was a solid day of progress on things. In fact, in general, there’s been a lot of progress on things. We’ve been working on the temporary media stand. It’s coming along. The many chevrons are glued down (more or less, we won’t talk about that any more than that eh…), we need to order…
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Upgrade and Fix
So today was a bit of a mission. I’d iiiintended to be back by lunchtime from a quick errand – namely, getting my glasses, grabbing some more concentrated isopropyl alcohol and distilled water, and also getting a new seal for our bidet handle which, it turns out, leaks. It leaks because the silicone seal on…
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Horror Show: Resurrection
So, having replaced all the capacitors, today was the day for reassembly. In a hilarious misjudgement I thought I’d do it before lunch, and then do something else in the sunshine after lunch. Ha. Ha ha. Part of the problem was that the instructions, such as they are, are “reassembly is the reverse of these…
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Horror Show: Restoration (plus bonus new toys)
So I spent today (literally nearly all of today, although I was kinda slow to get going) working on the A4. Having cleaned up the mainboard when I stripped it out (here), and having ordered the bits to fix it which all arrived immediately before I went away, today I girded my loins and took…
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back to blighty and back home
So I headed over to the UK for my mum’s 80th birthday. It’s the least complicated trip over to the UK that are done for a while – although I managed to make the ending really rather complicated, but we’ll get to that in a second. The flight over was fine and apart from me…