Shaun

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Jan 20 2021

3D Printing

I got a new 3D printer for Christmas. It’s a standard Ender 3 and I’m loving it. Sure and Ender 3 Pro or Ender 3 V2 would be better, but so far I’ve had next to no issues with it.

I find it strangely therapeutic watching it print.

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Sep 14 2020

Cuyuna

Brother-in-law, youngest nephew, and I went to Cuyuna over labor day weekend.  It was awesome.  I managed to fall because I went into a turn to fast and in a panic, I locked up the front wheel.  Just some scrapes, bruises, damaged pride, a bent rear brake rotor, and rear pads full of the red dirt up there.  I’ve already replaced the pads & rotor because they were trashed due to the dirt.  I have yet to wash off my bike, but I will one of these days.  I think the skills part was my favorite part of the ride, even though I did mage to go down one of the landing ramps on the jump line on my front tire due to a bad bounce.  Oh well, can’t wait to do it again.  Maybe next year I’ll even remember my cheap action cam.  I am also happy to say that my derailleur adjustment held up so I am more confident doing it in the future.

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Sep 2 2020

Derailleur Adjustment

Well,

Last night I bit the bullet and adjust the derailleur on my bike so I could shift to all 11 gears without issues.  Took me a while to do, but I’m happy I did it.  One issue I ran into is that I pulled my wheel off to put some electrical tap on the chainstay since the factory protector was chewed up.  When I put the wheel back on I had to re-adjust it.  Kinda pissed me off to have to do it, but it wasn’t as bad as the first time.

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Jul 16 2020

Bluetooth

Well, the Roav Smart Charger F2 was a bust, as was the F3.  They worked fine for streaming music, but not for calls.  The next attempt is the Mpow Pro Trucker Bluetooth Headset.  Hopefully, it works well.  Won’t be able to stream music but at least I’ll be able to talk while driving.

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Jul 7 2020

More Car Stuff

I just got a Roav SmartCharge F2 for my car since a mounting kit for the Bluetooth stereo I have is a nice $200 (damn Driver Information Center built into the factory radio).  Although not perfect, it does work and at least in my car people can hear me fine talking over it so that is nice.  The main complaint I have is that the audio quality isn’t perfect, but it does fine for what I need so I’m happy with it.

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Mar 18 2020

Pandemic

So, when it comes to the Coronavirus Pandemic there are only two things that scare/worry me right now.  The are me getting it and passing it on to my youngest as he has immune system issues due to getting RSV at 5 weeks old and the other (and bigger concern to me) is how as a country we are responding to this.  I mean, we have 4 rolls of TP left at home and we cannot find any to buy, anywhere Sad smile

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Feb 25 2020

Car & Stuff

Well,

 

I bought a 2007 Pontiac G6 GT to replace the Impreza.  It isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t have leaking head gaskets so that is a plus.  The boys love the sunroof too.

 

I have embarked on a task to reduce the amount of space used on the home server.  To do this I am taking all movies & TV shows stored on it that are above a certain size (not sure the cutoff yet) and re-encoding them to H265 files using the video card on my desktop.  So far I’ve saved at least 1TB of space.  It will make backing up my server much easier on my crappy connection.

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Jan 2 2020

Well shit

Over my 4 day winter staycation the head gaskets in my car went out.  So I have a few options

  • Pay $2200 to have a shop replace them
  • Replace them myself (again, finding someone to mill the heads)
  • Put a used engine in it
  • Roll the loan balance into a new loan and get a new car

At this point I am leaning towards the used engine, and getting rid of it after tax time.  I really don’t want to end up paying way more for a car than I should for option 4 anymore.  Option 1 is just to damned expensive and option 2 has the chance of a mistake or picking a bad machine shop 🙁

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Dec 13 2019

Migraines

I officially believe migraines are the work of the devil now days.  I have been getting them more and more and I am flat sick of being knocked out for a day due to one Sad smile

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Nov 14 2019

Disney+

Wife and I subscribed to Disney+ yesterday. For the kiddos of course…..

So today I plan to start watching the Marvel movies in chronological order. I’ll use strikethrough when I’m done watching one.

  • Captain America: The First Avenger (takes place during WWII)
  • Captain Marvel (takes place in 1995)
  • Iron Man (takes place in 2010)
  • Iron Man 2 (takes place after Iron Man)
  • The Incredible Hulk (time unspecified, pre-Avengers)
  • Thor (time unspecified, pre-Avengers)
  • The Avengers (takes place in 2012)
  • Iron Man 3 (takes place six months after The Avengers)
  • Thor: Dark World (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
  • Captain America: Winter Soldier (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (sometime in 2014)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (after Guardians)
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (takes place in 2015)
  • Ant-Man (takes place in 2015)
  • Captain America: Civil War (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming (post-Civil War, pre-Infinity War)
  • Doctor Strange (takes place in 2016)
  • Black Panther (takes place in 2017)
  • Thor: Ragnarok (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
  • Avengers: Infinity War (takes place in 2017)
  • Ant-Man and The Wasp (ambiguous, but fits nicely between IW and Endgame)
  • Avengers: Endgame (starts in 2017, finishes in 2022)
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home (post-Endgame)

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