at the Wayzata basketball game tonight. I volunteered that I had a flashlight on my keychain. they made me throw it away. good fucking policy, next time I’m hiding my deadly weapons.
update- seriously, doesn’t every single person in this arena have a cell phone with a flashlight already?
to come back here.
had a craving for a chimi tonight, Michele found this place. damn tasty, I feel terrible for ordering such a lazy american dish. need to come back for some adventuring!
accepted a job offer and been making basement progress. next up finish the office floor.
snand is exploring meshtastic. end goal here is to integrate it into the Chamboard, no idea how yet but I’ll either get there, or figure out why it’s a terrible idea. either way, super fun tech to play with and cheap; I’m less than 20 bucks into the hobby right now and I have successfully connected to about 30 nodes so far. I highly encourage anyone to pick up something like a Heltec v3 and join me in the fun. no need for a case, you can print one (or I can print one for you), but a battery wouldn’t be a bad idea, I had one of these leftover from another project, worked perfectly and gives me about a day of runtime. so, first run out of the gate for off-grid communication has been a wild success. I might even build some devices for Many Point this year so our whole family can stay in touch even if cell signal sucks.
snand is also working on our backup platform. I previously build a lego housed Raspberry Pi backup server but it fell off the shelf and did what legos do. clearly I needed a better case, but then once I had it put back together, I found that for some reason I put ubuntu on it, which let’s face it, is completly unacceptable. really needs to be debian or raspbian, so I might as well formalize it as a project. let this be the formal introduction to snand’s newest project, theirhouse – named for TheOffice (since all my home infrastructure is Dunder Mifflin themed), warehouse was just too obvious and generic and theirhouse captures the spirit of the project. watch snand and/or the repo for project status, just starting it right now.
additional things going on:
all in all, things are going pretty well in the snand house right now; not perfect, but considering the world situation right now, we are pretty ok.
update- *job search has just taken off. I feel great.
get the LED channel all up and wired. still needs some detail work but it’s good enough to move on to trim and the cabinet.
oof, end is just around the corner. can’t see it but the utility room has had a lot of progress made as well.
my LED project in the basement is turning out great!
excuse the mess, we’re still under construction. big step out of the way though.
this is about 12 meters of dual color COB LED strips (warm white & cool white). they are running a 24v system with a Tuya controller from BTF-Lighting. there’s a 300w 24v DC power supply feeding it from both ends. there’s 18 gauge wire running the length of the channel to feed power from the other side invisibly (it keeps uniform brightness across the strip).
I still have the other side of the room to do. I think I’m gong to mid-power the next strip from one of the inside corners I have. so, hopefully I shouldn’t need to run wire through the channels again.
beats crown moulding, easier and looks awesome!
if you know me, you know I’ve been talking about stories a lot lately. well, I should probably finally post this one. some good family history, in case any of my family would like to see this.
E’s Battle for the Ball, nearly had it. they played so great! So much fun seeing this team come together. it must be why they are 10 and 0 in their league :).
E, I know you are disappointed but I’m so proud of you. you played amazing, you were such a good team player and you guys are more fun to watch than any NBA game 🙂
this is for my family who I will be seeing today. if anyone would like an account to see the private family posts, please feel free to login (I don’t put photos of the kids online in public, but I have some good private vacation posts and such).
also, I have a photo site which is entirely privately hosted (lives in my basement) so if anyone would like to view or share photos, let me know and I will create you an account: https://immich.snand.org.
see you all in a few. sad day for sure, but will be nice to catch up and share stories.
lit a fuse today (metaphorically), no idea what’s going to happen. something needs to blow up though.
all that aside, I made a decision this weekend. I’m both feet in on my kids scout troop, it’s been so amazing for my boys, thanks to this fantastic troop we stumbled across years ago. I had a rough scouting career as a kid, something not uncommon with the troop I came from. this one though, it’s everything that my troop wasn’t, plus a whole lot more.
I honestly cannot thank our troop leaders enough. and so, to start to try, I have recently signed on as an ASM. I’ve been involved and helping here and there, but this is now official. I’m once again officially part of the scouts, an Assistant Scoutmaster. I’ve got a ton to learn but I can’t wait to do it. there’s 61 (soon 67 and growing) kids I get to help become the awesome people they are.
I hope this site evolves in that direction. much better content than my political hopelessness.
before I go, I want to reflect on a moment of joy I had tonight. after the scout meeting, my dorky son has his laces untied, so I was of course stepping on them. he tried to run away but I was able to sick one of his friends on him to chase him through the church lot, trying his best to trip the kid. I was laughing one of those laughs that is so genuine and full that it made the muscles in my head hurt.
I needed it. No matter what happens when that thing blows, today ended just how a dad’s night should end. I’m feeling great.
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