Author: Peter Jones

So I’m realigning my goals. I have a tendency of getting grandiose in my goals. So I have a plan. I’m making smaller plans. Leave the plan at small. No embellishment. Once step is done, so the next step. Whatever the next plan is. Like I said, keep it small.
Right now it’s getting data logging done locally. Phant (from Sparkfun) isn’t paying nice. I think it’s a problem with ssh, but meh. I could do other things. I could go apache, but that’s a bit heavy handed I think. I’m looking at doing a minimal stand-alone install of node.js, which looks like it should work. At least that’s what I’m reading stackoverflow. I’ll give it a poke soon.
The hefeweizen turned out tasty, a little fruity, a little camel. Good enough.

I’m thinking it would be fun to build a weapon display case, not only for my bayonets, but also for the more mundane weapons of my hobby. Probably start with a sheet of plywood, and some stripping all around, embed LEDs, and a liner of velvet. Then it’s mounting time. I need elegance and strength. At first, I could use some probably stained dark, doweling. But I don’t think I want to rebuild the wheel over and over again.
I should look into which tools are going in and go from there.

I have a challenge. I need an action list that checks if something is somewhere, and if it is, it needs to be the letters RS. Sounds easy, except I can’t use if, and I can only have fails, not passes. So I get out all hammered out, and now it’s mostly working except when it chokes. Fuck. Now I just worked the second twelve in two days, and get to into work at 9am on a Saturday. It’s not terrible, but it’s kind of a buzzkill.
So I want to go in like gang busters.
Right now, I’m testing for something being somewhere by:
Change the page box to somewhere
Check if the page is empty
Change the page box back
Then, I select the content on that area and see if it’s RS

But I’m getting false negatives all around. He’ll I’m getting weird I’m just gonna freak out errors, which I wasn’t getting before. This tells me that the original is something RS was good, it’s the rest that’s an issue, or, it’s the number of steps. I’ve broken out the check if something is somewhere, but I had to leave before I could see how it ran. So tomorrow morning:
Did it work, if yes, add the other steps to it.
If no, reexamine the something somewhere code.
If that doesn’t work, try breaking out all the steps into individual tasks. The bitch is that each individual file works fine, it’s throwing 84 files at once into the fray, so each test takes about 7 minutes to find out what does or does not work. Doubling down, I’ll need to do a proper stress test which means adding in a lot more.files voting at once.
And, I wonder if there’s blanks in some of my files. That would totes give some false negatives. Not the freakouts, but at least false negatives.

A little bit of math while the Wif is out of town.
I think I’m drinking the bottles of beer a day
I’m still eating right about once a day
Bottles for me are about six for ten
So… I think I’m drinking as much as I’m eating
Funny stuff

I used to be, difficult, at times.I tattooed an anarchy sign in my right calf a decade ago. Today, I sent an email that complained we were intentionally leaving a project in an indeterminate state. I’m no longer Schroedinger with a cat.
I’m not sure if this is an improvement.

Get a cord that’ll do the powering. Ideally I’ll want a variable speed foot switch. This is totally negotiable though. I probably should add a kill switch though. Safety!
Mount the deconstructed portable drill to a length of 2×4. Make some protection for the cord with whatever clamp. I could go three 1x4s instead, and use a slight offset for the cable run.
On the outside of the assembly, add drawer slides. Add an assembly of 2x4s or 1x4s as the frame. I need to figure out what dimensions I need in a drillpress.
At the top of the assembly, add some eye-bolts or something to run cable (or rope) that will go from drill head to a counterweight to give an elevated neutral position.

I need wood, clamps, eye-bolts, cable or rope, power supply, kill switch, safety goggles, a good triangle with level, rando nuts and bolts sufficient to the task, furniture slides.

So how to start… I think I need to define goals.
1. Float (that might seem like a no brainer, but really if the boat don’t float…)
2. Add a sail. I’ll verify the sail is achieving force with a tub of water, a fan, and a force sensor. I thought for 15 seconds that a bathtub would work. Then I realized that was dumb.
3. Add a motorized controller for the sail. Maybe The rudder also.. yeah, I should look at how sailboats work.
4. Kill switch to drop the sail.
5. Live test. Swim trunks. Greenlake. Tether.

Now I think I should build a wind tunnel also. A very small wind tunnel. More of a wind box?

Right. The Wif is going out of town next Friday for something like two and a half weeks. I’m doing stuff.
1. Look into doing a data line from the main floor to the den.
2. Think about doing Comcast. Too much money, too much aggravation.
3. Shelfify the garage.
This will be an odd one, because I think my build quality may or may not allow me to do the other rooms. Obviously I do what I want in the den, but beyond that…
4. I think I might mod one of our craptastic portable drills. I really want to turn one into a drill press.
5. Clean out the den. We’re thinking of adding another cat to the mix so it’d be good to have more usable room.
6. Bottle beer and get the next batch going.
I’m sure there’s more, but that’s the top of the pile (maybe).

Been busy. I’ve got projects at home. Projects at work. What I don’t have though is progress. Our at least progress I wrote about on public blogs as I’m way anal retentive about taking about work outside of work. I did get my first workflow in JobFlow working sweet. Now the rest.
BTW, any time you have your boss sounding skeptical that things ate getting done on projects like that. Well. I guess that’s why he’s the boss…