Author: Peter Jones

There are other worlds than these.
      Jane Chambers
I’ve been thinking of future doings not so much the what, but the goal at the end of the Beam. If it want clear, I’m totes excited for them to finally make a Dark Tower movie. But the quote frames the discussion, bit the other easy around. I think when Jake said that in The Gunslinger, it was as formative as Fight Club. Every bad day ever rolled into one, well screw it, I’m going to x out and do something else. I can’t change things in my life. What I can change though is my life itself. There are few circumstances where x’ing out isn’t feasible.
It’s not that going sideways is a good idea; the Boy Jake said the quote right before dying. It’s that there ate always options.
I’m just figuring out what mine are.

Did some vba in excel (shudders…) this weekend for work. This morning I ironed out some lingering issues. I’m starting to wonder if it’s not I hate vba, so much as I hate vba coders. The code I always see looks like someone assaulted it with a watermelon. Human readable variables and descriptive comments are a requirement, not a plus. At last that’s the easy I think of it. It’s probably because anytime I revisit code six months later, I have to remember what the he’ll I was thinking.

Mod a tie. Incorporate the badge pouch into the tie. Still thinking how to implement this. It might be easier if I started of by making a tie. Oohhh… I have a cowboy sorry that started ripping out; it’d make a nice tie if done on the angle.

Have to rock the badge at work. Whateva. It’s chill, just not a fan of danglers around my neck in an industrial way.  But. If you gotta do it, do it hard. Ribbon cable yo.

It’s Friday. It’s payday. I’ve got beer to brew, stuff to do, shit to make.
I was already passing on buying random craft supplies, but I’ve been working now hours. I think I’ll double down on what I was going to get. I’ll add in a Thing and maybe shoe other stuff. I kind of want to get my big data brewing going this time. I’ll liberate the Thing I was going to use for the Wif’s fitness tracker, and set that to data logging. This sounds like a plan. Maybe I should look at how Sparkfun is doing their JSON server.
Also, been thinking about the window garden. Maybe I should use PVC for the framing. I’ll have to start pricing that.

Still feeling long. I did bottle beer on Monday. Smelled magical. I need to get the next batch fermenting though. Maybe I’ll build my logger first. That might be a good idea.
Grind on.

I’m dreaming of non-euclidean boxes against the backdrop of an island of the wrong proportions.
Not really. I am, in the absence of a ruler, using a tape measure to get base dimensions of beer bottles.

• 2.5×9.25(4)
• 2.5×9.25(4)
• 2.5×8(3.5)
• 2.5×8.25(3)

Okay. So these measurements are based on the bottles that are in grabbing distance, with Diameter x Height (Neck Length). Off to the drawing board. Or in this case, the Blender Board? I should just draw this thing, but I got the desire to model it in Blender. Education never stops. Maybe I should freehand it, and the place in Blender to verify stuff?

One got some thematic ideas going. I think I’ll stick to printing bottles, and maybe diecutting boxes this time. Maybe, as a stretch goal, I’ll kick everything up a notch. Next time though… shits gonna get real.
I know people know my skill set, ie anything short of talking to strangers, but I don’t think they know my skill set. I don’t think anyone ever has the ahah moment of realizing my skill set isn’t anything but everything. You could call it holistic.
Ooh… double entendre.
Open Bottle to Resumé.
Funny enough, I’m all today sounding conceited up there and here I’m pretty sure I put the accent in the wrong spot.

Wow. I totally jump around. I’m going to bottle soon, and am going to output the bottles. I think it’d be for if I printed gift boxes for people as well. I finally have some good tin for building a die with, note I need to design the die. I’m thinking of trying to go no glue, screen printed, tapered neck. Go big out go home.
I’m also thinking of putting in LEDs with a coin cell battery, but you know. Oohhh. I totally might do that. Have it finagled so that when the box opens, lights come on, inside. That would be dope as…
Band name idea: dope as
How much are coin cells?
Have a strip of paper separating the battery from the LED. Paper is attached to the flap. As the flap moves, the circuit is completed. Dope as…

So I’m researching and researching, and honestly, that display ain’t bad. It’s tiny by smartphone standards, but the power usage is also. Resolution ain’t bad. I might look to see if I can swing it. Still tempted to slap on a single-board computer.if I did this I’d have a lot more goodies I could get away with, just on a small screen.
I could build a flip with a real keyboard? I kinda miss my phone that had that. Real keyboards are totes better than swiping…