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Alderbacher hefeweizen – 5.5%

I’ve been struggling with a conundrum for a while now. I see people, who when given a better way of doing a task, don’t want to. As individual incident I thought nothing of it, but as these things keep piling up, I’ve realized I should develop one of my insights theories so I could start gaming people.

• Messenger – am I just an asshole
• Is it not an actual improvement
• Fear of change
• Fear of unknown
• Outside of their comfort zone

Each of these seems legit, but again, only at the individual level, but this is epidemic.

What if it’s simpler. Maybe they have no value in changing.Now I’m trying to bring people guard into a direct improvement for them, and only them. It’s a tuff row to hoe.

I didn’t get any work done last night, too tired and too cold. I made pizza, but no workshop work.

Inventory (things I have right this second):

• Two pieces plywood, roughly width of workable
• Beaten out outer shell of computer case, long as the table is wide
• Four posts, 2×2, different lengths, cut at weird angles
• Multitude of LEDs
• Multiple ATX computer supplies
• Two wicked looking internal cases for all the internals of a couple scanners
• Two (or three) sheets of glass, roughly 12×18
• Metal frame for one of these sheets of glass
• Multiple computer LCDs that are played out, but potentially hackable
• Multiple longer pieces of scrap wood from pallets
• Multiple rubberized fuser and pressure rollers (aluminum underneath)
• Glass insulators

This isn’t an inclusive list, but it’s a solid start. Sometimes laying what I have gives me an idea of what I’ll build. It’s like the hoarder’s equivalent to the adage about the wood carver saying he couldn’t carve a grizzly bear with a given piece of wood as there was an wake in the piece of wood instead. I possibly butchered even the idea of that story.

I should get some work done tonight. Finish clearing the table. Break down those two wicked awesome cases, and see what I can do with them.

Needs:

• Lockable ball and socket joints
• Rings at joining areas
• Fabric overlay that pulls taut with movement
• Permanently sore back
• Rugged facial hair
• Neck on motorized swivel to eyeball fools
• Church key

Totally not creepy

I need to:

• Clear the top of my work table
• Add shelves above
• Add router below
• Add dust collection below

Those are starters at least

Just had a duh moment. I’ve been trying to think of how to make a socket wrench style adapter to screw into the end of a servo. This entire time I was looking at it like it would attach to a servo horn. This was an absurd concept seeing as this would mean I was building an adapter for an adapter.

Take a socket wrench (or better yet, one of those adapter to adapter things), cut off the end I want, drill a hole in the non business end, drill a hole for a locking pin. Thread locking pin hole. Add (striations?) to main hole.

Profit.

Really, I should be casting them, but that gets back into a get area of diminishing returns.

Update from Nod: I could meet the two ideas in the middle; I could fab in wood.

Started watching Laura Kampf’s Youtube Channel after seeing her collaboration with Simone Giertz. Her organization is getting me thinking about organizing my own work area. I look at people like Adam Savage, and while it looks awesome and I’m sure its inspiring to many, it doesn’t work for me. I’m not my youthful self where “Anarchy!” rules, but I still disagree with the idea that everything has a place, every tool has a purpose that was built into it, and that maintaining order makes us better.

I believe, in that personal kind of way which refutes reality, that I function best when everything has a place, and everything has a purpose. Its a minure distinction, sophistry, but its my difference.

So right now I’m cleaning the den.

Make pizza dough, replacing the water and yeast with beer immediately prior to bottling. The Hoppy savory  flavor of the beer, activated healthy yeast, winning. Problem, have to brew beer more often. I guess that’s not much of a problem as a call to arms.

I’ve started to add quotes into a list of (inspirational?) quotes. The things that click with me when I read a book. Once I compile a decent list I’ll add a random quote. I think a good quote is like a good cover song. It isn’t the best indicator of the band doing the cover, but its a great way to introduce a band to someone new.