Inking

Poetically going to have to move the carriage, which adds another level of jitter to the project. I still think this is a better, and more long term reliable than making a true bottle press. I’ve been concerned about how many rollers I’ve had lying around and what happens when they’re all gone…
On happier musings, what data to capture and report:
Beer name
Beer style
Recipe source
Recipe (if not via kit) or kit source
Ingredients either way
Yeast
Yeast started
Primary boil temp
Primary boil length
Chilling duration
Chilling final temperature
O.G.
F.G.
Fermentation start date
Fermentation end date
Temperature data
Pressure data
Aging values for all of the above

And if someone looks at this which can be tracked via the barcode, add disks for them to input review data.
I’m getting way too nerd.

Now to self

For matrix bottle printer. 2d barcodes. Stepper motor control rotates bottle, dots hit or not. Have the dots, controlled by… solenoids? Maybe a roller based encoder? Yeah. I can do this. I’ll have to look at how many dots I’m really looking at per line.

Time

Taking a day off tomorrow. Gotta do the Compass Test, but what else? Soil moisture sensors for the tomatoes sounds like a good start, a little bit of yard maintenance, maybe a ghetto irrigation system (read as put nails through hose). I could definitely brew beer, I have a hefeweizen I’ve been wanting to get going. Or, the RePhone. Decisions…

Indoor gardening

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Got the Wif’s herb garden going. Went top Swanson’s, found a planter liner, found stiff to put in it. When we were checking out, saw a neat thing called a Plant Nanny. Clever idea, so we picked one up. Basically it’s a terracotta spike that a wine (or beer in our case) bottle sits in. The terracotta slowly releases the water into the planter. Genius. We pinged up a lot of other plants, and stuff, but wiring all them together will be a project for another day.

Tactical turtlenecks

For diverse and sundry reasons I’ll soon need some long sleeve shirt action. This is code for my employer is moving to polos, and I work in the coldest corner of Tartarus.
So. Turtlenecks.
Of course, I go looking online for thermal shirts, and they all looked like crap, and I hate changing my clothes at work, and summer.
Thinking black knit, mock neck length, super fine silver zipper. Left breast pocket, maybe a sleeve slit as well. Racing stripe sleeves with hollow fabric tube seam covers to reduce irritation and give Tim for wiring. You know. Tactical.

Thought exercise of the day

Mini-subs and solenoid kites.
The Wif and I were waking around Greenlake this weekend when we spotted what we assumed was a school of fish. I’m assuming Koi. Now assumptions are one thing, but it’d be a lot more fun knowing, and ideally knowing for sure. Ie, an autonomous underwater vehicle. Now, as with all my dreams of splendour, I want it: small, cheap, and low impact.

-to continue-

Motivations

Totally don’t have any today. But that’s, okay. My brain feels like it’s in a jello bowl. By the way, my phone didn’t know the word jello.
Did time off requests to give me time to do placement tests and stuff. That and also, after I burnt 100+ hours of vacation for this retarded level, I’m sure as he’ll going to use it before lose it time this year.
Couple more hours.

Doing

Applied to North Seattle College
Filled out Fasfa
Need to:
Placement tests, looks like this has to be a weekday
Probably I should talk to an advisor, totes not my thing, but it is a success thing
Maybe I could do both on the same day?
Register for class(es). Ideally take a starter this summer. A 5 credit credit loss at first sounds good,, but I might try to nudge that up too half-time.

Yotta Life

So the Wif and I were flipping through videos last night and she wanted to watch some Tosh.0. This was the CeWebrity profile of the Yotta (sp?) couple. It actually made me think. Maybe I just need to do it. Decide what the ideal me is. Decide the first step to the ideal me. Do it. Do it right now.