Nothing hugely important. I don’t usually have Tuesday off, so I’d like ti get to the habitat restore, and a local antique mall has a guy who sells antique chisels and hand planes who is only there on Tuesdays.

Otherwise, i need to fix permissions on my suddenly broken nas, rebuild my proxmox server I broke when transferring parts, install the last five panels of privacy fence in my backyard, run service cable through a buried conduit to my garage, finish stitching my chisel roll, pick up some gate hardware for the fence, move a pallet of vintage specialized bricks out of my neighbors yard to use on my porch, renew my car insurance, check on my current 3d prints, design some drawers to hold lens blanks at my offices, and sharpen all my planes, chisels, spokeshaves and striking knives.

Quality of life upgrades, nothing particularly pressing. Gotta finish my coffee and consider eating something first.

I woodwork, set up servers, build guns, garden,play guitar, design furniture, and teach others to do each of those things.

I try to do anything that regular people have figured out on their own. If someone can do something without training, I can probably figure it out in a few weeks.

I don’t watch things, and I don’t use social media outside of Lemmy on occasion. Because of that, I seem to have far more time than the average person.

Jack Johnson covered Badfish by sublime for a tribute album. I’m not really familiar with his music, but damn his version is better than the original to me.

And iron and wine’s cover of waiting on a Superman by the flaming lips. It’s a heartbreaking song in his whisper-singing.

For a different feel, Tool’s cover of No Quarter.

I feel like that describes half of Elton john’s music

Ceaseless ascension? Songs that keep building up to a major crescendo

That’s a lot more than me, and I’m 6.5 and not skinny.

I hope his birthday party cost a dime to enter.

Because marketers found it far more effective to make ads targeting women appeal to their anxieties.

Yes, but i save things far more often than i comment.

This seems ideal.

My comment has no substance because I just want to find this post easily later.

9? I feel like there’s one or two I’m not thinking of.

Edit: There were. So 11.

I’ve never actually tried to count before, I’ve always felt like i’d been with fewer partners than most others. I guess not.

I’ve never really gone looking for one time things though, so even though I started at 13, it took twenty years to get to 11 people.

Edit again: 13. Can’t remember shit anymore.

You’re putting textbooks together from loose pages by reading the numbers on the pages. Each time you finish one, you give it to the publisher, that photocopies it and sends it to the schools. Some pages from other books ended up in your boxes of pages. It’s easy to tell if they don’t belong there if they’re the wrong size, different font, different color, etc. Some pages have typos, but if they end up in your book, it doesn’t necessarily hurt anything. Unfortunately, some of the pages have bad information on them. They have the right number, they fit in the book, but what is written on the page is totally incorrect. If you accidently include one of these pages, the next generation of students are taught bad information. If this information was really important, like building code or growing crops, and the next generation of students start building and farming wrong, society falls apart.

Prions are the bad pages.

Oh shit, I just realized AI summaries are prions.

Side note for your analysis paralysis, I’ve used a few box sets and can give opinions. Milwaukee is too expensive and the connection system is irritating and overcomplicated. Klein and stanley are both a lot more flimsey than the major sets, but I still haven’t broken my stably box after several years of abuse. It just bends a lot. The FLEX toolboxes seem like the highest quality of the bunch, but I have no idea how much they cost. If I recall correctly, they’re also slightly smaller than the toughbuilt and Milwaukee, in a way that makes them seem more convient.

I looked at some clones by Keter, but the quality seemed like a major step down for not much of a discount.

I got a killer deal on toughbuilt boxes when Lowes first got the stacktech. They’re great. Heavy as hell, but I’m big so I don’t mind it. With how expensive they are, I’m not sure i would get them again if they were normal price, though. I also lucked out when the toughbuilt modular belts were being clearances out through menards a year or two ago. Got way more pouches than I’ll ever need for 3 or 4 bucks each. Again, at the regular price, I’d stick to my leather apron belt. 50 bucks for a tool pouch? Get fucked.

Menards just recently got stacktech stuff in, but it’s regular price at the moment. Anything that ends up there will eventually be on clearance though, so if you live near one, keep an eye out.

I use a modular toolbox setup. Each chest or box has everything I need for one task. One box for electrical work, one for plumbing, one for painting, welding, simple repairs, power tools, etc. I also have a modular tool belt, and the most used tools in pouches on the outside of the box. On top of that, I have a small drawer with my inside tools in the house, screwdriver set, multitool, tape measure, utility knife, markers and hammer.

It helps immensly

Some of the projects have to be isolated, since they’re so drastically different. I don’t totally understand it, but I can’t woodwork and homelab in the same evening. It’s like they use such incompatible parts of my brain they have to be separated by several hours, or I’ll just stare at the terminal or workbench and not know what to do.

I’ve been trying to be for 20 years. You’re the second person in that time to call me that, and you made my day for it.

Hand tool woodworking, refurbishing antique tools and furniture, building a home lab server, learning Ubuntu/Debian/arch, welding/soldering eyeglasses, 3d printing, milling rifles, lockpicking, cooking Indian, Japanese, and Cajun food, building custom furniture, fixing clocks, rebuilding engines, removing rust and japanning metal, playing piano, identifying specific architecture, being more supportive to friends, building a community action group, sharpening blades, trusting others to make decisions, sign language, and raising a daughter to be an assertive mastermind.

You’re lucky your momma died giving birth to you. If she saw you now, she would’ve died of shame.

There are some valid reasons I can entertain that 9-11 was either planned by the US, or at least allowed to happen without interference. I don’t have a strong belief either way, but I’m open to conversation.

I will not, however, engage with someone who brings up jet fuel melting beams. You sound like a dolt, and the exact mechanism of destruction doesn’t factor into the matter.