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^^^ Art is not required to make sense.

I started watching Reacher over the weekend after reading a couple of favorable (but not great) reviews online. Two episodes in and I’d rate it exactly the kind of mindless entertainment that I look for a lot of the time. It’s a far better take on the character than the abysmal Tom Cruise based films, so in that regard it’s light years better. I also enjoy that they’re adapting one novel per season, which seems like the right balance of action/pace considering how complex the stories are (not overly so, but not great condensed into a 2hr time slot).

Happy Birthday, Jeff. May all your truck orders come early, and may your lumber supplies organize themselves this year.

After 3" of basically sleet the other day the only good thing to come out of it was absolutely epic winter MTB conditions (driveway is a sheet of ice). Went out for 2hrs with the local crew and simply couldn't stop smiling.

Using some of last week's brisket, I'm attempting Texas-style brisket chili for the first time in the new dutch oven. I added some sausage as well because multiple animals make for better chili, in my opinion. Meat/Onion/Garlic Phase Tomatoes and seasoning added. Now just a matter of letting it simmer for 6 or 7 hours and some cast-iron-skillet cornbread will be made later.

Do you feel better now?

You could always send lumber to Naaman and have him ping pong the legs.

Put a brisket on at 8am, just pulled the last piece off at 5:30. I cut it into three sections based on thickness to see if I could time things better than just running the whole thing until the thickest part was done. Homemade mac and cheese is in the oven, slaw is curing in the fridge, dinner should be alright.

Yeah, I'm with you Steve in that getting my brain to default to just making something instead of buying it (for weird stuff like this anyway) is a stretch and a change I continue to work on. Still, with printers getting seriously cheap (see Creality for example) doing just a few projects like this would almost offset the cost of the machine, not to mention other inevitable uses.

I don't think I posted about this anywhere else but have been meaning to. I got back to some non-wood, non-electronics making again during the great COVID family crisis of 2022 and addressed one of my lingering frustrations with my pellet smoker, namely the storage of temperature probes when not in use. I had gotten frustrated enough that I was about to pull the trigger on some not-horribly priced Fireboard branded probe storage thingies when I figured that some glorious nerd had probably put something up on Thingiverse and that I should check there first. Turns out I was right. I tried a couple examples and found pay dirt on my second go.

With a body that old my interest would be driven entirely by the quality of the glass. As others have mentioned, those will be the pieces that carry on with you and perhaps steer you to a replacement body some day. If you post up what they actually are some with more knowledge than me can probably better gauge if this is a good deal or not. Otherwise I've got nothing that hasn't already been said. For casual shooting it's probably great but the real question is, are you going to lug it around and actually use it. That's what keeps me from reinvesting in either a mirrorless or DSLR setup. My current, similarly outdated setup has been in the closet for two years. For casual imagery my phone is infinitely more available and used carefully, can produce solid results. It lacks range, and that's a gap that glass can close and for sports/moving-subjects there's no question a proper camera will be easier to use and get better results.

I do when it doesn't show up. Winter is not so long here, even back in the day before it barely existed. By the end of the week it's supposed to be back in the 40s and raining, that I don't miss.

Yup, it’s proper winter out. We seem to be getting the lower of projected snow fall totals which is ok but it’s 12F with wind and not a good time to be outside.

The snowmageddon has commenced here in southern NH. It started around 7am and has picked up significantly in the last hour. Winds are steady and not insane, here's to hoping they stay that way and the power stays on. Brisket production has already been delayed one day to allow weather to clear and avoid an interrupted cook. Bear in mind that the yard was 100% bare of snow yesterday.

Damn @Voltron, I'm hungry. Fax is on...

The restocking fee is complete BS, Greg. Here's to hoping PP sees the light of day.

If your transformer is heating up that quickly you've got a short somewhere, or something wired seriously wrong. I'd recommend posting up some pictures of the entire build if you can folks can look for at least the obvious faults. I don't know the project well enough to start talking specifics but i don't think and under-rated trafo would behave that badly, that quickly, unless it was way undersized.

Not sure what you think the point of changing the thread title was, but congrats on earning a 1-day timeout.

It's been somewhat bananas here, with temps either being way above normal with precipitation (earlier in the week 45 and rainy) and now a run of single-digit frigid cold with wind chills deep into the negatives digits. There's virtually no snow left at this point and the skiing is shit from all the rain so it's pretty hard to enjoy winter when it's like that.

I think you misunderstand slander. I think you misunderstand this forum. I think you should hit pause, relax, and try posting less.

Try this bit of magic.

Happy birthday, Mike!

Happy Birthday!

RIP, Mr. McGee. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60019483

We're forecast to only get rain tonight/tomorrow which is a huge bummer and quiet the departure from the bitter cold of the last several days.