My husband showed me how to solder yesterday ! (although I only did the soldering for the piece we used to test whether our pinout was correct, he did the two final solder points so that it's not as jank as my attempt)
I've been working on setting up proper terrarium lights with all the fancy bells and whistles - zigbee controlled, waterproof, and everything is covered so that my snake can't meddle with it. Got one side of the terrarium done already so I'll be working on the second one later today ^^

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.

I'm a terrible drummer, but I've been getting out of my comfort zone and working on learning to produce full tracks. It's been an adventure focusing on more of music than just hitting things with sticks.

I've been learning how to take care of the exterior of a car better.

I got to a stage now where I can clean it without messing up the clear, polish out defects when necessary and protect it with a bit of sealant.

God I wish I had a garage. It would be so much easier.

If you guys are interested, the Forensic Detailing Channel on youtube is a gem. Jon has loads of experience, no BS sponsors at all, and he's really chill.

Also I wish birds would stop shitting on my car!!! 😭

GDScript for the Godot game engine. I'm passable in Python and Lua for some basic things, but I've been obsessed with a game idea. I refuse to use AI for anything more than maybe prototyping, so I'm essentially learning what I need to as I go since I'm a one-man-band.

I want to switch from taking pictures on a smartphone to using a small DSLR, which has brought me into a rabbit hole of photography. So, now I'm seriously considering taking up photography as a hobby and learning all there is to know about taking pictures.

I've gotten back into exercising. I'm starting to see some results in strength and endurance. I'm also a lot more physically tired because my body isn't used to this kind of exercise.

FreeCAD. I have a 3D printer and it's nice to make my own models for things. I learned a bit of Blender, but have found that's a lot better for me just to edit existing STLs I find online. For making things from scratch FreeCAD gives me better tooling to make changes and iterate design, while also being a lot more easy to stay precise with measurements.

Off grid communication ,meshcore, reticulum

i recently finished my electronics engineering capstone project! it's a scratch-built midi keyboard heavily inspired by the moog model D. i got a 93% :)

I have been trying to pick back up watercolor. I did a daily series last year and posted them on bluesky for a couple months before a depressive episode sapped my will to paint. I'm not very good, but when I can adequately muzzle my perfectionism and just have fun with it, I really enjoy it. Maybe one day I might even be good at it.

I've been learning Irish for a few months now - incredibly difficult language but fascinating.

Also getting back into poetry and learning different techniques around writing. Not sure I always like some of the very rigid "rules" but it's interesting to learn. I've never been particularly technical with my writing but it has opened my mind to trying new styles.

I want to start making small electronics repairs and maybe some clock repairs. It’s not that I like clocks as such more a lesson in patience.

Been teaching myself Taekwondo lately through YouTube. I started lifting weights and wanted to include martial arts to keep things interesting. I did Taekwondo when I was a kid but quit after getting to yellow belt because it was too difficult for me at the time. Now, I like the challenge.

I bought a 1964 Shasta Astrodome that I’m gutting and converting into an off-grid capable tiny home. It’s not a full restoration but I am keeping as much of it a close to original as possible.

Accepting

So many things. Got my bloodworks done, severe Vitamin D defficiency and mid-low Vitamin B12 (normal, but Claude told me I should take supplements anyway).

Got a psych exam scheduled in 2 months from now, have to survive increasing hostility at work until then, my father's delusional bullshit, and not quit or off myself.

Trying this experiment with an overly elaborate system I designed. I'm trying to juggle these 4 mental loops, to try and artificially force myself to be aware and to function optimaly. So far, I'm always undersleept, I can't really juggle even one.

I don't understand how normies do it. I just want to do what I'm supposed to, and get out of everyone's way.

Stop cryjng

I recently bought an old vhs camcorder at a thrift store. Spent the past week getting some new tapes, un-jamming the old one it came with, getting new batteries and wiring up a portable dvr. Now I’ve got an old video camera that takes some nice crusty video and I can easily capture the tape effects too. Now I gotta figure out what I want to record with it. I’ve done photography for over a decade, but I’ve never really been a video person. I’m also interested in circuit-bending, but I’m reluctant to risk it after the effort I put into this camera.

Riding road bikes in a group at a faster than I'd move alone speed. It's a ton of fun even if my entire body is sore the next day.

Only like 3 long weekend rides in the last month and my body already feels significantly stronger than at the start of the season. Specifically I got dropped on the hills 3 weeks ago, now I can mostly keep up.

My wife and I recently went to Spain to stay with our friends and we just signed up for some Spanish classes at our local community college.

I made a slow game where you get 12 action points twice a day to go slay monsters and stuff. It's coming together nicely but I have no idea what to do with it.

Screenshot per request (it's really sort of clean clean, with lots of information. Only graphics is the map that your character can see) I'm not at home ATM.

I've been working on a small-Web inspired server that hosts cryptographically authenticated files. It renders markdown as HTML, and supports CSS. It requires no user registration. Just generate a keypair, and start uploading your Web site.

I barely got the basic system put together and I need to refactor the backend since it was originally built to work with minio. Still some key features I want to finish up like moderation tools and custom domains. Trying to decide if it's worth the effort.

Tree removal. I have a shitty blue spruce that needs to be removed and I'm too cheap to pay someone to do it. So I'm practicing climbing and using a chainsaw.

Arduino and 3d printing

Bluegrass dobro playing.

I've been adding lore and creating some maps for the website of a fanfic I'm working on.

I made a new D&D campaign in my world. Haven't had inspiration in a while but I am having a great time with it.

I am hoping to eventually publish some of it more as inspiration for other DMs than to make much money.

In the process of making the map and history for this campaign, I made an unrelated place on the map that is worthy of its own adventure. That kind of unintentional synergy is greatly satisfying, and if I do want to publish the damned thing, a nice bonus.

Also, my players are loving it and unknowingly made a perfect party for my shenanigans.

I'm starting to properly learn Bash scripting.

I know a little bit of it from simply scripts I've made in the past, but apparently some techniques I use are pretty inefficient or just wrong.

I think I'll be fun and useful to learn.

An erotic fiction audiobook. It's free on sound cloud

https://soundcloud.com/sarah-699785405/smart-mean-girls-free-for-a?in=sarah-699785405%2Fsets%2Fsmart-mean-girls

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