Slept like a dormouse last night. A good night's sleep feel refreshed. Workout this morning and a strong cup of Café Bustelo. BTW it's great in a drip coffee maker.
Mike came over yesterday and we brought the work table to the basement. The replacement screws were too big. Ugh more coming in on Thursday. A whole lot of packages coming at me from the laser company. I hope they make it undamaged.
Up late last night. Could not sleep. Did presentation power point for work. I think it's good . Who knows. They'll want to bore the executives to tears with a Command prompt demo, oh please help us. Just give them a little information, tell them a good story and let them cheer for the heroes of the program. Nope they'll do, now put this value in here and see how the log messages change, Wow wasn't that cool!!! Nope it's not. Those guys are sales pukes, tell them a story and give them something to sell.
Did a hour walk on the treadmill. Always feel like a mouse on a wheel. Running and getting no where. Welcome to my life.
Meetings all day today. Can I stay awake? This is going to be fun!
Looks like a whole bunch of people from Singapore are reading this blog. Can't say why? Maybe living vicariously through some schlub on the east coast is really what they want. Yeah, I didn't think so. One more thing, Taylor Swift is unlikely to show up on this blog at any time. Not knocking the Swifties, maybe just the guy on the other side of the world that's expecting a Taylor to make a guest appearance on this crummy blog!
Monday, Laser cutter ordered, check, chimney guy work on house, check, Home Depot delivered the work table, check. Lots of activity and it's before 8 this morning.
Could only do 30 min on elliptical this morning. Maybe 30 minutes on tread this evening.
The Home Depot crew delivered the table this morning, fully assembled. Not ideal, it's got to be disassembled to bring it to the basement.
Chimney guy need to cut a tree for safety. Trees grow back, lawsuits are forever. Yeah, cut the tree.
Sunday morning. I have to get that outlet in the coffee nook fixed. I keeps tripping and I need my coffee in the morning dammit!!
Decided on buying the laser cutter. I hope it is worth it. I can make all the plane parts I need. Going to have to find other project to do with it.
Saturday. Espresso machine is running a clean cycle. No one likes a dirty espresso machine. M going out with Hilda for brunch. I'm not having breakfast as I'm in a brain fog and just need coffee. Come 'on coffee machine!
Going to jam on Fusion this morning to get a drawing to set up as a template for cutting on the scroll saw.
So finally I got a manufacturing model going in Fusion and I was able to get a nice template to stick on the plywood.
Went to the basement to cut out the battery shelf. A part not to big or too small. First step the drill press. A couple of 1.75 inch holes. Looking good. Then 1/8 inch holes, 8 of them. Done. Cut it to size on the table saw. Again looking good. Next step was to make the tabs on the sides. I had to stand the piece up and nibble away at the piece like a dado blade. I was nervous at the placement of my fingers. Not close, but I had to be careful. Tried a short cut where I would slice the tab out but the piece got under cut. Not good. Then the scroll saw. Not the best there. Lines were not straight at all. Was really rough cut. I could have done better, maybe with more practice. In all it took about an hour and a half. Way too long. The final product was OK. Not really great. I could use it in a pinch but in reality a big nope.
So What now. Indeed what now. Not going to make parts like that. I will have issues making parts much smaller than that. The cutting on the table saw was worrying. The nibbling dado cuts were ok on this part. But a no go on smaller parts. I really am attached to my fingers, and I would like to keep them attached to me. The scroll saw may need some practice to get a better cut. That can be done. The accuracy is just not there.
Well it's Friday. It's been a long week even though it was four days. You can see that it’s not much happening.
Meg and M went to see Willy Wonka yesterday. They came over and had hot coco and sat by the fireplace.
Today the plumber is coming over. Get the drain fixed once and for all.
This weekend I'll print out a part and try to cut it out on the scroll saw. See what kind of mess that will be.
Plumber came in and took care of the issues! Hooray no issues! Talked to him about a circulator pump for the kitchen faucet so that we can have hot water in the kitchen faster.
Fought with Fusion 360. The free version cripples the output of the drawings a bit. I was tring to find a way to set up the drawings for laser cutting and for printing on stickers to cut on the scroll saw. Using the manufacturing model may be the right answer for this issue.
Thursday working from home. Plumber was supposed to come today but canceled. At least working from home is good. Next week chimney guy will be here so I'll be here too.
Humpday
Work is same, more stuff to do and less time to do it.
Lunch was good. Rice vermicelli is the thing that going to work for lunch. Hot tap water and little microwave. Chicken sandwich will work too.
Plumber wanted to come over today. But will come tomorrow. Going home drained….
Tuesday day after president's day. Working downtown. Called Brian the plumber to come over when he can to fix the drain and the faucets in the upstairs bathrooms. Bought a bunch of coffee for work at CVS Café Bustelo was on sale.
Coffee was good in the office, never as good as home coffee. Looks like that chimney will get done next week.
Spent most of the day working on the Kadet. Got the basement ready for the scroll saw. Place to unpack and place to put it.
Yesterday's work out was great on the treadmill, my legs are a bit rubbery this morning.
Pretty good sleep, I have a splitting headache today.
Finally decided against getting the Omtech Polar laser cutter and goi9ng with the Xtool P2. Better large material handling and easier maintenance and alignment. But bigger and more expensive.
Lots of work on the weekend. Cleaning up the workshop, putting away projects. Just getting everything organized. Found a bunch of stuff that I had in storage that I can use now.
Trying to get a hold of expenses organized all last year and this year's expenses and did a deep dive into our purchases for the year to date. Looking for areas to trim and looking to budget again.
Went to John's house to see his workshop and planes. Quite an impressive collection. Dropped off his pins and went over the plans for the new plane that I'm working on. He seems to like it, I'm going to go forward to do the demo for the club. Have to get some pictures for the power point.
Snow day Saturday! Snow but not as much as they promised. The back yard trees look amazing with the snow clinging on the branches. Enough that we are staying in today.
Put Fusion 360 on the phone and tablet. Ha! I can bring my designs and show them off anytime.
Friday!!!
Just a grind being downtown this week. Dealing mostly with a guy at work with trust issues. Just wearing on me.
Good news I've been getting a good night sleep. Work is progressing on the Kadet design. Learning so much using Fusion 360. Making a bunch of mistakes but feeling my way around.
Friday work day over. Snow in the forecast, maybe 6 inches. Went to the grocery store.
At Giant a Mom in front of me said to her little girl, " Let's Boogie! ". The toddler then said, " Ok mom. Let's Booger! "
Ok kid just Booger down
Still a rotten sleep. Snowing, sleeting outside. Have to get to work downtown cause big guys are in the office. Don't want them to be pissed off and have us there all the time.
Not a good sleep night again. Not sure what is keeping me up. It's going to be a hell of a Monday.
Made a modification to my Stanley Cup. Drilled an air hole in the lid to get a better sip. All sip no glug.
Got ideas for the Kadet to use tabs with the formers. Trying to design in for manufacturing.
Finally got tax docs together. Sent them off for processing. I hate this time of year for that.
Went to Wegman's for my lunches this week. Tuna and provolone subs.
Understood using the timeline in Fusion 360. it was really frustrating before understanding it not it make a lot of things easier.
Went to Wake and had coffee this morning with Mike and Gail. Coffee was good. Somehow coffee being good was not good enough. More description? Sorry I need my coffee before I get more descriptive!
Worked on the T-28 and the gyro interconnect board. It all worked!! T-28 all ready to go flying!
The Kadet project is going through revisions. Found ways of making the whole thing simpler Flatter sides, easier cuts.
Went on a 2 mile walk on the path. It was great to get out there with M. I had a good time in her company.
Up early again last night. Made egg sandwiches and mango slices for breakfast.
Worked on the Kadet drawing last night while I could not sleep. Learned how to print out parts and also sent the sideview to Staples for a large format print. Was only $9 ! What a bargain!
We walked on the path, was just warm enough not to wear a jacket. We did a little over 3 miles.
Put together my gyro / radio board. Needs a little rework work clearances. It's usable and fixable. I may have to resize the Kadet a bit. The wing pocket on the fuselage is 10.75 inches and the wing I have is about 11.75. Now have to remeasure the wing to be sure. I used a tape measure I should use a square.
Watched video on foam core wings. Looks pretty simple once you have the setup. The equipment looks pretty cheap.
Downtown yesterday. Had very little sleep. Very tired and stomach really hurt. That korean spicy chicken soup did nothing to help matters.
Was watching a video series on how to design a RC wood plane model using Fusion 360. It's very helpful and informative in both the CAD and RC building world.
How To Start Designing RC Airplanes in Fusion 360 Tutorial [Episode 1]
I'm learning lots of tip and tricks and really good how to's. He making an airliner model but I see how it can simplified for the much simpler models that I build and fly. For example he's making a wing with 3 spars. I only need 1. if I was making something more complex maybe 2 but most of the steps are the same.
Working from home today. Going to pick up my jacket at the repair shop at lunch time.
Humpday. Up real early, hope to go back to sleep. Going downtown today. Can't shut down mind. Just too many things to think about are keeping me up. Not even important stuff. Things that want my attention I wish they would leave me alone!
Cold on the train platform. My egg bites were pretty good. They'll work better in a sandwich.
Survived the work day without too much grief.
Saw a guy that used to work with downtown. He retired and is very happy. I hope I can get there!
Waled from work to the train station. I wish the weather can hold and it stays light enough to do that more often. There was a big wreck outside the train station today. Lots of cop cars. Always mayhem downtown.
Tuesday, Sunny, Good Sleep. Elliptical work out. Working from home due to a 4pm meeting today. Really don't want to deal with the late train coming out of Center City.
Found object. I have been find the weirdest things lately. Like an bicycle tire pump at the train station. Small toys and sunglasses on the path But this morning we found a Lego head in the bathroom. It probably traveled in the tread of the cleaning lady's sneaker and ended in the bathroom. Just glad I didn't step on it late at night.
Great today I was able to do two workouts! Jumped on the treadmill this evening. Maybe I can start doing that again.
Good morning workout. Did stepper for 45 min.
Egg rings were just garbage. Leaked egg out the bottom and burned them before the eqq was solid. I used them and I'm going to return them, that's how unhappy I am. Bought a pan with little egg wells in it, that should do it.
Made chicken for lunch. The foil half steamer tray pan works great in the toaster oven. Made 4 breasts of chicken for a few meals.
Worked with M to help her with her stories. I don't know I hope I gave her some good advice. Sounded goo at the time.
Board arrived from PCBWay. It looks good! I can't wait to build it up with parts.
Moved some computers from my desk, they were getting hot in the sunshine and the fans were blowing loudly. Put them on the server rack. I really have to tear down that server rack and redo all the wiring. What a rats nest. I have to figure what to do with all the IoT devices though. First need to take inventory. I'll put that in the list of getting a plumber, installing the garage door opener, installing the celling fan, and redoing M closet. The closet is job one!!!
Sunday morning. Egg rings didn't work as expected. Leaked all over, might have to get pan hotter and pour the eggs more slowly.
Taking baby steps in Fusion 360 this morning. Want to see if I can move, draw and select items at my will.
Made a bunch of sketches today on Fusion. Showed M, she seemed impressed. I still need a lot of work.
John came over. Measured up the clevis again and ordered up a M5X20 clevis pin. A package of them this time.
Made chicken breasts up for us to cook tomorrow.
Sun made a big comeback yesterday and today. Both days in the 40's for Kwh production. Yay!
Saturday, looking in the McMaster Carr package found the clevis pins are in a package of 1 not 25 and they are $4.50 a piece! Yikes.
Mike got his car bashed in at the train station last night right while he was there! The asshat drove off to boot.
Went to the leather shop to pick up my jacket with a new zipper and the guy is in the hospital with COVID. So he hasn't got to it.
John coming over today I asked him to bring the clevis pin again.
John was suppose to come by and did not. Hope everything is ok.
Download AutoDesk Fusion 360 for the Mac. Going to give it a whirl to see if I can learn how to use it.
Made popcorn and watched Mr & Mrs Smith on streaming last night. It was different, not sure but it left a lot of unanswered questions and seems like it is dragging us into watching it.
Downtown again.
Not much today. Late train home.
Went to store on way home and found biscuits in the bakery section. I'm rotten at making biscuits, M loves them, The pop from a tube biscuits are awful. I'll make biscuit and egg sandwich for breakfast tomorrow for M.
Hump Day. All downhill from here. I guess!!! Great sleep last night. Could have used a couple more hours.
I'm having real issues getting in a workout after work. Dark early, not felling myself when I get home, just want to be alone and relax and get the stress off me. This just crushes my desire to work out when I get home. Would be better when I can walk to and from work when it warms up.
Dreaded Scrum of Scrums ( SoS ) today. Man, I hate this meeting! Got through it, even it was ok. Tomorrow will be another 3 things that need doing and I can't get resources for.