We had an earthquake a little while ago. Biggest and longest lasting quake I've felt. It was loud too! Most of the time its a low gentle shake around here that only lasts a couple seconds. This went on for about 15 and was enough to make my desk lamp fall off the edge.

I am beginning the restoration on this 1996 F-150. I just finished disassembly and now I'm starting on removing the rust. It is nice to see that the passenger side cab floor is perfect.

I welded a draw bar to my shop crane so I can slide it into the receiver hitch of my truck. It is awesome, and I wish I did it sooner! I was able to get this bed from the backyard which still has pretty deep snow.

The extended feed on #wisp is pretty cool

Testing out vinnegar, salt, hydrogen peroxide solution for dissolving copper to release gold foils. Seems to work fine. Im getting back into scrap metal, but this time im going to try micro scrapping as well. Trying to recover precious metals as a hobby before bringing in the shred for scrap.

I found some more NiCd cells! Charging and testing them now.

Just bought a bunch of NiCad batteries to use in my Meshtastic/Meshcore nodes instead of lithium ions... Well see how well they work, but I think it'll be safer especially since they are unattended in a forest, and maybe they will work better in the harsh winter temps (-30c frequently). I've had bad voltage sags on cold days from my lithium ion batteries that cause weird reboots and other stuff. Probably hard on the batteries charging in the cold too. I absolutely don't want to start a forest fire in the summer because of a hurt battery, from my dumb mesh nerd activities.

The Halo Wars 2 cutscenes are the best in the franchise. I love this shit:

Its that time of year that I need my truck again. Its been sitting for a couple months, just collecting snow. I should have cleared it off a few more times while it sat... I got lazy with it and now the roof is dented in a lil.

I had a chance tonight to go hang my birdhouse style node in the forest. So far it is excellent! The place I found is reachable from all the other nodes, so messaging reliability will be pretty good now I think! My next one I hope to make look a bit nicer and also have it be a functional birdhouse, with no exposed antennas or anything. The drywall screw jar was just the only thing I had around, but really it is too big. View quoted note →

What a rushed hack job this was... Built this little solar #meshtastic node to hang in a tree just now, while my son is napping. Now I need to figure oit how to get it up there. It's an RAK board, with 12w of solar panels I got used, cedar shims, zip ties, a battery I modified from a pair of heated socks, a drywall screw jar, and a CV boot from a 2008 Hyundai accent I had spare.

Stupid skylights... Spent my morning crawling around the attic looking for a leak, and then diverting the leak out the soffit so it stopped soaking the insulation. Found out it is leaking because of a big ice dam under the skylight which is loosing too much heat I guess. Gotta melt all that ice now.

Setting up a couple #reticulum #rnode s to play with...

I just realized that Mr. Vain has been in my head because this song plays on the radio so often! Double earworm... View quoted note →