Something continues to eat the bean leaves

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I’ve been sleeping later and skipping my morning internet routine (which includes journaling) to make up for it. Mostly this is caused by going to bed later than I should, so it’s less cause for alarm and more failing willpower saves. Working on it.

Yesterday I rotated the mattress, changed the sheets, and helped P mix up some lye solution to clean the reusable coffee filter. Then I got to work on the White.

My DigiKey order came in, including a new toggle switch, pliers and side cutters that actually fit my hands, and red/black/white wire in 18AWG and 20AWG. I removed the 16AWG leads from the lamp receptacle and replaced them with 18, which works much better. Installed the toggle switch and soldered on the leads. Added new 18 gauge leads to the motor, and connected them to the screw terminals in the plug assembly. Temporarily installed the motor, plug assembly, and lamp assembly, and measured the lamp leads for length. Wrapped up the lamp leads in some expandable tubing so they stay together and look nice, and installed the ends into the plug assembly. Attempted final installation, but ran into a problem: with the lamp receptacle strap where it logically goes, it gets in the way and the screws don’t line up. Rotating the strap so it clears the screw holes, the screws holding the strap in place aren’t long enough to reach it. I suspect this particular strap was not original; when I originally took this assembly apart it was in the wrong side of the plate and thus not actually holding anything in place. I can either switch to just one screw holding the strap, and retain the other one with a nut just for looks, or take a dremel to the strap and carve off the bit that’s in the way.

Snack, then I did a turn through the garden and picked beans and gooseberries, and tied up a wayward squash plant. At some point I suspect I got tagged by a nettle; it was rill angry last night but has chilled out since.

Dinner, crossword, finished She-Ra (why is there not a 🥺😊 emoji), then paged through selections of heat-shrink tubing, which I forgot to include in the order last time. Depending on the state of the rheostat I may be making another order for quadrac parts, so they can go in then.

I finished Wicked As You Wish and started it over again, and while it was certainly enjoyable the first time it’s even better the second. More stuff makes sense, and the frenzied name-dropping works as setup instead of “here let me just paste my worldbuilding notebook for you to read directly”.

Snack, sleep. Dreamt of a Pittsburgh/Wville mashup with a tiny adorable fiber festival and catching a late bus ostensibly to the Strip but actually on a tour of the woods, a carnival ride set up for someone’s wedding the next day, a very small T learning to do somersaults at the beach but insisting on doing them too close to the water and getting upset when he ended up wet, nilla wafers, setting up alcohol-free events for young professionals.