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2021-01-11 06:16 am
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Itchy

Yesterday I unpacked the remaining packages from last week, including a bench block for center punching brass, a screw thread gauge, scribe, and another pin vise. The screw I’m trying to match is bang on 32 threads per inch but is 0.134 inches in diameter, which is short of the 0.138 inches of a standard 8-32 screw. I’ll check metric sizes next and then pick the closest one.

After lunch we did the crossword, then I gave my women in STEM talk (which was lovely— I shared billing with a high school senior who has a patent on an aquatic robot for water quality monitoring, very cool), met with J about her vaccine project, then spent the rest of the afternoon recovering and watching SG-1. P and I split laundry duties, and played scrabble after dinner (590s), then more SG-1, snack, and sleep.

Snuff continues most excellent, definitely recommended.

infryq: Kitchen scene at dawn, post-processed to appear as if painted (Default)
2020-12-29 07:39 am

A lot I guess?

Yesterday we ran out of oatmeal, so I made grits for breakfast. I did a bunch of research on screw thread pitch gauges and ordered a set, as well as some other tools I’ve been missing (a steel bench block, a scribe, a more-different pin vise). I went to clear out the oven mitt drawer to make room for the new ones, and discovered some old mouse droppings 😕 and put off dealing with that for the rest of the day. P discovered the iPad is still under warranty, and arranged to ship it back to fix the dead row of pixels. I shipped the gifts to my folks. The new oats arrived. A lovely card from C&R arrived. I’ve started thinking about an abbreviated New Years zine. P did the errands; Dylamato’s is shut until the new year so he went to the coop and got carrots, peppers, mushrooms, vegan butter, gf flour, half and half, a soft-ripened cheese, mozzarella, fresh pasta, pizza sauce, green onions, poblanos, string cheese, bok choy, a nice baguette, and some other sundries. It is always rough when he has to go to a larger store for things; there’s always folks who don’t believe in social distancing. We submitted the vegetable order for Thursday. I cut out two more dish towels and started hemming over SG-1. Dinner, no scrabble, SG-1, snack, sleep. Dreamt of a community effort to develop ocean-friendly soap recipes.