The Onion continues to bring me joy.
Steam Bending
This evening Yuri Kobayashi presented at the monthly Guild of Oregon Woodworkers meeting as part of a series of educational opportunities on steam bending that she’s put together for the Guild.
Her presentation was a piece of art itself, with poetry woven throughout. She wrapped up the evening with three simple demonstrations that made steam bending look so fun and easy.
Yet another item for the list of things I haven’t tried, but would like to, it seems.
Some sights around the neighborhood on a recent walk. This is my favorite time of year in Oregon.
My son and a friend of his took a short roadtrip (his first as an adult) to go see redwoods in Crescent City this weekend. Of the photos he shared, this is my favorite. Ha!
Currently reading: Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) by James S.A. Corey 📚
Looking forward to reading books that are not part of a series when I get through these next 3 books.
Finished reading: Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Corey 📚
The only thing I’ve written this week that wasn’t work related was a pretty bad haiku composed at 4 a.m. that ended with ‘crime in fact does pay’.
This world we live in is currently still beautiful, however.
Well, this is new. The past two days I’ve had slugs INSIDE my (quite new) mailbox. I carefully removed both and put them in the grass, but HOW are they getting in there? The PNW has some drawbacks after all.
Currently reading: Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Corey 📚
I am SLOWLY make my way through this series. I keep pausing to read other books though.
This is not my cat.
Want to read: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi 📚
Today I seem to have the opportunity to learn the term Vorführeffekt.
Picking this up for Sam over the summer has turned out to be quite fun for me.
I’m getting together with the neighborhood ladies this evening to complete our ballots. Vote!
Look at this adorable perfection!
Mad at the Jointer
Every six weeks or so, I volunteer to assist with a Core Tools class that the Guild of Oregon Woodworkers puts on. Core Tools is the final class most members need to complete in order to be certified to utilize the Guild’s machine room. We cover the miter saw, jointer, planer, band saw, drill press and table saw. It’s really rewarding to see (mostly) new woodworkers tackle their nerves and see what they are capable of. 🪚 🪵
In the most recent class session after one student successfully surfaced two sides of his board on the jointer, I asked how it felt. He said, “I’m pissed off!” I’ve never had that response before! It turns out he’s been planing boards by hand for 3 years and he had never had a board so precisely surfaced. He was still laughing about his ‘wasted time’ at the end of the afternoon. I’m curious to see where his woodwork evolves with this new knowledge, but I hope he doesn’t give up wholly on hand tools!
Fun in the Fediverse!
In my latest exploration of micro.blog, I’ve been trying to understand the federation pieces. I’m following this account from a few different Fediverse accounts of mine and the only place where I’m seeing the content I’m posting on micro.blog is the one I (sort of) least expected to work. Finding that, however, proved the content is indeed being federated out.
I’m not currently seeing my content on mastodon.social which is, unfortunately, the primary place I’d like to. Caching? Versions? Something else entirely?
My gut says caching. The testing continues.
Edit: This post immediately appeared for my https://mastodon.social account. I’m now noticing in at least one mastodon client that my image from one of my earlier posts seems to show up on others. Something to keep playing with.
This selvage quilt is really something. 🧵 🪡 mastodon.social/@BenitaSk…