@“穴”#p126575 these are delightful
I recently finished a drawing. (I sketch a lot but I “finish” something maybe once a year.) I guess that put me in a mood to finish shit so I put together a DJ mix that I‘ve been meaning to do for a while. I put it on Mixcloud and it’s actually #5 in it‘s category, which is cool, but maybe there are only 5 mixes this week in it’s category, soo…?
Now I'm gonna attempt to finish some medium articles about games I finished years ago. There's all this work just sitting there, so why not call it done and publish it?
@“Andy B”#p127149 take advantage of that energy! Publish it! 
I'm back from my short vacation so now I'm back at the desk. It's funny how whenever I go on vacation all the aches and pains I have disappear and then they immediately reappear as soon as I have to work. It's almost like desk work is bad for you..
Vacation was a lot of fun. Summer swimming is always good and I pulled out my Pentax K1000 and shot a couple rolls of film just for the heck of it. I was in a gorgeous location so I'm hoping everything turns out real fine. I dropped off the film yesterday and maybe it'll come back soon! I'm looking forward to it.
I was feeling guilty over vacation, because just prior I had started foster-sitting a dog. "Sitting" in this instance means I'm a temp foster, not holding on to the dog until he was adopted. I got him I think 10 days before we left and it was incredibly stressful. My dog did not get along with him so we had to keep him separate. He was bigger than my dog (which was unexpected) and an adorable puppy but he would jump on my guy and make him upset. So I ended up babysitting him in the kitchen non-stop, barely getting any work done and going on crazy walks where I walked my dog who likes to be stubborn and a puppy together at the same time. It was quite the exercise. The whole time I was hoping a foster would pop up but they never did! He got dropped off at a kennel before we left. This bummed me out immensely but he is a very social dog so I was hopeful he would do alright. After spending 9 days with him non stop I had become quite attached.
I thought he had gotten fostered a day or two later but it turns out it wasn't until today, so he spent a week at the kennel. But I saw that he's going to a big ol' house with a fence in the middle of nowhere and lots of other big dogs so he can run around and have a blast. I'm relieved. Emotions have been up and down. Fostering was a stressful situation. We're gonna take a year before we do it again because my boy isn't ready for it yet, and my partner and I weren't either. Bless my partner's heart for going along with it! Maybe we can get a fence to make it easier. It also is tricky because fostering is kind of at odds with what I wanted to do which was get out of my house more and do more out and about. There is an animal shelter that needs volunteers on site so I'm thinking of trying to do that instead.
Overall I'm glad I tried though, and am certain I will do it again. It's been a long time since I felt like I made any mistakes or learned anything from them and I think it was good for me.
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I'm currently soaking wet from working power outages in the rain. I managed to get my work truck super duper stuck in the mud and had to be pulled out by a wrecker (goodbye $80 you will be missed), but I got the power back on at least! Later on I also had a ceramic switch explode when I tried to replace the transformer fuse and had to replace that too.
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@“Toph”#p127240 whoa! you are up to an interesting job!
So you "flipped" the power back on and that big ol ceramic thing just busted?
@“DavidNoo”#p127259 Sort of. Most of the time when they do this its because their insulating ability has started to fail and voltage begins tracking through the ceramic body of the switch and has made it brittle. The actual fuse barrel is held in place with a spring putting pressure on the top side of it so that when a new fuse is installed when its under these conditions the ceramic body cant support the pressure from the spring and pushes the whole switch apart, creating a really fun game of “Dodge the jagged chunks of falling ceramic doom”.
@“Toph”#p127265 geezus! What a crazy fail-‘safe’!
@“DavidNoo”#p127269 Yeah they don‘t make them out of ceramic anymore, but there are still a ton of them out in the field so its not super practical to replace them while they’re still functional.
@“Toph”#p127270 gotcha. Sounds scary! What about those giant round fishing bobbers or coffee can looking things? I love seeing those.
@“DavidNoo”#p127277 My understanding of them is that those are for visibility so aircraft don‘t fly into the powerlines. I’ve never had to mess with one myself. They're generally on transmission lines and my work is usually limited to distribution lines.
@“Toph”#p127304 Thanks for sharing! The power grid is an interesting mystery to me. It's cool to learn a little.
@“DavidNoo”#p127308 I‘m no expert on it myself, but what I do know I’m happy to share.
@“Toph”#p127240 wait your work truck got stuck in the mud and YOU had to pay for it not the company that employs you?? Hmm
@“exodus”#p127403 Under normal circumstances they would have sent someone eventually, but multiple attempts to ring anyone were met with busy signals, voicemail boxes that were full, and one flat out refusal to come help. After 3 hours I admittedly just got tired of being stuck and paid a wrecker. Not ideal, but better than getting in trouble for getting stuck in the first place.
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@“Andy B”#p127149 (I sketch a lot but I “finish” something maybe once a year.)
Oh boy, can I relate to that. I have tons of sketches but I feel so alienated from the experience of committing to seeing one through to a finished piece.
@“connrrr”#p127763 Yeah I have to do at least one a year just to remind myself I can.
I've been in Philadelphia for work and have been doing the weird instrument tour of town.
A friend said "you should go to that Macy's to check out that organ." And she was totally right (and you should check it out too)! For some reason, the Macy's in Center City is unexpectedly imaculate (looks like an old train station or something) and there's a massive organ on the second floor. Apparently some guy's job is to just jam out on this thing while people shop for... whatever you get at macy's. They even have a historical society just for the 100+ year old organ. For $25 a year you can get their quarterly historical magazine. You can see the pipes straight ahead in this photo and the guy playing on the left.
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Keeping up with the theme of bellowsed instruments, I also went to Liberty Bellows, the best accordion shop on the east coast. This place is just wall to wall, surface to surface accordions. The cheapest one I saw was roughly the total of my checking account, so I didn't let myself touch any of them (who needs a fourth accordion). I did get this totally rad shirt for just $10 though.
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@“deepspacefine”#p127865 yes that shirt!!
@“deepspacefine”#p127865 this shirt is me but if italian and freddie mercury and if I had sons