adiwan (adiwan)

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I'll gonna build at least 4 more of those boxes. I'll get the hang of it.

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Built a stupid box for my stupid tomatoes with my stupid bandsaw and my stupid Japanese handsaw and my stupid battery-powered drill and my stupid ruler. In the end I got a barely appealing wooden frame without top and bottom such that a plastic bucket can be placed into it, in a way that the rim of the bucket sits on top of the box's edge. I also 3D-printed feet so the box allows water to drain and evaporate. My biggest problem was that none of my tools allowed me to do any accurate work and I did a very sloppy measuring and pencil marking job.

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OK.. OK... OK... I ordered a bunch of tomato seeds of uncommon types. I have to pull some rare and mythic seeds yet.

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The first tomatoes are growing. Nothing more than a little sprout but it has survived the constant rain the last few weeks. Now I'm planning to build a raised bed for them. So far the "proper" raised beds are way too expensive. I could make the cheapest option, a dirt mound with a wooden barrier, but I want to move them eventually. Even used ones are hella expensive for what they are. Today I bought a big rectangular bucket for 6€ and will drill a few holes in the bottom. Similarly big planters cost at least 5 times more. Also the wooden box for the bucket will be built on the cheap without being an eye sore that many of those are. In the home improvement store I will buy the cheapest pine wood and paint it in order to cover up the less than ideal wood quality and make it somewhat weather-proof. If my calculations are right it will be in the ballpark of 20€-25€ per box.

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It's wasp time again. I cannot open the window without one of those buggers getting in within minutes. Even when the windows are tilted they get in. I have to find a way to attach a net in front of my windows. Because of of their age and construction it's harder than it should be. For example one window consists of two segments, a bigger one that can only opened normally, and a smaller that can also be tilted. Both windows are overlapping each other, meaning that there isn't a bar to attach a small net to. Also there is no gap in the frame itself to glue the velcro strip for the net. I could put it completely on the outside, however the glue is too weak and the whole thing would look and function like ass.

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I watched "Delicious in Dungeon" or as it also known as "Dungeon Meshi" by Studio Trigger on Netflix. I wanted to read the manga but as it's more accessible to me in anime form I watched it. It is not bad. Definitely more coherent and understandable than most Japanese content out there.

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Never underestimate the min-maxer who has the ability to never roll a truly bad diplomacy or deception roll. I planned a whole D&D adventure that was derailed by exploiting lawful characters (mercenary Giff) to make them go away by rules-lawyering. A 30 on a persuasion roll is too high not to say no as a DM.

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I'm using a faux leather case with a cover flap for my Blackberry KeyOne and today it broke after 6 years of use. The plastic part that holds the phone separated from the faux leather cover. Luckily a little bit of strong and flexible glue fixed it. I only had to scrub off the old and hardened glue beforehand. It's a sign that I need to look for a new smartphone, alongside the rather poor and aging battery.

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I was truly bamboozled by thinking that this site has activity that is not from the same 3 people.

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I carry a Swiss army pocket knife every day in my pocket. Sometimes I have to clean it and oil up the hinges. Still works like it is new, although I'm not very careful. Only the plastic shell havs a lot of visible scratches. Maybe the main blade could be a little bit sharper at the tip. Still good enough for opening boxes.

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Planted tomato and jalapeño seeds into some planters I bought today. 12 tomato, 8 jalapeño. I bet not everything will survive but I will see who will win the battle royale, not the Fortnite kind, the Beat Takeshi kind.

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I was doing some garden work today. Within an hour or two I managed to fill up the trash can for all the biodegradable garbage. I have to wait two weeks in order to continue cutting down the bushes. The weather will be bad anyway in the coming days, so I wouldn't do gardening anyway. If I am at the same point next time I'll probably have to ask a neighbor for using their trash can capacity.

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There is a ton of talk from boomers that millenials and genz are social garbage. Yesterday I saw a pair of self-entitled 70-80 year olds (man and wife) packing out their shopping cart at a closed checkout line while the super market was clearly understaffed AND were demanding another checkout line to be opened and then saying (more to themselves) that they will go without paying.

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I'll never recover financially: A glass bottle broke because it fell gently over. The fall height was literally the height of the bottle itself. The contents: a mate tea lemonade. It was the last full bottle. The costs: 98 cents + 15 cents of bottle deposit and the knowledge that I won't have a bottle for work.
On the positive side: The kitchen floor needed some cleaning anyway. Also I can play the game of "find the invisible little pointy foot stabbers" for a few days.

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20 minutes later it is fixed. I fixed it temporarily with a zip tie and went to the hardware store to get the right screws and nuts. Obviously I bought more than I actually needed to fix that. What I learned is that I don't have enough screws and nuts.

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Recently I heard a strange clank noise while cycling. It turned out I lost a screw that attaches my bike rack to the back mud fender to it. Nothing big but to my dismay I have not the right hardware right now. I lack a 35mm long M5 screw with an appropriate M5 lock nut.

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My favorite mug that I own for about 25 years has finally cracked. The handle broke on its own from the handling and the temperature changes. The crack was relatively clean. I "fixed" it with super glue but I have little confidence that it'll hold more than a year and I think it'll show other crack in that time.

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I haven't thought that speaking in English for over 4 hours was that exhausting. I guess it'd be the same with the same amount of trying to find the right words. I was helping a colleague to get started with C# and I was reviewing a CV.