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I *love* runny varnish. I was applying clear matte varnish on my wooden box and of course it had to run and form blobs. I thought my first coat was even enough and not too thick. Luckily only a few sides had those blobs and I could sand them down while half-cured and apply a second thinner coat of varnish.

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I did a second coating of the "black" wood stain. After some drying time it turned from dark purple to something I'd call black. A few minor spots needs another round of treatment because I've missed them or the wood didn't want to absorb the stain that well. Tomorrow I'll add a coat or two of clear varnish. After that I need to paint the inside with some acrylic paint to hide my finger prints and blotches from the stain (thankfully I used gloves). Another idea I have is to glue in a ferromagnetic plate on the inside of the lid for some magnetic storage options....

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At the flea market I bought a big wooden box for quite cheap. It was once a box with painting supplies and I plan to make it a box for miniature painting supplies. I ripped out the wooden dividers, filled some nail holes, sanded all the surfaces, and a few moments ago I stained the outside black. More like very dark purple. Not what I wanted but I can live with the slight purple tint. Also I finished printing corner protectors and most of the Gridfinity inserts for drop bottles for Army Painter paint.

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The newest Humble Bundle has a MLP game. I ain't paying 14 Bucks to get that.

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Buy cheap, get garbage. I bought myself a 3-tiered planter for herbs like parsley, chive, and majoram. The instructions had an error, the first step made assembling harder, and the final pieces did not fit. I had to use my bandsaw to make them fit. The wood and pre-drills are also cheap and rough. I was close to return it.

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I found the real culprit. It was a blob of PETG in the middle of the heat break. It was too far to be melted properly but close enough to let through a teeny tiny bit. It blocked the filament going through the nozzle at the expected rate. I tried to drill out the blob but I damaged the heat break and some of the threads in the heat block. Could have find it out sooner but the few days ago I couldn't be bothered to fully disassemble the hotend. As soon as the replacement arrives the assembly should be fairly quick. I can reuse the thermistor and heat cartridge. And the over all geometry and screw points should be the same too.

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A few days ago one 3d printer almost gone to flames and now the next one stopped extruding, I am done for today troubleshooting that after wasting more than half an hour changing nozzle, the bowden tube, testing for pinch points... I guess it is the extruder stepper motor or the main board stepper driver. Uuugh.... I want a new 3d printer.

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Yesterday, when I was starting a 3d-printing job, I was wondering why there was a funny plastic-y smell and why it took so long for the heat bed to heat up. A quite toasty surprise https://i.imgur.com/2O2CJsk.jpeg

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Watching the anime "KonoSuba". It is certainly degenerate. It is of a question if me watching gives me the same property by the adjacent relation. The MC is overly horny, all the women have huge wobbly bazongas, a woman of the main cast is deriving huge pleasure from being hurt, embarrassed, and all kinds of S&M.

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I fell into the bardcore rabbit hole. Great for listening while doing something, especially those tracks without vocals.

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Buying tomato seeds from semi-professionals or hobbyists on ebay is such a gamble. About 1/4 of all the seeds did not grow or very delayed.

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The live-action Lilo & Stitch movie looks like a soulless husk. The actors are fine in the trailer. Everything else is just a huge pile of grape. The youtube comments below the trailer show how much Disney brain rot exist. I am clearly exaggerating but it is close. It will probably be like the other live-action films and milk enough money out of people's wallets to warrant yet another film.
What will be next? Oliver & Co live-action? The Black Cauldron live-action? Song of the South remake/live-action?

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The radiator knob replacement part I 3d printed works. It took me a few attempts as I wasn't thinking it through properly due to assembly issues and needed to work around the fact that I cannot disassemble the knob to get the part into it. Now I have to return the non-working replacement I bought yesterday.

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Well... I guess it is easier to 3d print and fix the old knob than to search for a proper replacement. I could change the valve but it is messy and I have no money for the proper handyman to do that for me.

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The knob of my heat radiator crumbled away (old plastics) and the replacement I bought doesn't work and doesn't fit. Have to go back to the store tomorrow.

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To be honest the Firefox profile I've been using is probably over 15 years old. It was bound to happen that some legacy thing F-up something after an update.

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I had to reset my Firefox as it was in a buggy state. For some reason the context menu was massively long with irrelevant entries, like stopping or playing a video for an image. It wouldn't bothered me that much but nothing worked from that list.

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Finished the last few substories in LAD:PYIH. They were the Dragon Kart ones. I like Dragon Kart but the Duel mode sucks a lot. It is mostly roulette where I am the ball and wait until I explode or the others explode first. Also I finished all the bounties that gave me a music disc. Maybe when I am bored enough I finish the colosseum. The hardest battles feel very unfair.

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My tomato plants are growing faster than anticipated. Barely one week in the dirt and half of the planted seeds pushed through the surface. Last year it felt it took longer until there was some development.

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Sometimes I buy Trader Joe's nuts and snacks at Aldi Nord. I guess that's still EU, since Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi Nord.

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OK... When it comes to US services it is quite different. Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, Youtube Premium, Discord...

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Boycott of US products? My daily products I purchase aren't from the US. Only my comics are from the US. I avoid big brand products in general as they are expensive in the first place and their quality isn't worth that much.

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Today I planted tomato seeds and put them into my tiny greenhouses: Purple Sunrise, Malina, Arancia, Jolie Coeur, Marmande, Tscherny Prinz, Japanese Crab, Ananas Noire, Black Krim, Tigerella. 5 seeds for each in case some of them don't grow. I want to keep only two of each, rest will be gifted.

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At my mother's apartment there are metal spikes in front of the windows of the staircase to prevent birds from sitting there and pooping on people's heads in front of the entrance. When I went up the stairs I found something odd. At first I thought it was a brown and crumpled leaf but it was not quite that. It was a bat that has impaled itself with its head first.

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I found the songs I've listened way too much in LAD PYIH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrsr5wBZNFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuhHZJIQ0FY