adiwan (adiwan)

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K-Pop Demon Hunters had pretty good animation. The outstanding part of it is how the movements felt smooth and snappy with a lot of energy. On the other hand the story is meh and the music is not my style but I can appreciate it as a whole. It's a harmless watch in my book.

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I wanted to water my plants with the rain water I collected last week in my 100 liter barrels. However due to extreme temperatures, and closed lid on the barrel, and the barrel being black, the water went extremely nasty with the organic material that was collected with the water. It smelled like a vile swamp full of dead bodies. I flipped the barrels over and my barely growing lawn was flooded with that. I don't think the water can do any more damage than it already received from the unrelenting heat and sun exposure.

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Horror of the day: two dozens of flies in the kitchen. Over the night I had my window open in the kitchen to get cool air into the house but that opportunity was taken by those little buggers.

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I got myself spiky and hollow cones made out of terracotta with open pores (no glazing) for watering my tomato plants. Due to the open surface of the terracotta it can release water slowly into the soil. In addition to that I put a bottle of water into the opening of the cone upside-down as a bigger water reservoir. This week will be extremely hot and I don't want my plants die due to too much evaporation.

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Tomato plant count raised from 38 to 41. My mother kept some of the stragglers (3 Black Krim) that didn't grow that well and finally decided to get a grow spurt in the last week. She had a few more (also Black Krim) but I told her to gift them away to some of her work colleagues. I put the new additions in some 5l buckets for the mean time as the planters were way too small. I gonna have to find a solution (and place!) for when they outgrow that.

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HAHAHA. That is what I need right now. Another 3D printer failure. I had a 28 hour print and while I was sleeping it decided to crap out at 80%. The screen went blank, the print head was not moving and embedded in the object, the power supply made a high-pitched noise.
I am so fed up with my army of Ender 3. I just want to have something reliable that is just good. Not excellent. Just good. I just don't have the money to buy a new printer.

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Yesterday I was using single use nitrile gloves to prune my tomato plants because the juices are very smelly and sticky. 30 minutes of use and they were full of water. I love summer.

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Bad news: I am out of the project.
Good news: I have more time to prepare my D&D campaign.
Bad news: I have to look for a new project with my manager.
Good news: I am still being paid.

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I could swear on my life 40 was spelled fourty and not forty. I have known English for the majority of my life and for some reason I Mandela-effected myself into believing that it was written with a *u*. It made more sense because of the *u* in fo*u*r. Without the *u* it looks like an adjective to the word "fort", like "Your forty house is well-secured against a horde of zombies."

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Last week I was near a comic store and saw that Final Fantasy MTG boosters cost 7€ per pack. WTF! This is the cost of a ESP32 micro controller!

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Maybe I wasn't very observant in the past decades but I've seen this year a greenfinch for the first time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfinch and it is visiting my garden often. Usually I get to see bluetits, blackbirds, house sparrows, red robins, the common crows and doves, magpies, sometimes geese on a flyover and swans at the lake, storks on the odd chimney.... What I want to say is: Most of the common birds I haven't seen. On this overview I have barely seen a fifth of birds in Germany https://www.nabu.de/tiere-und-pflanzen/voegel/portraets/

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WTF. A month has passed and my ordered smartphone still hasn't arrived.

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It's a shame that plastic explosives aren't called **blastic**.

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I don't like what I was seeing the the Naked Gun trailer.

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Aw man... Rick & Morty... That's not how the Harz mountains look like... To be fair: Places in the show are always f-ed up.
Fun fact: A small village in the Harz mountains is called "Elend" which can be translated to misery.

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The mystery of the mysterious poop in my garden has been solved. A few weeks ago I was cleaning up some poop from behind my grill. Before that I had some poop on my lawn. Today I found the culprit: A hedgehog. Somehow there is a hole somewhere in the fencing and a hedgehog found its way in my garden. I encountered it when I was checking for rain to collect in buckets. While that I found the hedgehog standing absolutely still on my lawn. I grabbed a few sticks and pushed it gently out of my gate since I don't know where it could exit otherwise and I am certain that it wouldn't survive in my garden.

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First day of 30°C temperature. It is disgustingly uncomfortable.

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My train ride was suspiciously smooth. No big crowds. The train was on time. I had no issues with my folding bike in the train. However my trust in Deutsche Bahn has not improved. Other trains had delays of 20+ minutes and I had to switch platforms.

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While ICE slams minorities in the USA, ICE is crashing against a horse with 300km/h (186mi/h). ICE is an Inter City Express train in Germany.

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I bought myself the first train ticket ever. I rode by train many times before but back then either the school teacher bought them for excursions, or it was included with my university ID. I have to travel because of work and would have preferred the car, however it is both time efficient and financially efficient to take the train, also car parking sucks at the destination, and the train station is very close to the destination. I have to use is my folding bike as the distance to my train station is further than I am willing to walk in the night when I come back (about 2.5km). I wish my folding bike wasn't so clunky to fold and carry. Bromptons are out of reach and the necessity for folding bikes outside of this is way too rare to justify the costs.

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I'll miss the CBS show "After Midnight". Sadly it'll be canceled soon. It was the right amount of cringy humor that my brain doesn't reject outright. Also I really like the host Taylor Tomlinson and her standup routine and the vibe she radiates: "I don't give a grape" and "panic anxiety".