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Strongly heating up the remaining red jalapeno made them bearable. Beating heat with heat. I put them on a pizza and they were not so bad. Degenerating capsaicin with heat is the key. The sauce I made a little while ago was never heated so much or long to break down the hot stuff. Fresh and uncooked will never enter my digestive tract ever again.

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Spent the last few days cleaning up my cellar. https://i.imgur.com/SdJfZVj.jpeg I bought some wall-mounted shelves for all the mid-size items that are too small for the big shelves and too big for the drawers. The drawers have mostly small parts like screws, bolts, and small tools, all neatly organized in 3d-printed bins. I put a countertop on the three containers to make this a small electronics workbench. The small parts organizers on top of the workbench have all my micro-controller stuff.

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One jalapeno in my salad got me the wrong way. I cut it too small to remove it, too much salad to toss out. I ate through all of it and with enough ranch dressing it got less of a sting.
The current Jalapeno plants are dying, so this season I will plant only one or two and give them more care. Currently my 4 Jalapeno and 1 Cayenne are putting out weekly one or two ripe deep red chilis. Maybe I should collect them when they are still green.

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My tomato plants are not that well developed as anticipated. I guess keeping them in the kitchen at the window towards the north side wasn't the brightest idea. My mother has some tomato plants of her own growing and planted them a little bit later than me, but hers are looking healthier all around. She kept them towards the south window.

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Cleaning up my cellar is not easy. So many little things, randomly thrown into boxes. They need to be sorted, somehow. Because they are so randomly thrown together it takes way too much space, twice or thrice more than it'd be sorted. For example a half-sorted one was stuff for my bicylces. I used small foldable plastic basket to seperate a few items to make them more accessible. One basket for brakes and inner tubes, one for bells and attachmets, one for reflectors and lights, one for bicycle tools like a 13mm wrench for the wheel hub nuts or a chain separator.

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I'm waiting for a possible release of a new Sony Xperia 10 phone in May. The Xperia 10 VI was close to what I want. I could buy last year's but rumors are a new one will be released soon. I guess I can live a month or two with a dying battery. It is my best shot of getting a decent phone with a headphone jack, no camera punch-hole or notch, and a straight-forward UI, and a somewhat OK long software support period with updates. I hope it'll be about the same price and actually worth it.

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Working for a project in northern Germany. Every morning it begins with everyone greeting with "moin". It is not a abbreviation for "morning" but it is an old lower German word for "good" and "pleasant".

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I wanted to finish my 3d printer repairs but NO, the self-designed part cooling fan ducts had to be redesigned 6 times because of some dumb issues. On top of that I had some print failures.

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The air duct I was using for years is utterly apple. With my latest attempt I saw that the fan has not enough pressure to push the air through. I only noticed it now. I modeled one myself with less restriction in flow. I'm confident that it is better but I didn't use any simulations or other verification.

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For me it is easier to recreate a 3d model in CAD than to do the modification I need in blender. Due to a new hotend I grabbed a part cooling fan duct off the Internet and had to do some modifications to make it work. I needed to extend some parts for clearance. Yeah... I could do that in blender with not a lot of problems BUT now it is easier for me because I have a CAD model now. It only took me 30 minutes to recreate. Once I used Cinema 4D and it was easier to grasp the workflow and UI for teenage me than blender.

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Almost repaired my 3d printers. Printer one got a mainboard replacement and a new hotend and a new extruder. The other had already the upgraded mainboard but was mostly disassembled for another hotend (E3D V6) but it was too difficult because I had to reengineer the mounts and cooling so I stopped that due to lack of motivation. That one also got a new hotend and a new extruder. Both need new matching part cooling fan ducts for the new hotend. Also I have to compile my own firmware. Maybe tomorrow I will have 4 working FDM printers again.

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I've grown weak. My capsaicin resistance is barely existing.

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Putting 3 ripe jalapeno chilies into my pasta was too much.

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Slowly but surely everything gets to a point I'm seeing an improvement using Gridfinity after printing several spools of filament. Almost all my screws are organized, even the ones from my box or random screws.I won't stop but it will slow down a little bit as I need more cabinets with drawers as it is probably the most ideal environment.

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I am 3d printing Gridfinity bins for weeks and yet it isn't enough. There is more things to organize. More things to put into bins. Printing grids, printing bins, printing labels, stacking bins, getting more metal cabinets, more to put into.

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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.