adiwan (adiwan)

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It sucks that The Bad Batch is over. Great finale.

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It took me 3 hours to dig out this 40-50 year old rhododendron bush stump https://i.imgur.com/AbYRYNI.jpeg The roots were super nasty. They were as thick as branches. I had to literally dig in with my hand saw and cut the roots under ground.

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Driving the car in the afternoon is a nightmare with all the traffic jams. I wanted to haul some bigger things that I cannot do by bike. Coincidentally the store also had a cheap bike trailer on offer, however upon closer inspection it was CRAP. I mean that it was manufactured garbage. The trailer attaches to a coupler on the saddle stem. I'm not a fan of that but the final nails in the coffin were the flimsiness of the material of the coupler alongside the lack of any wheel dampening and the horrific assembly of tubes that make up the trailer frame.

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It's ludicrous that Windows update download of 5GB is still at 0% for over an hour. I have 250MBit downstream!

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Today I removed a damn big rhododendron bush the size of 4 fridges. There is only a stump left, which is the biggest hurdle right now. I need to dig it out or get a tool that shreds it while being in the ground. I need the space for my tomatoes.

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Aw man... My company PC will be "upgraded" to Windows 11 soon. That sucks.

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Complete! https://i.imgur.com/8WSgOVB.jpeg It looks simple but it took longer than anticipated but fast enough before the days are over when there are frosty temperatures at night.

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I built 3 more raised beds for my tomatoes. There are 6 of them In total now. The paint is drying and the the 3d printers are about to finish the last feet. I think that all of these raised beds have enough space for 18 tomato plants. I'm not really happy about the build quality I achieved and I feel I could do a lot better. On the one hand the wood was awful and not really straight, the dimensions off by a few millimeters, a lot of branch holes, and the glued parts were barely holding together on their own, but also my own work was compromised by not properly marking the lines where to cut, and the very small band saw I own making the cuts harder than they need to be, and my manual sawing precision. If I had a proper table saw it'd be so much easier and could do proper box joints.

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Inhaled too much wood dust. I was sawing laminated pine wood boards for a raised bed for my tomatoes. I got a headache pretty fast and I could only finish 3 out of 4 boxes because of that. It doesn't matter that much that I haven't done them all because the feet for them weren't all 3D-printed. The last pieces are almost done. I cannot make huge noise tomorrow I'll apply some protective paint. I have also bought some gravel for drainage that I'll put as a bottom layer to the DIY planter made out of a bucket. I don't want to have the roots rot away in standing water.

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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.