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MLE_online, 35 minutes ago to random

A friend of my parents gave them a whole box of pieces of glass for doing stained glass, and they don't want it, so I grabbed a few pieces and I am grinding them up in my rock tumbler to try an experiment for ceramics class.

The rock tumbler is pleasantly quiet when full of glass versus when it's full of rocks

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MLE_online, 6 hours ago to random

My brother left some drops of water on the leaves of one of his house plants that he left outside overnight and now these marks are permanently part of the leaves.

I asked him if the sun caused it, but he assured me that the plant was only outside overnight. The marks have been on the leaves for a year now

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MLE_online, 8 hours ago to random

The IEB got pressed into light pickup truck duty today

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MLE_online, 9 hours ago to random

Same mom, same dad, same appearance, opposite preferences

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MLE_online, 11 hours ago to random

Yesterday was the busiest, go-go-go day I've had in a while.

I had a morning meeting for work over zoom. As soon as that was over, I had to get over to the office, but first, I had to stop by the bike shop to pay the owner for the wheel I bought from him on Sunday.

He wanted to show me some things though, and by the time he was done, I had to hustle as fast as I could to the bus station on my bike, and I just barely made the bus in time.

I rode the bus to work, then had to take care of some work stuff and eat lunch real quick before ceramics class.

Yesterday was the second-to-last day for wet clay before the semester is over, so I was trying to get a lot done. I meant to get out of there by 4:30, but I didn't get out until a little after 5, missing the 5pm bus back home.

So, I was going to wait to catch the 5:30 bus, but it was delayed by 22 minutes.

That was going to ruin my schedule for the evening, because I was already going to have to disembark from the bus partway home to stop by the bar I was at on Saturday -- so I could pick up my hydroflask that I had accidentally left there.

As I sat at the bus stop, I realized that 22 minutes was almost as long as it would take me to ride my bike the 5 miles to the bar. So, I took a gamble that I could beat the bus to the bar if I rode really fast.

I pedaled over there as fast as I could, and when I got there, I was 24 minutes ahead of the bus, and very sweaty.

But that was enough time to sit down and have a beer and a whiskey and cool off before the bus caught up to me.

I did that, stepped outside, rode to the bus stop, and the bus arrived three minutes later.

I rode the bus back to the station, and rode my bike home from there, arriving home 15 minutes before I was supposed to be 20 minutes down the freeway for set build (we're behind schedule and having to work weeknights this week).

I fed the cats, scarfed down a bowl of pasta, grabbed my tools, and drove down to the theater, arriving 13 minutes after I said I would be there.

Then my friend and I hustled on construction, finished a flat, and framed out a second one, and cleaned up in time to be out when the building closed at 10 pm.

I got home at 10:15 pm, took a shower, had a glass of wine, and went to sleep exhausted.

It felt good though!!

MLE_online, 1 day ago to random

This is me! This is why I don't make youtube videos anymore!!

MLE_online, 1 day ago to random

Busy ceramics day. I finished trimming a little marbled bud case, glazed the geometric mug set, finished building my marbled triangle thing, and got my ring jug and pipes sculpture back from glaze firing

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MLE_online, 1 day ago to random

If I'm going to naturally wake up at dawn whether I want to or not, maybe I should just start going to bed at sunset

MLE_online, 2 days ago to random

I spent way too much time today disassembling two bicycle wheels, so that I could begin the process of transplanting this Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub into a 27 inch rim that will fit my road bike.

While I had the hub free of a wheel, I ended up partially disassembling it so I could clean it and grease it, since it felt pretty gunky and sticky when spinning.

I was too scared to take it completely apart because there are a lot of little pieces inside, but I took it apart enough to get it working well again. It looks much nicer now too

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MLE_online, 1 day ago to random

Being needy this morning. Blocking the keyboard. Blocking progress on the crossword puzzle

MLE_online, 2 days ago to random

A bicycle with homemade trailer, trailer hitch, cupholder, and headlight for #weirdbikemastodon

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MLE_online, 3 days ago to random

I posted a few weeks ago about how people were leaving empty nitrous cylinders lying around and wondering if they could be reused for something.

Someone left two of them in the gutter of my house last night, so I grabbed them to get a better look at them.

They are heavy steel. The end caps look like they're 1/4" thick. The label on the tanks say they are rated 120 bar working pressure (1740 psi). That's a lot of pressure!

MLE_online, 3 days ago to random

Made myself a nice dinner of penne with marinara sauce, shrimp, kalimata olives, and capers

MLE_online, 3 days ago to random

A rare, but not unheard of approach to handlebars for #weirdbikemastodon

MLE_online, 3 days ago to random

My sister had custom magnets made for my fridge

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MLE_online, 3 days ago to random

Today at set build, I was in charge of the small team that built this 7'x10' flat. Then after we were done, the director asked the producer if this flat was supposed to have a door in it. He checked his notes and realized it was, so we had to do some radical surgery to both the flat and a door.

I'm the end we got it done, but it was a busy, sweaty, and hectic day

MLE_online, 4 days ago to random

Drinky drink after a hot and dirty day in the ceramics studio

MLE_online, 4 days ago to random

I stopped by the ceramics studio for a little while today for open lab time, and finished a bowl and a beer stein. The new maker's mark stamp is working well

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MLE_online, 4 days ago to random

I finally fixed the Bratzcam after two years of it being broken. Here's Hobie, for the first time, in Bratzvision

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MLE_online, 4 days ago to random

A man, very old and white haired, boarded the bus, shuffling with the small footsteps of someone who isn't sure they can walk without tripping and carrying a brand-new yellow pages, still sealed in plastic. After several miles, he stood and exited the bus and walked towards a mountain bike casually chained to a nearby fence. He casually dropped the yellow pages into the bike's wire basket, unlocked the bike, and pedaled away

MLE_online, 5 days ago to random

Wifi is actually the plural form. The singular is wifus.

MLE_online, 5 days ago to random

My bus driver tonight was admiring the Cantern Jr -- the low-cost, DIY headlight -- I built for my bike

MLE_online, 5 days ago to random

There are several extraordinarily large flies in the office, which in my experience, means there's a dead rat somewhere in the building

MLE_online, 5 days ago to random

A guy just boarded my bus with boxes of chlorinating liquid and the driver was looking at them with concern

MLE_online, 6 days ago to random

Just the necessities tonight