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pbj:
Ditch the jukebox, acquire pinball. Get a Bluetooth speaker for your sound system. It's current year.

Locke141:
Long time since I posted but been reading around. This virus has really put me on lockdown, mostly do to my chemo and cancer treatment generally. That said the chemo, being stuck at home, and not allowed to do much physical exercise has been rough.

The good news is other the the dam chemo fatigue and the to much time stuck at home, I'm doing well. I feel good, sleepy but well, my odd's of survival are very high, and I have a loving wife, family, and teacher community that have all been very supportive.

For now my goal is to finish a little arcade project I have been working on but haven't posted as a project yet. Other goals are modding my other home consoles like my wii's, PS2'S, and OG XBOXE's as gifts for friends and family. At some point friends and family just started giving me their old consoles for free. For now I plan just cloning drives, doing the mods, and gifting to family.

pbj:
Yesterday, I cut the skin and fat off a pork shoulder. The skin was turned into pork rinds. The fat was melted down into lard. The lard was mixed with flour and made into tortillas. The pork shoulder was eaten on those tortillas. That took hours.

I also disassembled and cleaned a DVD player remote. Now the play button works properly when I watch 90s porn DVDs in the background.

Today I finally broke down and spent $50 on a replacement hose and gun for my pressure washer. I'll join the parade of neighbors pressure washing my sidewalks.

pbj:
The pressure pump cut off switch assembly exploded in my pressure washer as I was doing the second pass on my sidewalks. Rather than rig it and risk another trip to the ER, I spent countless hours trying to source a replacement online. Found some stuff in Europe that would probably work, but I felt like it was going to be an endless cycle of replacing plastic parts just to watch another one explode. So I returned it to the earth.

Yesterday I tried to make naan. Didn't have any bread yeast so I used distiller's yeast. It wasn't bubbling enough for my tastes, so I added sugar. Didn't want to use olive oil, so I used Papa John's garlic butter sauce I had in a drawer. I ended up with basically garlic bread unglazed donuts that are incredible but aren't naan. I couldn't reproduce these if I tried.

:cheers:

BadMouth:
I was only off work a day and a half before getting called back in. Been enjoying saving money and not having to be social on weekends though.

I set a dumbell workout area up in the basement. Worked out 4 days in a row. Moved like an 80yo the following 3. Avoided for a week. Bought a dumbell rack, so have start again on Monday to justify the purchase. Lighter (10 & 15lb) dumbells coming on Tuesday because apparently I've never been so weak. Yay walmart free shipping!

Main audio receiver took a dump so I swapped in the one from the workshop. Workshop has been without tunes for months. Finally hooked up one of the TI chip amps I have laying around for projects. It's plenty loud enough for the workshop so good for now=good enough. Today I built a housing out of oak because there was a piece of scrap already thin enough for the front and back.

Also hung my old dartboard in the workshop. Been enjoying throwing again.

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