Adventures out of the Lab

 Some adventures outside of the lab and some projects One is working on.

Python Hoodie. 

One Did in fact make my 3hr goal last week for studying Python 3hrs a week, but it was close. Tonight One has 34 minutes in the python bank and at Least 2.5 hours to get tonight or tomorrow. It'll be close again. 

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon came up, and One remembered, deep in the Library - which is currently buried, One Has a Maltese Falcon. The Library is So offline, it'll take months of processing clutter to even get to the entrance. But the work continues. 

Irish Breakfast

Irish Breakfast at the local Irish Pub. The chef likes to bring One burned food. Not sure if this is his method, or if he secretly bears some grudge against me. It's all edible, but just a little bit off. And the portions have gotten a little bit more sparse keeping in line with our country's economy. The ham slices were robust in a peasant way. Now - thin sliced (and burned). Same with the bacon - it was a thick piece of just heart stopping goodness. But now, thin, burnt up and  - less. The bangers - only one this time. The mushrooms, barely there. It's a changing world, but Still. It's ME. They Should put in more effort. Ah well, closest Irish Breakfast One can get to in the spur of the moment. 

One's Other nemesis, the Bench Press of Doom. 

Speaking of heart stopping goodness. The bench press. One thinks One gets an extra bit of effort out of the fact that there's a bit of weight coming down to certainly kill me. 

Find your motivation where you can.

Clearing the gym by the Power of Blood Borne Necrotizing Fasciitis ! 

Speaking Of, how does One manage to get the gym to empty out whenever One wants? Well, it's a little thing called "blood-borne necrotizing fasciitis" and the visible consequences of having lost most of your face to a lurid flesh eating disease. 

 

American Civics with your Host Lord Malignance

Elsewhere on the Internet, One has been - Disappointed with the direction the country has taken. As a scientist One can take an objective look at this, and even allowing for trends in history, it's just bad out there. In the vein of "Be the Change You Want to See in the World" One has been toying with trying to run short videos going over what One cherishes about this country. 

Some notes on how That is going. Well - as you can see, there are Problems. That's a professor's teaching robe, and it is embellished with padded arms and Something going on around the neck. The consequence of this being, it appears One has no neck. No Neck! The tie is, frankly, terrible. Wrong gloves (One should have the hands only demigloves, but One brought the gauntlets). 

There's another thing happening as well. In confined spaces, One looms. It's disconcerting to people. In larger spaces One can appear less, well, obvious. It's a phenomenon One first noticed in the Dalek Builder's Club - in large spaces, Daleks seem normal. But in an English house for example, they appear Huge! So, work on this project on and off. It's not a passion per se, it's just - have you ever noticed the other people who live in this country? 

Hundred+ year old books One can't get to. Can See them. 

Back to the Lair being a Winchester Mystery House of generations of history - another telescopic view of the Library One can't get to. 

Windows for Workgroups and DOS

And of course technology resources from forever ago. This is what One has to get rid of. Find homes for, or dump. 

Going forward, the year is ending, and new one of promise upcoming. One has such questions! It's a curious condition One has, especially when a puzzle is placed before me. One is Getting to that library. Need to upgrade the helmet. The Lab is unusable for anything But study. The actual Study is currently offline, so the Lab is doing double duty. Triple duty if you note the books it's  holding belong in - the Library. 

Need to come up with some caper - feeling a little cooped up in Winter, which by the way is unseasonably Warm for Winter in Colorado. There's a Home Automation system called "Yellow" -One is trying to integrate that into SUtech. The Wemos are going offline in January, so One must upgrade those to something Else, because One is not walking over to turn things on when One can scream at a home AI. A garden in memory of Bob might be nice, but then again, it's possible it will be a warm Summer, and that's tough on One in One's lobster suit. Though - there is Olathe Corn, said to be the sweetest in the world, and One can envision smuggling some down to the lower (farming) parts of the state. Maybe run a road trip to dreaded Texas and get some of that legendary barbecue (and steal secrets!) It's sad but true, but Colorado does not have a mature barbecue culture. We do Bison though (Manitu Curse, don't ask), but nothing with sauces and charring meat. 

 Need to be huge in Python this year, and One Still has 2.5hours of Python still to get through by midnight tomorrow. 

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