What are you working on now?

[Timsup2nothin]

<------ currently working on a piece of fried chicken and an orange soda!!!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

fluid and continuum mechanics

Spoiler :

Edit: also started working out three weeks ago

What degree are you going for?

 

[Zkribbler]

We're building a new roof for my seaside salacot [roofed patio]. I was thinking about installing a replacement nifa-leaf one but my driver lobbied hard for a metal roof. We have the metal panels, now with rustproofing, primer coat, and azure blue paint. It should last for years and years. Actual construction starts Monday.

One of my evil kitties climbed up on my sofa today and began sharpening his claws. We have neither scratching posts nor hemp rope here. Tuesday, we go into Tag where I'll buy some bolts of canvas to see if we can build something.

The new roof is now finished. My carpenter had another job lined up, so he's temporarily bailed on us.

Next project is a scratching post for the kitties. Then a replacement panel for one of the doors of my seagate. I think both projects are simple enough my driver can do them while we wait for the return of my carpenter.

Spoiler confession :

I am a carpentry maladroit

I'll most likely put my two goddaughters to work fashioning cat toys, like fishing lines with feathery bait.

Upon my carpenter's return, duh-duh-dah we'll replace the huge nifa roof on the little house & carport with metal roofing.`

I'm contemplating a couple of complex cat trees, each with a litter box at the base, canvas "carpeting" for scratching, and a window-level lounge platform at the top for sea and/or bird watching.

 

[Lohrenswald]

What degree are you going for?

I've struggled on and off and have now started my seventh year in the bachelor degree in physics.
I don't really know what to do afterwards. It probabably won't be mechanics tbh but I felt like taking these courses now almost like a vanity project sort of.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I've struggled on and off and have now started my seventh year in the bachelor degree in physics.
I don't really know what to do afterwards. It probabably won't be mechanics tbh but I felt like taking these courses now almost like a vanity project sort of.

Well good luck. A physics degree is really flexible. Do you know what kind of job you want to get after graduation? Or will you go to grad school?

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Quit doing literally anything creative at all as soon as I found a full-time job. Worked my first 7 day week. While also working on my thesis, on 3 papers and doing administrative university stuff (aka dealing with purgatory). This **** is not for me. No idea whoever the **** thought working 5 days a week was a good idea.

I have zero energy left for any of that, I am genuinely happy if I read like 50 pages a week. I am still working on projects outside my job ofc, but not out of passion, rather for professinal reasons.

I've been writing a science fiction short story, and brushing up on my C++ and Python skills, as well as some Linux. A friend of mine gave me one of those Raspberry Pi thingies and I want to turn it into a computer status display.

inspirational

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's something of a very long-term project but over the last few months I've been sorting out my Calibre library. I use it not only to manage my eBooks, but also game manuals, my vast hoard of fanfiction, and catalog my physical books. Lots of cleaning up messy book metadata and messing around with custom columns and the like. (For example, I have a "currently reading?" column that checks the "last read date" and "reading status" columns, and then if they match certain values it adds a bookmark icon next to the title and sorts it to the top of the list.)

 

[Gorbles]

Every time I see this thread I chuckle to myself. I love keeping tabs on seeing what people are up to, but I just don't have the energy to pick (back) up any projects of my own.

My main thing is programming, and I do a lot of it. I used to have time for projects on the side (tools to help games modding, figuring out games modding in general, random little offline websites for skill-builders, that kind of thing), but these days? Nope.

To be fair, we've had a heck of a 2020. No nursery for the toddler since March due to lockdown. Working from home (with the toddler) since the same time. Most of my office laid off previously in February, but allowed to work through August (not timed for Covid or anything, just horrendously bad luck for all affected). Moved house last month as we're expecting a new baby in . . . a matter of weeks and we really needed the space. I did a ton of cleanup on the old house while still working my full 40+ hour weeks, on top of managing the move.

I've started things, but never really got further with them. I used to do a lot of pen-and-paper design, it kinda evolved into games modding and actual games / tech creation as time went by, but I'd like to get back into that. Failing that, I should probably pick up my little silly Pokedex I was creating. Nothing new to the world, but I was trying some (React) web stuff from the ground up, getting a better appreciation for the tools I take for granted at work (and want to continue using in the future).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's something of a very long-term project but over the last few months I've been sorting out my Calibre library. I use it not only to manage my eBooks, but also game manuals, my vast hoard of fanfiction, and catalog my physical books. Lots of cleaning up messy book metadata and messing around with custom columns and the like. (For example, I have a "currently reading?" column that checks the "last read date" and "reading status" columns, and then if they match certain values it adds a bookmark icon next to the title and sorts it to the top of the list.)

Current Calibre mini-project: For my fanfictions, most of them have the URL in the identifier field. However, since both Fanfiction.net and AO3 had standardized URLs, I made some regexes to replace them:

Spoiler :

So instead of url:https://archiveofourown.org/works/00000000, I end up with ao3:00000000.

Has two main benefits: it looks a bit nicer in the book details panel (it displays "Archive of Our Own" instead of "archiveofourown.org") and it lets me add both links for crossposted fics.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'm also still working on my own fanfic.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I've been working on quitting vaping for two months. I went on the patch, then dropped to the lowest dose patch but kept lozenges around for the odd cravings. I managed to finish the patch and was down to one or two lozenges a day but then I had a relapse. After a week or two in relapse, I threw away all of my vaping stuff. I'm back on the lowest-dose patch and I only have a lozenge maybe once every 4 or 5 days. I'll be finished with the patches by the end of next week and I hope to just be done with everything. I'll be especially glad to be off the lozenges as they are quite tough on my gums.

This morning I forgot to put my patch on for a few hours and didn't really have any bad withdrawals, so I'm hopeful the last step won't be too bad. I do worry about lapsing into serious depression though, I've long leaned on nicotine to ward that off.

 

[Birdjaguar]

...although CavLancer and I use it for our wall-less patios. So: floor, posts, roof.

Informal gazebo? (which usually has low walls and is circularish) or if you had plants for the roof an arbor. In the desert an arbor is quite nice. With your rain, I guess you need a real roof.

 

[Socrates99]

Every time I see this thread I chuckle to myself. I love keeping tabs on seeing what people are up to, but I just don't have the energy to pick (back) up any projects of my own.

My main thing is programming, and I do a lot of it. I used to have time for projects on the side (tools to help games modding, figuring out games modding in general, random little offline websites for skill-builders, that kind of thing), but these days? Nope.

To be fair, we've had a heck of a 2020. No nursery for the toddler since March due to lockdown. Working from home (with the toddler) since the same time. Most of my office laid off previously in February, but allowed to work through August (not timed for Covid or anything, just horrendously bad luck for all affected). Moved house last month as we're expecting a new baby in . . . a matter of weeks and we really needed the space. I did a ton of cleanup on the old house while still working my full 40+ hour weeks, on top of managing the move.

I've started things, but never really got further with them. I used to do a lot of pen-and-paper design, it kinda evolved into games modding and actual games / tech creation as time went by, but I'd like to get back into that. Failing that, I should probably pick up my little silly Pokedex I was creating. Nothing new to the world, but I was trying some (React) web stuff from the ground up, getting a better appreciation for the tools I take for granted at work (and want to continue using in the future).

Feels like I just got past that stage. My youngest is 5. I quit brewing for a couple years after my second was born. Too much work and I was cutting corners compromising quality. Now that they're all a little more self sufficient I've finally gotten back to doing projects again.

 

[amadeus]

The C++ programming is going along. A lot of it right now is supposed to be about setting up good habits and understanding how the compiler, linker, etc. work rather than just learning the commands and punching them in to do different things. I’m still doing just a little bit each day, to the extent that I can absorb new information and retain what I have learned so far.

I’m also going through junk in my apartment.

Those two things occupy most of my time at the moment outside of work... and posting here.

 

[warpus]

I'm working on a texmode ansi pack (LAZARUS #12), I have a pho guide website I'm working on (very slowly), I have to work on my deck (rip out boards, figure out irrigation, build new deck), i have other home projects that need doing (other deck needs new boards, I'm putting up new blinds everywhere to help with energy costs, just planted new shrubs, etc.)

At work I'm building all sorts of stupid stuff nobody will care about here (well, maybe, but it's work)

I am also anticipating the next demoparty so I can write a good track for it (and draw an ansi as well)

Just got back from a week away at the cottage and I walked into a bit of a mess here. I'm going to be cleaning up my house and doing some fall cleaning. Why do people call it spring cleaning? It's clearly not the spring right now.

 

[Zkribbler]

Informal gazebo? (which usually has low walls and is circularish) or if you had plants for the roof an arbor. In the desert an arbor is quite nice. With your rain, I guess you need a real roof.

This is rectangular.

I designed some movable flower boxes to affix to the top of the seawall, which lines one side of the salacot. The boxes have to be movable because for six months we get the habagat wind, which scythes down anything smaller than a tree. So then we shelter the flowers either behind the seawall or behind the house.

The roof is needed for both the rain and the tropical sun.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Zkribbler I was just reading about the 7th longest sandbar in the Philippines on Pungtod - Virgin Island, Bohol. Apparently your islands are famous for their sandbars. It seems like it would be fun to visit some of them.

 

[Zkribbler]

@Zkribbler I was just reading about the 7th longest sandbar in the Philippines on Pungtod - Virgin Island, Bohol. Apparently your islands are famous for their sandbars. It seems like it would be fun to visit some of them.

I'm under covid lockdown. Plus neither passenger ships nor airliners are allowed to leave my island.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'm under covid lockdown. Plus neither passenger ships nor airliners are allowed to leave my island.

Have you been there in the past?

 

[Zkribbler]

No