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Now I am doomed unless the sign worked.


It's a suitably scary sign! It would keep the Instacart guy off my porch where I put a box out for him to leave the stuff... he'd probably just drop the groceries in the driveway instead and run screaming back to his truck.

Well while I can't get more work to my long arm quilter during the pandemic, I'm going to shift gears and work on little projects I can machine-quilt or hand stitch myself.

Or just make more blocks for some quilting projects that have been languishing in project boxes for months or even years. I have this one that uses what are called Rabbit's Paw block. That seems like it might be fun to work on as spring approaches, the alternating blocks are just a jazzy kinda tropical batik print. Laid some of that out on the ironing board to let the idea grow on me a little. The batik blocks need a press anyway so there's something to start on.

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Finally got around to building my home UnRaid NAS.
The whole thing started with an 'extra' Ryzen 1700 lying around and my QNAP from a little over a year ago just dying out of nowhere.
So the new DIY NAS is 5 - 4TB Ironwolf NAS drives, 4 - Samsung SSD for caching and dockers, 32GB RAM, Asus microATX board, Fractal Node 804 case, Noctua fans.
 
More making something out of something. This is a round Nikon lens leatherette case that I cut the top off and then cut slots in it to create a MacBook Pro stand, also a slot for external SSD drive. Gets it out of the way for more desk space. Cheers
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I cut this sign today way to large I had to cut part of it and slide it and cut the rest. I think I have cut over 30 salt and straw signs. if you don't know what that is it is a high end ice cream shop that can have some crazy flavors.
a standard pear and blue cheese. they have had pigs blood I think halloween and turkey skin and other crazy flavors. the last time I ate it they had a snickerdoodle one and it was incredible. chocolate not bad. I cut them for a local sign guy and he finishes them. this one is going to coconut grove.
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Revitalized my classic that I bought at grand central station during a very memorable trip. Transfer speeds are pretty good so far and I plan to use it has a portable ssd.
 

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