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elizabeth  ·  1302 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 2, 2020

fall is in the air and I love it!

A little frustrated with the plastic non-profit stuff right now. I feel I'm not a great leader, because even if I ask people to do stuff, I mostly end up doing the things myself. Am i just not asking the right way? Not asking the right people? Not asking for the right things? I'm not sure... But this whole thing kind of reminds me of why I've always liked working alone or in tandem with someone I vibe with. And always hated group projects at school.

On the good side of things, we took appart the shredder yesterday, re-arranged the blades in a different order and it seems to be working like a charm now! Fixed our jamming issues and shreds about 5 times faster. This time spent messing around in the metal shop is part of the reason I even joined a project like this in the first place, I want to learn some random building skills without taking boring classes or struggling by myself pointlessly. But I'm always delegated to organisation, coms, web, business or other computer work because I'm pretty good at it. Glad I broke out of that a little and got to do some fun stuff finally.

Gonna try fixing up the bike we found in the trash at the beginning of summer tomorrow. I've been talking about going bike touring for years now, and it kind of was my Covid goal before I got side tracked. My city bike is fixed gear so it was a no-go, but I also don't want to spend any money on this endeavour (maybe that's stupid? I feel I usually wait waaaay too long before investing in toys for hobbies). I think the bike is almost ready, but the gears are jumpy and funky. Never messed around with it but I'm going to try with the makerspace tools tomorrow, see how far I can get. I'm sure youtube will help. If it's good enough I'll try to at least do the 5h ride to my parent's country house this fall.