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kleinbl00  ·  538 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 5, 2022

11) Swap one of the dysfunctional DSMs with another DSM, swap some cables back and forth, discover that of three DSMs, two are bad in two excitingly different ways. This is extremely fucking annoying as both of them were fixed at the start of COVID. They were, to be fair, in the garage and apparently living through a 118 degree summer killed a few things. Fuck you, global warming.

So now we're at

12) Order capacitors off eBay because while neither Mouser nor Digikey have what I want in stock until November, eBay has 2016 Panasonics for 30 cents each. Meanwhile, their density is such that apparently I need to get that solder rework station I've never bothered to own.

Spent three hours last night in a zoom meeting learning how to be a "stroke & turn official" for my daughter's swim meets. Which apparently involves walking around in a polo shirt and white shoes for 50 hours a year finding reasons why nine year olds aren't doing the breast stroke properly, but only after I've taken two tests, gotten a background check and apprenticed for sixteen hours.