Seems like no matter how much I thought I had planned, there's always somewhere else I actually want a USB outlet somewhere else. Thankfully it's not too hard to swap them out. They also make these with 60W PD now
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The cool thing about Lutron Pico remotes is you can add a switch anywhere, including "impossible" places like the side of this wood railing
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I’m so weary of how people have internalized the propaganda that getting viral infections is no big deal.
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Currently reading: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (ISBN 9780316229258)
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Want to read: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (ISBN 9780593135204)
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★★★★★Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
This was a fantastic story of human connection spanning decades and the characters really drew me in. While a binding factor is their love for and creation of video games, I think it is still very accessible and hope that won’t put anyone off reading it. Read: it’s not just a story for gamers.
I keep coming back to this one line:
“Humans want so much. I am glad to be a bird.”
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Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (ISBN 9780593321218)
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"I'll just check my critical thinking and nuke it in the microwave" has to be my favorite quote from this Business Insider video on Trader Joe's white-labeled food
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📗 Want to read The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar ISBN: 9780593952313
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📗 Want to read Mind Games by Victor Appleton, Bruce Holland Rogers ISBN: 9780671756543
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📗 Want to read Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk ISBN: 9781250375100
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📗 Want to read Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins ISBN: 9780439678131
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"text": "In 2025 the folks at machineknit.community\u00a0did a 12 Months of Hats knitalong. I only joined at the end of the year, and am still getting my practice in with a lot of basics, so I was a bit too intimidated to jump into any of these in the actual year of 2025.\nBased on an interesting hat design request from a friend, for my first knitting project of 2026 I chose Kurt Payne's \"Chattie\" design, which was the November 2025 knitalong.\nUnlike my first hats, which were basically rectangles sewn up and gathered at the top, the Chattie is knit sideways in 10 sections, using short rows on one side to form the rounded crown. This results in a neat sort of spiral look to the crown. Also unlike my first hats, the brim of the Chattie is added after-the-fact.\nThe Chattie is a very flexible design. However, before I get into any complexities like color work, I made this \"quick\" one out of plain white fuzzy cotton+polymer blend just to get practice with the techniques.\nThe good:\nKurt's instructions were great. He starts with gauge swatches before walking you through taking measurements and using a chart to convert measurements to stitches and rows. Instructions were also included for different brim variants. I chose a single band of 1x1 rib for this test.\n The end result came out about the size I expected! At least, it sits snug on my head and just covers my ears when the brim is folded up.\n I like the look and the feel of the 1x1 ribbed brim and the overall shape, I think.\n I seamed the hat together on the machine and I think that went pretty well. There's a feeling of \"certitude\" I get when all the stitches to be joined can be counted and hung up on needles that I don't get when hand-seaming. I might be interested in getting a linker carriage for my machine to make this even faster.\n I made some mistakes (see below) but decided to power through and\u00a0finish. This was a test hat, so I didn't need a pristine result, just a finished object that tells me what I might want to change for a future design.\nThe oops:\nMy math worked out so the body sections had an odd number of rows, which was pretty chaotic when it came time to bring held needles back into work. I think in the future I will either make sure that I round that row count up or down to the next even number for all sections, or perhaps alternate round-ups and round-downs to end up with the same number of rows.\n I dropped two stitches in the body of the hat. That's really not bad. I\u00a0think\u00a0this happened because of weight management, or possibly pulling multiple needles out of work in a single row because I got distracted with said weight management.\n I decided to work the brim by re-hanging the hat body sideways on the machine, and I just couldn't seem to get the weights consistent. I had a lot of trouble with needles not knitting, or getting caught on the gate pegs and causing\u00a0later\u00a0rows to knit incompletely. This was a stressful, time-consuming mess. Surprisingly, the end result only had a couple of awful stretched out stitches, which I fixed up and pulled to the \"inside\" of the brim.\n Unfortunately, to fit correctly, the \"inside\" of the brim gets flipped up to become the outside, so you can definitely see my mistakes and my seaming, haha.\n I think I misremembered how to do a stretchy finish on 1x1 rib, or just plain pulled it too-tight as I went, resulting in the brim edge being too tight. This is just enough to be noticeable and annoying, but not quite fatal for the hat as a wearable object.\nFor the future:\nI'm interested in doing color work on a design, but a great deal of the visible parts of the hat have short rows such that the number of stitches per row is constantly changing. Simple patterns in cool contrasting colors should tolerate that fine, but doing nice all-over patterning like I want may end up being tricky!\n I'd like to skip sewing up 1x1 rib edges for a bit. I think for a future hat I will start the ribbing on the machine, the graft the live stitches onto the hat body directly, which should leave me with a nice stretchy edge without testing my still-poor hand finishing skills.\nThat's it for now. Thanks for reading!",
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Me looking at my todo list on a Sunday night after having done at least a couple things today, yet somehow it looks more like a list of what I did *not* do today.
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Today was a good day, I think, for knitting together.
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