deathmtn

The biggest problem with three-wheel
saws is that the frame isn't rigid enough to properly tension blades that are more than ⅜ in. wide. This is because the triangular frame design is inherently weak and can't apply the pressure that is needed to tension all but the smallest of blades.
Without adequate tension, the blade flexes in a heavy cut and spoils the workpiece.

Too real

The Bandsaw Book:

Three-wheelers often have difficulty
tracking blades, they lack frame stiffness, and their small-diameter wheels are prone to breaking blades. I speak from unfortunate experience with a three-wheeled saw. My first bandsaw was a 1950s three-
wheeler, and although it was a sturdy machine, I soon discovered the many disadvantages of this type of saw. Most manufacturers have abandoned this problem-
plagued design. The only three-wheeled
bandsaws I've seen recently are the lightweight benchtop models.

Well, it was $20, man.

50-minute run, 15 pull-ups. Today’s adoy observation is that rich guys’ neighborhoods have fewer busy street crossings are are easier to run through. Score another one for rich guys!

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Job.
- Put up a hook. Just trying to maintain a steady drip of order-adding to the house, even when the day is full. (In related news, I was able to get one of the old garbage cans from the side of our house taken away by stuffing it into the current garbage can.)
- Inquired about why our compost wasn't taken away. It was because of construction. Garbage to Garden was really helpful, and we worked out another pickup time.
- Made dinner.
- Tried adding some high end to Hypnic, one of the pieces I thought was done but actually wasn't.
- Did some laundry.
- Painted on primer for paint samples in a couple of rooms.
- D&D logistics.

New Zeal and Ardor is heavy and has nice bass work.

Typical residential electric customers will see a 64% rate hike.

I saw that.

Ten-minute run, 15 pull-ups.

I do a lot of complaining about things getting worse, so it's fair to acknowledge that it's nice that we can do `Array.from(arguments)` instead of `Array.prototype.slice.apply(arguments, [0])` these days.

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Job. It wasn't a big deal, but I did a '50s TV dad kind of work task: I presented to the board.
- Vacuumed, haphazardly.
- Booked a vet appointment.
- Made dinner.
- Found Christmas presents for relatives but didn't pull the trigger because I thought I should check first.
- Added panning to Flooding. It is better with it, but it doesn't cut the excessively dense feel.
- Designed (mostly by lifting from D3) a way to manage "notes" entering and exiting during various parts of the piece, so I could try out an approach that's more sustain-based. It's going to be a lot of coding for something I'm trying out, though. That's what's bad about committing to trying things out until things until it sounds right.
- Adjusted various small pieces.
- Did two passes with wood filler on the tribute to the concept of a floor. Maybe it's just my taste, but wood filler kind of sucks. It doesn't look much different from caulk. I might as well have just filled the gaps in with glue. I guess this is why people just saw accurately instead.

12 pull-ups.

neglected Torvalds straight-talk on how great software gets made, and by who

“You must be this rich to do proper hacking” is not something bread-needing coders recently tapped into the decades-running pep rally for “community-driven” open source want to hear.

Sort of related to the delusion around hustling, this idea that if you just code for free, things will work out has grown to monstrous dimensions.

- Sanded, then put some wood oil on the boards that are going to be in my tribute to the concept of floors.
- Went to the DPW to get rid of the massive amount of cardboard that the bandsaw was shipped in. Felt good! People who both visit and work at the recycling center always seem happy and friendly. Maybe they all feel good about getting rid of stuff.
- Went to the bank allll the way in Somerville to finally take care of something that had to be done in person. A couple of months ago, I tried to start changing banks to something closer, but the new bank made it so that both Katt and I had to be there in person, so I gave up.
- Paid the insulation guys. I actually had to ping them about paying. They did a really good job, so I would have been happy to pay them earlier.
- Glued the floor boards down.
- Made dinner.
- Unpacked more boxes, found homes for most of the stuff in them. Tried to squeeze some things in the attic, and even moved my fence section up there to serve as a platform atop the insulation, but the attic door is narrow, it turns out.
- With Katt's help, moved the kitchen island (the workbench-to-be) into the cleared space in the basement.
- Started stripping the plastic veneer off of the kitchen island. It's gonna take a while, so I stopped after a few minutes to avoid getting it into my head that I was going to do it all tonight.
- Pinged the kitchen remodeling people to see if they've decided we have a chance of talking to them in the spring.
- Sent stuff the window installers said they need for an estimate.
- Katt actually got the guy into a swimming class (they were all gone within ten minutes of opening up), but it conflicts with his cooking class, so I inquired about cancelling that. And I guess someone is working nights at Medford Recreation. It's cancelled!

On one hand, I did a lot of things that I've been meaning to do for a long time. On the other, I also mean to finish Flooding by the end of the year, so I can't spend my next block of free time without working on it.