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1/1/2023, 3:43:43 PM

Cats in the wild may not drink from
a water source near where they've just consumed their kill, since dead
prey could contaminate the water. That's why many feline experts
suggest that owners place their cats' food and water dishes in separate
locations.
Wow, inconvenient!
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1/1/2023, 3:40:29 PM

From Indoor Cat:
"In the wild, they spend six to eight hours a day hunting, performing 100-150 attacks each day, successful only about 10 percent
of the time," Dr. Lane notes. "
Cats have a lot of attacks per day! Though I suppose that breaks down to about 18 per hour, which is less than one every three minutes. Still, I assume these are whole-body efforts, rather than just using their arms and maybe a little footwork to stab with a knife, so I’m still impressed.
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1/1/2023, 2:54:48 PM

MEGA TEA is happening.
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1/1/2023, 2:34:43 PM

People need to take care of their overgrowth.
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1/1/2023, 2:34:05 PM

Swan families are smaller than I thought. Nuclear.
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1/1/2023, 11:10:20 AM

And after a long time spent in Yoshi’s Crafted World, Pikmin 2, and Paper Mario, we’re back to Pikmin 3.
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1/1/2023, 10:39:49 AM

I still somehow do not have Covid! I am feeling sluggish, though.
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12/31/2022, 9:30:28 PM

King of Tokyo isn’t the worst game, but when you’re wiped and want to go to sleep but promised to play a board game, it’s really nice to roll six points and suddenly end the game.
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12/31/2022, 8:04:28 PM

The water under the bread trick does produce French-type bread crust!
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12/31/2022, 5:19:14 PM

Katt’s doing One Weird Old Trick to make French-type bread.
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12/31/2022, 4:05:48 PM

10-4-4-4-4-12.

It is easier to just run or do pull-ups, so I haven’t done this workout in a while, skipping 60 burpees each time I skip it.

It could be partly why I have a weak core and back problems. Hopefully, I do not wake up tomorrow with said problems!
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12/31/2022, 3:54:03 PM

Well, a cat didn’t like the wall and peed in the bathtub, so that concludes that phase of the experiment. We’ve cut the wall down and will see if it still keeps the litter in.
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12/31/2022, 12:07:33 PM

Despite the guy having covid for a week, then Katt having it for a week, I’m still testing negative. Maybe it’s waiting for 2023.
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12/31/2022, 12:04:20 PM

As a minimum effort to have non-crude-looking shelf standards posts, I sanded and stained these 1x2s from Home Depot. They won’t look great, but they won’t be bone white.
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12/31/2022, 12:02:10 PM

You can make a handsaw miter with two clamps and some junk. Clamps, man.
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12/30/2022, 8:09:01 PM

OK, I have etched in where the slots will go in the side wall. Now, I have to decide if I’m going to try to do this with a handsaw and chisel or select and buy a jigsaw.
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12/30/2022, 11:03:43 AM

Some places will provide 3D models of shelf brackets so that you can throw it into your 3D model of your entire building!
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12/30/2022, 8:22:23 AM

I saw a bit of a huge shred compilation video, and it sounded like video game music to me. I think video games may now be the biggest commercial home for that kind of thing now. I wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t also the case for more lowbrow classical music, too.
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12/29/2022, 11:01:13 PM

We’re doing an experiment in litter containment and also cat tolerance of weird changes.
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12/29/2022, 11:00:11 PM

Already hit a situation in which the cut was too long for the saw guide I bought.
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12/29/2022, 10:59:19 PM

There was a lot of cool stuff at Longleaf Lumber, but I couldn’t in good conscience get wood that’s $10/sq. ft., given the non-zero chance that I’d mess things up and just have to scrap it.

So, I got stuff from the $2 pile for a total of $22 of wood. One of the boards has deep cracks, so I’m pre-emptively gluing.
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12/29/2022, 2:57:10 PM

Yesterday, I thought a trumpet part sounded thin but might work. After a break, I listened to it today, and it sounded like the music Pikmin plays to note that your day went poorly.
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12/28/2022, 10:40:55 PM

poly-decomp seems a little magical, but then I tried it on my own messy SVGs and got this. Still impressive, though!
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12/28/2022, 3:02:04 PM

The weird thing about veterinary medicine is that every recommended procedure sounds like an upsell because in a sense it is because of the optionalness of pet life. Human doctors don’t say “you need to get an echocardiogram, and it will cost you $480.”

Then again, maybe they should!
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12/28/2022, 1:35:37 PM

Hey, the saw guide does indeed make it possible for me to cut in straight lines. After using it, I realized I could have used a board and two clamps as a saw guide, though.
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