So, does anyone have some good wins this week? Something cool? Something neat? Something you’re proud of?
My win as lame as it sounds, we had a storm this morning that knocked out power. It came back before anything in the fridge spoiled and, despite being on-call for work, nothing major broke during the time I was offline.
that looks sick
Thank you. I put a lot of work into it.
GF moved in (at least all the large stuff)!
This was followed an hour later with a distinct non win of GF having a medical issue resulting in an ER visit (she is ok, but stuff needs to be addressed)
Folks came to lake, had great sail with my dad.
I know how rough ER visits can be, hope everything is ok (or will get ok)
Robot kinda walks!
(Trying to use controller evolved in physics sim)
Yours is closer to walking than mine is, looks good.
Someone put me in a museum for making robots, and I finally got to see it after being in and out of hospitals for months.
I love both robots and museums, but not so much hospitals, so this was a good day.
Congratulations! This is seriously cool.
I was thinking yesterday that I’d made a pretty bad mistake at work, causing massive rework.
Turns out, past me anticipated the issue and had the part made to the size we needed the first time. Saves us several thousand USD and several weeks of time.
We had new sod put in the yard - it looks good and the front lawn is finally flat. Now if we just get enough rain to keep it alive. (Watering 3 times a day!)
i’ve had a sore throat the past two days of my DC trip and i woke up this morning and it had disappeared
Started the week volunteering at the creek cleanup with my kids. Ended up very tired and dirty but we pulled out an amazing assortment of junk.
Ended the week with the first power on of our swerve test platform. Now just the small matter of code 
W H E E L S
Finally got our 3d Printed wheels onto the robot
Did some testing around (only 55 pounds right now) and they didn’t disintegrate, which is good.
Made a second story to put 50 pounds of weights, testing should occur Monday
Also, got a new 3D Printer that can print pretty much any material once I get it an enclosure.
(printer on the right)
i’m at a wedding (i don’t feel rich enough to be here)
I turned 44.
Though I felt 44 (and sometimes 45) for some time now.
I’ve had lots of ice cream in the past few days, which was delicious (win).
And now I have motivation to exercise (win).
I took a trip on the ferries to see a friend in the Island Borough of İstanbul, which is 100% car-free. That was a lot of fun. It was relaxing, and that’s what I need at the moment because the past week has been… difficult.
There’s a set of islands (Prince’s Islands) that form one of the boroughs of İstanbul in the Marmara sea, which have no cars, some electric-golf-cart like buses, and mostly are just small so everyone walks. They’re historic, super cute, and the weather is like 4C cooler than the city, so it’s a slight reprieve from the insane summer heat. There’s a lot more flowers and wall-creeping greenery and stuff there too, so it’s just pleasant. A nice break with a bunch of friends.
I also successfully managed to cook dinner for 11 people on Friday night, which was pretty big for me given the events of the week. We had really good homemade butter chicken, Samosa, and some Nestle recipe cookies. 
had a great breakfast for dinner
