Booked, When there’s smoke, A Mistake, A Shift

Yesterday I made arrangements to fly up to PA for my buddy Troy’s wedding at the end of March. When I went to PA last January I stayed with Troy during the visit. We have been friends since I got into the computer career back in 1992. It will be a pretty quick trip with my staying only three nights. I’m sure a lot of funny memories will be created in the short time span.

Troy and I have had some pretty crazy adventures over the years with the two biggest going down in Vegas and Green Bay. I’m happy for him that he has a good woman now and hope they have a happy life together.

I just realized the jacket sort of thing I was wearing in this picture was from my ex. It was thrown in a trash bag and donated to Goodwill shortly after this picture was taken 🙂

Last night while I was doing my mini-workout I heard a ton of emergency vehicles flying down the road behind my back yard. I walked outside and saw a large plume of smoke maybe a quarter mile away. I assume it was a house fire but could not see exactly the source. I certainly hope it wasn’t someone’s house that burned but the smoke did definitely have a burning wood sort of smell to it.

Yesterday I received four empty printer spools for the new A1 printer. You may ask why I would order spools with no filament? Bambu filament has this cool ability to reuse empty spools. You can split them apart and then buy filament only refills which are less expensive and more environmentally friendly. When I placed my initial order for the filament I did not realize that I had ordered a bunch of filament refills, without spools. My mistake wound up costing me close to twice what I should have spent on the filament. Mistakes teach lessons and this one was learned.

I did a brief video outlining both my mistake as well as how you put a filament refill onto an empty spool. With a full array of four different filament spools loaded on the A1 I started my first complex and long print which is scheduled to take over 19 hours. It included over 300 filament changes. This morning the poop catcher I have was filled despite the print only being 59% done. I may need a bigger toilet.

By the time I was done editing the video I was too tired to get any WoW playing in. Instead I headed to bed, popping a Unisom when I did. It worked like a charm, allowing me to sleep through the night. When I awoke this morning the haze wasn’t as bad either and I pulled myself out of bed within a minute of the alarm going off.

I have been really frustrated about the IT band problem I have been having as mentioned here a number of times. It is approaching three months in duration. I am at the point now where I have totally shifted my exercise routine where healing my IT band is the primary goal. I’m now doing yoga twice a week and I have incorporated additional strengthening and stretching of the hip muscles connected to the IT band into my normal routine. I am sacrificing weight training sessions to just keep blasting this problem until it is fixed. I don’t know any other way. There is definitely some improvement. I wish it was faster than it was but any movement forward is movement that is worth continuing, in my mind.