Volunteered, Up and back, I broke it

For awhile there has been a need to paint the two signs that are at the entrance of our development. The harsh Florida sun has faded the trim portion pretty badly. It’s one of those things that isn’t hard to do but just doesn’t get done for no particular reason. The HOA president’s wife was going to look into having the guy that does a lot of lawns for us do it. I told her that if I am given the paint I will just do it. I can’t imagine it taking much more than an hour to complete so it’s not a big deal. I am sure I should be able to get it done sometime during this three day weekend.

Tomorrow I am planning a rather lengthy up and back road trip to the Clearwater area to both drop off and pick up something. It’s likely going to be a total of 4-5 hours of driving. I will probably take the Tesla even though it’s also going to be utilized for the long drive to Texas next weekend. The transaction this weekend will not make sense to some people and perfect sense to others.

I messed up my beloved A1 printer last night while trying to clear the first significant filament jam I have ever had in it. While I had it apart I wanted to raise the print head to make it easier to work on. I already had the filament manifold removed and sitting on top of the print head. The printer would not allow me to raise the print head until a “home” function was performed so I brainlessly pushed the YES button to initiate it. As the process started it moved the print head all the way to the left, snagging the filament manifold I had balanced on top of it and in the process pulling out the filament sensor ribbon cable.

I cleared the jam and thought I got the cable back in correctly but the printer now throws an error if it tries to initialize. I think either the cable got disconnected on the system board side or is damaged from the force that was applied to it. Luckily replacement parts are easily available on Amazon. For less than $10 I have a new sensor and cable on the way to be delivered today. To install it will require me to do some more involved disassembly but I guess it’s a good learning experience.