Best but worst, Brain transplant

Last night when I left my house to go play volleyball it was raining steadily at my house. Luckily at the courts which are maybe 8 miles away it only rained briefly before stopping. I had an odd night. I personally played some of the best volleyball I can remember in a very long time. I was pretty consistent in all aspects of the game. Despite this my team was 1-5, there was some inconsistency elsewhere, let’s just leave it at that. Even though losing never makes me happy I was pleased with my play and most importantly that I again walked across the parking lot to my truck without a limp although I can definitely feel some soreness and pain this morning.

Recently Amazon released the AI upgrade for their Alexa smart home assistants. I was one of the very early adopters of the tech when it first came out around a decade ago. It has always been “smart” but nothing like the AI you see today. Well that has changed. The voice is now like modern AI and the interactions are as well. You are no longer required to say Alexa prior to every inquiry or command. Instead you say it once to get it’s attention and then it will continue to listen to you for a short period of time where you can ask it anything in a much more natural way as you can with ChatGPT or Grok. I am digging the upgrade although I am sure that some people will be wary of letting AI into their home in this manner.

I took Monday off so I have my second extended weekend in a row. I have a number of things on my want to do list. It seems my hobby room/office and my desire to get it more cleaned up and organized is an eternal list item. I make some progress but then I start a project that makes it a mess again.

I am in the middle of a big 3D printing project of a shelf which will allow me to stack two AMS units on top of one of my printers, allowing me to access 8 rolls of filament at once. However this print job is taking forever. I have already gone through two full rolls of expensive PETG-CF filament and I am still not done. I would LOVE to get that shelf built and the AMS stack complete. Right now I have piles of parts I have already printed for the project scattered about the room.