Over Memorial Day weekend we decided to go camping. I started looking for a place to camp a few weeks prior to the weekend, and found that there are a lot of places to camp in Idaho, but there were a few issues we had to figure out: I found that near to Boise there…
Printing a Camera – Part 3
More parts! Well, new versions of some you have seen before and new ones too. Fist you get the new focus rails: They now have slightly rounded corners, and slots rather than holes. They printed really well. The gears look great, the surface looks good as well. I had one corner come up just a…
I Voted – for Something New
Yesterday my wife texted me when she dropped off a kid at school asking about voting. She said that apparently there was a vote taking place. I had no idea. There had been no mailers that we got (I don’t think) and no signs out or anything. And what was it for: Meridian Library District…
Printing a Camera – Part 2
It has a been a few weeks since I posted about how I am trying to 3D print a Canham Camera. I have been busy making prints. I talked with my dad about it more, and I got a file to try that he already had drawn up in the right format. I that printed…
Garden Boxes
The house work continues trying to get some of the things we had in Chandler here in Meridian, and that has meant that my wife asked me about garden boxes. We had one small area in the backyard that was fairly flat that I thought I could get some garden boxes into. So, I did…
3D Print and New Weather Information
We have had a weather info screen at our home in Chandler and we brought it here to Idaho when we moved. It showed the basics of inside and outside temperature, humidity, data and time. Well, it had been on the fritz for a while, and not giving reliable data. I decided to look into…
April Music
Time for my April Top Music Listens. I went with artist and tracks this time. Relient K for the win, and by a lot as well. 61 listens that is a bunch for one band. And then looking over at the tracks you only see them come up twice in the top 10 with a…
Student Differences
This semester I have been teaching 2 identical labs at BSU. One of them met from 10:30-1:15 and the second met from 1:30-4:15. Both classes feed students from the same sets of lecture classes. They were both a mix of men and women (but mostly men regretfully). But the students were very different from each…
Indoor Bicycling Program Decision
I have written a few times about how I bike inside now that I am in Idaho for a variety of reasons (snow, cold, wet, allergies, safety), and maybe I will get outside again in the future, but for now it is all inside riding. I blogged about different programs I was trying out to…
Making Connections
Being an adult in their 40’s with kids in the house still and 3 part time jobs makes it very hard to make connections with similar people. I have not been good about making connections with people since shortly after college so there isn’t really anything new here, but at the same time, this sucks…