#garfield Logs

Mar 24 2025

12:21 AM rue_mohr: huh, well both first orders got back to me already to confirm they want them and provide handover instructions
12:39 AM rue_mohr: I wanted to name the company after the creek thats near by
12:39 AM rue_mohr: but the name of the thing is impossible to find
12:39 AM rue_mohr: http://media.ruemohr.org/images/watermill.jpg
03:20 AM rifraf: rue remember the servo i said would be here pretty fast, well its here, and perfect, now also have an original configuration of both servo and driver
04:00 AM rue_mohr: cool, its 2am, I have to wake up at 5am for work, and I cant get to sleep
04:03 AM rifraf: well i had a few beers, no all i am doing tonight is writing down wire colours and wat pins they go to
04:03 AM rifraf: and then what the input settings are
04:27 AM rifraf: general question, if your employee said that breaking bad was childs play what would you be thinking
08:01 AM rue_mohr: no sleep
08:01 AM rue_mohr: thats a first I think
08:01 AM Tom_L: practicing for being a bot?
08:02 AM rue_mohr: into the deep end!
08:34 AM rue_mohr: BASIC
08:34 AM rue_mohr: I'v decided my custom z80 laptop is all about BASIC and files, and serial IO
10:50 AM aandrew: I have fortunately not had one of my "episodes" with sleep in a long time now
10:51 AM aandrew: I think the rate is slowing down as I age
02:51 PM aandrew: rifraf: https://x.com/TRHLofficial/status/1903144562689732928
02:52 PM rifraf: :)
06:39 PM rue_mohr: I saw a car with an ad "professional cat grooming" It sounds expensive, I'm glad I dont have a professional cat
06:41 PM Tom_L: just a phat lazy one?
06:43 PM rue_mohr: he's not too chubby
06:50 PM Tom_L: just lazy?
06:58 PM rue_mohr: I think my cat sleeps 20 hours a day
06:58 PM Tom_L: takes a few min to eat ya know
06:59 PM rue_mohr: more time going in and out and in and out and in and out
06:59 PM Tom_L: attention getter
06:59 PM rue_mohr: so, yea, the people my co-worker knows had their ss cheques stop arriving
07:00 PM rue_mohr: they are wondering if its becasue there was this-country-that-country while in the military
07:00 PM Tom_L: military works different
07:00 PM Tom_L: afik
07:01 PM rue_mohr: yea, I will keep listening
07:01 PM Tom_L: hardly a basis for judgement
07:01 PM rue_mohr: apparently they cant afford to live down there without it, will pobably be moving up here
07:01 PM rue_mohr: not sure how that works
07:02 PM Tom_L: i live in one of the most economical areas of the US
07:02 PM Tom_L: i wouldn't be able to live in some areas
07:02 PM rue_mohr: yea
07:02 PM Tom_L: or want to for that matter
07:02 PM rue_mohr: blooming corner scrap metal store :(
07:02 PM rue_mohr: yea, I wonder about kat
07:03 PM rue_mohr: that cycle thru florida prolly didn't help her situation
07:04 PM rue_mohr: so yea, I got NO sleep last night
07:04 PM Tom_L: so i heard
07:04 PM rue_mohr: I aws pretty @@ at work today
07:05 PM rue_mohr: I'm on call starting tomorrow morning
07:05 PM rue_mohr: for a week
07:05 PM Tom_L: turn the phone off :)
07:05 PM rue_mohr: not a good idea for a hospital
07:05 PM rue_mohr: sometimes its stupid things
07:06 PM Tom_L: change your message to: i'm sorry you have reached a number that is no longer in service.... please hang up and try your call again
07:06 PM rue_mohr: security calls to say a door stopped working and it can wait till tomorrow, the call is 1hr on the books
07:06 PM Tom_L: you don't think that would fly?
07:07 PM rue_mohr: sometimes its like "the toilet in room xxx wont stop flushing"
07:07 PM rue_mohr: they are tankless, the vavles fail, its pretty straightforard to go replace one
07:07 PM rue_mohr: 2hrs min.
07:07 PM rue_mohr: +milage
07:08 PM Tom_L: where does the pressure come from on those tankless ones? they sound like they're gonna suck you right in
07:08 PM rue_mohr: just BIG PIPE
07:08 PM rue_mohr: so you dont want to leave them stuck in flush mode
07:09 PM rue_mohr: the variety of the calls is pretty wild
07:09 PM Tom_L: plane & ship toilets really suck
07:09 PM Tom_L: did you ever get more spring wire?
07:09 PM rue_mohr: nothing yet
07:10 PM rue_mohr: trying to get the account for shipping to get the pipe
07:11 PM rue_mohr: speaking of...
07:11 PM rue_mohr: yay, they make me an account
08:48 PM rue_mohr: http://media.ruemohr.org/images/p1340144.jpg
08:50 PM Tom_L: tty?
08:50 PM Tom_L: missing a few parts
08:52 PM rue_mohr: its my DIY z80 laptop
08:52 PM rue_mohr: from 1994
08:52 PM rue_mohr: disassembled
08:52 PM rue_mohr: I was working on it a few years back, I got some new ideas