I’ve been busy with many small projects on the go, interspersed with the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics.
Miniature painting
The construction project was building Alex Ikea drawers for My miniature painting hobby. Painting the Sylvaneth Treelord Ancient over my Summer holiday was fine but frustrating to set up and tear down every painting session. A couple of videos1, 2 inspired me and on the Australia Day weekend we visited both my daughter and Ikea. The moulding cost me another third the price of the drawers, but I’m really happy with the result. Crazy to think it’s 2.4m of paint bottles end-to-end. Over time the Citadel paints will be replaced. I’ve already transferred many to smaller dropper bottles.
Custom paint storage.
Coding
I had not planned on writing so much code over the last couple of weeks. It’s fallen that I’ve:
- Added a Buy Me A Coffee link to The Quantum Garden Website for anyone gracious enough to say thanks for what I do here.
- Submitted the Obsidian Wallabag plugin for official inclusion in the plugin list. I need to make some further changes to get through the approval hoops.
- I wanted to reduce the number of orphan files in The Quantum Garden Vault, mostly dates, so I created a script to build roll-up pages for months and years.
- Yesterday I created the Nuke broken links plugin to automate removal of a large number of broken links. It executes the plan I put forward in Bulk‑fixing broken links in Obsidian and is close, but not quite yet ready for public access.
Work
My client conversations have shifted. One of them let me to consider what I do and named me an Enterprise architect. It fits like a glove and has changed the nature of conversations. One in Melbourne was much more successful than it may have been because I had the new role definition in mind.
Health
I’ve had a couple of good gym sessions, despite the heat. Not enough walking, because of the heat.
Reading
Finished
- The Darkness That Comes Before - really enjoyed it
Currently reading
- Silverthorn
- The Hero of Ages
Gaming
I found myself playing Gran Turismo 7. Sometimes hooning around a virtual racetrack is what I need to blow out the cobwebs.
I tried Kingdom Come Deliverance one more time. It remains a totally frustrating enigma to me. I know others love it, but like Red Dead Redemption II, the gameplay and learning curve didn’t pay back the effort required. Since it was on my “should” list and since Should is a very dangerous word I’m happy to give it up.
Contrast that to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I was drawn in from the very first moment and remain so. Just before tea I finished Act I and it’s emotional.
The mower is finally serviced
I had “Service mower” on my holiday to-do list and never got around to it. Then, unsurprisingly, it stopped working. Now serviced, all that was needed was a new spark plug, oil and an air filter. Not bad for the third ever service of a mower bought in late 2001. The Honda HRU19.