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Went looking for one of the new sulfur caves but didn't find one. Might try again tomorrow or sunday, depending on peoples' schedules. Also did some experimenting with what kind of load the happy ghasts can carry. A loaded chestboat is fine, even with a sheep or a villager, but it won't carry a player in the boat/chestboat. Not a big deal since up to 4 players can ride on top but.. Minecraft physics. Note I said that it will carry a villager. This will make starting a new village much easier. No more luring a villager with beds or laying 1000s of blocks of rail.

Today I threw a splash potion of oozing into a pen full of chickens. Easy way to get half a stack of slime blocks. It could have been more but the phantoms kept getting in the way. The thunderstorm didn't help. Some sheep were involved as well when I accidentally hit the fence of their pen with my axe while trying to get some slime that had overflowed from the chicken pen. Lessons learned. I'll do it differently next time.

It has its moments. Basically a SoL romcom but most of the characters are genius-level misfits and it has some serious bits as well. I thought it was worth the watch. I heard it is very hot over there!

Rewatching さくら荘のペットな彼女 / Pet Girl of Sakurasou this evening.

Hot and smoky here. NOAA has issued a heat advisory and an air quality alert for the area. Not sure where the smoke is from but it's bad enough to give me a headache and mess with my eyes and nose. Smells like a brushfire but I've checked the usual wildfire sites and didn't see anything registering on satellite. At least not yet. I've been smelling smoke since late last night though. At least one satellite should have made an overflight by now. Can't see any obvious smoke column either, just a general pale haziness in the sky all around. There's a warehouse fire down south in East Los Angeles.. maybe that's it. That's quite a distance from me however, and I think a warehouse would smell more like plastic or chemicals than wood. I just hope SoCal Edison doesn't do one of their "public safety" power shutdowns and turn off my AC in this heat. It isn't even windy.

I feel like taking my clothes washer out to the range and using it for target practice! Never buy a Samsung washer!

"Jin-Roh"

Got a deal on an 8K (3840x2160) display. One of those TCL “smart” things. Used but of known provenance (from a workmate) and currently hooked to my new computer for “testing”. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! Watching an 8K YouTubie and …

Welcome!

The Sulfur caves biome is here....

Snack time!

Got a new set of battery cables for one of my solar batteries the other day but I don't like the connectors on them. The ones that came on the cable are aluminum and the bolt hole is too large for the battery's terminal bolts. As a result the metal around the hole - the part that actually connects with the battery terminal and carries the power - is too thin for my comfort. So I'm replacing the lugs on the cable with ones that are a bit more substantial. Mine are solid copper and larger overall but with a bolt hole of the proper size for the battery's bolts. More importantly the surface area for contact with the battery terminal is much greater. The same power going through more metal means less resistive heating and a cooler connection.

101F here today. Hope it's cooler tomorrow. I have outside work that I was planning on doing this weekend.

Egg and cheese sandwich on toast for lunch. I might have put a bit too much Tapatío on it though.