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"Wot I dun", last Thursday's edition: I think I've found out why 8 consecutive keys on my late uncle's digital piano keyboard don't work. While following traces on one of they keyboard PCBs I brushed away what seemed like a bit of blue-green dirt, only to find a little gap in the track underneath. I think the "dirt" must have been a crystal of corroded copper! The 8 keys the trace connects to are the ones that don't work, so I may have found the problem. Now just need to solder a bit of wire on to fix it. (Not sure I'm even going to try just bridging the gap with solder because it's in an area with lots of very tiny tracks very close together and I can barely see the individual tracks without a loupe. But either side are sparser areas where I should be able to solder a wire without too much trouble.)
My aunt has lamented that she didn't know while my uncle was alive that it was something I'd be able to fix. I didn't even know while he was alive that there was something wrong with it that needed fixing - apparently he was good at playing tunes that avoided those particular keys.
Which reminds me, the car I grew up with looked almost exactly like this. Only differences I can immediately see were that my parents' one was right-hand drive, and I think the interior was a different colour. Otherwise, exactly the same.
They eventually sold it a few years ago to someone who wanted to do it up, but they ended up finding it was so rusty it sadly wasn't worth doing much more than extracting a few spare parts from and then junking the rest. It had been sat in a garage so many years it had to be dragged out - the wheels wouldn't even turn.
Huh, an interesting little sculpture creator, Hero Forge. I assembled this beartaur. Pity I can't swap out the hooves for paws, or make the lower body a bit less horse-like, but at least they have bear tails available.
Moving a few papers in my office, I came across a print of this image from a long, long time ago. I dug it up on one of my computers — the file is timestamped January 2003!
The second image is the file I originally downloaded (but a reverse image search comes up with nothing so I have no idea where it's from any more), and the first is what I printed out to put on my wall after I edited the stripes a bit.
I've had this up on the wall for literally decades but only really noticed it again after taking it all down to move house. It's sitting in a pile of other prints, waiting for me to get round to finding some way to display them all again.
Of course I came across another few nice zebrataurs while trying to find the origin of this one!
https://www.deviantart.com/drjavi/art/Zebrataur-913619568
https://www.deviantart.com/valkenkuart/art/Cyberpunk-Zebrataur-Commission-1073199466
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/22812918/
https://www.deviantart.com/larkitrope/art/Zebra-Centaur-663372093
Could technology just leave me alone for a bit? Please?
Also, why, Google, did you send this to an email address I didn't use when buying the phone, didn't use when setting it up, but added to the phone only to be able to access some spreadsheets I needed to access a while back? Huh? I have no idea which of zillions of Google things I need to poke to change where these type of emails go.
I did a cooking. (Admittedly all I did was follow the instructions on the sauce jar, but still - it came out okay!)
(Actually I do a cooking most days, but this time was just slightly less straightforward than the "remove packaging, place in oven at temperature X for time Y, remove, eat" that I normally do.)
Well, I've completed watching Disenchantment. Really really good — I need to watch it again. (And I'm not just saying that because of Jasper.)
I've been meaning to make these photos for a solid month, and last night I finally got round to it. Far too many days I've meant to suit up and take the pic, but then suddenly it's evening and I'm too tired and I never get round to it. Well, last night it was 3am+ and could have gone the same way, but I decided it would happen and I finally got there!
This was one of my Christmas presents from my family and I'm finding it weird how much I like it. I mean, it's just a mug and I have too many mugs already.
SNERRR. SO MUCH SNERRRRRR.
#uksnow GU35 2/10
Actually it's rain now, I think. Snow will probably be gone well before morning.
Me, this morning. I thought I'd try to have a break before I had to get working. #twoFeet
The dishwasher needed loaading, though!
![Inside the card: To [REDACTED] (and Spiderman). Thank you for coming down to the fete yesterday! The lads loved seeing Spiderman! From [REDACTED] (fete organiser). Next one 4/6/26!](https://floof.org/photo/832268496568896463ccc66086124038-1.jpeg "Inside the card: To [REDACTED] (and Spiderman). Thank you for coming down to the fete yesterday! The lads loved seeing Spiderman! From [REDACTED] (fete organiser). Next one 4/6/26!")
