Update to "It finally happened to me: My Samsung fridge is Samsung-ing Out" from the other day.

Got the new control board for the front panel today, installed it, and everything finally works again.

It's been haunted for like 3 weeks. Go in for a glass of chilled water? Sorry, only crushed ice today. Need ice cubes? Too bad, just water. When it would decide to work, you'd get half a glass of chilled water and then it would start kicking out cubes and splash everywhere.

So glad it wasn't the main board; this thing would have been a pain to get in and out assuming I could even figure out how.

Got a nice amount of mileage out of it. Went to go trim up my beard yesterday and it just fell apart. The battery hasn't worked in years, so it only worked if it was plugged into the charger. I picked up the charger and the plastic case around the plug broke in half, and one of the metal prongs meant to be plugged into the wall fell out. And the cable insulation split open, exposing the wires inside. I could've maybe just replaced the charger, but it's some random proprietary standard and the blades on the old one have obviously seen a lot of use, so I decided to get a whole new trimmer.

Got the replacement today and enjoyed a good trim; shortest my beard's been in a few years. It's too hot to keep it so long.

And now my wife finally has stackable laundry in the kitchen.

Every time my brain is telling me it will last forever, even though it will really only be a few hours. But they feel like an eternity. Don't really have anyone to talk to about it (My therapist on Monday, but it's always hard to get going on those convos). No need for sympathy, buy ill take some positive encouragement if anyone has any to spare.

There's that one fork or spoon that you like more than others. Why?

I was at work (café) closing up, cleaning everything. I picked up the pot of soup to put it away in the fridge (picture of the type of soup pot, rather tall and unstable).

It then slipped from my hands, in free fall for about 2 inches or so, before catching it. I spilled maybe a quarter of a ladle-full of soup. I was so happy. It could have been so much worse, and it would have taken ages to clean up.

The soup today was a coconut cream curry cauliflower soup. It's good soup.

I'll spare you the background as there's ample horror stories of Samsung appliances (especially refrigerators). I would never have bought this one, but it came with the house. To its credit, it's been working flawlessly the last 5 years, but I knew it was only a matter of time before its Samsung-iness reared its ugly head.

I'm not sure which control board is glitching out, but the symptoms are all in the front panel where the ice/water dispenser is. The fridge still cools, but the front panel is haunted on a good day (cycles through the settings by itself, but you can still use it if you fight it) and just doesn't work at all on other days. So I guess the fridge still works as long as I don't wanna do anything crazy like adjust the temperature, select between water and ice, or turn the ice maker on/off. Hurrah?

Ordered a replacement front panel board from ebay and hoping that's the board that's at fault. If it's the "main" control board, I'm probably going to get rid of the fridge.

Last night, right before going to bed, I noticed that my 4K monitor seemed to be awake despite my computer being asleep. Upon closer inspection, I realized one of my cats peed on it, pooling right on the button board, causing the permanent awakeness. A lovely token of their anger that I left town for a few days.

I cleaned up the initial mess then and there, but knew it would require more work. Today I took apart the monitor case and cleaned every single part with isopropyl. After several hours disassembling, scouring , and reassembling, I finally have it working like normal, sans piss aroma.

I also just got a new 1440p curved monitor to replace my old crappy 2nd screen, so I got that set up as well. Now I have an even nicer system than before, despite the pretty major annoyance involved.

I planted more, but then the original ones came up today.

I'm growing them so my peas have something to climb on.

Last summar/fall, I was absolutely overrun with yellow jackets and had to buy some traps. Caught hundreds of them, but that was just treating the symptoms (could only locate/destroy 1 out of who-knows-how-many hives).

The trick is to catch the queens in the spring, and my reusable trap has caught two so far. That's two hives I don't have to worry about this summer.

A little over 4 miles. Just walking around the neighborhood, but it felt good!

It took me 2 days; Day 1 shopping and removing the old one - it died the stupid computer won't run the machine parts death that most things do these days Day 2 was dumping the old one, picking up the new one and going to the hardware store for things like an outlet and box and drywall saw. Then it took me something like 6? hours to figure out putting the new one in and trying to do a good job despite not knowing what the hell I'm doing.

I don't get how installers do this stuff so quickly and every single day. My back hurts. There's a bag of parts I don't know what to do with. There's no kick plate and there's rubber shit hanging down from the door of the new dishwasher and I don't know what it's supposed to stick to?? The new dishwasher is like, 1/4" (quarter of an inch) skinnier than the old one, so now there's a gap on the side of the cabinet that I don't know how to solve.

I'm both proud that I got it in and it seems to actually work and stuff.... but because there's some jank in there I'm not sure whether it matters or if I should worry about it or embrace it or what.

I'm also worried that it's gonna break in a couple years anyway despite my best efforts or whatever and that I'll have to go through this all over again.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

It took me 2 days; Day 1 shopping and removing the old one - it died the stupid computer won't run the machine parts death that most things do these days Day 2 was dumping the old one, picking up the new one and going to the hardware store for things like an outlet and box and drywall saw. Then it took me something like 6? hours to figure out putting the new one in and trying to do a good job despite not knowing what the hell I'm doing.

I don't get how installers do this stuff so quickly and every single day. My back hurts. There's a bag of parts I don't know what to do with. There's no kick plate and there's rubber shit hanging down from the door of the new dishwasher and I don't know what it's supposed to stick to?? The new dishwasher is like, 1/4" (quarter of an inch) skinnier than the old one, so now there's a gap on the side of the cabinet that I don't know how to solve.

I'm both proud that I got it in and it seems to actually work and stuff.... but because there's some jank in there I'm not sure whether it matters or if I should worry about it or embrace it or what.

I'm also worried that it's gonna break in a couple years anyway despite my best efforts or whatever and that I'll have to go through this all over again.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

He went to a yard sale with his mom and this is what he picked out.

I am not sure what happened to my underwear but it seems like the count is dwindling. Also a couple got worn out and had rips and I tossed them. Finally, I decided to order some online. One package got here a couple days ago (I misplaced it at first and just found it) and another is getting here on Friday of this week. Colors are navy blue and slate gray for the most part.

We are forever infested with squirrels here. They cavort on our roof and patio cover (making such a racket), they chew on our wood siding making holes or at least gaps for rats, they chew the lead boots on our plumbing vents causing leaks. They cannibalize our lawn furniture cushions for their nests. Squirrels are bad!

Last year I employed a tube trap affixed to a fence leading up to my garage and cleared out about 20 tree rats in about 2 weeks. Life was good for a while but they are back and today I redeployed the trap and within 3 hours I had my first customer. I wonder how many I can get this time around. I have self-imposed 2-week limit on my efforts because I will never be done if I don't set a limit.

I know I will never win the squirrel war but I will win the short term battle.

However, I also ordered a new head unit and learned I'll have to take the knob off in order to get the new radio in, so I did some redundant work. Mildly frustrating to have to repeat the steps. The car front seats are also not comfortable while working on the center of the cabin. I've never been in another car with such rigid left and right sides of the seat parallel to my legs.

Some of the cupboard doors in our kitchen started to ever so slightly skew over the years. It's been bugging me for weeks, so today I finally took the time to realign them neatly. Took me about two minutes and now everything looks tidy again.

A couple of knobs in my house got loose ober the years. As in the screws are partially stripped and can't be properly tightened anymore.

This morning I took the knobs off, stuffed wooden match sticks into the screw holes, and put the knobs back on.

All fixed and now tight as a drum. Very satisfying!

The door was hung weird and there would always be a gap at the bottom that my dogs could use to slide it open with great force, now it fits flush against the doorframe and they can't open it.

Making some cutting boards, not sure why, maybe my table saw is cutting a bevel or something, but the parts didn't line up perfectly, so now I have to flatten a couple end grain cutting boards. Which is rather difficult to do. I hope I burned some good calories throwing my bench plane back and forth for awhile.

In the context of what's behind it; a wide-ish river being funneled through a concrete construction, it makes sense to be careful about the currents. But void of any context it looks completely different:
"⚠️ Interdimentional portal Ahead ⚠️"