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It's impressive to see how much texture they have managed to get out of a model built with smooth plastic parts.

 

That's why I grabbed it on sight.

 

So the hutch arrived today. Pretty impressed, had a few minor teething issues at first. Few screws not biting, had to reposition some of them. Nothing major but as it was like the second panel I was a bit worried!

Overall I can see why it was so expensive compared to other hutches. It does make their previous hutch (while still completely serviceable!) just a bit crap… they’re already making use of the room and figured out the ramp which was my biggest concern.

Think I may stop being such a cheapskate and get the insulated layer rather than attempting myself. Throw in some microwaveable pads like you’ve mentioned and I think they’ll be fine

 

A BMW i3. Really impressed with it and the past two cars I've had being Diesel, this was truly bizarre pulling off in silence. I'll be going to pick it up next week. Then it'll be time to sell my beloved Golf that's done me proud the past 7 years.

 

Nice, an impressive bit of kit. My first ride in an electric car was an i3 with range extender. The acceleration felt like a roller coaster ride!
So spacious too for the outside dimensions.

 

Weeks Holiday In Torronto Canada In january over my Birthday , might as well spend my 40th in a different country lol

 

XFX Speedster QICK 319 Core Edition AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 Go GDDR6

 

Nice, I think we may be looking at one of those when we next come to upgrade the car. We currently drive a 3 door Mini Cooper S as even though it is a Mini, it is a car that my wife can get in and out of easily given that it has the larger doors and a steep windscreen. She has fibromyalgia and finds it hard to bend in the middle or "scrunch down", not a good thing for fitting in cars especially when you are also 6' tall... Being able to open up the doors like that would probably help her a lot, especially if we moved the seat back too (no need for anyone in the back).

 

Fancy notebook for when I start my new job - I need to make more notes and reminders & stuff, and I really do want to get into the habit of hand-writing stuff.

Leuchtterm 120gsm notebook



Leuchtterm pen loop (basically stick it down in the back page of the notebook)



I already bought one of these notebooks a while back to use as an ill-fated bullet journal and I really like the quality. The thicker paper will help to eliminate bleed-through as I get used to hand-writing again with a fountain pen.

EDIT: Aaaaand I've just realised that I'll need VOC filters for my respirator, because particle filters won't really help against vapours given off by casting resin... Might as well grab some new safety specs while I'm at it...

 

EDIT: Removed double-post...

 

Oh, nice. I'm currently rocking a couple of Rhodia notebooks - a Rhodiarama Goalbook with white paper, and a Rhodiarama Perpetual with standard Rhodia ivory paper, both dotted rather than lined. Absolutely lovely things.

 

Visa,
City pass,
Rink side Icehockey Ticket,
As close to the court as my wallet would allow Basketball Ticket,
Sennheiser IE-900s (Hopeing they don't freeze in my ear lol)
New cosmic cable.

 

The notebook I got for my bullet journal is dotted, as it makes it easier to lay out whatever you want on a page. I'm sticking with lined for a "proper" notebook though - my handwriting is pretty poor, and I go all over the place without lined paper!

I'd seen the Leuchtterm notebooks recommended in a couple of places, alongside the Lamy Safari fountain pen. Deliberately went for the heaver 120gsm paper to try and avoid bleed-through - the last time I hand-wrote stuff regularly was over 25 years ago at school!

 

Leuchtterm are superior to Moleskine, well played for not falling to the marketing trap.

 

There's apparently some obd2 coding that automatically opens the window halfway when you open the door, it's meant to make it easier to get in and out in tight spaces. It's a bit of a shame BMW have stopped production of the i3 to focus on the i4 and iX. I hope it gets a revival somewhere in the future.

 

I’ve never used a Moleskine notebook, but I certainly have heard of them. To be honest, it’s nice to use a good quality notebook regardless of what the brand is.

It’s not something I’ve often needed, but in the past whenever I’ve wanted one I’d just grab a cheap Oxford notebook or supermarket equivalent. I’m so used to just bashing out notes on a keyboard, because I can type far faster than I can write. But then that creates its own organisational problems: unless I’m using the same platform/software consistently, it’s very easy to lose digital information. My work laptop currently has about 6 tabs of notes in Notepad++ and half of them aren’t even saved - I just rely on the temporary unsaved files cache because it’s easier than coming up with a meaningful file hierarchy.

I’ve been tempted in the past to set up something like Obsidian, but that inevitably leads to questions of how I should organise or link information. That snowballs into something that starts to feel too big and too difficult to manage... Compared to just… writing it down on a piece of bloody paper…!

 

Yeah, Leuchtturm are really good. I went with Rhodia because I couldn't see that Leuchtturm do the format that I wanted - which is a week on one side, and a blank (dotted) page on the other, but crucially, the weeks need to be undated. That's what the Rhodia Perpetual does, so I got one of those, and then I liked it so much that I got myself a Goalbook too - which is basically identical to the Leuchtturm Bullet Journal.

Yeah, Moleskine are overpriced and their paper is like bog roll imho - far too thin to take ink properly.

 

I tend to prefer something I can pocket, it's not unknown for me to go down the pub with a notebook and start designing something. The red Moleskine was from work, I've had it for years and I kinda like the diaphanous paper (saying that I only write on the right hand page because of the bleed). The Field Notes are the slightly larger version and are a big favourite, 5mm dot grid is great for scale drawing. The Rhodia flip pads were pretty dang cheap and the paper is excellent, almost waxy with no bleed. Well worth a try if you can live with yellow. And the little Lamy ones are good for just having stashed away somewhere.

 

I haven't bought a GPU since 2018, so it was time to replace the 1050ti with an RX6600... I can finally play MS Flight Simulator.