Evan's Weekly Newsletter

September 25, 2023


I did not do much at all this week at work. When I think of something I want to build and then I start building it my energy gets totally consumed by that. I'm not good at having two things to focus on, but I usually can do one really well. Anyways, I got a soldering iron kit to weld some pieces together on my little computer chips but the iron I got was a super cheap one from China so it didn't work right. So I had to contort my hand in a weird way to get the heat on the metal and I accidentally touched my thumbnail to the iron and it burned it instantly. It was set to 400 degrees Celcius. I have a better soldering iron in the mail now so that this doesn't happen again. It was really lucky that my nail was long.

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My new exercise thing officially is jump roping. The cardiovascular work required for jump roping apparently is about the same as running. And I don't have to go on a run to do it, I can just grab the jump rope and do it whenever and wherever. It is really hard but I'll keep slowlly getting better. I was able to do about 1 minute without tripping up this time last week and now I'm at 2. One day I'll do cool jump rope tricks.

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I got this dumb wallet and key thing. Way too expensive and very hard to use. But my wallet and keyring are now insanely small so that's pretty cool.

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I read a great article about pinball. The guy's whole blog is really great, he sells his own software and travels the world and does weird things. I looked on the pinball map he links to and found a lot of places with pinball machines nearby. There's one in Acworth with 45 machines and one in Blue Ridge with 35 machines. Anyway apparently there is a lot that goes into pinball and Ilana and I are going to give it a try sometime this week hopefully.

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