• Made beef stew with japanese cream stew mix over the weekend. Was pretty tasty. And surprisingly the beef actually came out tender.
• Watched a lot of Baked Beans Garage. This guy makes some good long form car content. Tractors too. And other small engine things.
• My PTO got approved finally for my vacation. Happy about that. 9 more days until I get on the plane to Japan.
• Ate a rodeo burger from BK for lunch today. God I love BK double cheeseburger.
• Had premade Golden Curry with some good calrose rice. Very tasty slop. Might order more pouches on amazon.
• Overall not a bad Monday, went by fast.

I got my 3,000mah lipo batteries in the mail today. When I went to connect one to my lora node the jst header just popped right off the board like it was never soldered on. I quickly fixed it by soldering on a big blob of, well, solder, then cleaned the tip and just poked at it until the excess causing a bridge was gone. Did a quick sanity check with a multimeter to ensure it was not actually shorted still, got NC in one orientation and 2 mega ohms with the probes the other way around so I guess that's good. Apparently the charging circuity will show some resistance or something. Got the battery installed in the case and switched to my angled antenna instead of the straight flexible one. Node is ready for magfest now. Hopefully I am not the only freak walking around with a lora node, we'll see in January.

Oh right and I totally forgot that the last of my aliexpress haul arrived. So here is everything. (and my stupid fucking iphone has an explosive "other data" problem and I literally can't download a photo from icloud to it right now. great. I was going to wait a while before wiping and restoring this piece of shit, but I guess I'm doing this tonight. Sure hope my mobile game accounts don't get nuked)

I should play some video games, but I'm not really in the mood for anything more involved than some casual tetris while I have youtube on the second monitor. I just got Tetris Effect setup in Lutris yesterday. I still don't really understand how gaming on linux works, but I was able to stumble my way through setup with a little googling.

Still making progress with Gundam ZZ. I actually like this series more than Zeta. I didn't think I would like it but I think the fact that it is less serious feeling helps. Right now I'm at the Moon Moon part. Literally feels like an old episode of Star Trek. Also, the dub situation is weird with this series. There was apparently an English dub made for the asian market, but it's somehow not available anywhere as far as I can tell. The plan was to just watch all of Gundam in English, but I don't actually mind reading the subs for this series so far and actually paying attention.