well my plan to journal daily really did fizzle out already lol.
10 days have past since i last did a recap... time is flying by at the moment... im having to use my calender to remind me what happened these days since theres no way i would remember what i did 10 days ago haha.
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fri 12 - our friend marc from wellington is staying with us this weekend. he arrived in the avo and we caught up over some tea. that evening we biked to a pub in brunswick for a few drinks. i dont remember what i was working on this day.
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sat 13 - lucy was running a garage sale with some friends today. i helped her put up some signs for this and also made coffees and breakfast burritos for everyone who came through. it was a fun community activity - they met some nice neighbors and sold a little bit of stuff. that evening we went with her cousin to watch his daughter perform in a Pride and Prejudice play. it was really good! quite by chance there was a free non-working k40 laser cutter on market place nearby where the play was so her cousin helped me pick this up and take it home - im going to try get it working again so i can use it for prototyping panels and circuits for underscores. we also ended up going to a small rave in basement beneath a club in collingwood. the music and energy was fun and ended up having a good time despite being very tired
sun 14 - our friend marc was leaving this avo so we spent the morning hanging out with him. we walked into ascot vale and back through flemington to try a place that does vegan croissants which were very good. it was a nice day and we all sat in the park - including our flatmates cat who came out on a leash.
mon 15 - i dont remember what i worked on today. its possible i was preparing and assembling the units for the perfect circuit order that came in a few weeks ago - it was mainly for a few more recurboys both standalone and eurorack enclosed. i needed to order a few parts (did a recurboy restock for my own shop also) so as these came in i would have been working on them... that evening lucy and i walked to brunswick to pick up some stuff from my old studio. had a drink and nice burger on the way
tues 16 - i taught the last session of my online class this morning. it went quite well even though i did go overtime because there was a lot of loose ends to tie up. seems like the people who were following along did enjoy the class and some people sounded interested in a follow up class which is one idea... that evening we had the closing night of the filmclub TRASHPALACE also. we watched an indonesian folk horror/action film called LADY TERMINATOR which was very silly and a lot of fun. i ordered cheap pizza and a good number of people came through to see off the weekly screenings (19 in total that got us through the winter!)
wed 17 - i was considering going for an overnight bike ride today (to clear my head a bit after closing some things and starting others etc) but weather wasnt quite right so ended up working from studio instead. was quite focused finishing up the soldering and assembling for the perfect circuit order when the final parts arrived this day.
thurs 18th - i tried to test the prototype of my updated sync_ope eurorack revision (this was a single pcb in 4hp with parts on front and back...) the idea will be for it to be 4layer so both sides have their own dedicated ground plane but for prototyping im doing 2layer and weaving gnd throughout (whivh is not ideal but hopfully enough to prove the circuit works) i was having multiple issues debugging this circuit and getting a bit frustrated with it all. in hindsight i think my studio was too messy and i wasnt in the right mood to do the difficult job of debugging a circuit... i will come back to this next week and see how it goes... i think i was feeling a bit stressed in general about the business and how long it takes me to finish projects... in the afternoon we went to the zoo which is nearby our place and did some work from the cafe there. i was working on a new module (an adaption of the cadet c2 with my rp2040 sync) which i hoped to add to my current jlcpcb order. that evening we went to dinner at my cousins place which was really fun - rode the bikes there and back in the night...
fri 19 - lucy and i worked from a cafe and then the flemmington library. i was laying out and routing the first prototype of the c2 adaption circuit which i did finsih and ordered pcb and stencil to test from... in the afternoon i wanted to work on CYPHER code stuff but didnt quite had the energy. instead i brainstormed abit the series and naming of the eurorack modules i was working on... plus had some more ideas for other modules in this series too.. it is quite a lot of ideas kicking around but i think it could end up being quite interesting... had a quiet night in..
sat 20 - lucy and i walked into the city to run some errands. we picked up a trolley thing from marketplace and ate at an indoneasan place near southern cross. our flatmate was having his birthday party that evening where we had rented a boat to drive 24 people around the harbour/port phillop. this was very fun saw lots of industrious parts of melbourne i hadnt seen before. the party came back to our place and we stayed up late listening to music and hanging with friends
sun 21 - spent the day recovering from a big night. cleaning the house (my parents are staying here next week) and just relaxing... feeling pretty ready for the next week - i hope its a good one!