Added a 4tb ssd. Didn’t have mounting screws so it’s literally hanging from the cable on the back side of the mother board mount.
I am sure it will be fine.
Picked up on board to bring home with me. Mr. TM bought me a taster pack for Christmas, and I like what I’ve tasted so far…
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I didn’t know Welsh whisky was a thing. What a pleasant surprise.
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I haven’t opened either yet - I’ll let you know what they’re like when I do.
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That’s a very large bottle, a very tiny cat, or a classic example of perspective.
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There were some good Boxing Week sales up here so Mr. TM & I finally bought a new couch. We’ve needed one for a few years - the old one (25+ years!) really was broken down and not very comfortable anymore.
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Kitty!
We have a chair and love seat in our basement that my parents bought… circa 2000? They didn’t like it and gave it to me, so it was in my apartment, then the basement of our first house (briefly the main floor) and now the basement of our second house. Ancient but still comfortable and in surprisingly good shape.
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Fizgig (aka “Kitty!”) is really enjoying the new couch. We’ve put a blanket on it so little claws don’t catch, and he loves curling up against the armrests.
Oh shoot, I thought it said new shiner! 
Courtesy of a dog at work with no manners. It would be a bite and not a bruise if not for my lightning quick cat-like reflexes. 
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Upgraded the SSD in my laptop from 500gb to 4TB, and got Windows 11 installed on the new drive. I’m currently in the process of re-installing all my programs, which involves hunting down the licenses for some of them. 
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A functioning home budget. Mrs. Force10 got the first full paycheck from her new job.
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My lens finally showed up today. This is it at full extension, but it’ll probably never be used like that. It’s a really great lens at the 15mm range where I plan to do a lot of landscapes. However, I can use it extended for macro as well. That could be fun.
Also, please tell me that I’m not the only one who uses a paint pen to black out the camera logo on their equipment. I’ve always hated branding, and it is excruciatingly obvious on camera equipment.
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Honestly, I think you may be the only one 
I really don’t care one way or the other about branding.
I would also consider using the 85mm range as well. At 15mm you get a lot of image, plenty of which is often extraneous to the photo.
My smallest lens is 24mm and I have never considered needing anything smaller. In fact, I often take landscapes in the 100-200mm range because you can isolate out the things that are interesting.
Interestingly, one of the photography channels I subscribe to (Nigel Danson) recently said exactly the same thing. It was actually nice to know I’m not the only one to think that 
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I get a lot of great landscapes with my 105mm lens. The widest I currently have is 24mm but I would love to get a 14mm someday.
Also, @Rizak appears to have a crop-sensor DSLR, which means his 15mm would be equivalent to 24mm on our full-frame bodies.
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I admit, I was too lazy to work that one out 
That does mean the 85mm end equates to around 135mm full frame, so that lens is about equivalent to my most often used lens - and I do use the full range 
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Nikon has that new 135mm f/1.8 that I covet but cannot justify since my 105mm f/2.8 is close enough and that 135 is expensive.
Upgrading my soldering game dramatically. My eyes are too old to do it the old-fashioned way. For less than $100 on Amazon, features I particularly loved:
- bright 9" screen
- USB-rechargeable internal batteries (one for the scope, one for the extra lights)
- HDMI output
- Useful independently, or PC sees it as just another camera if you plug in via USB.
Damn, that is one cool device.
+sigh+ Another item on the “Stuff to buy when I win the lottery” list.
Did you notice, however, that all the ‘onscreen’ images were taken from an angle and are not representative of the actual camera view? (Which would be straight down, not at a 45 degree angle.) Took me a few minutes to work out what was tripping my “Something isn’t right here” senses.
I picked up a Bambu Lab A1 Mini for the whole family when I was in Philadelphia a few weeks ago. It was a bit more than I’d initially planned to spend (I was looking at Reality printers originally) but damn is this thing easy to use. Zero messing around, it’s about as close to out of the box plug & play as you can get - it even came with a couple models pre-loaded on an SD card like Benchy so you can get a test print done without even hooking up a computer!
We’re printing our first original creation today, a set of foot extensions for a table we put into the camper to get it up to the same height as a knee wall that it sits up against. Pretty simple design, dakson had it drawn up in Autodesk Inventor in less than 10 minutes. But it’s a thing that we’ve designed and now printed ourselves, which is pretty sweet.
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