#stl
Anyone got a favorite independent bookstore in St. Louis? (Want to get someone moving there a gift certificate)
Riverfront
Buildings
Seph 
Ugh, what a morning
Yesterday was a bit rough, some 4+ hours dealing with the DMV and St Louis County to get the title to my husband's car, he died with neither a will nor a TOD on the car, but thankfully I'd found an estate lawyer's blog with instructions on how to claim it under Missouri's exempt property law, which might be a bit old...
Yeah, that list is fun.
Any how, fell asleep at an earlier time than normal, and slept hard, woke up a couple times like usual, but unlike usual I didn't stay up, usually I do because why not, but not this time. I did finally wake up at 5, and decide to stay up, though I needed some Tylenol because my everything hurt, especially my back. Now I'm just feeling kinda meh, but luckily I don't have much to do today, few things I want to get done today, but no pressure, just little odd things around the house, part of the clean up.
Fleur Stl
@DeepDishSwift @Amy @joshdholtz Also, shameless plug that here in St. Louis, MO, USA we have @STLSwift monthly meetups! Usually have around 8-10 attendees, so we’re basically as popular as microwave popcorn 
Our city needs to become drastically more environmentally conscious, not less. Don't add AI shit to our grid at taxpayer expense.
@apzpins Its not a bad idea - is there a #mastodon #STL you have in mind? I found this https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5138430 but it requires blue to white filament swap mid-print; and theres no clip to attach to a lapel. Ideas? #3dprinting
A new Post-Dispatch analysis found that Republicans' redistricting plan likely would cement GOP control in 7 of 8 Missouri congressional districts, with only slightly elevated risk for the party in future elections.
Random sights of KSTL Lambert Field (commercial side of the home the F-15 and F/A-18).
I've never seen a moving walkway called a "Speed Ramp", but that's adorable and I love it.
The Missouri Conservation Dept seedling sales opened today. I placed our order at 4:15am this morning. As of an hour ago about a dozen things had sold out already, one of which I ordered. I'm excited to get them next March. We got 35 seedlings total for us and two others.
We will have several extra black walnut trees seedlings if anyone in the area is interested, let me know.
I'm making a big Aldi's run for this, hopefully $100 or so can be found in our budget. It's not much but we have to do something...
Gateway Food Pantry to hold door-to-door food collection
> The Gateway Food Pantry in Arnold will hold a door-to-door food collection drive in September with homes inside its distribution area receiving donation bags between Sept. 3-6 and volunteers collection donations on Sept. 14.
Seizing the means of production means that now I want more printers...
Seriously though, big prints and wanting to print something else in the meantime makes scheduling difficult. A critical path needs to be defined for these projects going forward - or settle on some designs that become a "standard" that can be low key stock piled between projects.
Printing ABS is as much of a pain as everyone says. Needs some research and experimentation. Perhaps justification for another printer. Ha!
Yard work over due
Started at 0630 with the front lawn that hadn't been mown in three weeks. Mostly went well, but my Hart equipment needs new batteries, could've sworn I had four, but could only account for three, one of which broke, and the remaining two seem to have drained way to fast. While waiting for them to charge, I started on project two, finally reining in the south side where things have been growing like weeds. Not sure if most of it was goldenrod, or the Missouri equivalent of bamboo, but I went to work cutting each piece down with pruners and piling it in the back against the fence.
At one point I took a break, ordering MickeyD's delivered, which is stupidly expensive. After eating, I got back to work, finishing the pruning before returning to the front to finish that. After that, we went to work using a trimmer to cut the grass in the same area because there was no way the mower would get it done. In the end, the room mate joined in, since his equipment is better than mine, and everything along that side was cut.
Yep, no before pic, but there's the after, not real impressive looking, but at least its no longer an eyesore.
That said, I do think I overdid it, from neck pain to unquenchable thirst, as well as the coffee I had with my breakfast, I went through four 12oz Gatorades while I was working. Since I came in, I've had another coffee, and cup after cup, after cup of water which doesn't come back out. My neck is also sore, and I'm fairly certain I'm a bit sun burned.
Ugh, no grocery shopping or laundry today, those can wait until tomorrow, though I will do the mileage log and finish proofreading a story I've been working on, along with my regular night's web surfing... Well, extended version since I didn't surf this morn. Once I get that all done, it'll prolly be bedtime.
Tomorrow I'll have to start scanning documents to share with my financial manager related to Vik's passing, we need to get a plan in place so I can start taking care of the big financial decisions, and winding down his estate. I did accidentally kick over a hornet's nest yesterday, hopefully the bank doesn't repo his car now that they know he's dead, I'd rather like to keep it, even though ownership transfer will be challenging, but them taking it is not that big of a deal. And I do really need to get back to the comics, prepping that for sale, and that's the really big project. I do have someone brokering the sale of his fountain pens, and that's going well.
Hey! After a couple of days of calling Sen. Eric Schmitt's D.C. office, I finally got a staffer. When I asked who he talked to in #StLouis about deploying FBI troops (since the city did not request such "support"), I was told "local law enforcement".
So I got to make my point that #StL doesn't HAVE "local" law enforcement since the state took over management of our city #police in a power grab (a statewide vote on an issue that only affects St. Louis City). Had he talked to the mayor or the residents of the North Side - the people who are actually most affected by violence? No.
The staffer did say that Schmitt was working to get the Army Corps of Engineers to help with debris removal. I stressed the need to do that. I did not have the bandwidth to note that using FEMA funds to build concentration camps for immigrants and the occasional U.S. citizen kidnapped by ICE was a horrifying diversion of funds.
His phone number is 202-224-5721 if you'd like to make that point.
I am livid about this authoritarian move by my Senator, Eric Schmitt, who has unilaterally decided that what #StLouis needs is federal police enforcement, not community-based solutions, to reduce crime. This "federal-state" collusion explicitly does not include the city government, does not represent consultations with St. Louisans directly affected, and will waste $$ at a time when the federal help St. Louis really needs is in #tornado recovery.
And this just after Missourians (not St. Louis - which rejected the proposal) voted to put our #GOP state government in charge of the #StL city police, which includes requiring a dedicated amount of funding for the police, regardless of other priorities.
I'm about to run out of characters for this toot in my first time ever, I'm so mad. Anyway, for others in #Missouri who would like to express their opinion, Sen. Schmitt's office phone is (202) 224-5721
Weekend project: modeling a Sony LIP-12 battery tray for a 18650 cell. These were used in certain MiniDisc players as well as my portable Discman.
Got something working on the third prototype! It's really tight so I have some flat top 18650 cells inbound.
Should have a model ready soon to share.
Sometimes you see an STL and it looks simple but has a restrictive license so you decide to make your own version...
This is a bike reflector in three parts that screws together (after adding reflective tape to one part) and hides an Apple AirTag inside. It then zip ties to your seat post.
(Needs a few more tweaks before I share it.)
This is another picture I took at the botanical garden. It's the Botanical Museum & Library founded in 1859 by Henry Shaw. It's one of the historical buildings on the grounds.