Sewing.

Working on a picture for the new baby and also starting some Christmas stuff. Cross stitch takes a long time so I figured I would get started.

(February 19, 2026 at 4:56 pm)awty Wrote: Sewing.

Working on a picture for the new baby and also starting some Christmas stuff.  Cross stitch takes a long time so I figured I would get started.

Oh, sure. Rush the season, whydoancha?

Boru

Putting away the Z77 test computer. Remembering that I forgot to reset a setting to default before I put it away. Taking the test computer back out of storage.

I'm now testing USB 3.0 cards. I thought I had PCI ones instead of PCIE, but no, they're PCIE. I've identified two of the three, and at least one works.

I'm coming down with something. I hope it's not covid. I've got a few doses of Nyquil left, but I may need to run to the store sooner rather than later.

Moving my NAS motherboard from the testbed to its permanent case. I didn't realize the fans on the case had led lights. They're blue, and can't be changed, but they can be turned off, fortunately.

The fans are controlled by a panel on the front top. They can be set to low or high. I don't think they can be turned off, but I don't know for sure.

Discovering that the remote from my old Roku Ultra set-top box works with my TV. I was considering buying a second remote, and now I don't have to.

A few years ago, I discovered a little one-panel cartoon by William Steig called “People are no Damn Good”. I found out that it had been on a lot of things back in the day, but these days, all we have of it are either antiques or prints that cost hundreds of dollars just for something I could just do on my home computer with some ingenuity.

A few weeks ago, I rediscovered it through an Etsy listing that included a good enough photo of a cuff link with it that I thought: if I could find someone willing to do so through AliExpress, I could just commission one. $10 and two weeks later, I got a badge that included what I assume is probably a perfect representation of that exact photo, complete with the shading of the light on the cuff link, represented as a pointillist mess that ended up negating the good job they did on the overall image. Attempts at cleaning up the original image were not successful.

Later, I discovered an eBay listing for a single cuff link for about $26, and the seller offered it to me for $23 because I was the only one watching it. I ordered it, and it arrived today.

(Original cuff link on the left, failed badge on the right):



I’ve taken more pictures, and through a judicious use of “remove specific color from image” tools and retouching tools on my iPad, I got something clean. Maybe I can have another go at it.