{"id":533,"date":"2009-06-21T00:53:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T08:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=533"},"modified":"2009-06-21T00:53:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T08:53:40","slug":"build-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/06\/21\/build-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"build stuff!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bizarre day. I was up most the night, mostly writing an essay on configuration management<\/a>. The twitscape retweeted it a bit, the blog ended up about 100 visits above average for a Sunday at 248. That hundred is actually about the number of visits to that post. Jesse Robbins even tweeted a quote<\/a>, which is ironic because a couple months ago I was trying to get a quote out of him for a slide deck. It’s a little heavy on rhetoric, but discussing it later with Adam we agreed that was what was called for. All the same, I spent some sleep deprived hours watching The Wire this morning laughing at myself.<\/p>\n

I spent a bunch of time in the shop<\/a> today. I’m going to stop calling it a garage, because of the people stopping by who assume it is a bike shop and it is really used as my bike\/metal\/wood shop anyway. I got the MIG cart built finally to carry the shielding gas. It looks really nice in the pictures (front<\/a>, back<\/a>) although they’re a big unfocused. The welds on it are okay\/acceptable. It looks nice unless you look real closely because I sanded down the welds and painted it. It’s exciting to have this finished. With still having a bunch of metal stock, it’s time to do some more welding!<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is another project day. A few people have talked about coming over, we will see who shows.<\/p>\n

The worst part of sleep deprivation is how my motivations shift. I’ll keep those to myself, but I’m a real different person when I stay up all night than I am normally.<\/p>\n

Chatting with Dylan today I mentioned that I don’t consider myself that social and he argued that I always come in to Squid happy and chatty. That’s likely true, and while that’s a good thing, it serves to underscore the differences between how I am perceived and why I make the choices I do. This is particularly important the last couple of months. While I lean towards saying too much, I’ve held back a lot because I’m unconvinced it’s wanted, that I’m wanted, even, in not as dire fashion as it sounds because I’m keeping secrets from you, that I’m valued. We’ll just keep doing what we’re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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