Chorca's Bloggo

March 2024

• Victory Garden

  A quick recap of my adventures in gardening... 2020 - Start building some planters and mess around with a few plants, drip irrigation, and grow some pretty tasty things! 2021 - Realize that plants don't live forever, even if they're given a chance. Annuals like to die off and perennials need to get some cold to properly work. Switch up some plants, till under some things, and try the whole container thing again 2022 - Hydroponics! After having realize that plants also don't like their roots getting too hot during the summer, try out some NFTs (Nutrient Film Technique, not the crypto thing!) and dutch buckets! The dutch buckets work well, the NFTs, not so much. Turns out sealing up things not designed to carry water, from leaking water, is difficult. 2023 - Got lazy. After the previous somewhat successes, and a few failures with the hydroponics and learning a lot, I sort of took a year off and let everything disintegrate. Decided to wait til the next season to start working on the next…

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• Casio watch band mod

  Intro I was recently going through a bunch of my old junk while cleaning up my office. I found my old Casio watch, an F-105. It's a relatively old watch, and this was apparent by the fact that the factory resin band had begun to disintegrate. I needed to get a new band for it, but found that pretty much the only bands available were the original ones from Casio, and a few pastel colors from a similar set of watches that were only released in Japan. The Idea While out at Disney a few days later, I'd noticed some new watch bands that were available. Anyone who knows me, knows Stitch is my favorite Disney character, and so I zeroed right in on these. Wow, it'd be awesome if I had an Apple watch to put this on! The bit that caught my eye though, was that the band seemed to be a very similar width to the band on my Casio. (The 38-40mm version, at least) I wonder if it would fit between the lugs in my Casio? The Mod After some measuring of the lugs and the band through the package (using a…

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• Blogging Time!

  The new blog! Some of you may have seen this site previously, it had a much different CMS that didn't work well with my workflow (being lazy). Due to this I decided to try something different, a bit more 'user-friendly' as it were, and now this is based on Chyrp. I do need to come up with a good theme for it, but for now I'll settle for the default one. The idea for this is to supplement my Mastodon posts with something a bit more long-form that I can provide updates on larger projects with, and use plenty more embeds for explanations, and hopefully have some semblance of a 'home page' of yesteryear. I'll see how things work out with this platform, but hopefully it's something I can stick with long-term. Thanks for viewing!

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