{"id":467,"date":"2009-10-30T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2009-10-30T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:42:33","slug":"craziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Craziness!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tInteresting day yesterday: I was <strong>rear-ended<\/strong> at a stoplight but at least the truck\u2019s driveable so I should be good to put the camper shell back on so\u2019s I can drag the calliope to Hackers in a week or so. Spent yesterday afternoon getting shop ready for a <strong>Dorkbot<\/strong> meeting later in the evening. That turned out to be the hilight of the day; great fun and a good turnout. <strong>Bruce the Younger<\/strong> used the MIG rig to do some work on something <strong>Steve<\/strong> calls his \u201c<em><strong>Flea Circus<\/strong><\/em>\u201d; have no idea what that does but it sounds innnnteresting. Some of the others tinkered with stuff ranging from a solar powered <strong>walkway light<\/strong> to an awesomely loud fire engine <strong>siren<\/strong> (!!). <strong>Bruce the Elder<\/strong>, whose knowledge of how electronics operate is truly amazing, did calculations for power requirements for a busted electric oven that Bruce the Younger was trying to fix while I tinkered on my perennial <strong>woodworking<\/strong> project. Like everyone else I actually got somewhere on the project, too.<br \/>\n\tLater when the temp dropped I fired up the <strong>propane<\/strong> heater (first time in many months) and we eventually migrated upstairs for more gabbing on this and that. Didn\u2019t see the last set of taillights until after 10:30. I really like having the gang in the workshop; it gets like Santa\u2019s toyshop in there and it\u2019s great to see stuff coming together.<br \/>\n\tWill post photos if I can find one of my three missing card readers; the built-in readers on the desktop machine and on the laptop are both malfunctioning; have been for ages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting day yesterday: I was rear-ended at a stoplight but at least the truck\u2019s driveable so I should be good to put the camper shell back on so\u2019s I can drag the calliope to Hackers in a week or so. Spent yesterday afternoon getting shop ready for a Dorkbot meeting later in the evening. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nmpproducts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}