It's been near single digits over nights so the mornings are quite crisp. Yesterday I woke to find my prints finished from the over night run. The thing in the back is a slug trap that holds beer as the bait and drowns them. I have the one printed out to try this year and see how well it will work. Seems like a good use for the lager beers.
It was absolutely laughable just how horrible Man Utd played. "Worst team in Utd's history" says the coach...
I'm SOOOO hoping they get relegated. They are trying as hard as they can to do so as of now and it won't take but a couple more losses for them to be at the bottom of the table. 3-1 loss at home, again. Lol.
The day was focused on printing out the next can dispenser and from the get go I had the printer working away on the parts. I can only do one section at a time but I toss other stuff on with them which adds extra time to the prints. A full dispenser is 8 parts and should take about 12 hours of printing, just it.
While the printer was working away I spent part of the morning cleaning in the living room. I did a good sweeping after shuffling a bunch of furniture around.
Both NFL games were in the snow and I turned the first on at the end to see the field coated quite thick. The other game didn't have quite as much snow.
It was the afternoon when the last of the bottom rack were done and I got the pieces put together.
All day long we would stop into the bedroom and love on the cat for a while. It's been super hard and we've been hoping he would just go. #death is something culture has obfuscated and tried to push to the back so people don't think about it and just go on being good little consumers. Instead of treating it as the absolute outcome for all of us that it is and learning to incorporate that into our daily lives we get the shock and heartache of the loss when it happens. I feel like that is largely a religious bent, don't think about death. Or maybe just our shitty psyches?
Made a trash can for the printer that hangs on the side so I can toss filament scraps in it.
Got out to soak for a while before heading in to wait on the print to finish so I could get the next going for overnight.... Which was a total fuck up this morning. Filled the printer with filament as I set setting WAY wrong trying to keep it quieter. Thankfully only a couple ounces of PETG got wasted.
Kahlua the cat is going right now. He breathing is slowing and he is on the bed with @stryeyz. He gets to go see Rocky our first dog, he'll be out of this pain he's in, and we'll be down a family member. I cancelled my chiro appointment for today and it will be a day of mourning. As I look at the temp outside it is 10F and my back hurts just thinking of how hard the ground is now...
The boys are off school today, I'm going to try and dig Kahlua's grave on our memorial hill next to Rocky's grave where I buried him 2 weeks shy of 9 years ago. Both have gone right before my birthday each time....
The printer is going finishing the can dispenser and I have plenty more of them to print going forward as the pantry needs them, I need to wash my clothes, the bed blankets, the Kraken play this afternoon, and I just can't stop the tears as Kahlua goes. Goodbye kitty-moose.
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I don't know whether religion can be blamed for trying to avoid discussing death. Early Christians adopted the saying, memento mori, and built graveyards around their churches. Pagans had gods of death and crossing over. I wonder whether increasing secularization has people avoiding thoughts of death because there is so much religious connection there.
Good point. I'd bet it's likely the disconnection from the land that has driven much of the problem. Even as a farmer it's not exactly the easiest thing though I am quite capable of butchering. I just can't help but feel the more technologically advanced humans get the less connection we have to the inevitable.
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So sorry to hear about your family cat passing….
They are family !❤️
Be it football or cricket, I also like it a lot and I also watch them as a must.