Life According to Duck

After soaking the Keys in Brake Fluid all night, and giving them a vigorous scrubbing this morning, maybe 30% of the paint has come loose - and that's being very generous. I'm back to looking for another method of paint stripping to get the Keys down to their transparent plastic bases.

On top of that, I had the brilliant idea of giving the main plastic pieces (which were spraypainted with Krylon Fusion yesterday) a quick Clear Coat. Bad idea. It caused a fair bit of the Krylon Fusion to bubble up, and now I have to strip the paint off these as well.

So basically, the only part that's gone right in this whole project has been replacing the Blue LEDs with Red Ones - assuming you don't count the small soldering iron burn I self-inflicted. Hopefully this project turns around soon!

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After a few hours of humming and hawing over Wordpress Themes and Plugins, Our Home Cookbook is now online. Though I did manipulate the theme a fair bit (and intend to do so more later), credit for the original design still needs to be given to BrightCherry Web Design.

Now I just need to give my mom a quick tutorial on blogging with WordPress!

As an interesting side note, I found a small bug in my 'Display Category Children' sidebar widget, which I resolved as well. I may end up releasing this Widget soon, since it can be rather helpful, despite being really simple.

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So far The Great To-Do List is off to a rocky start. I spent my morning running errands that weren't really on the list, and my afternoon saving the Old Republic from Darth Malak - at least I can scratch that off the list!

I've got the new Red LEDs installed in my G15, and I've began painting the outer frame. Unfortunately, it was rather humid outside today, so the spray paint's finish isn't quite as smooth yet as I'd hoped. Hopefully a few minutes with a fine detail sandpaper, and a light second coat will correct the problem.

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My greatest character flaw (at least from my own perspective) is that my Creativity and Ambition always outweighs my ability to actually get things done. At any given time, I have a few dozen projects that I've started, very few of which ever see completion. While this isn't especially unique to me, I think it's probably also the largest (and most definitely most unnecessary) source of stress in my life. These unfinished projects clutter up my thoughts, not to mention my home, desk, and hard drive.

In an attempt to simplify, destress, and just generally improve my life, I've resolved to complete as many of these projects as possible in the coming weeks/months, especially before I take on anything new.

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Ok, so it's been WAY too long since I've written anything on my blog. Frankly, summer has been a crazy and eventful time of year so far, and I just haven't felt any particular urge to write about it.

That said, I heard a bit of news on the radio today that, while upsetting, just made me realize how good we have it here.

Yesterday, the City of St. Catherines experienced its first homicide of the year. Just a few days shy of August, and there's only been ONE murder in a city with a metropolitan population of over 300,000.

I don't think I'll lose any sleep tonight.

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