Liquid stone?

 I wonder if there is such a product as liquid stone?

Similar to plaster or cement, which can be mixed and poured at room temperature but not as crumbly. Cement is great for shoe-box size or larger projects, not so good for fiddly little watch or coin sized projects. Plaster is way too fragile, would just crumble.

Epoxy resin is pretty close - mix two liquids and pour, But it's too physically light, doesn't have that "mass" that I'd like. 3D printing is good because you can get all these weird shapes, but a decent printer that does small detail is big dollars. And again - lacks that solid feeling of weight in small projects.

There's a variety of different alloys available which melt at low temperatures, they're good for casting small one-off projects but "low temperature" is a relative term. Plus lead-free alloys are quite pricey - not just to buy, but also in postage. Aluminum would be good as it is easy to save a bunch of cans and off cuts to have "free" raw stock to melt down, but the gases to get the place hot enough to melt and building the furnace (and molds!) is a tad out of my price range.

A material that is a liquid at room temperature, that can be poured into a mold and ends up with the feel and density / mass of a rock or metal would be brilliant. There probably is such a product out there, and it'll be $100 per litre or something stupid.

Low on energy

 Getting pulled in all directions at work, constantly playing catch up. I'm getting very annoyed with myself to be just vegging out on the phone and not doing anything creative. But I just don't have the energy to get up and get going. I have a few ideas on things I want to do and they are all achievable (without spending a buttload of money). But it's the energy that's running low.

Sucking at something is the first step to getting good at something - but need to start first!

Ditto!

 I've posted before that I started playing Pokemon Go a while back. A bit late to the party compared to all the other PoGo players who have been in it since it launched back in mid '16. I never watched the show, played the games or collected the cards but I've picked up a few bits of the lore.

One of the characters is called a Ditto, because it mimics the look of others. I'd caught one not long after I started playing but it was a really piddly little one. Then I got a challenge to catch one. I think that was maybe two months ago? So of course I didn't see another one.

Then about a month or so ago I got another challenge to catch a Ditto. Those two tasks were sitting there teasing me for weeks and weeks. It's not like I could go actively hunting for one. So it  was just a "wait and see".

Finally got one earlier today! Woooh, two tasks down with one catch! Admittedly, it was also another puny one, but I'll hang on to it in case there is a task to evolve one or trade one or something. They don't seem to come up too often.

Just about gave myself a heart attack!

 Earlier today I was driving home after work, windows down, not a care in the world. I looked in the rear view mirror to see what was behind me, went back to watching the road. So I knew there was nobody in the car with me. Suddenly, someone slaps me on the back of the head!

Lucky I tend to under-react, could have freaked out and swerved off the road or into a car or something! Didn't have any issues with the driving, but took me a moment to realise that it was a hat that hangs behind the drivers' seat on the hand grip which had started flapping around with the wind of the open windows and the peak was what had swatted the back of my head.

Had a bit of a laugh at myself, but for a moment - dang, nearly freaked out that there was someone skulking in the back of the car and I hadn't noticed them!

Got the laptop reconfigured

 I currently have two laptops - one is my shiny new main one which my awesome wife got for me a year or so ago. The other is my previous old one which I've had ... for a long time. I think I had it before I got married, so I've had it for a while. It's an older one with the extended keyboard so it's kinda chunky and the battery on it has gone, so it only runs when it's plugged in.

I figured I'd reconfigure it to extend the life on it, so I swapped out the hdd and installed a Linux OS on it. This makes it a bit faster and helps to run more modern functions on the older hardware. The good news is that the old drive is a 1TB drive which will fit in my new laptop - bonus memory! The new one has one of those teeny tiny M8 memory modules as its main SSD and it's nice and fast - but it's only 120Gb. Okay for average laptop use but I prefer to have more memory. It does have an empty 2.5" bay, so I'll be able to drop in the old 1TB drive and effectively upgrade both laptops.

Nice! Now I just need a reason to use the old laptop. *puts on thinking cap*

Just over thirteen

Not a bad day's effort. Between taking the dogs for a walk this morning, going for a multi-kilometre jog earlier today and doing a walk around the city collecting Pokemon - managed to cover just over thirteen kilometres today.

Going to be feeling it in the morning, but pretty happy with that distance.

Happy two's-day!

Sorry, this is the internet. Had to make the lame joke, it's in the rules.

2nd day of 2nd month of 22nd year of 2000. Not going to stay awake until half past ten though (22:22 in 24 hour time).

Let's just claim we did. :D