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Dice Tower Completed ...

Photo-A-Day #02581 My 43 hour 3D print of a Dice Tower has completed. It completed this morning around 6am. I had started it on Friday and it printed all through the night and the next night. I tested out all of the dice in my play collection. The set that I use for my daily RPG game that I've been playing since the first of the year. I am a few days behind and will get caught up later on tonight after the Super Bowl. For the Super Bowl we had some ribs and other treats. I slow cooked the ribs at 20 for 2 1/2 hours then 350 for an hour and then 425 for 30 minutes. They were so tender and tasty. We enjoyed them as we watched the new episode of The Muppet Show before the Super Bowl. The kids were in it to see Green Day perform. It was  good performance. Then Eva came down for the halftime show. Andy came down after the halftime show asking when it was happening. They had just missed it. The halftime show was good. At this time that I am writing this the Patriots are down by 12 in the...
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Theater Masks Painted ...

Photo-A-Day #02580 I asked Eva is she would paint the masks for The Winter Wolf. The opening of the show I have to dance while wearing a mask. The woman who plays the mother in the play is also wearing one. Hers will have gold accents and mine has silver accents. They also have a little blue in them as well. I think she did a nice job on them.
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Dice Tower 1/4 of The Way Printed ...

Photo-A-Day #02579 I wanted a dice tower so I started printing this one this morning. It is a 43 hour print. We are probably 1/4 of the way through. The interesting thing here is that it is a spiral staircase up the tower and while there are some windows that will eventually be added to it as the tower itself prints I have to say the level of detail is good but I will probably not ever see the inside of the tower and the brick work that was added to it. We should start getting more height soon since the large area where the dice come out is very nearly printed. Then the concentration will be on the Tower itself.
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Clearing Extra Snow ...

Photo-A-Day #02578 The other day my neighbor came over to let me know that the gas company couldn't get to her gas meter because mom and dad's car was in the way and that they would be coming back on Monday to try again. So, today while it was fairly warm I took out the snowblower and cleared a larger spot and moved their car further back in the driveway.  When I was done with that I took the snowblower down to the front of the house and cleared the pathway again because the path I had created got pushed in with more snow from either the apartment across from me or the city. This happens often. I clear and clean and it gets plowed over. While I was doing that I noticed the neighbor across the way was trying to clear out the sidewalk with a single shovel. I walked over and offered to clear it all off for her with the snowblower. She told me that she was the daughter of the people in the house. They are nice people, quiet, keep to themselves, they also use Black Earth Compost.  ...
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Briggs Corner Pizza With Andy ...

Photo-A-Day #02577 Allison and Eva went to see Eva's friend Aviva play hockey tonight and so Andy and I were on our own. Since I wasn't so into leftover roulette I decided to take them out for dinner. We went over to Brigg's Corner for dinner. andy decided on pizza and I was going to get wings but decided that I had not had good pizza in a long time and Briggs makes some great pizza. It isn't on my eating plan but one night wasn't too bad and my blood sugar did not take a bit hit. The pizza was so good, though.
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Unexpected Dealership Day ...

Photo-A-Day #02576 I took Allison's car in to the dealership today to get an oil change This meant that she had my car to drive to school. She called me and told me that when she got to school my rear passenger side tire was flat. She could hear air hissing out of it. So, I grabbed my documentation on the tire protection plan that I had through Kia because of the lease. I brought that with me to the dealership to find out what I had to do about the tire. They had that information on file so I just had to bring the car in. So, I hung out at the dealership as I planned to do to wait for Allison's car to be finished. I think they finished up around noon. I spent the time trying to work on my lines for the play. I got Allison's car and swapped it for mine. I filled the tire as best I could and drove it to the dealership. Waiting for Triple AA was going to make things even longer. I was sort of white knuckling it tot he dealership and for some reason leaning to my left as if I c...
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Meatloaf and Experimental Potatoes ...

Photo-A-Day #02575 Tonight I made meatloaf for dinner and also some potatoes. I baked the potatoes in cream, butter, parmesan cheese, garlic powder, salt and pepper. The potatoes came out really good, in my opinion. They got a couple of questionable looks but they were tasty and creamy and the had great flavor.
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