Audiobook finished

Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind

Almost the entire story told from POV of a new character with few appearances by old ones. There are credible characters to like and to loathe and a decent story.

Motors acquired

Woohoo, scored six good hybrid bipolar stepper motors pulled from new damaged equipment for cheap. Happened to search within 10 minutes of them being posted on "buy it now."
Most of the stuff on ebay is either not exactly the right thing (shaft too short or something) or it goes up to within $10 a set of what you could get BETTER motors from Robot Shop for anyway.
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Goal: 100% patches

1. I now have a bike tube with 7 patches on it. One of those is actually 3 patches, the 2nd two covering a big crack in the first. The other tube is a brand new one after the last one got too bad to mess with anymore.
   
2. twice now I've had the name brand patches crack and cause a new leak. The cheap-assed 30 for $3 patches I got from Harbor Freight have yet to fail.
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