Audiobook finished

Horizon Storms by Kevin J. Anderson

I'm getting more into this series in audio than I did in text. That seems to be true for me of any relatively complex story. I think it's because I have a lot more time to listen to audio than to read, and if I pick up a complex story in print it might take me a couple of months to finish it, and I can't keep track of it across that span of time.

In print I do better with shorter works, maybe 400 pages max, not series.

Software

Bought a 2nd copy of Forte Agent. It's the only Windows-based, portable email client that I've found that can actually efficiently handle large mail databases. Thunderbird fails so badly that it's silly. We've been using Agent since probably about 1993, Jenn never stopped, I'm returning after years of GMail.

Saturday stuff

I finished printing a spare parts kit today. If history is any guide, someone will come along and want to buy one any minute now.

I finally gave up on that bad ABS - it clogged a nozzle a few days ago, I baked it again, but it clogged again today. I give up, it's in the trash and I've broken out the 5# spool of black ABS I got from UltiMachine and fed it into a freshly-cleaned nozzle.

I also discovered/remembered when I opened the UltiMachine box that I ordered three optical endstops to experiment with. I soldered one of them up, then had to redesign the endstop holder a bit to be able to hold them since they use a 19.5mm hole spacing. So henceforth my endstop holders will have both 10 and 19.5mm holes.



I also ordered an SDSL card reader for the Sanguinololu electronics. I had to go to a UK seller on eBay to get one, but shipping is actually less from the UK than from most US sellers ($3). This will allow me to disconnect my computer once I start a print, and possibly to mount a hostless control panel eventually.