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Another week full of Destiny is under my belt. My best friend and I finished the Witch Queen Legendary campaign! It was excellent from start to finish, with only a little falloff in enjoyment when we cheesed the final boss. I’ve been very happy with the game so far and there is a ton more to do! We have 2 other old campaigns to do, as well as strikes and dungeons.

Nearly all of last week, when I wasn’t working, was dedicated to more Destiny 2. Bought the Witch Queen campaign and it is just incredibly good. Running it with my best friend. One of the bosses took us probably an hour and a half with just a ton of wipes. And it felt like a fun rather than a drag. I’m 1537 gear level now. Only 13 away from the powerful cap.

Having never really recovered from the sleep schedule destruction of daylight savings time, I elected to take some vacation at the end of the week. I devoted that time solely to two pursuits: waking up on time and going to sleep on time. As a result my brain was fuzzy and I accomplished basically nothing else. Instead I played Destiny 2. I logged about 44 hours in the game in the last week and a half as a result.

Daylight savings time has absolutely destroyed me this week. I did nearly nothing I planned on and zombied my way through. I’ve heard similar things from those around me. Instead of pushing through, next time I should just step back and focus on resetting. I have slips in sleep schedule pretty often and that always works best. It’s just hard to remember to do the right thing when I’m already sleep deprived.

Over a year ago, my Polaroid 600 Business Edition started draining the batteries of film continuously, causing me to waste a lot of money on unused shots. I set it aside, planning to buy a replacement camera. Since then, I’ve shopped around for a new camera, 600 or otherwise, but haven’t been able to settle on anything. The Polaroid 600 cameras on ebay are all either untested or expensive. Modern digital cameras are only in the high end due to phones.

3D Scanning As I write this, my second 3D print of a scanned object is printing off. By the time I post this a full single-topic article will be up describing my experience. I started working with this device over a year ago. Why did it take me so long to get back to this? I’ve put more detail in the article, but it really comes down to procrastination. Getting this done has been hanging over my head, in part because the scanner is a loaner.

A while back my girlfriend’s step-dad leant me 3D Systems’ Sense 2 scanner. I similarly got access to an old MonoPrice MP Select Mini 3D Printer from a friend who had upgraded quite a while ago. So I theoretically have both ends of the 3D replication pipeline now. Unfortunately, just like with the MP Mini, there are some limitations. And, while the MP Mini has (or at least had) a thriving community to support it with guides, tutorials, hacks, and mods, the Sense 2 does not seem to have the same support.

I released a new long(ish)-form blog article Please take a look at my latest single topic article, on understanding systems from different points of view, when you get the chance! I worked hard on this! It has been in draft form for more than 2 years -_- I’m glad I finally sat down and cleaned up my thoughts on this topic this week. Airsonic Possibly the last time I will write about Airsonic for a while, not because of any issues, but because of how well it is going.

I believe there are 3 things you need to know to interact with any system optimally: How it was intended to work. How people think it works. How it actually works. Knowing how the system was intended to work can help in finding the optimal way to interact with it. If you work with a system with the designer’s intentions in mind, you can take a path that is compatible with their future plans, and even their oversights.

Airsonic + beets My airsonic + beets journey continues. It turns out there’s no really good way to merge singletons into an album in beets aside from re-importing (references here and here). So the tracks I imported with the -s flag have been an enormous pain the ass. In addition I somehow did something, I don’t know what, that wiped all the track data for the Umurangi Generation and Umurangi Generation Macro soundtracks.