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I cannot begin to express how delighted I was to find the the crooked kitchen was still at Ottawa’s Canadian Science and Technology Museum after around 50 years since I last visited. And that the kids these days are as fascinated now as I was then.

There are few less locomotives now than there then were but they are still pretty magnificent.

Now that I finally have my garage reasonably clean and relatively free of extraneous clutter (it only took 10 years), it about time I put the work bench I built back in 2019 to some use.

I needed a better shelf for my NAS and routers etc so I decided to build a cabinet. I went for particle board because it was cheap. I forgot how hard it was. Turned out ok though…

Next up is a cedar shelf for the kid. I cheaped out again and got cedar fence boards that I glued together. Sanding them is proving to be a challenge 🙂

 

AI is (as promoted) both stupid and destructive but sometimes it can still be fun.

Complaining about my neighbour’s AC unit I said I was resigned but still might introduce a skunk to their yard. When challenged on my definition of “resigned” I turned to Gemini:

re·signed
/r??z?nd/
adjective

Accepting something unpleasant that one can no longer avoid; passively submissive. However, according to subsection 4B of the unspoken laws of cosmic karma, this state of total surrender automatically activates a clause of petty retaliation. Because you have accepted defeat, you are now legally and spiritually entitled to weaponize a highly disgruntled Mephitis mephitis (striped skunk) to exact absolute, foul-smelling vengeance upon the author of your misfortune.

Usage Examples

• “With a resigned sigh, Arthur accepted that his coworker had stolen his lunch for the third time this week, quietly unlatching the carrier cage he had hidden under his desk.”
• “She became completely resigned to the fact that her landlord wouldn’t fix the plumbing, meaning it was officially time to deploy the revenge skunk into the building’s HVAC system.”

Synonyms

• Passive
• Acquiescent
• Biological-warfare-adjacent

Note: True resignation is not about giving up; it is about quietly waiting for the scent glands to charge.