230: I have to be on a zoom call in 6.5 hours.

Today was freaking awesome, but I don't have any pictures. I really need to get a little (but still GOOD) camera that I can carry around with me.

I got up at like 11:30, showered, ate breakfast, and then took my board for a spin. I went to the hangar to check out the PCBs, since we couldn't have a workday today (no parts), I just unpackaged all of the boards and set them out on the table.

When I rolled up, there were a couple people out front testing out an electric drift trike one of the people had made, and it was DOPE. There's a club just called "electro-motion" that does electric vehicle projects. We hadn't met, but I recognized him, and he let me take it for a spin. It had borderline zero traction in the rear, and I gave him some pointers on the geometry (it needed different handlebars IMO), but it absolutely ripped. I was sliding that thing at like 20 degrees, it was so cool.

I went inside and unpacked the PCBs, but I didn't so anything else after that. I went home and finished up my design to test fit the rear bumper and hit go.

I had this idea a little while ago, but I want to be able to stand the board up vertically without a wall to lean it on, and this kind of thing is perfect for that; both form and function.

After I hit start on the first test, I had been invited to a picnic with some of the lib squad (Sabina, Jack, and Brian, in this case), so I skated over to a local park and hung out with them for a bit. We had snacks and played a DnD-inspired card game, which was really fun. After that I went downtown to say hi to more of lib squad, as they were studying in a cafe, and I wanted to really put the new board through its paces. It did amazing, honestly, I can hold much higher speeds with far more stability, the only thing that kept me from pushing 30 MPH today was the fact that I was wearing shorts, and haven't recovered from my last encounter with high-speed pavement. I think on a flat, known-smooth road, I could hit the max speed on that thing, which is awesome. I'll still hang out at the speed I've been comfortable with, like 23MPH, because I think it's the limit of my road-scanning speed, and I really don't like hitting stuff.

Chip and Laurel were in one of the fishbowls at Kreuzberg, which is maybe my favorite cafe in downtown SLO. I didn't stay for long, the table they were at was full (so I got to say hi to Jack Cornwall, who I hadn't seen in forever, but is cool), and I had to make it home before the sun went down, I didn't take my lights with me.

I finished up the design for the tail fin (title photo) after I got home, and then got around to hitting print on it (it's a big part, like a 5-hour print) at like 9, while I was desk-sitting. On-call went super normal, and it's now 2 in the morning while I'm typing this part.

The saturday-on-call sunday-morning-zoom wombo-combo is a serious issue for me, because my alarm is genuinely set for 5 hours from now, and there isn't even that much I can do about it.

Like sure, I could have written this before the 1AM walks and then gone RIGHT to sleep at 1:30 or whatever, but that's not enough of a benefit for me to really worry about it, being an RA is just incompatible with some timelines, and this is one of them.

I think this is my last saturday on-call shift this quarter though, so hopefully in the future I can go to sleep at a reasonable hour on saturday nights.