I always give my child (5) the option to give me a hug but I ask him. Sometimes he says no and I respect his wishes.
I'm trying to teach him early that his personal space is his and he controls it. He should respect the space of others as well. No is no.
Continuing my messing around with #meshcore and I managed to write a script that would run a trace to my home repeater over and over and log the results. So I taped my small radio to the window and drove around while running the script on my laptop. At the same time my phone was logging my GPS location with timestamps.
When I got home I pulled the data in sqlite, correlated it, and exported it as a CSV giving lat, lon, and SNR. I imported this into QGIS with some graduated symbology to color code everything.
Here it is without the map (as to not dox myself). But qgis let me easily take open street maps and overlay my data on it. Pretty nerdy, pretty cool.
Something I've always wanted to do is formation flying. Yesterday on my way to a Young Eagle rally with another pilot I know we did just that. The other plane also had a passenger that took these photos of me as I was formed up on their wing. It was a gorgeous morning and a great experience.
Had a storm cell pop up right on top of me while I was doing a chore at my chapter hangar and I got to hang out in a closet for about 10 minutes until it passed. Spring weather do be like that.
I had that WANT to fly and I used my callsign for the first time, which was fun. ADS-B exchange registered it correctly so I assume I entered it into my transponder correctly. It was pretty gusty on the ground but otherwise the flying was pretty smooth! I tried out a GPS approach to get familiar with the instrumentation in this aircraft and everything works as expected which is always a good thing.
I've been making a list of pretty much every flying event within 150nm of my location and this is going to be a summer of a lot of flying to those events. This weekend I'll be flying Young Eagles and then over to Waupaca (KPCZ) for their fly-in and car show in the afternoon!
#avgeek #aviation #flying #airplane #skyhawk #generalAviation #pilot
My child (3) tripped on the night light we have in the hallway and it absolutely and catastrophically destroyed the outlet. I wasn't so keen on having energized metal contacts exposed with my kid running around so I shut off the power to the whole house, pulled it out, taped off the hot and neutral wires, and put a blank plate on it for now until I can go to the hardware store and get a new outlet.
It really is an impressive failure. The night light only had a slight bent prong. I'm guessing this outlet is about as old as I am and just gave up.
More thoughts on people and social media:
One of the things that rubs me the wrong way is effort from others in social interaction. Specifically I know some people in real life that were trying out Bluesky, sick of X, and one of them pointed out a bridge i could use (bridge) so they could interact with me here. I got setup with it and we figured out that they needed to also do something for the link to be bidirectional (they had to follow a single account). They wouldn't do it. So I'm confused now as to why I'm expected to put in effort when they aren't willing to do the same, and specifically to bridge into something I have moral pause about using given how companies are terrible.
That's probably just something I'm really in my head about that isn't actually a big deal but it always bothers me. Similar things have happened when someone has asked me for a favor but when I ask them for a similar sized one they can't be bothered. I don't care to generalize too much as a "people are selfish" but I can say that a few people are.
I should be better about communicating this to people directly instead of vaguely making a post about it but I'm also extremely anti-confrontational in social situations, mostly because I lack a lot of understanding and I always feel out of place or wrong for existing. Then when I tell people I suspect I have autism I get laughs, but I wasn't making a joke. Meanwhile I hang out on a discord with a few diagnosed autistic people and we vibe so good. My doctor remarked that he didn't think I was autistic when I spoke to him about it because I'm well spoken and understand some things like social timing and responses but he said we could discuss it in depth more if I wanted. His concern was like, "can he still function daily" not a "is he somewhere on the spectrum".
Again I'm not solving problems here, just organizing my thoughts. Hopefully it helps someone else organize theirs thoughts too if you relate. Self doubt is normal, introspection is healthy, we can use this as an opportunity to reflect and grow into the people we want to be. I could accomplish the same for myself with a journal but I want to provide commiseration for anyone else out there grappling with similar thoughts.
There's a bunch of nuance about "what a friend is" vs "Internet acquaintance" vs "fair weather friend" and a lot of other psychology. I'm not here to elucidate the core of these relations, just to reflect and muse on my personal experience.
I think I figured out what bothers me about Facebook (aside from the obvious evil company stuff). People don't really engage with anything I post. Friends, family, whatever. Everyone is a sort of content fountain but beyond the surface level there is no engagement. To be sure, I didn't engage with other people's things much either beyond a like (usually). It's this weird sort of isolation but also being surrounded by people.
Part of this became obvious when I said I was leaving and put links to my fediverse and my blog and someone did engage, but only to say they'd be sad about not seeing my airplane build progress. Two things about that: I wasn't aware they even looked at it and also I literally gave them the links to where they could continue to see that exact same stuff. It's weird to me that they'd pretend I don't exist anymore if I wasn't spooning information directly into their face when they expressed at least some interest in it. A laziness, perhaps. A conditioning?
Sometimes I see people in person and they'll ask me about what I'm up to. I'll tell them but somewhere in the conversation I'll mention I have pictures and more details on my blog if they're interested but they aren't. Feels like an effort thing, maybe mixed with being polite by asking me things. Maybe I should just talk about the weather instead
So, in high contrast to that there are people here that are amazing and thoughtful. I basically redid my whole social circle based on connections I met here and it's been a lot more rewarding. Similarly, joining an EAA chapter has been such a great time for me. Alignment of interests and alignment of personalities goes a long way for more meaningful interactions. Am I sad I cut away from a bunch of people I knew? I'm not sure. The transition was hard but where I ended up is better. This feels more intentional rather than an accident of geography and time.
Anywho, I appreciate y'all. I plan on keeping on being me and being here. Airplanes and nerd stuff, yay
Tuesday build at the EAA hangar. We started by making some slat support backets for the nose ribs while another team identified the ribs for the wing. An encouraging start to our build as we have nice instructions, a nice kit, and nice videos to help us.
Hello, I'm Aut and I just migrated from my self-hosted instance to Hachyderm. I am a #softwareEngineer that loves #aviation and generally most #tech and #science. You'll find me boosting silly things I find amusing. I'm currently building a full #airplane (an #rv10) in my workshop. You'll probably see me gawking about #weather at some point as well. In my never ending war on free time I also volunteer to help out local #theater groups and mentor high school students.
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