Imaginary Side C
Thursday, August 17th, 2023 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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70F and partly cloudy, with strong gusts, this morning! Great weather to zone out in the back yard with a cup of coffee!
This whole week, we've all gotten back there by 11:20AM, and we just chill for 40 minutes until some distant church bells ring, right before noon.
And that's our signal to come inside, where everybody gets fed.
I flipped over the plywood and was happy to see what's pictured above... a bit of the preservative had seeped through to the other side!
Half an hour later, I had the entire flip side treated.
Now that's gonna sit with the fan on it for 24 hours, and the entire sheet now has it's first coat.
It's looking like this weekend I'll definitely be drilling holes for the hardware, and treating the insides of those.
And I guess I'll also take a trip to Home Depot and see if I can't find some of that Behr Dynasty exterior enamel paint.
I just now ordered the flat washers from Amazon...
They should be here by Saturday.
I still do have to fill in all the cracks with epoxy, so... the switch out's not happening this weekend.
But it's possible that it could be done by Sunday, August 27th!
That would be nice!.. as I've got so many other irons in the fire right now.
Last night, of course, I recorded the crickets for about 90 minutes. And earlier in the month, I did manage to get a pretty good thunderstorm recorded.
And those WAV files are still sitting on the S10... haven't been transferred or listened to yet.
Had no time to vet the thunderstorm, because I was still busy with the album stuff. And now I'm too busy with the hatch door.
Meanwile, the studio's gone unused for what?... three weeks?
I haven't restrung those guitars, hooked up that microphone, or even booted the computer in there for quite a while.
It's like, one minute it was July, I was doing a test recording, the crickets weren't here yet, and it felt like I had nothing but time.
Next minute, I'm stuck back at Cloud until 11:30 every night, August is half over, and I'm knee deep in a hatch door project, with three hours of field recording waiting for me to review.
And meanwhile, I still haven't gotten the old albums going on Bandcamp.Com either.
This summer ended too fast!
Speaking of work... I'm getting job notices in my inbox for janitor positions at Aurora East High... which is only a mile from the house!
Back on Monday, when I thought I was gonna quit over a stolen cart that was actually hiding in plain sight... I was looking in my email for the last, East High job offer, but there weren't any.
Now there's two new ones. And I'm asking myself if maybe I shouldn't look into that... because it is so much closer, might pay a little more, and... maybe I could work days!
Okay!.. I went ahead and applied for the custodial position at East High!
It was easy because I've applied with them before, so they have all my information.
and they did call me about a job last summer, after I'd started with GeoStaff, so... maybe they'll call again!
I mean, it doesn't hurt to look into it right?
If it's more money, and the hours are better, why not?
I don't need to make it one full year with GeoStaff if I've immediately moved to a new job with no gap... and if it's more money, that should look good to the bank like... this guy's moving up!
I dunno. We'll see.
10,000 steps tonight. More than last night, but far below average for 8 hours.
Still not much going on, but at the end of the night, here at home, I do finally feel a little more normal... like I still have some energy.
I ordered some white cable for HD2.0, while I was at work. It won't be here until Wednesday.
But now I'm worried about the physics puzzle of adding a second eye bolt.
If the cable goes down to the door, then back up to the unistrut... twice!.. does that mean:
- The counterweight will have to drop twice as far, in order for the door to open the same distance?
Or... - The counterweight drops by the same distance that the fully open door raises... reguardless of how much cable is going back and forth to the door?
I've been assuming it's option 2... but I don't know why!
Let's look at the simpler case of HD1.0 with just the one eye bolt...
Imagine a triangle with three sides:
A) The wall of the house.
B) The door.
C) The cable connecting them.
When you open the door, you're only changing the length of side C!.. reducing it.
So the counterweight must be able to drop by the same length that you've reduced, C.
That is the geometry I did to get it working the first time, and back then I forgot to worry about the fact that in reality, the cable goes down to the door, then back up... making it actually twice the length of C.
So... it would seem that the actual length of cable involved is irrelevant, and the only thing that matters is the imaginary, side C, of the triangle being made by the door and the wall.
So, if that's true, then adding a second eye bolt, and doubling again, the amount of cable being used, should not matter, because the length of side C remains the same!
Okay but... ON THE OTHER HAND... I AM wrong a LOT of the time about stuff!
For example, thinking my cart was stolen, when it was simply disguised as... not my cart.
Or, miscalculating with the firepit bricks and having to cut them...
Or, piping the hose hook up into the hot water line!..
Or, designing a fatal flaw into the OG hatch door in the first place!
So I am going to proceed as though my assumption is right, and that answer number 2, above, is correct... and all that matters is the length of imaginary side C.
But if I'm wrong... I'll just have to rig it up differently, and shorten the counterweight, I guess.
Not much else going on tonight.
I did finally verify the micro-deposits that PayPal made to my bank account, so I'm all good to go with publishing stuff on BandCamp.com.
Maybe after this I'll go there and reveal Coffeehouse Boyfriend to their world... and eventually rake in like... four dollars... over the next ten years.
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