Tea and spray paint..

But not in that order.  I never got back to portablizing last night.  Instead I experienced the joy that is Bondo.  I just wanted to finish Fume-0 once and for all so I spent a few hours doing some cosmetic work.  Now with the Bondo completely cured I started smoothing it up.  Love my Mouse sander.  Makes things so much faster than my old hand sanding days.

Fume-0 looks pretty good after Bondo.  But unfortunately, I had to add an ass gasket (as in it looks like ass) since my the fan isn't a tight fit to the PVC.  I'll see if painting it makes it look better.  If not then I'm going to have to find a more eye-pleasing solution.

Can't see the forest for the trees..

More like can't see the trees from the forest.

With the Fume-0 distraction nearly complete, last night I started reacquanting myself with the portablization by sifting through the piles of posts, "Favorites" links, and my original "Portablize" folder.  What a mess. 

Jumping from post to link to file to link to file to post to link, I remembered how daunting the task will be to achieve my goal.  When I was too tired to read anymore, I stumbled up the stairs and went to bed with an uneasy and discouraged feeling.  This is not going to be easy.

Fume-0 Collage

So I decided to get a little creative and make a collage of Fume-0 with Picasa as witnessed in the updated  a

Fume-0 (nearly complete)

Been a long, long time since I've posted anything of any substance. Way distracted by WoW right after I began relocating cartridge slots on my future portable(s). Now that WoW is boring again mere months after the expansion, I got back to another distraction. Only this one had a purpose with the amount of soldering I was doing. I call it Fume-0 (that's a zero by the way but Fume-O sound cute).

Where it all went wrong

I was once inspired by a phrase I heard.  "Why put off something 'til tomorrow when you can do it today?".  It's been 6 months since I started putting off that something.  Any small amount of knowledge has faded and the workbench is now just a jumbled mess of extension cords, broken baby sound machines, miscellaneous game carts and mobos, flux stains, solder balls, burnt wires, and very little surface area.

I've been distracted.

At first it was fear.  Fear of facing the unknown.  Fear of voltage regulators.  Fear of a Yamauchi Iwata led reprisal involving throwing stars.  Fear of inhaling heavy metals and the subsequent health risks.  The latter adding to this distraction, leading to an old pc case fan, and the making of my cancer preventer.  Fear of fear itself?  lame..  It's at about this point that I lost interest.. again..

More distraction.

The easy gratification of an MMORPG.  You know which one.  The on-line sensation that I've quit twice before.

Oh yeah, then there's just life in general.  Gotta be the family man and diligent employee.

Now there is today...  or yesterday even... or more specifically last night.  I realized I have to finish what I've started if only just to finish.  Now here I am distracting myself with this Portablog64.  I'll call it my motivation even if it slows things down.  Plus I'll need the break to use the right side of my brain.

Until tomorrow?