What's on your mind right now?

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Understandable, especially when it is very difficult to grasp things, I take it?

The ignorance of normal teenagers is horrible. There's one such teenager in my area who's spreading rumours that I think I'm Hitler and he hates how I wore my helmet into Walmart. The next time I hear him talking about me like that, I'm going to educate him and give him an idea what it's like to be me. I'll also tell him, "If you don't like the way I dress, don't look at me."

what kind of helmet is it?

Electronics,

I have done most of the hard stuff on my project in relation to power but I would like to create some kind of switch.

Connectors check out

And nothing is on fire (yet).

Also soldering at 3 am

^ LOL You are so funny Dcj!

Don't know if that is good or bad but humor is good for the soul

I did actually make a mistake but not a bad one, I am going to paint the frame black and remove some of the metal that is slightly unappealing. Thus those pics earlier were pretty primitive to what the final goal is and I soldered on one of the wires in such a way that it can't be removed from the case lol. Still I was just going to cover the wires and vents and spray paint with the PSU in the case so that way it will be the PSU will be the same color as the case anyway.

This is how my apartment (project) looks currently. I plan to post photos of how it looks when it's finished.

The Livingroom/bedroom:



The Kitchen:



The Porch (the floor needs to be changed, but I'm not doing anything with it this time around):



This is how it looks as a whole seen from above:

^wow, your kitchen looks quite nice... and so does that view of the outdoors.
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what's on my mind is moving... have to move out by some time mid-march. however, there is nothing here for me realistically. not just in the lack of affordable places to live, but also, there's just nothing around here for outward growth in working on my life goals... this place is just a big commuter town, out in the desert dust, with so many of everything(overpriced homes, failing stores, failing malls, failing restaurants, and overcrowded/underfunded schools) it forgot what it actually is.

my father has spoken of having a guest house built on the back of his property, but that makes me anxious. it would make a nice place for a recluse to hide from the world if he has it made, but it's so far from the direction of personal progress trying to be made by myself. the martial art schools that have currently stolen my passionate curiosity are in orange county(aside from a place in northern california, which would be impossible to get to)... so the only good thing about the location of his house, is it's a single city bus from a train station that can probably be taken through a few transfers to get there, but the time of commute and the cost of fare are probably beyond unreasonable(don't/can't drive), so calculations haven't been bothered to be made in order to sustain an illusion of hope. a couple of arts that have less my interest are only a few towns over, so they'd be easier to get to, but my passions have rather been "all or nothing" for as long as can be remembered, so until my interest in them is more keen, study there would be time spent half-heartedly/inefficiently.

while realistically, it is likely within my capacity to at least begin learning the art forms on my own(no matter what anyone says about people being unable to learn martial arts from books), or even set part of my home like a small dojo and seek out a private instructor, my interest is also in being able to teach, which means, credible masters must be sought and many years invested in seeking guidance toward the beginning of the indefinite road toward mastery myself.

there is more to it than that, as my father's idea of my best interests often clash with my best interests. under his rules, which sometimes already try to break outside jurisdiction and station, life could easily be quite stifled in living only a stone throw from his house's many back doors. even as it is, tension can already be seen that he'll expect the guest house to have certain pointless amenities and aesthetics, which aren't in line with mine... so he'll insist so much space be wasted by useless furniture and appliances, where it will be my desire for there to be little or none. there's that, and being so far secluded from the world will probably only lure me to crawl even deeper under my figurative rock out of exhaustion from the greater effort it will take to get out, while it is my desire to leave it behind and start making progress from without while this life is still relatively young.

^That is a tough decision to make. I can understand the ambivalence. On the other hand you seam to have good reflections about the alternatives, so maybe you can trust your gut feelings, what ever you decide to do.

Good luck!

That's quite nice indeed.

Thanks! I think it will look nice when it's rehabilitated. The kitchen is from the year it was built (1964) so it will be thrown out and replaced by a new one.

^Good work so far Froya .The view outside is very nice, the houses are so Norwegian looking

Thanks! the work I have done is mostly in or around the hallway, so you can't see it also the pictures make the apartment look bigger then it actually is, as it's the pictures from the sales brochure. I don't know how they do it but the real estate agents have a way of taking pictures that gives that effect. Yes the porch and its view is one of the best features of the place

^^ wide-angle lens, shooting from below eye-level, plenty of light, and shooting tethered. Tethered photography is where the photographs download straight to the computer as you take them, so you can appraise them in detail immediately, and work from angles where you can't see the camera's viewfinder/review option (i.e. if it's positioned right in the corner or at an inaccessible angle).

That's how they do it

Well, time to wind down for the rest of the month....

thank you... and sorry about the comment on the kitchen. it looked like maybe you had liked that kind of 50s/60s retro look, and that you had pulled it off rather well. the location does look really nice though, and the apartment itself looks a good base for creating something new upon.