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I re-did the caulk around my bathtub yesterday.

The bit along the walls that was there when I moved in was never very good. The bit along the shower door which I installed myself just under two years ago was already quite discolored, as it tends to have tiny pools of standing water accumulated in the corners.

I recently found that there's caulk with "MicroBan" built in, which is supposed to prevent (discourage?) microbial growth. So my hope is this will last longer despite the situation it's in.

But...

Third Super Nintendo from eBay arrived today. This one plays all games, with working S-Video .. but bad (noisy/choppy) audio. Sigh. Another swing and miss.

Psssh, I was kidding myself all along. I wired it all up, today. And it works! All that's left is to mount the IR sensor somewhere on the front.

The power is tapped from the bottom right. The loop to the left is the currently un-mounted IR sensor. And the fat cable in the middle carries the signals that cause the inputs to be selected.

Assembled! The un-connected pads at the very back are for the signal and power wires, those don't get hooked up until installation. Probably not today.

They're in! The PCBs I designed and ordered have come in, one day late of exactly two weeks from order to receipt. I've got a lot of soldering to do.

Front on the left, bottom view on the right; quarter in between for scale.

Just finished a fun Dungeons and Dragons adventure. This is a sort of cave-like environment; the squiggles are all rubble/stalagtites/stalagmites. The enemies (tokens) are all rats ... but when the heroes turned the corner they ended up face to face with a giant oozing jelly that they narrowly defeated.

The fire escape on the building just outside my window is apparently getting painted. From dull black (you can see the bit not yet done at the top) to bright red (you can see the paint can and brush at the bottom). I'm tempted to call it eyesore bright.

I'm so excited! My PCB order is shipped, so it should be here any day now. As long as it arrives by Wednesday, it will have been two weeks end-to-end, which is the fast end of the range they (http://batchpcb.com/) claimed.