The 3D Printer arrived.
I spent most of the day doing the setup.

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Lifting the thing was hard enough, for me. I've gotten very week due to lack of activity. I should probably fix that, but moving up and down causes wave upon wave in my head, and that just makes me nauseous (and often worse!). I need to find some way of building myself up, without too much movement, and 6 years down the line I've yet to find one!

Anyhoo, the printer was lifted into place, all the screws were screwed, the wires connected, and the device plugged in.
Next was lining it up.
The manual said to move the device to Home-x-y-z, then twiddle with the bases' thumbscrews until you..
A) Have it level
and
B) if you slip a piece of paper under the nozzle, it should "just about" fit.
No matter how far I unscrewed (raised) the base, the nozzle still didn't reach anywhere near the base. It was about 0.5mm above it.

I stopped at this point.
Not so much "Giving up", but knowing that I have a particular limit for frustration, nowadays.
I've left it to fester in my head, done a lot of googling, and *think* I know what to do next, so I'll be attempting it again, later today.

Meanwhile..

I still can't save in MacOS..
I now know how to get the correct path, pro grammatically, but for some weird reason I'm still getting an error when trying to create a file for writing.
Everything I can find online suggests that this should be working, but it just isn't, and I'm left baffled as to why that might be.

Bah, humbug!

I decided to give up on this, for the day, too.

I also attempted to come up with a crazy new menu system for Flappadiddle-Doo, but that wasn't happening either, and .. frankly, nothing was working at all, yesterday.

All in all, the day was a bit of a disaster.
Many things tried, mostly all abandoned for another day.
...

And then I realised that I'd forgotten to write a SoCoder newsletter, last Thursday.

GAH!!!

So, I gave up.

For the first time in a long time, I gave up, made myself a big bowl of Chilli*, and sat down to watch a few hours of random YouTube stuff, before eventually going to sleep.

Yesterday was a failure.

Hopefully today turns out better.


* A simple tin of chilli heated on the hob, and a bag of microwave rice. Nothing too complicated, cooking wise. I can't stand up long enough to do that!!