Despite the wasted hours trying to find 3D models of brewing equipment, I really enjoyed the experience of designing our future brewery yesterday, glad there is still much to be done in that regard.. it’s much easier to explain things and develop ideas when you can actually see how the future might look. Bring on Monday!

First on the list of things to work out is how to add floors to the upstairs level in Sweet Home 3D.. was a bit surprised that it wasn’t a very obvious action.. I’m sure I can find a tutorial video or some such.

Learning how to use Sweet Home 3D to work on brewery design and am struggling to find free or inexpensive 3D models of brewing equipment.. I have a horrible feeling that I am going to have to teach myself how to use Blender at this rate.

Visited the probable site of our future brewery today to meet a couple of groundwater experts to ascertain the likelihood of there being groundwater at the site..

.. there is a non-zero chance..

So we need to bore to find out.. which is pretty damned expensive.. so we are going to see if the town hall fancy paying on our behalf..

In other news, cheeky wee rascal jnr has officially registered her first word.

The criteria applied by me is that it had to be repeatable, seemingly intentional and verified by both parents.

The word is Papa - she pointed at a photo of me and said Papa.. repeated 4 times in with pauses between and dual verified!

やった!

Hopefully in the coming weeks I can raise some issues with GtS and brid.gy and finally get them to work well together and I can get reactions sent to my site.. had it on a previous site when I was on another fediverse software and it was awesome..with the current site I wanted to write my own scripts to handle it.. with some success, I can post to the fediverse and reply, favourite and boost posts from there.. but the feedback scripts were never written, so responses are not displayed etc. I have less enthusiasm and time to write them myself as I did in the past.. so would like to use brid.gy again..

.. considered using bridgyfed and turning my site into a fully fledged fediverse account (which I also tested in the past) but I like GtS and I like my current fediverse account so don’t really feel like changing again , even though this would definitely be the easiest implementation as my site is pretty much already compliant.

So far I have managed about as much sleep in 2023 as I would have back in Scotland where the new year is yet to begin.. which sucks because I haste house to myself and stayed sober in order to encourage a good night’s sleep.

Anyway, hope everyone’s 2023 is a marked improvement on your 2022? 明けましておめでとうございます!

Going to a restaurant this evening with an interesting take on vegan friendly.. I have to take my own food.. but I am welcome to eat it there..

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Heading to a special annual event today where the beers from the brewery that I intern at are sold to the local community at discounted rates.. should be fun.. oh and I’m not working this event.. I am participating from the customer side!

You can add civet or maybe badger to the growing list of wildlife found in our garden.. three of them this evening!

My cooking skills levelled up so much when becoming vegan re-inspired me to return to the kitchen, but since moving to rural Japan they continue to grow.. being the village vegan puts a fire in my belly.. (not literally, I have to add heat post-cooking as my daughter can’t yet handle spices). Today I made a mixed Japanese mushroom pie with roasted vegetables and the in-laws (and I) loved it.. we saved a plate for my brother-in-law who is working.. but we all have our eyes in it..