Ask HN: What are you doing this weekend?

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About to hop into VR to play some poker.
Dinner and drinks with friends tonight. Tomorrow: Put some Eufy robovac borders up so my vaccuum will stop trying to eat all of the cables Work on a side project Trying to confirm a date for tomorrow night, and if that falls through, making a lasagna Sunday: Whatever rolls over from tomorrow
I’m gonna hit a local show, probably stay in too late and try to read up on a few things before an interview Monday for a position I’m not sure I want.
Good luck. ..I guess
Smoke a brisket, help stain my girlfriend's deck, install a MFM hard drive into one of my retro computers, upgrade my Proxmox server and cheer my daughter on at her horse show.
My neighbor gave me a smoker a few weeks back. I’ve smoked ribs and a brisket so far. Turned out pretty good. Still figuring out the smoker, so the ribs didn’t turn out 100% how I wanted. I’m going to try to smoke some chicken thighs this weekend.
Brown them in the skillet first. Trust me.

That said, chicken thighs are the best thing I've personally smoked (I'm a relative novice). They just come out so good when you nail them.

I've never browned mine before smoking but as with all my chicken I throw them on the grill for a bit after smoking to get some crispy skin.
It took me a few tries to dial in both my brisket and ribs. If you want some delicious chicken smoke a spatchcock chicken.
Cleaned the car. Taking papers to bank tomorrow morning for shredding.

Then, in the evening there is a little music concert in a nearby park where kid has a henna tattoo stall so will be going there. Sunday morning is another fall fair in the town where kid has a henna tattoo stall so will go help her set it up.

In between, will argue with strangers and friends on social media about why Gandhi was good for India (it is Gandhi's birthday tomorrow). Will try to get some sleep and exercise as well as try to eat less. Browse Reddit and HN some.

And if SO has any other additional plans, will try to join as well. Maybe talk to sister over phone. Watch some travel videos of India like train trips etc.

Thanks for asking. Life still feels empty somehow.

probably just gonna lay around and not do much. prolly smoke a lil, watch tv, and just relax and decompress from the week <3
I’m converting The plastic Jack-o-lanterns to use addressable LEDs, and weather proofing them to put into a sound sync’d Halloween display. Also gotta make some covers for the speakers.
Walking around town enjoying the nice autumn colors.

Not every tree makes a good composition for a photo but they're all great to just admire with their golden leaves rustling in the sunlight and gently falling to the ground.

not doing Unity tutorials.

not messing around with luajit and SDL's new geometry API.

not poking through Mozilla's canvas implementation because I want to write one for SDL.

not working on the HN client I wrote in Godot and abandoned long, long ago.

Absolutely not working on VR stuff and definitely not catching up on my long list of things to do with Arc/Anarki.

I mean, I planned to some or all of those things. I managed to mop the floors and watch a lot of Kill La Kill and funpost on HN.

General conference. Lots of powerful speakers, messages of hope, calls to end hate and division, I love it.