12-08-2025 — Four for Four

Howdy all. Very cold. 20s with winds picking up the next couple of days. And teens overnight. Brrr. Some might say it is looking a lot like Christmas. I say, where is the heat?.

So with the headache subsided, and a couple of good short night naps, I am back to getting these piles of thingies and boxes assembled, and ready to go postal. Hmm, not sure if I mean the boxes will be going with the USPS, or I may go insane. Maybe it means both.

These are truly trying my patience. I 3D printed all of the various figurines for these globes, and spent yesterday trying to get them to work together. I have more of these globes arriving tomorrow. I had purchased a few of a variety, looking for what would work best.

As for getting the figures to stay upright, I tried super glue, and it did not hold the figurines to the silicone bases. So, I tried the hot glue gun. It wouldn’t adhere to the PLA figurines. I tried epoxy, and that did stick to the silicone, somewhat. So, I then used superglue to connect the figurines to the epoxy. It seems to be sticking, most of the time. I was going to fill the globes with distilled water and glycerin, but rethought that idea. These are going in cardboard boxes that will be in the USPS system for a few days. If they didn’t leak immediately, they very well might freeze.

I did add “snow” to the globes before putting them in bubble baggies in the shipping boxes.

And all I managed to get done today was four boxes. So many to go.

I did write names on cards that were enclosed, and wrote up (Word Document) an instruction sheet on handling the globes and the LED tea light usage in other goodies. Don’t want people burning down the house!

The other “four” is this was the fourth gift day of Kitty’s Advent Calendar from her southern cousins. When I opened it up for her this morning, I thought it was one of those “Chinese” finger handcuff things we used to get as kids. Fortunately, my fingers would not fit.

Kitty found it fascinating. She did the cat thing, and kept knocking it off my desk. Finally she hit it so hard, it went into the family room, and she went after it.

I have no idea where it is now, but she thinks it is great, and she will Enjoy Life