{"id":6301,"date":"2025-04-12T01:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/?p=6301"},"modified":"2025-04-12T01:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:04:04","slug":"4-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/4-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/11\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Another warm day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Biked to UPS to pick up (a) Torqbar copper\/tungsten spinner, pretty cool, and (b) Pose DSC titanium spinner, with GRAIL pouch and dog tag. Yow! There were scratches on the Pose buttons, so I sanded them out and put it on the buffer: the beautiful blue\/red timascus faded completely. Not a total surprise, but still&#8230; So I searched a bit on the web, cleaned the buttons thoroughly, then hit them with my MAPP torch for 30-40 seconds. Boom! Gorgeous blue and red coloring restored, better than when I got it. It does seem to be fading a bit now, so next time I will polish it to a super-high shine, clean it to death, then flame it again. A whole new chapter for Mr. Fixit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;My face is starting to heal from the fluorouracil, except for the three spots I&#8217;m continuing to use it on&#8211;forehead, cheek, nose. It suggests that I might have been able to permanently get rid of more damage in general if I had applied the stuff for a month or more&#8211;but that would have been insanely painful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Another warm day. &#8211;Biked to UPS to pick up (a) Torqbar copper\/tungsten spinner, pretty cool, and (b) Pose DSC titanium spinner, with GRAIL pouch and dog tag. Yow! There were scratches on the Pose buttons, so I sanded them out and put it on the buffer: the beautiful blue\/red timascus faded completely. Not a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}