A week ago I had my third emergency detached retina surgery. Earlier today the surgeon conducted a one-week post-op exam and said I'm healing fine with everything looking good...so far.

The surgeon deliberately put a gas bubble in my eye, so I can't return to the mountains until that bubble is gone...in 4 to 6 weeks.

Once I get back home, I will do a few minor things to the glider, then assemble it again for a full-power taxi test.

I need to cultivate more patience....

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I connected a charger directly to battery terminals of a smartphone whose battery failed, over Schottky diodes to reduce the voltage properly.

Now I have a phone which always shows 90%-100% battery.

I ran Tesseract OCR on its 4x64-bit ARM CPU over Termux and ssh and it adds another 50% computational power to my PC when I needed to OCR many pages of documents.

The power Schottkies were upcycled from dead power supplies, the cable from a broken power cord, the USB-A connector from a failed charging cable, I don't remember what the resistor and PCB comes from.

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