Kathy P suggested a craft day so we all gathered on the back porch to make useful messes. Lynell painted a birdhouse, Kathy worked on her paper mache angel fish, and I made a wireless charging cradle.  

I had some trouble setting up IntelliJ with the Atlassian SDK.  Time to contribute! Maven Dependency Resolution Initially the generated sample project had compile and POM errors flagged in Intellij. First I tried cribbing from the Netbeans instructions by adding the Atlassian repos to my POM.  No dice. I decided to start over.  In the Import Project dialog I saw there are settings for the Maven environment.  Eureka! Later you can find…

After a long hiatus I buckled down to get going again with the printer.  I used the “nylon cold pull” technique to clear the nozzle… pretty slick trick. Ok here goes… Gumby Guns. My buddy Greg runs model trains and has cooked up a whole village of Gumbys and Benders to run the place.  Some of the Gumbys are cops so they need guns.  Among other things. Really small things are tough…