Unfinished Projects: What's blocking them?

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I’m pretty psyched to have some extra time now that I’m funemployed for a few and home 24/7. That said I have a family and a freelance business I’m trying to restart, so what really is free time? My list of unfinished projects includes:

  1. mythosmann’s TG4x kit with original TG3 caps, plates and mill-max sockets waiting on
    a. switches — I’ve ordered Seriko switches and I’m waiting on them to be finished and shipped out (currently they are delayed by coronavirus) — OR — maybe I want to get some vint blacks and try them (it’s a long shot, but does anyone have any cop board blacks they’d want to pass on to me?); and
    b. keycaps — Should I go with /dev/tty0? I have them right now sitting unused. If not, then I need to get a new set of caps.
    c. soldering supplies and experience (I’m scared! I’ve got a basic soldering kit but I haven’t really ever soldered anything more than wires. My hands are clumsy and unsteady. I don’t wanna use too little heat, or too much, or the wrong kind of solder, or … eek!). I need felix felicis but for soldering technique.

  2. an unbuilt XD75, blocking on
    a. switches (maybe Seriko? see above. If not, maybe vint blacks or NK creams); and
    b. keycaps (since I stole the MDA Big Bang caps that came with this for use on my zlant); and
    c. again, my worry about soldering (see c above).

  3. A zlant with gat yellows, currently case-less and rocking MDA Big Bang BUT in its final form:
    a. needs a case: ideally a yellow fluorescent keeblade or workalike (I don’t want to support Q anymore given his behavior to some); and
    b. needs matching yellow caps for the gateron yellow switches and hopefully soon yellow case, perhaps kbdfans’ R2 XDA 40V2 or (in my dreams) Serika. Yup. I’ll keep dreaming…

Let’s say I manage to get some of these long-suffering todo items ticked off during this coronavirus isolation time… this neatly ties up my loose ends since I can put MDA Big Bang on the Serikas on the XD75, which means I’ll be at keyboard steady state, at least until @yasintahir greenlights version 2 of YAS-62, when I’ll need to buy that (duh) and a set of switches and caps to go with it! The cycle continues.

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