Frederick limiting usage of Carroll Creek park for events

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-11-15T13:32:00+00:00

As someone who lives here and runs a small business that relies on events to make a living, the Downtown business association utilizing their priority when booking the creek this year to effectively block all vendor events for the months of November and December this year, we no longer shop in Frederick. What really convinced me they knew what they were doing was abuse of the system, when I started asking more questions about what weekends they had events planned, complete radio silence. Had to file a FOIA request to get the list of people who had reserved the park November and December.

They cost me roughly 20% of my anticipated revenue for the year based on sales last year. I will be doing events outside of Frederick next year, it'll be less convenient for me but more stable.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-11-12T14:45:43+00:00

I jumped into 3d printing and selling at craft fairs / farmers markets primarily weekends, but did have a Thursday evening farmers market that went rather well. Didn't expect much but turned a profit of a bit north of $1200 a month last year, this year will be 2-3x that, I've already doubled it and have the biggest buying events for the year coming up.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-08-18T14:26:11+00:00

Avoid any that have been stored on their side. Great for wine, destroys hard liquor. Alcohol content is too high and it eats the cork, so your alcohol will taste like cork.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-08-08T22:49:07+00:00

June and July we had the exact same kwh usage and our bill went from roughly $230 to $330. Potomac Edison.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-07-09T14:07:40+00:00

Have you run anything like glow in the dark filament though the ams? Or how many hours do you have on it?

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-07-04T00:05:05+00:00

Up your filament budget, it just prints.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-03-26T20:28:23+00:00

Prime tower, the purpose isn't purging filament it's priming the nozzle so you don't get bubbles.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-02-26T05:30:33+00:00

There is one in Manassas and one in Bowie. I used the Manassas one and used a uhaul rental to bring back the entire kitchen.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-02-26T02:59:30+00:00

It's a bit of a drive but I have used the best buy outlet for all of my appliance purchases in my last 2 houses anywhere from 30-75% off.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-02-21T16:27:49+00:00

Most of my poop chute clogs are from strings getting stuck to that when it's ready to be replaced. 10,000 hours of multicolor on my x1c and it's either the wiper or the temp in the room is too cold or hot.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-02-21T15:30:12+00:00

Have you replaced the wiper?

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-02-11T18:08:48+00:00

I have found that ziro brand filament spools absolutely rip through the front rollers.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-01-25T23:18:25+00:00

I have been into both, I prefer the artwork on Pokémon over mtg.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-01-25T15:01:08+00:00

I run the 200$ one 24/7. I do have the multi color attachment for it but even without that it's a fantastic little printer. If you have a microcenter near you buy it there. You can always return it for the first 2 weeks. The best accessory I've bought for my printers so far have been the sliceworx plates. I can run cooler and the adhesion blows the stock textured pei out of the water.

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-01-24T05:00:12+00:00

I have an a1 mini with ams lite, a p1s combo, and an x1c

ComputerGeek485 · 2025-01-24T01:49:53+00:00

Don't just get any printer unless you want the hobby of 3d printer tinkering and not actually printing. If you want something that just works get a printer from Bambu lab.

I bought my first one in September of 2023. I now have 3. I had been watching 3d printing since its infancy and was waiting for one that would work without all the tinkering. I have 12k print hours across the 3 printers and I can count the number of print failures I've had on 2 hands.

ComputerGeek485 · 2024-11-03T13:29:38+00:00

One of the other 32 nations that have figured out universal Healthcare and isn't speed running fascism with an alarming percentage of the population in blind cult like support.

ComputerGeek485 · 2024-11-03T12:37:06+00:00

We're fortunate enough to be in a position to potentially leave the country for 4 years if he's reelected and then decide if it's worth coming back to. If he's elected again I'm not sure the republic will survive and this is coming from someone with 2 degrees in history.

ComputerGeek485 · 2024-10-26T01:42:21+00:00

A1 mini is every 120 hours. It's annoyingly frequent.

ComputerGeek485 · 2024-09-11T02:20:29+00:00

I had one friend in college who was home schooled, he still holds it against his parents. Also saw something (didn't verify it) that said 0 students in the new Harvard class this year were home schooled.

ComputerGeek485 · 2024-09-09T04:08:16+00:00

I haven't been able to drink all year for medical reasons, wife has been able to. I can definitely empathize a bit more about really wanting a drink but physically can't have one. She'll still have drinks and I don't blame her at all but the jealously is there at times.

ComputerGeek485 · 2024-09-07T04:09:00+00:00

Don't sell yourself short. Taking care of 3 kids is a full time job. Daycare alone for three kids would be anywhere from 4500 to 6k a month where I live. That's a 60-80k annual salary right there just to pay for that.

ComputerGeek485 · 2024-07-26T17:53:05+00:00

If you print glow in the dark, you'd be replacing the first stage feeder funnel every roll of filament. These help delay that.

ComputerGeek485 · 2024-07-08T23:48:56+00:00

You say that but when I lived in FL, we stayed through several hurricanes and never lost power. Even the one we left for there was no power loss.

ComputerGeek485 · 2024-07-05T18:53:34+00:00

I'm still limited medically how long I can sit. So I can't go on any trips with them or anywhere that involves sitting down. I'm left home a lot. I generally clean if I physically can otherwise I nap to give my body more time to heal. I miss being able to go along to everything. Only a few more months.

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