Cold beer and a warm soldering iron

I hadn't gotten out the soldering iron in a while until the decision to put LEDs in my cape for my halloween costume demanded I do so. I finally sat down with wires, solder, my radio-shack 15W iron, and a couple of good tutorials (One,Two) and really taught myself how to make quality solder joints. The beer my roommate bought and is from a Mendocino microbrew, I think.

Here's my messy desk in all it's glory, just for shits and giggles. I finally migrated nearly all my computer equipment to the smaller desk directly in front, and am now using a 6' long conference table as my craft / hackspace! I'm very excited to have this much room. I do still need to get rid of some things, such as my large collection of analog recording equipment that I never use...

Lastly, here's a pic of my breadboard with a row of LEDs to test out linking new LEDs to an existing IKEA power supply with 10 LEDs off of it. Seemed to work ok, I went a slightly different route for my halloween costume - I should have some pics of it up this weekend.