In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Out for my walk on a bright sunny day. But probably cold. Sitting at 1C which is 32F.
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Quote:I listen to geopolitics when I'm in the kitchen, which is almost every day. But when I can't get my rear in gear I spend way too much time posting, which feels like I'm following an elephant parade with a pooper scooper!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I hate how much more I pay attention to politics when the weather gets cold.
So let's focus on something else. You're a really bright guy, SIX, and unafraid of learning. And you learn really quickly.
How about teaching someone something. In person, or online? Or extending your knowledge into another field? Car repair?
Quote:Well, there's that too!
What I need to do is get this house finished and more efficiently heated so I can have a proper workspace in my basement for project work to keep my mind away from such things. TV and Movies hold no interest for me, my computer project gets kind of dangerous since I can lose days at a time in it and not be properly keeping up with anything else if I go too far down that rabbit hole, and these short days when the sun is down before 4:30PM really screws with my mood and sleep schedule.
Quote:That's what I do. I fill up my cart. Sometimes I put several choices of the same type... fittings, plants, plumbing supplies... let it sit for a few days to a week, then go back and weed it down. A lot.
I didn't buy anything for Black Friday... yet. But I still have about a billion tabs open and a few carts full of stuff that I probably won't buy.
Quote:What useful stuff in a microwave??? Just curious.
My goal today is to finish my brother's computer sleeve and to get that microwave taken apart so I can get the useful stuff out and put the rest on the curb Wednesday night. Then I'll spend the "warm" Wednesday cleaning the garage for the year and making sure I didn't forget to weatherize something. I should put starting my snow blower in the mix too. Don't want to find out there's a problem when I need it.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Back from my walk and still bright and sunny out. Not too cold as the temp has bumped up to 3C which is 36F. Have to see if the snow and rain arrives tonight.
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I finished my brother's computer sleeve this afternoon. I'll get around to sorting out my pictures and get pics of that and the entryway table up soonish.
Tore that microwave apart and got a cool additional thing that I've never grabbed out of one since none of the others were wall units that vented out. (I saw your message Sigs and will properly reply to all of that later).
I did a little cleanup but boy when that sun goes down it drops quick. Done for the day. I'm ahead of schedule for once, so I should have a good Tuesday and make the most of the 55 degrees. Time to get cleaned up. That freakin' microwave was GROSS!!!
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:I think what BRENDA has, that I don't quite have, is a consistent schedule - dauky, weekly, perhaps even monthly.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You seem to have found balance.
I'm still struggling with it.
BRENDA: It is a struggle and it took me years to get to it. But I'm glad that I finally managed to do it.
You'll get there. It takes time.
I don't think you function that way, SIX. Someone I know very well seems to be like you: when he's "on" he's on 150%. Perhaps even more than you: hyperfocused on a project or process for days/weeks/ months at a time. When immersed in something entirely losing track of time. In between projects kind of torpid. You can at least switch up from day to day. Not sure he can.
Some people are more suited to chipping away at things. Putting in consistent but smaller effort on a variety of things, which can be scheduled more easily.
Some people, like one person I know, flit from one thing to anyone a random pattern. That, I think, is an attention problem. Neither the intense productivity with your kind of intense energy nor the consistent day to day effort.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I listen to geopolitics when I'm in the kitchen, which is almost every day. But when I can't get my rear in gear I spend way too much time posting, which feels like I'm following an elephant parade with a pooper scooper!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I hate how much more I pay attention to politics when the weather gets cold.
At the end of the day, isn't it almost just a big waste of time? My life changed a lot while Trump was President, but that didn't have anything to do with it. That was me getting sober and then finally getting around to getting my house in order. Literally. So many old skills brushed up on and improved. So many new things learned. So many new tools acquired, both literally and figuratively. Fixing relationships. Constant flow of compliments from neighbors who I'm sure hated having me as their neighbor when I was drunk 24/7 and let everything go to hell.
If it wasn't for Covid screwing with everybody's head for so long and the fallout from that, almost nothing has really changed in the real world as far as I'm concerned. Not while Trump was President. Not these last two years. The prices might be a little more now, but other than that everything is still copacetic.
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So let's focus on something else. You're a really bright guy, SIX, and unafraid of learning. And you learn really quickly.
How about teaching someone something. In person, or online? Or extending your knowledge into another field? Car repair?
I don't know how I'd go about teaching stuff to people. Not that I couldn't do it, but I don't know how I'd find somebody to teach. Anybody in my circle either doesn't have any interest in what I know or already knows it. Although, I my friend's dad did some electrical work in my friend's garage a few weeks back and he told me that he took a cue from a couple of things I showed him that I did in both my garage and my shed and he did it like I did.
I thought that was pretty freakin' awesome since he's the guy who taught me how to do electric over 20 years ago in the first place.
As for doing something else, I think I'd like to start getting into woodworking and furniture making. I think I really have a knack for it. It would be a long time before I was able to make any profit off of it though. I'm too slow at things right now to make it viable, and I have a LOT of tools that I'd need to buy. That's part of my dilemma right now. Boy... if I could bring myself to buy that desktop planer for $360, that would be huge. There's a whole lot of furniture I could start building just using pallet wood if I had that tool to smooth it out for me.
Quote:Well, there's that too!
What I need to do is get this house finished and more efficiently heated so I can have a proper workspace in my basement for project work to keep my mind away from such things. TV and Movies hold no interest for me, my computer project gets kind of dangerous since I can lose days at a time in it and not be properly keeping up with anything else if I go too far down that rabbit hole, and these short days when the sun is down before 4:30PM really screws with my mood and sleep schedule.
Yeah... I'll get there.
Quote:That's what I do. I fill up my cart. Sometimes I put several choices of the same type... fittings, plants, plumbing supplies... let it sit for a few days to a week, then go back and weed it down. A lot.
I didn't buy anything for Black Friday... yet. But I still have about a billion tabs open and a few carts full of stuff that I probably won't buy.
Yeah. I don't have a week. Half of the deals end at midnight tonight, the other half are good until midnight on the 30th. Not even sure what timezone that is, so it's possible if I waited until midnight and decided to purchase some of them it might already be t
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You seem to have found balance.
I'm still struggling with it.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
It is a struggle and it took me years to get to it. But I'm glad that I finally managed to do it.
You'll get there. It takes time.
Yeah. I envy you.
I'm better than before. Always a work in progress though.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:I think what BRENDA has, that I don't quite have, is a consistent schedule - dauky, weekly, perhaps even monthly.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You seem to have found balance.
I'm still struggling with it.
BRENDA: It is a struggle and it took me years to get to it. But I'm glad that I finally managed to do it.
You'll get there. It takes time.
I don't have ANY schedule. Most days I could very well simply choose not to do anything of importance. If I wanted to, I could stay up all night into the afternoon working on my computer project or just playing video games and sleep all day tomorrow instead of taking advantage of what might be the last nice day until winter is done. And there have been many, many, many days where I did just that. Even after I sobered up too even, but particularly when I was drinking.
Near total freedom is nice, but boy you've got to be good at keeping yourself motivated and not falling into bad habits. These are learned skills.
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I don't think you function that way, SIX. Someone I know very well seems to be like you: when he's "on" he's on 150%. Perhaps even more than you: hyperfocused on a project or process for days/weeks/ months at a time. When immersed in something entirely losing track of time. In between projects kind of torpid. You can at least switch up from day to day. Not sure he can.
Some people are more suited to chipping away at things. Putting in consistent but smaller effort on a variety of things, which can be scheduled more easily.
Some people, like one person I know, flit from one thing to anyone a random pattern. That, I think, is an attention problem. Neither the intense productivity with your kind of intense energy nor the consistent day to day effort.
I wasn't always able to switch it up. That's been a more recent development. It still gnaws at me when I leave one project unfinished to jump to another one, but I have to train myself to be more adaptable. It just makes good sense for a lot of different reasons. There's no way I would have been able to achieve what I did this spring through fall if I hyper-focused on one thing at a time. I just have to not let it demoralize me that nearly every project I've got going on is around 80 to 90% finished and almost nothing is 100% complete. I've got to take a few steps back and look at how much the overall project has progressed, even if aside from my garage, two of my 4 closets and my pantry I can't really say that any single room in my house is finished and the outside of the house may still take years for me to chip away at.
But thank god for digital photos. I can always go back and look at what things looked like 3 years ago compared to where I've got them now and remember the dark and dreary filth I had surrounded myself in and compare it to how nice things are looking today.
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Well then, you've made a lot more progress on changing your work style than I have.
I'm only (very!) rarely an intensely -focused person, altho there are times it could be very useful.
Usually, the dog takes me for a walk every day, and the family doesn't appreciate late meals, so I'm kept somewhat on a schedule.
It would be great if we could just switch on certain personality traits, wouldn't it?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You seem to have found balance.
I'm still struggling with it.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
It is a struggle and it took me years to get to it. But I'm glad that I finally managed to do it.
You'll get there. It takes time.
Yeah. I envy you.
I'm better than before. Always a work in progress though.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Well, with looking after my mom and then helping Blair before he died. I've had a lot of things to unlearn especially in regard to my mom. So, I'm trying to take it easier on myself now.
You definitely are and you should be proud of what you have accomplished.
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