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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I backpack it everywhere. I love boundary supply, but they’re expensive and lord almighty are they slow to ship…

    That being said, I EDC a Prima system as it also hadles my laptops and camera gear which travels with me frequently. I’ve just added one of their bottle carriers to the shoulder strap and I’ve got another one to install…

    In addition to the backpack, I’ve moved to pants with plenty of pockets. I live in 5.11 cargos (pants or shorts) and even wear the 5.11 tactical jeans which have an extra pair of pockets (usually for ammo. I use them for wallet and phone…)



  • I was also diagnosed late in life (mid 40s).

    For me it became a significant impact in two places in my life:

    1. as my roles changed and I needed more ability to handle “blank page” type work assignments as I became more senior, rather than “survive this chaos” which I’ve always excelled at (given my ability to drop something, pick up something else, then revert later.) With previous “chaos surfing” roles, my now diagnosed ADHD was actually a secret super power (seriously, I managed turn ADHD into a career). As my roles became more “take this blank page, and figure out what to do, and make it into a project to make stuff better” I fell off a performance cliff.

    2. as 1 happened, my ramp up of symptom management routines started to impact my family. (I didn’t actually realise this until my partner filled in her part of my diagnosis questionnaire. )

    My Doc basically told me I had been doing everything they want ADHD patients to do to manage the impacts of their symptoms, but my level of challenge had reached a point where medication could help me live at an effort level below the 99.99% constant I had all the time.

    He was right and it did…


  • I live in a subtropical area.

    Short answer: YES!!.

    I now religiously use a filament dryer, VAC bags and loose silica beads that I bag my self into DIY teabags and then redry in the oven.

    I also make sure to dry new filament for 24hours before using it the first time…

    Since I started doing this for PLA and PETG, many of my previous my print issues dissapeared…




  • snrkl@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    10 months ago

    Well. In a one on one call with him once (he’s my local member) I asked him why we could not protect individual rights with a charter of human rights.

    I would describe the tone of his response as visceral… He said to me:

    "[I don’t trust the courts in interpreting legislation like that. I would not want to give them an inch. Just look what they’ve done down in Victoria.]{paraphrased}

    [As far as I’m concerned, the parliament is perfectly placed to decide what is, and is not a human right, and if you disagree with me, you can vote me out… ]{direct quote}"

    I assume the VIC reference was to the judges that had been appointed most recently with track records of upholding human rights…











  • Had a miniature poodle go blind at my parents hiise when I was 17/18 and he was peeing everywhere in the house suddenly.

    Spent a day watching and realised he was laying scent markers for navigation.

    Cleaned up all the wee and started tagging the left side of every doorway with a different herb/spice (basil, thyme, Rosemary, paprika etc). Just grabbed some dried herbs and rubbed them in the bottom left of all the doorways.

    Took the dog through the house on a lead, and let him smell each door and took him outside.

    Pretty much stopped the inside peejng, unless we forgot to replace the herb/spice rubs, or mixed up which herb went where when we reapplied…

    My friends started calling my place the KFC shack.