Rossymeister
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One thing ive learned after all these years. Its important to have a good doctor, a good dentist, a good plumber, and a good electrician.
Things I've learned the hard way . . .(Part 2)
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I had a similar skin reaction and developed contact dermatitis from it. About 2 weeks later it was healed. Back in those days, PPE wasn't pushed much and the tongs managed to damage the paper so most of us bare handed it.
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"Intelligent people are often open to new ideas and perspectives. They don't cling stubbornly to their beliefs, but are willing to consider other viewpoints and adjust their thinking when presented with new information.
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Going through a career re-training/job hunt. The career counselor gave me a MBTI/Myers–Briggs Type Indicator test which overall I conform to standard/accepted practices. That's been a hard wall to change as some ways have been in use and with known results. These days, that is ancient thought which adapting to new methods is slow on my uptake.
Going through a career re-training/job hunt. The career counselor gave me a MBTI/Myers–Briggs Type Indicator test which overall I conform to standard/accepted practices. That's been a hard wall to change as some ways have been in use and with known results. These days, that is ancient thought which adapting to new methods is slow on my uptake.
Don't buy different shoes that look alkie.
I have 2 pairs of slip on shoes that at 5:30am look just alike.
So Tuesday while walking around my feet hurt a bit and one leg felt shorter. Next morning I was putting on my shoes and wondered why all of a sudden one leg is shorter than the other.
The pair on the top is about 1/4" taller than the pair on the bottom. Doh!!
I have 2 pairs of slip on shoes that at 5:30am look just alike.
So Tuesday while walking around my feet hurt a bit and one leg felt shorter. Next morning I was putting on my shoes and wondered why all of a sudden one leg is shorter than the other.
The pair on the top is about 1/4" taller than the pair on the bottom. Doh!!
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Took that Myers-Briggs Personality test a couple of years back.Going through a career re-training/job hunt. The career counselor gave me a MBTI/Myers–Briggs Type Indicator test which overall I conform to standard/accepted practices. That's been a hard wall to change as some ways have been in use and with known results. These days, that is ancient thought which adapting to new methods is slow on my uptake.
Turns out I'm a classic INFJ personality type. Literally there's only 1% or 2% of my kind out in the world. One, that explains a lot!!! Two, found out late in life. Can't help but wonder sometimes how things might have been, had I known much earlier.
PhotonWrangler
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I made the same mistake just last week. Glad to know I'm not the only one who did this.Don't buy different shoes that look alkie.
I have 2 pairs of slip on shoes that at 5:30am look just alike.
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So Tuesday while walking around my feet hurt a bit and one leg felt shorter. Next morning I was putting on my shoes and wondered why all of a sudden one leg is shorter than the other.
The pair on the top is about 1/4" taller than the pair on the bottom. Doh!!
PhotonWrangler
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I had to look up INFJ as I'm not familiar with the Myers-Briggs scale. I see a lot of positive traits in this personality type.
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Ketchup = Yum.
MAC & Cheese = Yum.
Ketchup on MAC & Cheese =
MAC & Cheese = Yum.
Ketchup on MAC & Cheese =
Oh! Take a tomato, heat it up thoroughly in a toaster oven (takes awhile). Peel it carefully afterwards. Cut it up on a plate. Throw away the eye of the tomato. Put the yellow rice on top of the tomato and its juices. Maybe add a couple of pork skewers of cooked meat.... That is delicious beyond belief. Literally just had that for dinner.
I took that Meyers-Briggs thing several years ago for a class the boss was sending me to. It asked some of the same questions but used different words to ask it. "Do you like ketchup on your french fries?" as an example. Then "do you prefer your french fries with or without ketchup?" as another example. Not that it actually asked those questions. Being suspicious of "the man" I'd give a different answer on purpose. "You folks can't trick me into preferring Pepsi over Coke because I prefer RC" I thought.....
The tricky thing was they didn't care what your answers were. They "read" your reactions and when the class was nearly over they went over the results in an email and them sumb!tches had me down to a tee. I couldn't believe how accurate they were.
The tricky thing was they didn't care what your answers were. They "read" your reactions and when the class was nearly over they went over the results in an email and them sumb!tches had me down to a tee. I couldn't believe how accurate they were.
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I'm going to call this one a near-miss.
Back when I was a kid in grade school, somewhere around 3rd or 4th grade, I remember looking down at the wooden floor and noticing some tiny, bright shiny specs of something or other in the gaps between the floor boards.
When the class ended, I got on the floor and started collecting those curious shiny blobs by forcing them out of the gaps using the tip of a pencil. I wound up with maybe a dime-sized puddle of shiny liquid metallic stuff and played with it in the palm of my hand for a bit.
It turned out to be mercury, possibly from broken fluorescent bulbs. I threw it in the trash and forgot about it.
If this had happened today there might have been a full-blown evacuation and hazmat response, but back then it was a non-event. I think I mentioned my discovery to the teacher, who responded with a 'huh' and then moved on.
Back when I was a kid in grade school, somewhere around 3rd or 4th grade, I remember looking down at the wooden floor and noticing some tiny, bright shiny specs of something or other in the gaps between the floor boards.
When the class ended, I got on the floor and started collecting those curious shiny blobs by forcing them out of the gaps using the tip of a pencil. I wound up with maybe a dime-sized puddle of shiny liquid metallic stuff and played with it in the palm of my hand for a bit.
It turned out to be mercury, possibly from broken fluorescent bulbs. I threw it in the trash and forgot about it.
If this had happened today there might have been a full-blown evacuation and hazmat response, but back then it was a non-event. I think I mentioned my discovery to the teacher, who responded with a 'huh' and then moved on.
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It's more important that these are four separate people, not one. I don't want my electrician wiring my jaw. I don't want my plumber sealing my crack. I don't want my dentist using any larger drills than he already is. I don't want my doctor anywhere near construction power tools in the operating room.
Just a different time back then. Folks also had a sense of humor and weren't so ridiculously overly sensitive.
Also.... If you're buying a mechanical watch, either buy a literal mechanical model that needs to be wound once every 24 hours, or buy an automatic model with a power reserve feature ("gas" gauge).
Don't buy the later without the gauge, otherwise there will be times you WILL regret it, when your watch just stops working seemingly out of the blue. Not dangerous. But extremely frustrating.
Don't buy the later without the gauge, otherwise there will be times you WILL regret it, when your watch just stops working seemingly out of the blue. Not dangerous. But extremely frustrating.
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I had one of those self-winding watches once. It didn't store enough energy from an average day's movements to keep itself going, so it sometimes took several minutes of flailing my arm to get it going again. I don't recall seeing any with a "gas gauge" display though.
Yours must have been defective. The lowest amount of runtime from a basic automatic movement is 48 hours once the spring is fully wound. Gas gauges can be found on a number of different models. Ironically from full-blown Luxury brands such as Grand Seiko to more reasonably-priced brands such as Orient. (Though most companies refer to them as Power reserve features.)
One example that I personally like is the Orient Star RK-AU0004B model. Beautifully incorporates that feature onto the dial of the watch.
I worked in a hospital for a while. You would be amazed at how many surgical instruments are based off your average construction tools. That $25000 drill was just a Craftsman with an all metal housing.
When you're a kid and you see an adult lose their temper, you think "Wow, they're really mad! They're getting some kind of rage induced strength/focus/determination from anger!"
The truth is that after going through my 20's and 30's, I recognize that display as a loss of control. A failure to remain calm and maintain cognitive focus under pressure. It doesn't help, it doesn't get the job done, it doesn't display to your peers how serious you are.
It's far better to be the person who stays calm, who takes it one step at a time, who can encourage and assure themselves and those around them. Stick it out, do what you can, you can't solve all the problems at one time. Address what you can in as logical an order as you can muster, mitigate what you can, solve one problem at a time, and you'll come out the other end.
Also, loss of temper will happen no matter how calm we try to be, we're all human and it happens to everyone. We can work on controlling it without dwelling on how or why it happened. Being a dad and realizing what my kids see when I fly off the handle has helped a great deal.
The truth is that after going through my 20's and 30's, I recognize that display as a loss of control. A failure to remain calm and maintain cognitive focus under pressure. It doesn't help, it doesn't get the job done, it doesn't display to your peers how serious you are.
It's far better to be the person who stays calm, who takes it one step at a time, who can encourage and assure themselves and those around them. Stick it out, do what you can, you can't solve all the problems at one time. Address what you can in as logical an order as you can muster, mitigate what you can, solve one problem at a time, and you'll come out the other end.
Also, loss of temper will happen no matter how calm we try to be, we're all human and it happens to everyone. We can work on controlling it without dwelling on how or why it happened. Being a dad and realizing what my kids see when I fly off the handle has helped a great deal.
