That’s literally every day for my ADHD brain

A very dear friend, who is a psychiatrist, says that the DSM is mostly to help GPs to identify symptoms, to be able to send people to the psychiatrist, not to actually diagnose.

For some reason I thought it was the inverse, stubby neck.

Five vs. One

Kind of lost at “luck” before starting, no?

Looks likitnshould be added to the crankcase, probably harder to reach that a fuel cap.

I don’t really believe it’s a spectrum. I believe that you either have a dopamine processing deficiency, or you don’t. I think the differences we see are the result of how well some of us learn to cope, or devise self protecting strategies.

I mean, there may be slight differences, but I wouldn’t call it a spectrum, at least in the way that autism is, where you have mildly socially incompetent people to nearly non functional people.

I was undiagnosed bipolar for over 40 years, masked by my success in employment and entrepreneurship, which lasted about 2-5 years every stage, when tedium became unbearable, and had to look for other challenges to fuel my dopamine. No one, even myself, connected the dots between my intense drive, and the following depressive stage, and the next jump. I finally crashed hard, and sought a psychiatryst. Once properly medicated, my mood swings normalized, the ADHD symptoms were unmasked.

Now we are working on dialing in meds for ADHD. Pretty hard to balance.

In my case I belive I don’t more or less ADHD than others, but that I was good at (extreme) damage control.

My opinion.

I was explaining to my sister about how my diagnosis, as an older adult, was going, and how it explained many things in my life. She immediately told me she suspects she has it, because she has a short attention span.

She is an elementary school principal, who leads a perfectly organized life, set on a path in her 20’s and has followed it to the letter, she has an insanely well set up financial structure, budgets to the cent, is learning a third language in her spare time, leads a regimented daily schedule, even on weekends and vacations.

Yeah.

Turned 90 degrees

Dry and then store in sealed container with silica gel. Silica will maintain dryness, but will not dry filament by itself.

Also, containers must have a seal of some kind. Regular plastic tubs will let some moisture in. For a few days or a couple of weeks that’ll be fine, but over a month they’ll let moisture in. Get vacuum bags.

There are pretty cheap reusable vacuum bags that use a little pump. I use a cheap kitchen vacuum machine, and regular food storage vacuum bags.

I live in a dry climate. Trust me, dry your PETG.

Get Rapid PETG. Regular PETG. I’ve printed a few rolls of regular PETG, and it can be a source of frustration. Same with PLA. Get a PLA +.

I live in a dry climate, and thought drying PETG was unnecessary. After a lot of frustration, I made a (very good) redneck dryer, and my printing life became much better. PETG really likes water, and printing humid PETG is a source of major frustration.

Also, don’t dry filaments in ovens, microwaves, or other food use things. A lot of idiots on YouTube recommend that, and it’s obvious that you don’t want to cook foods in ovens that have been coated in unknown VOCs.

Shit. I used Baileys. Is that bad?

Also, metal needles or equivalent can raise contacts and do their damage. I cut the toothpicks with a cutter so that they are wedge shaped.

In Spain you can buy a BYD seagull for around 10.000€, with proper switches and stalks. A Hyundai for about 13.000. A really cool Renault 5 for about 20.000, if you want to buy European.

Granted, these are minis, but they are really adapted to much of Europe.

The cheapest Tesla is about 40.000, and arguably older tech.

Tesla has gone from innovator to legacy.

I have been a Serif user since the early 2000’s and Affinity since V 1

I love the suite, and use it to do pro stuff, mostly typesetting supported by photo and designer.

Tracing is one of the features I really missed. Now I have it.

I have the universal license for V2, and it’s so good that it’s going to be relevant for a while.

The fact that Canva is, for the time being making it free, and not forcing AI, and allowing it to be optional, is OK by me. If I need AI for a job, I can pay for a month, pretty cheap for what I’m going to be paid.

I like the situation.

Canva is essentially making migration from Adobe easy and free, to poach users.

Win Win in my opinion

I’m sure there is some chapter in the art of the deal that describes something like this that the democrats could quote back to him.

I’ve done this. The blank look on his face is a priceless memory for my kids and I.

Not perhaps. All quotes have been authoritatively traced to Mark Twain, even this one.