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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 10/10/2023

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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Buenos dias,
It's an odd day today. Finally diagnosed with ADHD only 20 years late and having a first day trialing ritalin, and I have the day off because it's Mental Health Day.
Going to get out and vote today, then I can put that worry aside until the weekend.
Shit is getting bad in Israel, I do not see a quick or calm resolution there. If there's going to be a WW3, I think this is the candidate for starting it. Unlike Ukraine, too many other countries have strong political positions with or against Israel/Palestine.
Going to check out some second hand road bikes, and try and flick some things off on TradeMe. Any ideas how I can get rid of a PC case? It's a great case, but hard to sell it seems.
- Finally diagnosed with ADHD only 20 years late
  This seems to be common! I've considered maybe looking at it for myself. What the process like? I'm assuming they don't just do a blood test and say yip, test says you've got ADHD.
  Any ideas how I can get rid of a PC case
  IIRC shipping is the killer as they don't flatten. If you aren't concerned, just put it $1 reserve and see who bites.
  
  I asked my GP for a referral (you'll have to do your own research on which psychologist to see, who is near to you, etc).
  They set an appointment for me, earliest I could get was 3 months away. I had to pay about $900 a week prior, and then had a ~3 hour session to discuss my symptoms with an assistant psychiatrist. Later on that day, I had a 15 minute call with the actual psychologist. 3 days later I picked up my prescription from the chemist.
  I knew I would forget everything as soon as I walked in the room, so for the few months I noted down symptoms that I experienced, which made it way easier to cover the important points. Still missed mentioning half of it all though.
  I still have music constantly playing in my head and the internal monologue, but feel more outwardly focused. There's less whinging and crying and dragging feet from my brain when I am trying to get things done. But we will see over the next few weeks if this is the right meds for me.
- We think of WWIII as when the nukes launch, but I think it's kinda been ongoing only a lot quieter and more dirty. Mostly on economic and political fronts, stuff like destroying the UK economically and isolating them from the EU by convincing them brexit is a good idea. But also literally millions of people have died in the last 50 years in not labeled as war military actions like the US in Afghanistan.
- I very much doubt it will come to that, there's only a small handful of countries that have any positive feelings towards Hamas, and none of them are anything to be concerned about. Especially with a carrier strike group loitering in the area, just waiting for someone to start something.
  Currently, Israel is in the process of kicking the school bully's head in, while their friends are stopping his friends from joining in.
- Hmm can you post the case on your town's buy/sell/swap facebook or the supermarket noticeboard?
This morning's problem was the pants weren't holey enough. The three year old wanted the ones with the hole in the knee, but they wore them yesterday and they haven't been washed yet.
- How filthy can a three year old get a pair of pants in one day?
  
  Is that a challenge? We don't even get them dressed until after breakfast to try to get them to daycare in clean clothes.
  Daycare does all sorts of messy or wet activities, and sometimes it's just plain old pee or poo. It's pretty rare to have a kid returned in the same pants you sent them away in.
  
  Wow....there is so much that can happen.
  We try to keep it to only one extra set of clothes in the middle of the day. We have had 4 sets of pants in one day.....paint, playdoh, mud, water, food, food, food, food, brothers, boogers......the list can keep going on and on......
  Kids are just pure filth interposed with brief periods of cleanliness.
Hi guys! A bit late to the thread but checking in anyway. I recovered from the jab so I went and visited my family! It was so awesome to see them and hug them and spend time with them. 💛 I love them all so much.
Now I'm on day 2 of recovering from that, but the worst is probably over so I'm hopeful I'll be back to normal within the week.
- It's never too late! Conversations sometimes happen on previous day's threads.
  Hopefully your recovery will be swift 🙂
  
  Thanks! I'm feeling pretty uplifted so spending the day in bed isn't as bad as usual. 😀
  Your comments in here today got me reminiscing about playing in the mud as a kid. It's like we're magnetised to dirt and mud when we're little.
Beautiful sunny day today.
Just rode down to the local NZ Post to ship another TradeMe purchase. I think at this rate I may be able to run an online retail business focused on delivering wholesale Chinese goods to kiwis who are willing to pay a couple of bucks extra to not have to wait months for shipping, or to pick it up at my front door.
If I become a massive hit - I should be able to earn.............................. half the minimum wage, I guess.
- I'm guilty of ordering off trademe when I don't want to wait for aliexpress shipping. I've often thought it hardly seems worth your time to make like $1 or $2 profit on a cheap item.
Went back to reddit for the first time because I had an itch to see more people arguing over Palestine Israel. So many locked threads removed comments. First 50 comments I read are crying over some headline that wasn't true. Man that site is such a mess.
I went back to YouTube comments where the real juicy arguments are. Found a video of xqc trying to learn about the conflict and then watched his roomtemp iq fans battle it out in the comments.

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