grysbok @ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy afte

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Nah, it's just not as deep as they're making it out to be.

Graciously, I think they're coming from a place of ADHD and assuming that engineers, artists, and scientists either don't have ADHD or have the superpower "hyperfocus".

Sadly, hyperfocus is a fickle muse who has chosen not to grace me today. [sobs in ADHD techie]

I sure hope not. I don't want to have to deal with new plumbing at my age, the factory-issued set gives me enough problems

I'd expect everyone is robed in heavenly garments, to save the embarrassment from having been raptured with your pants down.

Bad joke. I have distant elderly relatives (my aunts' cousins) in Fall River. Now I'm worried I'll get bad news at tomorrow's family stitch 'n bitch.

[Lapsed] mechanical engineering gang checking in. I was also surprised. Though, tbh, I think it came down to personal preference of the professor more than field-wide consensus.

My last pup had a liquid medication, twice a day. We had them make it fish flavored. She loved that stuff, it was so easy to squirt it in her mouth with the dosing syringe.

Current pup has 2 pills twice a day. He's mostly deaf but can still hear that bottle open. He's sneaky and will walk away to spit out the pills. He'll refuse pill pockets. He knows all the tricks. I just have to shove the pills down his throat, then watch him eat a treat so I know he didn't cough a pill up into his cheek or beard. Grumpy old man dog.

I lay down and tuck a blanket around me. I can't imagine having a blanket or sheet lie flat underneath me. I have experimented with a sleeping bag and that worked pretty well until the zipper broke.

And oh no, poor crushed kids! That's pretty much how it works. I've shared a hammock with a friend out in the yard and it was ok until either of us had to shift or get up or anything.

Oh! And even the hammocks that claim you can fit multiple people... they lie. This is not a bed for partners or sleepovers. (My partner has his own room and traditional bed. We have very different bedtimes.)

I started out with a hammock in living room as an experiment, then just kept sleeping in it. Same stand, the hammock itself has changed over the years.

The mesh/Mayan ones are comfy but will leave a grid on your skin. I'm currently in a Wise Owl hammock. The cotton ones are comfy but they will break down after a few years of use, usually suddenly while you're laying down.

Don't hang your hammock higher than you're comfortable falling. I've only torn a hammock twice in maybe 10 years, but both times were within the same week.

I'm a side sleeper and hyper-mobile. I keep a pillow behind my knees so they don't flex wonky. I have a travel/neck pillow. I use an under-hammock blanket in the winter because otherwise your butt gets cold.

Here's a photo of the messiest corner of my bedroom/craft room :) Tiny terrier to for scale.

It's more comfortable and easier to clean. Comfort-wise, it cradles my joints so my hips aren't sore in the morning. Clean-wise, if, say, my dog wakes me up by vomiting on my chest (to pick a random example), I can toss the whole hammock into the wash and pull out my spare.

A decent hammock setup also cost me maybe $200, including the stand.

I sleep in a hammock and so "making my bed" is just "shove all the blankets into hammock so they're off the floor. I'll have to rearrange them over myself when I go to bed, anyway.

Back when I slept in a bed I never made it, either, unless I was expecting company. If they were sleeping over I'd pull out fresh sheets. If we were just hanging out in my room, I'd pull the comforter flat.

Oh, and I never got the hang of flat sheets. I kick them off in the night, unless they're my only blanket.

My dog ate breakfast at a reasonable time this morning. This is notable because he ate yesterday's breakfast at 3am this morning.

(Old dog, forgets to eat. Sometimes I have to jump-start his appetite by literally spoon feeding him, then he'll finish the rest of his super-smelly wet food himself)

Exactly. I'll just go tell my teenaged cousin he needs to move and if he doesn't then any ills befall him are on his shoulders. I'm sure he has full control of his situation and has chosen to live in Texas. That's the choice I'd make if I was a trans teenager, for sure. /s (he knows I exist, am supportive, am queer, and am in a blue state, there's just... circumstances. He's racing towards graduation and college as fast as he can.)

TBH, I have a small personal massager I use for my face. Vibrating the sinuses helps make all the mucus and gunk move, like jiggling a ketchup bottle. It helps my sinus headaches.

But yeah, they knew.

I had beef last weekend in the form of my partner's leftover canned Italian wedding soup. I think the prior time was a few months earlier when a takeout order was screwed up and my fish sandwich turned into a cheeseburger.

I try and avoid beef because of the environment and because of cute cow videos. But, if it would go to waste otherwise, I'll go ahead and eat it.

Ten years ago I got caught by surprise bacon in frigging Pennsylvania. I'd done the "make a vegetarian meal out of sides" thing while visiting my parents.

The restaurant named all the cheeses in 5-cheese macaroni and cheese but didn't mention that bacon was also mixed in. My mom parent-pressured me to not send it back and I ate it, suffering the gastrointestinal consequences later.

Just get the ice delivered from the local grocery store.

My archive's server uses Anubis and after initial configuration it's been pain-free. Also, I'm no longer getting multiple automated emails a day about how the server's timing out. It's great.

We went from about 3000 unique "pinky swear I'm not a bot" visitors per (iirc) half a day to 20 such visitors. Twenty is much more in-line with expectations.