Cocaine.
Honestly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. To me it feels like coffee, but it only lasts 15 minutes, tastes like shit, and costs upwards of a testicle and a half where I am. And no, I’m not looking for anyone to try and change my mind on that.
I’m inclined to ask, are you sure you got true concentrated cocaine? I don’t encourage cocaine, but it sounds like you got scammed with something the seller could more easily get their hands on.
It was probably shitty coke, but there was at least one time where my buddy said “yo this is some good stuff” and it still didn’t do it for me. Who knows if it actually was good stuff, though.
Soldering. Anyone who tells you it’s easy is wrong. :P
Was soldering a mod board to a Sega Mega Drive, but ended up getting solder on the cpu’s contacts and needed to get a second one. And it was a pain getting the wires to bind to the traces.
And yes, I probably was doing everything wrong.
Soldering is easy if you have the right tools. Those old school solder irons with the ceramic element dangling inside a metal tube suck balls. Get yourself a direct heat iron like the pinecil and some flux and it’s SOOOOO much easier.
I’ve had tools, teachers, and time.
I can’t solder or braze to save my fucking life, but I’ll weld circles around you with oxy, stick, mig, or tig.
Doesn’t make a damn bit of sense to me
I felt the same the first time I tried but it honestly takes a few tries to start getting it right. The kind of iron and solder matter a lot; the older ceramic core ones suck and the JBC/pinecil type are much superior. Part of the problem with the ceramic type ones is they have one setting - full blast - and not good temperature control. With a pinecil/JBC you can set the temperature to 300C and expect to get 300C. Too hot and it will boil off the flux before you’re done soldering and you just get crud.
In terms of solder, leaded rosin core solder is the best. Don’t worry about the lead, as long as you wash your hands. Use a brass sponge type thing to clean the tip frequently to remove crud
For through holes, I’d say get some veroboard off eBay and a bunch of cheap resistors and just start plugging away until you get better. Process is basically - have tip with a bit of solder, poke to pad and pin, put solder into joint and hold 1-3 seconds until solder flows onto pad and pin, remove tip. Putting some flux on in advance helps remove the oxides before soldering
For surface mount (side pads/pins), there are kits with cheap/obsolete/trash components you can just plug away at without fear of messing anything up. Soldering smt is a bit annoying but doable by hand without much training. the process is basically: tin one pad, use tweezers to place part and reheat the solder until the part is in place, solder the rest of the pads, reheat first pad to relieve stress.
Even for large parts, I used to have trouble with unsteady hands. If you are doing smt you really need a microscope or magnifying glass for anything smaller than 0805 - really helps with the visual feedback loop for hand positioning. A microscope significantly improved my dexterity and hand steadiness
I feel your pain. I just soldered my first solder adding an arcade joystick button as a killswitch on my guitar. It was not nearly as precise as soldering a board and it was still a PITA. Us humans just don’t have enough hands.
I had to solder in design and technology in secondary school. I have dyspraxia which is a disability which affects hand eye coordination so it was bitch to solder.
Made hassleback potatoes.
sounds like a lot of work
worth it though
Did a jewelry workshop and crafted myself a silver ring that looked dope af. That was enjoyable.
Share a picture of it!
The one on the left is my wife’s and on the right is mine. The design is basically a bird finger wrapped around the ring. Some may say it actually looks like a witch’s finger xD
Those turned out really good! My first guess for yours would’ve been rattlesnake, but i see the wrinkle lines now. Lol
Bought an ebike. I’ve wanted one for over 10 years, and finally the circumstances were right for me to justify it.
Bought a book on programming. Have been doing hobby coding for a few decades. Going to dive into a larger project so trying to learn some better practices
What book was it ?
Design Patterns by Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson
I really got a lot from Clean Code and Working Effectively With Legacy Systems
Read clean code during an internship and it helped me transition from hacker to engineer.
Tiling a floor
Preserved and framed a 1500-piece puzzle I completed
Made a wattle and daub wall. It’s surprisingly hard to get right.
What was hard about it? Also what was the wall for?
Well apparently a few things that nobody actually bothered to write down is what kind of mud of need, how hard you need to force it into the wood, how much fiber you need to add.
I mean, it’s kinda like those old cookbooks that just say “keep in medium oven until done”. Everyone just sort of assumes you have the Knack.
Its partly because I do reenactment, and partly because I want a shed that I made myself. This is mostly a test to see how long it will survive in the rainy Netherlands.
Moved out of my parents house to live by myself.
Washed a tent.
A canvas one? Thats such a shitty job.
Thankfully no, it’s nylon. Was mostly just a lot of soaking in the tub and agitating over a couple of hours.
Took Dilaudid.
https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-9130/dilaudid-oral/details
Had this really weird extreme pain in my side, felt like I had ruptured something. Ended up in the ER Tuesday. :(
Doc says that it’s kind of like appendicitis, but because it’s on the left side instead of the right they call it “Epiploic Appendagitis”.
Nobody seems to know why it happens, just that it hurts like fuck and isn’t dangerous.
Treatment is massive painkillers.
Sorry to hear that, hope it gets better soon!
I functioned for most of today without painkillers, so that was good, but man, I am DONE for the day.
I hit a major setback, thought it was going to ruin me, but instead of just accepting the failure and sliding back years in my efforts, I called some friends for support. They both independently told me that I was catastrophizing and not to give up but try assuming I would just sail past the problem and keep going. So I did, and sure enough I recovered really fast and I’m back on track again.
I had my first microwave burrito about two weeks ago. I’m almost 40 and my wife couldn’t seem to believe I’d never had one.
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Try an air fryer. Makes the outside crunchy which I thought would be weird at first, but it’s so much better.
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Saw Primus. That was pretty dope. I always thought Victor Wooten was the best bass player, but dang, Les Claypool, man.
