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Attempting the seemingly impossible and when to quit.


"Choose wood with no shakes, warps or knots!"
my grandpa


We've all been in this position, one my maternal grandfather would describe "trying to make something with shoddy materials and broken tools". My most vivid recollection was back in my days as an IT trainer. It was a Monday morning, I was due to be running tech training at some borrowed training rooms in Nottingham. I got to work early enough to load a van with computers, monitors and whatnnot, ready for the day's acivities. I got to the training site (a local electrical goods store) and began unloading equipment, staged ready to put in the lift (training room was on th first (second to USians) floor of the building). At this point, someone managerial told me the lift was not working and that he'd assign some staff to help schlep stuff up the stairs. I had

 



Shyness is nice, but Shyness can stop you

From doing all the things in life

that you'd like to.

 

When I met her, she asked me what I was looking at:     

          "Oh, not much,  just the distance"  

 

It was a true statement, but later she told me she thought I made it up.  I made up a lot of stories back

I have gotten into the habit of recording the dreams that leave an impression on me when I wake up. Dreams are often lost immediately upon awakening, but often I wake up with the dream in my head. In my moment of waking, it feels super real, more real than real life, and I desperately fumble to record it as soon as possible, before it leaks out of my head and is gone forever. I've developed a system for cataloguing and indexing my dreams so that I can discover common themes. Around one fifth of my

News for Noders

July 1: Canada Day.

July 4: America Day.

July 25: Happy birthday TanisNikana!

July 26: Happy birthday teleny!


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June 3: Saint kevin's Day.

June 4: Aesop's Birthday.

June 11: TerribleAspect's birthday!

June 13: Serjeant's Muse's birthday!

June 16: Bloomsday.

June 19: Juneteenth.

June 20: Summer solstice (northern hemisphere) and winter solstice (southern hemisphere).

June 21: nicolasstag's birthday!

June 23: AdamTheDewott's birthday!

June 23: weroland's birthday!

June 28: Tau Day.


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April 1: By popular demand, March has been redacted.

April 10: Happy birthday, nuggets!

April 12: Yuri's Night

April 22: Happy Earth Day, fellow earthlings!

April 23: Saint George's Day.

April 24: Happy birthday, Rancid_Pickle!

April 30: Walpurgis Night.

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February 1: Brevity Quest 2025 begins!

February 2: Happy birthday Auspice!

February 2: Happy birthday npecom!

February 5: Happy birthday wertperch!

February 8: Happy birthday to panamaus

February 15: Happy birthday Admin to the goo!

February 23: Happy birthday Samuel Pepys!

February 29: Happy birthday Browncoat!


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January 1: Gregorian New Year.

January 16: National Nothing Day.

January 24: Happy Birthday Silverai_me!

January 26: Happy Birthday Segnbora-t!

January 30: Happy Birthday O-Swirl!


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