What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling?
I have a meeting in less than an hour where I have to present stuff so I panicked and decided to post this instead. hbu?
edit: meeting got delayed but should start in 5-10 mins. Also, I'm no longer in my underwear.
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I am supposed to be monitoring the tsunami warning system in Kumamoto.
that sounds umm... could you do that please?
Its fine I had to mute it anyway, its been making a bloody beeping noise for the last twenty-five minutes. Never heard that before, very distracting.
Have you tried turning it off and then leaving it off? That worked for my carbon monoxide detector.
I might try that after dinner, the beeping was two short tones and two long tones which the user manual says is a type 096 system error, not to be muddled with two long tones and two short tones which means dangerous coastal flooding & powerful currents immanent.
(When the code repeats indefinitely, and you can't remember which part was first.)
you got a five thirteen!!!
There’s a repair shop for those just up the hill from you.
What do all of these moving needles mean?
Tickets. I should resolve tickets. I should call people and tell them : 'have you tried to turn it off and on again ?' Everything is burning on this planet, but restarting computer seem very important to produce more items.
Have you considered how your job impacts the almighty productivity we as a society have decided to worship and enslave ourselves to? If we didn't have that maximum output of dollars for assholes per sentient human being we couldn't buy more shit or subscription services we don't need with the pennies the assholes drop for us.
You're a danger to society.
I'm unemployed so I have a billion tasks in no specific order, and no boss to push me to do it:
order stuff for a non-profit(done)write some documents for that same non-profit, they are not organized at all(partially done)clean my desktop(done)study(done)play the drums(done)read non-tech books(will do later)do some bodyweight(fuck it, I'll do that tomorrow)NOT play Steam while drinking beer for 4 hours(done)cleaning the toilets(done, woohoo)I have 4 hours left, it should be easy but being unemployed for 6 months and constantly rejected is making me feel like shit. I'll see what I can do though.
Edit: everything was done or almost done!!
I'm sorry you're out of a job. If i may offer some unsolicited advice, maybe start by doing some kind of self care exercise. Like thinking about the things you appreciate about yourself or idk, maybe just allowing yourself to take your time with your chores.
Unemployment will fuck up your mental health. And yeah, rejection is rough but don't think any less of yourself due to it.
Not currently having a role in the mindless production of a heartless society does not reflect on your value as a person, a friend, or even a worker.
Stay strong. <3
That's some great unsolicited advice and I appreciate that. I'll keep that in mind and add it to my routine. Thanks!
no prob, friend.
I did everything and more thanks to you! I'll see if there is a community for procrastinators to post their todo lists...
Daaaamn! That's awesome! It was thanks to you, though. ;)
Isn't it amazing how much work you can get done when you don't have a job?
I was nervous about the phone interview (no video) for my first job, so I took a shower before it started. But I didn't realize we were in different time zones, so the call came an hour sooner than I expected. I did the interview with a towel wrapped around me. I got the job.
beautiful
I was late on my first day for the same reason. 🙃 But I soon realized my mistake and worked with them for a couple of years before moving on to something else.
Yeah you gotta shower at work
Nah, just take one when you get the job. Then never again. For luck. 😉
They gotta test the eye rinse full body shower periodically. so what if i make sure it works every day. it's for a safety, honey
I should be out in the woods crawling already.
vroom vroom
Sleeping.
Absolutely nothing. Long Covid has me confined to my bed for the rest of my life and I'm "free" to do whatever is not too taxing.
Dang. How has that gone, if you don't mind me asking?
Awfully. At first I just didn't get well again after the initial infection. But at least I could still walk about and do little stuff, like loading the dishwasher, going on short walks, playing D&D online.
Bad mistakes. Every time I did a little too much I got even worse and could do less and less. My incompetent GP who didn't believe in Long Covid didn't help either.
About four years later and I can only leave the bed to go number 2. No idea how long that will last. We already bought a bed pan. But using that looks even harder rhan going myself. We'll see.
Now that I know more I'm positive that I actually had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis even before the infection. Just not that bad. But I shan't tell that anyone because all the science is now done on Long Covid. Even though ME has been known for about half a century and Long Covid is just an umbrella term for everything that can persist after a Covid infection.
Even after we've got millions of more cases ME patients are just gaslit or at best ignored.
Don't answer if this is too much, but: how are you taken care of? I'd be scared of not making rent if I lost my job. Is there a program or something for people that are essentially bed bound? I don't know a lot about that system.
I'm in Germany, so I have a pretty good safety net. But I was also lucky to have my wife to fill out all the paperwork and my parents to support us financially (and also with the paperwork) until it was all sorted out.
I get an early pension. The only bad part about that is that I have to reapply every three years or so. My wife gets paid to take care of me and we have an additional pool we can pay to external helpers.
On top of that I have disability insurance. I kind of was about to change it to a higher tier a year or so before Corona. But I didn't feel like doing that paperwork. Now I wish I did.
Still, with everything together we can kind of keep living like we did before. I'm just missing around the house for chores and repairs and stuff.
So sorry to hear. Thank you for sharing.
Sleeping
getting ready to play bass in a cover band, we have an hour long set at a retirement home this afternoon. my first ever paid gig! definitely a tad nervous but it should be a good time
Dang, congrats, Noxy! Hope it goes well!
It did! Not technically perfect, but none of us expected it to be, and we had fun and got nothing but positive feedback!
definitely feeling the importance of the bass player keeping the rhythm, especially when our drummer also does backup vocals (which still blows my mind that anyone can do that many things at once!)
Ooh nice!!! Good luck out there!
-- Frost
Thanks! Went pretty well, I feel great after the show <3
I am supposed to be responding to an email but I'm really angry about it and distracting myself to calm down so the response is work appropriate.
gj
I clock in 4 mins and I'm eating chocolate covered pretzels. here's my stuffy in the break room
am home
Teto!
Nothing, I just finished breakfast while scrolling.
GL on the presentation! Yesterday I found out I can give a talk in a week and a half on some work I did several years ago. I'm kinda looking forward to it. I do that thing where I imagine I'm just presenting to one person in the room. Also I usually make some good slides, so if I freeze up I can just read off the slides. Also, practice!
Good for you and good tips. I'm still in my underwear though.
oh... er.... What kind of presentation is-- nevermind, good luck anyway!
It's about strategic consulting
Supposed to be working.
But if I don't split it up with some scrolling I start losing my shit. I'm also going to be doing this until I die most likely so it's very much a marathon, not a sprint. I'm also tired of stressing myself out for other people.
So I cut corners where I can.
Nothing hugely important. I don't usually have Tuesday off, so I'd like ti get to the habitat restore, and a local antique mall has a guy who sells antique chisels and hand planes who is only there on Tuesdays.
Otherwise, i need to fix permissions on my suddenly broken nas, rebuild my proxmox server I broke when transferring parts, install the last five panels of privacy fence in my backyard, run service cable through a buried conduit to my garage, finish stitching my chisel roll, pick up some gate hardware for the fence, move a pallet of vintage specialized bricks out of my neighbors yard to use on my porch, renew my car insurance, check on my current 3d prints, design some drawers to hold lens blanks at my offices, and sharpen all my planes, chisels, spokeshaves and striking knives.
Quality of life upgrades, nothing particularly pressing. Gotta finish my coffee and consider eating something first.
Damn, sounds like a lot though. did you get something to eat?
Naught. I'm sipping vanilla rooibos tea, eating a mug cake and ragebaiting people online, all while being sick at home alone. :(
You're not alone when you're with your online friends :3
Don't look behind you I'm stealing your spiders for my spider army
Thesis
yeouch. Godspeed.
Groceries
I hear that.
I have no obligations for the rest of the day. I’m currently vacillating between making coffee and not making coffee before I go and play cyberpunk 2077 for the rest of the day.
Update: I made coffee
nova
Going to bed
Noyhing. Had an extremely productive day followed by about an hour of great sex.
Just reading the news before going to sleep. Scrolling Lemmy is part of my routine before sleep.
Nothing, I just woke up early.
Packing, cleaning, and fixing shit for an upcoming interstate move.
good luck!
Nothing, this is my scheduled scrolling time
Currently in a meeting where I have a speaking role. I'm burnt out so I typically scroll and turn my brain off unless I'm called to talk.
Sleeping. I also have no underwear on. Good luck in your naked meeting.
Thanks. I'm having it right now. I'm not naked and it's going well.
I'm scrolling while waiting for code I wrote to finish running, so I'm not supposed to be doing anything else really.
"What are you doing honey?"
"Working"
"Looks like you're playing nethack again"
"I'm waiting for the CICD pipeline"
I'm also waiting for code to finish running. By which I mean the internet.
pretty sure you're supposed to look at the pixelz
Two monitors, so I can have Lemmy on one and keep the IDE in my peripheral vision on the other.
I'm supposed to be taking my pills and I keep forgetting and opening a new tab instead
I guess I better eat those before I submit this comment. Call this your good deed for the day
dang, i had forgotten to take mine. Thanks for the reminder. Will do that right now. Call this your good deed too.
Peeing.
Hey.
Shuddup! Don't make me think about that.
wtf 😂
Going to yoga
Work...
Nothing in particular. Just had blood drawn and now eating a snack.
what kind of leeches did they use?
Its my day off. I can do what i want. I'll be lifting weights in a little while. No scrolling during a workout.
Writing the Working Instructions for unsecured cargo trades or the tl;dr on the EU's 21st sanctions package on Russia.
Drawing up stuff to put into a cryogenic fridge in order to measure dialectric shit at 0.01K in a magnetic field.
I'm sitting in front if a machine worth about 30k I'm supposed to be using to take photos
So yeah that
I need to vacuum
Well, there's no immediate time crunch on changing these electrical outlets, but that's what my phone and coffee are putting off for now.
Being at a beach with family. Got overstimulated so much breathing was hard, barely made it to a air-conditioned room and try to catch some dry time.
Beach is dirty Ocean water is dirty Sun causes cancer
Never understood the draw
Going to sleep.
Am fukd
🤷♂️
IRB training for grad research. It’s just so long and tedious. Also why the hell would I need to know the names of specific cases and not just the regulations/reasons?
“What journal article spurred on the 1974 act?”
Idk, but I highly doubt the name of a random article will be at all relevant to me conducting ethical research
I should be finishing up a morning walk and getting started working, but I can never get enough sleep these days
I hear that
Short answer, maintenance. Long answer, hurting my back
Working
nothing. i don't use the internet to avoid work. i use it to fill in the void between things at work.
You're missing out.
well im playing a game. I need to put in some resumes.
Paying attention to this presentation and waking myself to to give mine in 15 minutes and not sound like an undead drone.
Starting dinner and have leftovers ready to take to work tomorrow, but fuck, I don't want to move.
We should be taking a shower and eating. (Unfortunately we can't do both of those at the same time but both have to get done.)
We are doing neither and also have to pee. So yeah, this is going well.
-- Frost
Nothing, I have the day (and all other Wednesdays until October) off so I'm just hanging out on my couch at 8am instead of working. It's nice. Might go play some games later
Probably finish a drawing I made (on the wrong type of paper):
I should be visiting Basel Münster but I'm sitting on the platform above the Rhine instead because for some reason walking up the steps has made me very sick.
I dont know. Im by myself working the whole day. Ive got a strong feeling theres stuff to do but im just kinda sat here watching the shop.
Theoretically, something, but work has put me in a position where I have extremely little not only to do, but that I can do within my mandate. I'm fulfilling my one obligation, but it involves a rather lengthy wait.
Joke's on you I'm taking a massive shit right now.