Always tooting for th'antihero @Momentrabbit@awoo.space
Middle-aged scatterbrain working in 'the healthcare field'. Teaching a computer to sculpt in my spare time. Torontoish. Pronouns: he/hare
Joined May 2017
body glitches
@LexYeen (if three hundred copies of this have already hit you, I deeply apologize. had connection issues.) Have you tried the Epley Maneuver? Helped quiet my BPV down.
Should share something positive to balance things. Aha! Managed to get a video stream running flawlessly to the video unit in the living area last night, so I and TheMate could *both* wind down and watch a really horrible movie.
I may need to revise my concept of 'fun', but it was good to see the chat full of people in similar pain watching that thing. Felt like home. n.n
Biologicals. (-)
So, motion of fingers at extremes of flexion of right wrist has been worsening - hard to flex fingers when wrist flexed, hard to extend fingers when wrist extended. Painful, too.
But what's *really* painful (briefly) is inadvertently putting too much pressure on extended fingers while getting up - and tearing a cyst's adhesions from its surrounding fascia.
Now, one of the lumps *moves* when I flex metacarpals three and four. Still adhering to the tendons, little bastard. >.<
This is also a good opportunity to move the mobile rack into the workshop/den-to-be, mount the switch in it, and do the patchbay thing. And assemble the first of many toolcabinets. And...
*sigh*
What did that nice researcher say?
Serialize. Compartmentalize. Prioritize.
::focusses::
Toots to the contrary, today wasn't an early breakfast day. Today was a stagger-out-of-bed-late-and-discover-the-driver-side-tire-is-flatter-than-the-Prairies day. A refill and astonishingly cheap garage visit later, nail in tire is out, hole repaired, and breakfast - well, lunch - was had.
Once I'd have tried to do that myself. Today isn't a good hand day.
Finishing up the rewire: crimping a few Cat5e cables, and we'll have a hardline to the raspberry at the TV. Then, software.
@JulieSqveakaroo ... I dunno, sounds like a fun make-believe opportunity to me. n.n
@JulieSqveakaroo Do you mistake me for some Serial Republic pooltoy villian?
I had breakfast thirty minutes ago. >.>
dreams(~-)
@Oneironott ... whhat, another one?
@orrery @literorrery Seems to be working fine right now.
@Austin_Dern Aww, Blackie, no... u.u
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˙ǝɔuo ʞooɥ ʇɐoɔ ɐ ɯoɹɟ ǝɯ pǝƃuɐɥ puɐ ǝɯ pǝʇɹǝʌuᴉ ɹǝɥʇoɯpuɐɹפ ʎW ˙ʎuuɥoſ 'ʞooɥ ʇɐoɔ ɐ ɯoɹɟ ǝɯ pǝƃuɐɥ puɐ ǝɯ pǝʇɹǝʌuᴉ ǝʌɐɥ ʇ,uplnoɥs no⅄ @Leucrotta @zebratron2084
Right. Right. I have 35 hours to rewire the house from demarkation to the primary viewing site so there are no bottlenecks on a gigabit lan off cable 'net, install the latest Raspian on a known good Pi3 board, configure VLC for maximum logging, and figure out the buffering issue plaguing Adobe's antique Macromedia Director codec making it require 'hammering' "Play" 14 times in 10 seconds (BUT GHOD NO MORE THAN THAT YOU MANIAC) to start network stream playback.
...
am I *that* desperate?
Fake profanity.
@drwho Prophet Zarquon.
@catgoat Yo I'm lunching. Eastern Standard Time represent. n.n
tired of memories (~-)
@Soreth
Any visualization practice will do instead of making lights go out: moving shapes around in space, picturing places you've never been. Or mayybe you're more auditory? Concerts without connotations to the bad memories, audio cues. Scents that bring you to a safe place. Whatever works. The goal is to redirect negative memory chains, rather than reinforce them.
If it helps, great. If not, no harm no foul - I hope another technique works for you. 💜
tired of memories (~-)
@Soreth
(takes rabbit mask off) I'm genuinely sorry Soreth, I shouldn't make deadpan jokes about braindamage like that.
GitD isn't actually a memory deletion technique - it's a distraction. Its purpose is to get you out of revisiting (and strengthening) an unpleasant memory, and visualizing something abstract - and to build that habit. A repatterning exercise: trains your brain to not do the painful thing, and do something else. And it is harmless. (cont)
tired of memories (~-)
@Soreth And you'd think, being fond of it, I'd know how to spell Gardener in the Dark by now, but, well. New glitches. That... will happen if you prune your connective memories a little too enthusiastically. I imagine.
I had a friend once who warned me about that, I think.
tired of memories (~-)
@Soreth Every time you practice this, you'll find there are a few fewer dots. (Maybe a few more after particularly tumultuous periods that rustle up old, archived data, but on average.) Really, I'm just picturing a natural process at work - but it feels good to imagine I have some degree of say over activating it and seeing its progress.
It's silly, but some nights when I catch myself looping, it helps me quiet painful memories. Perhaps it can help you. 💜
tired of memories (~-)
@Soreth So.
A technique I've been using is Gardiner in the Dark. The title is a Freefall reference.
It's a guided visualization exercise. Picture your painful memories mapped to any visual representation you'd like: I tend towards a 3d brain, red dots for the problematic ones. Not *actual* memories: don't relive them, that reinforces and rewrites them.
Then imagine triggering the Gardiner program... and randomly delete half of those red dots.
@kobi_lacroix and sometimes one tf gets stuck on because you changed transformation patches midsequence and missed the off message, so you just keep growing left knees until you switch the bodular synth off and in again...
Middle-aged scatterbrain working in 'the healthcare field'. Teaching a computer to sculpt in my spare time. Torontoish. Pronouns: he/hare
Joined May 2017
