Minor victory thread

Cheesy1

Cheesy1

ThatNickGuy said:
I've been having trouble sleeping lately. I'll either get MAYBE 6 hours sleep if I'm lucky, but I'll often wake in the middle of the night.

So last night, I took 1 mg of melatonin.

I slept right through the night and got 8 and a half hours of sleep. I woke up today actually feeling rested for the first time in ages.
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Yeah, I used to have really bad insomnia all the time before I started taking melatonin.

Just make sure you give yourself a week off of it if you use it continuously for two weeks. It can have some bad effects on the body if it builds up in your system for too long, and it'll also stop being as effective. I've starting only using it every other night during the work week, using Tylenol PM on the other nights. And then just dealing with insomnia on the weekends when I don't have to work the next morning and I know I can sleep in. Gives the melatonin time to leave your system and still work like it should when you need it too.

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Also, taking a magnesium supplement before bed can help.
 
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ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Cheesy1 said:
Yeah, I used to have really bad insomnia all the time before I started taking melatonin.

Just make sure you give yourself a week off of it if you use it continuously for two weeks. It can have some bad effects on the body if it builds up in your system for too long, and it'll also stop being as effective. I've starting only using it every other night during the work week, using Tylenol PM on the other nights. And then just dealing with insomnia on the weekends when I don't have to work the next morning and I know I can sleep in. Gives the melatonin time to leave your system and still work like it should when you need it too.

Addendum:
Also, taking a magnesium supplement before bed can help.
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Me: Oh, well I'm sure it'll still work tonight
Also Me, waking up at 2 AM: Fuck.
 
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ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I had a first date tonight. In a word? Wow. Wowee wow. All the wows. Top Ten Wows of all time.

We talked for almost two and a half hours. My face hurts from smiling so much.

Not only was there mutual interest in a second date, but I messaged her when I got home and she already had a second date idea in mind. I'm calling it a minor victory for now because god only knows I might still screw this up, but...yeah, wow.

This is basically how I felt about tonight.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

My dad gave me his old (1980s) Shopsmith a couple of years ago. It has a jointer and handsaw attachments. I have been slowly fixing it up. It had quite a bit of surface rust and belts needed replacing etc. I have successfully revived the jointer and handsaw. Both run well now.

Over the holiday break, I completely dismantled the headstock and cleaned and lubricated everything. I replaced the two belts and thankfully got it all back together and it seems to be running ok.

Next step is to take a wood turning class and start making some items. I hope I make more progress this year.

I am not crazy about the table saw aspect of this set up, but if I can potentially bring in some income from making items then I will replace it. For now, it will have to do.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

So, in another thread, I mentioned I got Home Assistant set up. It's an open source home automation ecosystem that runs without the cloud. I fully intend of weaning myself off of Amazon Echo/Alexa and other things. You can even link it to your locally run LLM to give it more natural language capabilities than Alexa.

But while I'm waiting on some more stuff, I learned my 3d printers already give me access to a bunch of sensor data that I can use in HA.

I'm having to learn a lot, such as it's flavor of YAML, and all of the unintuitive and non-user-friendly ways it does things, but I finally got a decent dashboard up and running. It shows me at a glance all of the information I care about, including if I have any print errors, live web cams, which color is currently being fed into the device, etc. It's much faster than individually selecting devices in the official app and scrolling through various screens to get this same information. Kinda proud of myself

 
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PatrThom

PatrThom

Cost of new toaster oven: $400
Cost of shipping existing toaster oven in for repair: $175
Cost of replacement spring at local hardware store: $3.49

--Patrick
 
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