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I’m 6 years sober this month
Congrats!
I went to a women’s shelter to go over safety planning with a social worker to leave my ex last week. That was a hard step to take. Wish me luck.
Good luck.
best of luck!
My first bunny passed away in January. He was the first pet I had as an adult who was strictly my responsibility and no one else’s. A rabbit’s lifespan is typically 8-12 years old. My gray boy lived until he was just a few weeks shy of 13 years old.
I’m proud I took such good care of him and proud he stuck around so long. I still miss my fella a lot, but I’ve used what he taught me to adopt and care for 2 rescue rabbits; one who was dropped at a shelter when she was 3 and another young guy who was found dumped in a parking lot. They are going to be just as spoiled as my grey boy was.
This is great, you should be proud. It sounds like you’re a good caregiver to your bunny buddies.
Similar boat, after our first rabbit passed away we decided to rescue a bunny to be a partner for our second rabbit, who was still only 4, when the first moved on. He was 8, and had a few serious medical events after a rough patch with seizures, and he was on weekly antibiotic injections for two years.
Rescue bunny is a big new Zealand red eyed white, who is very picky, blind, and anxious. After a few tough months where we had to segregate the house, we managed to bond them but he has never been all that relaxed around humans or tolerant of grooming, nail trimming, etc etc.
He’s now 3.5 years old, we adopted him at 9 months. This month he’s started letting us pick him up without struggling (for nail trims), started flopping while being pet/near us, and is all around a lot less anxious (except for scary things like dogs, birds, and loud noises - he is almost completely blind I think).
They’re just such sweet animals once they form a relationship with you, but most people don’t “speak” rabbit love as easily as they “speak” dog or cat love. Nothing better than our little lady running to my feet every morning when I get up, and grooming my legs every time I sit on the floor!
I’m sorry you lost your first bun. Sounds like you really loved and cared for him well. REWs are so misunderstood and I’m happy yours is getting used to you, some buns just take a while to get comfortable around humans. They are such sweet little creatures, although my young boy is going through his terrible twos right now 😩🙃
I love all pets, but there is something truly special about earning the love and trust of a prey animal whose every instinct is to run and hide. They really are something special.
I’m very sorry for your loss, but that’s a really great accomplishment. I’m glad you 2 were able to find each other and that you were able to learn from your experience with him. All the best <3
Thank you! I appreciate that :)
After being in a band for over 12 years, we finally recorded and released a song.
I’m in a similar boat. I’ve been producing music for nearly ten years in Ableton, including stuff for some local theater, but this will be my first year releasing an album. Making music takes a lot of time and effort, I found out.
well you should be able to in Ableton, but nice to hear
I’ve replaced everything Google can do with self-hosted services. No more YouTube, Docs, Nest, TV, Photos, etc.
This is quite an accomplishment. Kudos.
For my family, the biggest hurdles by far is a mail/calendar combo that works as well and supports sharing etc, and how the hell to migrate out of Gmail when so many of my emails have several labels which won’t translate cleanly into IMAP folders. I wonder how you tackled those, or how you compromised.
I started lifting weights at age 56. I’m not stopping until I’m dead.
How did you get started?
I haven’t had a single drink since I got pregnant.
Kid is 4 now. I am still sober. I planned on quitting and was cutting it down when TTC, only having some drinks on New Year’s. But I had so many relapses in the previous years. I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to stay sober throughout pregnancy, let alone motherhood.
It was the easiest thing to not have a drink during pregnancy, and it is still rather easy now. Even in dark, theoretically tempting times, it is so easy to say no. And I am incredibly proud. It is a miracle I made it out alive, let alone happily and free from fucking alcohol.
I feel like alcohol really gets away on women. I have known two women who sort of just became casual alcoholics without really noticing, like just suddenly it crept up on them that they were drinking lighter forms of alcohol in significant quantities, but it just all seemed like being social and relaxing, and it wasn’t until they each had in their mid forties a stroke and an aneurysm respectively. Neither of them were drinking to cope with difficulties or anything with a maladaptive intent, it was done in a social fashion only, and then suddenly became a huge problem.
I think drinking for women is different than drinking for men, and I think we have worse outcomes as a result.
I don’t really drink anymore, maybe 2-3 times a year I’ll have a single drink. I never had any sort of habit before but I liked my glass or two of wine on a weekend. But I just felt like it would be better to stop, and it was.
Congratulations on your sobriety, it’s a hard thing to achieve!
Edit: found the article I was thinking of: https://medium.com/gentleblog/why-alcohol-poses-a-greater-danger-to-women-a56bc21496d6
odd alcohol usually prevents clotting.
I built a water temp monitoring system together with my dad.
It monitors the water temperature at a local swimming hole and publishes it on a website so you can check it before heading down.
I did all of the coding, and had never done anything like that before, but breaking it down into five parts made it decently simple.
We use a raspberry pi zero, a DS18B20 temperature probe, and a webhotel with php and MySQL.
Breaking it down into five parts, the code had to accomplish the following.
- Get the raw data from the sensor.
- Format and clean the data to be useful.
- Error check and possible retry if needed.
- Send the data to the website.
- Display the data on the website.
- Was fairly easy, there are plenty of guides on the internet.
- This was interesting, the data is sent back from the probe in a variable length, depending on how close to zero C it is, if it reads a negative temp it also shifts where the data is read, I remember it being super annoying to consistently format the data close to zero C so after several attempts I just made the script pretend that the temp was 0c when it got too close to bother with it.
- Here I remember building an install script that would prepare a database for the system, then I wrote a test submission page for manual testing and proper submission page for the real thing, these were written in PHP. The data was sent from the Raspberry Pi with curl.
- This took the longest, we went through several versions before settling on the current version.
The script on the Raspberry Pi is written in bash, as we are powering the RPi with a battery through a timer, I configured a systemd service to run on start, run the script, and wait 30 sec then shutdown.
This is to give me time to stop the script if I need to perform maintenance, normally it runs the script, shuts down, and the timer cuts power shortly thereafter.
I didn’t want to consistently cut the power as that might corrupt the file system over time, so we made sure that the Pi shuts down gracefully.
To save power we only run it every 30 min, the power source is a motorcycle battery which lasts about six months.
The internet connection is provided by a kind neighbor who has allowed this probe to connect through their WiFi.
You’re doing community service, that’s awesome!
Thank you, I do have the bash code, I have thought about putting it on github or codeberg.
One thing is missing from it however.
I have zero authentication to add data to the database.
I have thought about adding an API key or so just to make it slightly more secure
I wrote an entire book. The manuscript still needs some editing but for the first time, I’ve never been closer to having a published book
I rearranged the letters on the after hours sign to After 5 pm Please Dance and nobody ever figured out who did it.
About 20 years ago, I stopped studying quantum mechanics because it frustrated me so much; I wanted to understand the “quantum regime.” After coming back to study more, I’ve made a lot of progress. I always hated that some said quantum mechanics was weird, or if you think you understand it, you don’t. You just need to know there’s a difference between seeking ontology of the subatomic, Vs the epistemic adequacy of quantum mechanics. While I’m nowhere near done studying physics overall, I’m still proud of my progress.
That’s impressive as hell! You should be proud!
Back when I was in a band, we played a show at the same venue I’ve seen some of my favorite bands play (on a Monday, we had basically no audience, but it was still cool). That show more than most is gonna stick with me, it was awesome.
I’ve built like 1/5 of the furniture in my house, which is pretty neat.
I’m proud of my apps I’ve been working on to help me get through life easier with adhd. I put my vision therapy exercises on there as well and just got a nice message the other day about how helpful those were to somebody.
Fun!
