Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

There is some metal in there - there’s two small pins to act as a support… which end more or less exactly where the break point is…

 

The Mystery Inglenook Man, knows not why he is standing on one leg.

 

Is that likely to happen soon?

 

About as likely as a public flogging

 

I’m re-arranging my server stuff today.

I’ve reached the stage that is all too familiar for anyone with ADHD: any enthusiasm I had for the task has gone completely out the window and I am no longer interested in this. And it’s warm and clammy, which is not in any way conducive to lugging furniture and heavy computers about.

But I can’t put off the rest of the job for another day.

All the cables are yanked out, the old cabinet has been extricated, all the servers have been unplugged and moved to another room temporarily, the router is offline, the WiFi access point is offline… I can’t even switch my lights on or off because the Hue bridge is offline. Basically all I’ve got is my phone’s 5G data.

So… I have to finish the job today. So I’m gonna do it in small bursts punctuated with bouts of sitting on my arse and dicking about on my phone.

 

Put on energetic music and see if it gets you into a rhythm for it! Thats what I do for big tasks

 

I have been, but I don’t like wearing headphones when I get sweaty. My AirPods start to fall out; the fake leather pads on my Bose QC35 II feel really disgusting when I get sweaty; and the fabric pads on my DT770s are already in dire need of replacement due to wearing them while sweaty, they’re literally going a funky colour (we need a :barf: emoji…)

 

Does lisdexamfetamine count? ‘Cos I’m way ahead of you there

I did actually try “street” speed once or twice in my younger days, it did not have the effect on me that you’d expect. Instead of the “buzzy” euphoric high, it made me feel calmer and more relaxed, more “normal”. That’s not unusual, it’s one of the reasons that use/abuse of illegal drugs is very common among people with ADHD.

 

Not sure that's the most accurate appendage for a touchscreen tbh.

 

Thought I would upgrade my test bench a little (Ryzen has been returned) and noticed the local CeX had a 12900KF for £210.

Why not I thought, nice little upgrade from the 12400F I am currently running and is a decent price and looks to not be affected by the recent issues.

So I bought it...

Dead memory channel.....



Memory and board work fine with the 12400F and both slots closest to the CPU do not either detect memory or post with memory in them.

Le Sigh..

Oh and my server won't detect any of the keyboards I have so I will need to grab a dusty old Lenovo thing from work tomorrow to test that out as well. I can't create a user to utilise iDrac as I can't type in any credentials.

I can see however that the RAM is all being detected as are the NVME cards. So its not a total loss of an afternoon.

 

The belated book shipment I posted about in the awesome thread - DHL has updated the tracking.
It gave me a "MyHermes" link that didn't work.

The tracking number itself is valid on Evri though.

 

....huh.

That was a legit email I'd written manually to a legit email address. So... GFY, Plusnet...

 

Just got the 8th bone fragment out of my tooth socket after an extraction 3 weeks ago... Hopefully this means that the socket and surrounding gums will now start to calm down and heal up properly...

 

That sounds delightful.

 

My very first thought too. Cynical much, me? Heavens, no.

 

Partner got a new job after 9 years in her previous, gradually the place had been going down the shitter. No management ever really, when they decide to show up they're about as useful as a fart in an elevator. For a good year up to the point of leaving she'd be constantly short staffed to the point it was unmanageable and would make her regularly unwell. Coming home stressed and frustrated was a daily occurrence.

She's gone to leave multiple times and got cold feet at the last moment so was really shocked when she actually threw the towel in and said enough was enough.

Two days into new job "I'm not sure I'm keen on being here, Its really boring, we've got too many staff on.... I'm just bored"

Wait what...

 

Thoroughly. The tooth really did not want to come out as one of the roots was curved locking it into the socket. We had to take 5 breaks during it just so the dentist could get some feeling back in his hand. Unfortunately this means that the really thin edges of the bone socket took some damage in the process so the bits have been working their way out. A couple took a little helping as they were 5-6mm long pieces, but I think we are getting there now.

 

Spent ages researching the server, finding the right balance or performance and expansion, found a cheap one, received it and confirmed all is good.. Run up Proxmox and even confirmed all the Bifurcation is working as intended..and.... I don't really have any desire to actually use it....

Now do I sell it or keep it mothballed for future use.

I think the biggest issue for me is, because I got it for a good price, anything I "invest" into it (10Gb networking, SSD's etc) is a significant portion of the upfront cost (in the case of a 1.6TB Intel DC Drive is actually more than 100% of the cost..).

Plus I would need to move the entire room around to accommodate it in proper rack.

Now I knew all of this going in, so why am I only now questioning it... why?!

I hate my brain at times.