“Back in my day”

In my 50s, just realised and self diagnosed in the last few months. Also feeling a bit lost, life would have been so much easier if I’d been diagnosed forty years ago. I feel like everybody else knew and didn’t tell me.

Paint

German is my first language, and also my third. When I started school I had to learn English; over the years I didn’t speak much German and I have forgotten a lot. Now I have started to re-learn German again.

But over the years I’ve dabbled in learning other languages — and not mastered any of them — (French, Spanish, Latin, Klingon, Esperanto, Yiddish); I find the differences in syntax and sentence structure fascinating. Now that I’m (involuntarily) retired and have plenty of time, I should go back and study some more.

Even just the weirdnesses and inconsistencies of English I find fascinating — why do “flammable” and “inflammable” mean the same thing? How can I be “disheveled” or “disgruntled” but not “sheveled” or “gruntled”?

And my boss told me off for being ambiguous on the phone:

“Hello, Kevin’s phone”
“Oh. Is Kevin not there?”
“Yes, he’s not. May I take a message?”
“Can I speak to him?”
“He’s not here”
“But you just said he was!”
“No, I agreed with you that he isn’t here”
“You should say what you mean” …

This week, Memories of Green by Vangelis, from the Blade Runner soundtrack.

Black and Decker something. My mother in law bought it, then got a cleaning service, so it was almost new. Works well.

May. 20, 2025

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My Score: 2380

I need to mop the floors BUT I HATE MOPPING

We were given a steam mop and it’s life changing. We only use the traditional mop for liquid spills now. Just saying.

On any planet with trees, kookaburras are always the alien animal sound.

I played with it for a while. Apps are basically web pages with JavaScript and stuff, there’s a lot of resources at Bananahackers.net

Untalkative Bunny

May. 17, 2025

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My Score: 2100

“I don’t know what the error said, I clicked ok and it went away. Now fix it”.

Being aware of what’s around you. Whether driving and not looking before pulling out, blocking the middle of the supermarket aisle, stopping in the doorway, standing in the middle of the footpath playing with your phone; so many people are completely oblivious. The world doesn’t revolve around you, have some ordinary consideration and manners.

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Just encrypt the entire disk. In an emergency, turn the power off.

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May. 14, 2025

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My Score: 2070

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