A lot of people simply do not understand what it’s like to have ADHD. I remember sitting at our dining room table for hours most evenings, staring at my math homework and wondering why I couldn’t wrap my brain around it when all the other kids seemed to find it so easy.

Turns out when you can’t visualize things in your head it makes doing math very hard. Give me 70mg of Vyvanse and I’m all over it. Without it, I can’t even recall a phone number that I literally just looked at. I have to punch the digits one at a time while constantly looking back at the number.

You can’t just will your brain into getting hormones and neurotransmitters to the right places. Who knew.

I would call that an excellent wedding venue.

Thanks!

Pedaler’s Pub in Bentonville. Funny thing is we didn’t actually eat there on our first date. Well, I think we had salads and left. Too bad because the pizza was excellent. Only took us 7 years to figure that out.

Same one! Cooper Chapel, Bella Vista, AR.

And here I am running an old Dell Poweredge that probably consumes 10 watts when it’s powered off.

My teachers in school: “JubilationTCornpone would perform a lot better and get better grades if he would just focus and apply himself.”

Me: “Ok detective. You caught me. Being shit at math is totally a conscious decision on my part. Case closed everybody. We can all go home now. Turns out I’m not a complete moron. I’m just lazy.”

First off, I wouldn’t take anything from a junior high level sitcom seriously.

Second, no one cares if you’re a virgin. And if they do care, their opinion on the subject is irrelevant.

Stop worrying about it.

Mavis Beacon: “Am I a joke to you?”

Plenty of older buildings besides churches have stained glass.

Lots of caffeine to bring you up during the day and alcohol to slow the racing thoughts at night. It’s no way to live.

Every once in a while I still encounter parents who are hesitant to get their ADHD kid on meds. I try to explain to them that it’s not really about performance in school even if that’s where it was first noticed.

It’s about keeping them from killing themselves or engaging in incredibly self destructive behavior.

Is the White House trying to rename shit that they don’t have the ability to rename again? First it’s the Gulf of Mexico and now computer peripherals.

Currently working on a networking problem. I have multiple Proton VPN connections on my Mikrotik router. Main reason being for fail over in case one endpoint reaches capacity, goes unresponsive, etc.

It’s a bit tricky since Proton issues the same peer and gateway IP for each connection. Haven’t quite got it working the way I want it to yet.

Cigarettes

It’s a scene from the film How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying where the main character tries to make it look like he’s been working all night, right before the CEO walks through the door.

And then, as if to taunt me, the idea pops back into my head at the least opportune moment. Like when I’m standing at a public urinal or changing the oil in my car. My phone or a notepad are literally within reach but I know that by the time I wash my hands, the idea will be gone like the mist in sunshine.

A few years ago, corps were just throwing shit at the wall to see what would stick. Everybody who wasn’t a software company decided they were now a “software company”. I liked the salary that came with it but the actual projects sucked. Working on stuff you know is DOA is very demoralizing.

Have you ever heard the story of Bobby Tables the Dropped? I thought not. It’s not a story that AI would tell you.

There’s the tarrifs and theres the bizarre anti-renewable energy sentiment harbored by the current administration.

Personally, I think that’s just coming from power utilities pushing the idea that, “it’s cool if WE build a solar array but it’s not cool if YOU do it.”