What are you proud of this year? I don’t wanna hear i ran 3 marathons.
I want to hear the crazy awards stuff like…I drove the same road 438 times and exclusively listened to Fleetwood Mac.
Common share your special skill or unique achievement this year.
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I drove 150 miles at highspeed on a highway at night through a thunderstorm during a nervous breakdown. That was just the return drive home.
Did you survive?
Got in the top 3% for average weekly steps for someone in my age group (40-49)
For 1000 completions in Pirate Solitaire and working towards 2000.
Managed to get to the stage with my job, where I just kinda resent having to go to work because I’d rather be doing other things, as opposed to deeply hating it because I’m freaking out constantly. This is a big step for me, I had to leave my last career after crashing and burning, due undiagnosed ADHD. Had a couple of years off getting myself sorted out and correctly medicated, and started back in a new role, but with a genuine question about whether I could have a professional career again.
The first couple of years were really hard, just so stressful and I needed to see a therapist at points to keep going. But I did, and now in my 3rd year I’ve hit a very manageable level of stress that seems normal and bearable. Interestingly, this isn’t because I finally started being organised and stopped leaving things to the last minute. Nope, I just embraced my terrible work habits, stopped beating myself up about them, and changed my expectations for work so that paperwork was minimized and doing all my prep at the last minute was fine. Much less mentally horrific for me and, despite ‘lowering my standards’ the quality of my work probably increased, because I was doing what I could actually achieve not pushing to do something amazing that never materialised.
The art of NGAF is quite liberating.
I dispersed (free) camped around my country for the whole year
All 360 days? ThTs pretty cool. ESP if it’s out of choice.
Fixed my monitor rather than tossing more e-waste in the landfill. Replaced a couple blown caps and it’s running like a champ again.
Won’t necessarily go over well on Lemmy but still want to brag a bit. My company got bought by salesforce, life changing for my kids’ kids (let alone me and my wife). Had a meeting this week with Marx Benioff and he said “I dont care about that i want to hear that v_krishna thinks” and then spent 15 minutes on the spot answering his questions.
Good for you. IMO, nobody’s allowed to hate on this, if they haven’t declined a life changing buy out offer themself.
I got multiple offers from big corpos and the death industry itself. Lockheed Martin wanted to pay me a high triple digit yearly salary, pay for my moving costs etc. I turned them down because I have actual morals.
I mean, Salesforce is clearly different than Lockheed Martin, even if they do business with all sorts of companies (many of whom I wouldn’t personally want to be in business with).
I’ve specifically found b2b software at least a bit less creepy and invasive - I’ve done applied ML for many many years and prefer enterprise b2b vs consumer tech because of this.
Rock solid morals for triple digit, seven figures and people are likely to start to try to justify what they are being asked to do.
My husband’s company (where he works, not owns) is giving bids for an AI facility. They’ve been told that they can set any price if they can produce on time. As we near retirement the likely bonus from this project would be great but it makes me sad.
Rescued a whimpering puppy from a metre depth, straight down in a narrow drainpipe.
When we got the callout for an animal rescue, I had forgot that the cat-in-a-tree type incidents are stereotypical for firefighters.
Was a unique achievement for me.
Aw making me cry here. That’s really nice
It was a bit tense on arrival, but had a happy ending. This was a week ago.
That’s amazing! How did you get him out? Drop a loop around or for him to bite onto?
The pup was initially fully stuck, head first in the horizontal pipe at bottom. Coaxed it to turn around head-up, with some gentle words and tapping the top of the pipe.
It would not bite onto a strap covered in wet catfood. One person with the skinniest arms reached down and grabbed him out.
We had a pole-and-loop snare en route but didn’t use it.
Good result.
That’s also pretty. Two times the admiration.
Thanks! I do try to make really pretty photography! Here’s my latest project, if you wanted more:
Please take another pic in 3030 miles
Got some boxes and stuff to organize things in my kitchen and other rooms. It feels so nice not having to roam through messy piles in order to find things!
I finally read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Was it as good as they say?
I enjoyed it, and I’m gonna buy a nice version of it for my collection. But I appreciate that like most media, it’s subjective to your own tastes.
Finally starting to un pigeon hole my career by expanding to other technologies.
Couple years ago, I finally got off my ass & started making time to actually fix the stuff I said I would fix. It’s been transformational. This year, I made time for the ‘good’ car. I replaced the transmission along with a lot of other little bits that had been bothering me. Took close to 5 months in total, but I’m at the point now where both the good car & the beater truck are both reliable runners. It’s a good feeling.
Ripped a 20 second long fart in bed a month or two ago.
Anyone ever ripped 20s on a marijuana bong?
Don’t know why anyone would want to fart into a bong
Now I want to try it.:p
And it didn’t end in… tragedy? Because the ending of a fart is arguably its most important quality.
Some farts have happy endings. I will not elaborate.
Managed to make two cats tolerate each other - one is keen on chasing, one is shy and coward. They are bad at signalling play - so sometimes they go too rough, but now they coexist mostly in peace.
