Soldering. Anyone who tells you it’s easy is wrong. :P
Was soldering a mod board to a Sega Mega Drive, but ended up getting solder on the cpu’s contacts and needed to get a second one. And it was a pain getting the wires to bind to the traces.
And yes, I probably was doing everything wrong.
Soldering is easy if you have the right tools. Those old school solder irons with the ceramic element dangling inside a metal tube suck balls. Get yourself a direct heat iron like the pinecil and some flux and it’s SOOOOO much easier.
It sounds like you’re talking about Weller style irons and the ones where the part you hold plugs directly into the wall are quite terrible. However, they are an industry standard and most soldering stations will use a Weller tip. I have a knock off Hakko 936 that’s like 15 years old now and cost me $25 and it solders like a dream.
I’m talking about all of the older style soldering irons, including like that Hakko. The Pinecil is $25 AND solders better. Once I switched to a direct heat iron I can never go back. The difference is HUGE.
I had to solder in design and technology in secondary school. I have dyspraxia which is a disability which affects hand eye coordination so it was bitch to solder.
I feel your pain. I just soldered my first solder adding an arcade joystick button as a killswitch on my guitar. It was not nearly as precise as soldering a board and it was still a PITA. Us humans just don’t have enough hands.
Made hassleback potatoes.
Tiling a floor
How did it go?
It was only a small hallway (3,5m2) but it went better than I’d hoped. I’m really proud, even though I’ll always see the imperfections too.
So great success
You should be proud of yourself! We tiled our kitchen backsplash. Everyone says it looks great, but i only see the one tile that’s upside down.
Preserved and framed a 1500-piece puzzle I completed
Did a jewelry workshop and crafted myself a silver ring that looked dope af. That was enjoyable.
Washed a tent.
A canvas one? Thats such a shitty job.
Thankfully no, it’s nylon. Was mostly just a lot of soaking in the tub and agitating over a couple of hours.
Bought an ebike. I’ve wanted one for over 10 years, and finally the circumstances were right for me to justify it.
Cocaine.
Honestly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. To me it feels like coffee, but it only lasts 15 minutes, tastes like shit, and costs upwards of a testicle and a half where I am. And no, I’m not looking for anyone to try and change my mind on that.
because its too difficult to do coffee off sexy body parts.
You’re only saying that because you haven’t seen me brew coffee with my buttcheeks.
May I ask out of curiosity what led to the decision that this was a good idea?
Basically, it was in front of me, and I’ve got an unfortunate amount of experience kicking stimulant habits (I was an Adderall kid), so I figured I wasn’t at any particular risk of getting addicted. I tried it a few more times after that and came to the same conclusion, so at this point I don’t think I’ve touched the stuff in over a year.
Also I was drunk every time someone offered it to me.
Why not? Sometimes people like to try new things.
Username checks out
I’ve never tried cocaine in any form, just have never had any interest in it.
Some drugs are fun
Went to the zoo while high.
Sibling wanted to go to the zoo, so we rented an electric cart for my husband and the three of us went out. I decided as weed is legal here to do that as well
Turns out physical activity sucks less when high and there’s animals to look at also
Called a tax professional.
How did it go? I need to do that but I’ve been putting it off for a year.
Bought a book on programming. Have been doing hobby coding for a few decades. Going to dive into a larger project so trying to learn some better practices
Made a wattle and daub wall. It’s surprisingly hard to get right.
What was hard about it? Also what was the wall for?
Well apparently a few things that nobody actually bothered to write down is what kind of mud of need, how hard you need to force it into the wood, how much fiber you need to add.
I mean, it’s kinda like those old cookbooks that just say “keep in medium oven until done”. Everyone just sort of assumes you have the Knack.
Its partly because I do reenactment, and partly because I want a shed that I made myself. This is mostly a test to see how long it will survive in the rainy Netherlands.
Took Dilaudid.
https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-9130/dilaudid-oral/details
Had this really weird extreme pain in my side, felt like I had ruptured something. Ended up in the ER Tuesday. :(
Doc says that it’s kind of like appendicitis, but because it’s on the left side instead of the right they call it “Epiploic Appendagitis”.
Nobody seems to know why it happens, just that it hurts like fuck and isn’t dangerous.
Treatment is massive painkillers.
