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Yeah it’s weird, you would think it would distract you but it doesn’t. On the music thing, I’ve found that classical music helps me focus but other types don’t. To be specific piano and violin music seems to work best for me. But that’s really only when I’m writing, when I’m working on a problem podcasts, audiobooks, and music I’ve heard a million times already work just fine, new music will distract me though, it has to be stuff I already know.

So I just got done reading up on this book and ordered a copy. Thanks, I might also grab the audiobook since I sometimes have problems focusing on reading, and listening to a book is the only way I can finish it.

Funnily enough the boss is extremely open to new ideas and recognizes that I’m ready to move on. He’s already told me that he’s petitioning for extra budget now that we have surplus money company wide so that he can move me and two others up into low level management in project management roles. As he said the project management title will be fluid since each of you will be doing wildly different things based on your strengths.

I’m down for it since the majority of the things he says he wants to assign me are things I want to do. Sure there’s a few things I’m not crazy about, but they aren’t anywhere near deal breakers.

Well for me it’s the twist-tie until I get down to the last few slices then I just spin the bag and fold it back over itself.

Why the twist-tie wasn’t listed is beyond me since I’ve never seen a store that didn’t have them as the majority of closure mechanisms.

Also, bottle hack? I honestly have no idea what that’s about.

Coming January 2026, MAX HBO, it’s MAXimum HBO.

I work in international freight and this is still a thing. Most customs brokers are email now, but some still require documents be faxed. So our system takes the PDF that it auto generates for every shipment and faxes it to the number on file. From time to time those same brokers will email us a copy of the PDF we faxed them to have something corrected. So they are getting the fax in their email rather than having us just email the thing directly. It makes zero sense, like I understand keeping the fax capability for legacy customers and as a backup, but your primary should be email if it’s all going there anyway.

And here I am 30 years after my diagnosis and have never been on meds. I did do 2 to 3 years of neurofeedback training though.

My first thought too.

I have written several proposals for my employer based on this kind of thinking. We have some kind of issue, I push it to the back of my mind, weeks later the issue still exists and I’m listening to a totally unrelated podcast and something the host or guest says triggers a series of seemingly unrelated thoughts and suddenly I have a solution to the issue.

My department head once asked me how I come up with these solutions, I smiled and said I have ADHD and listen to podcasts. He just looked at me with a blank stare then said that doesn’t make sense. I just laughed a little and said, I know but it’s hard to explain how things connect in my mind, the podcasts just help me brainstorm. He just smiled, shook his head, and said well what ever works I guess.

There’s a large hill and at the bottom of that hill is a cliff, we’ve been sliding down that hill since Regan and this past January we finally reached the cliffs edge.

Fan By Internet.

Yeah, I googled “I’ve been waiting for this moment, Phil Collins” and multiple results showed up with the same answer. Should have opened up the lyrics and actually read them…

DAMN YOU GOOGLE! YOU HAVE FAILED ME AGAIN!!!

Seriously I knew it didn’t sound right but multiple Google results showed what I wrote so I figured I was remembering it incorrectly. Thanks for the correction.

Just to finish out the post title.

For all my life, hold on.

There, that was going to bug me.

Yeah I’m definitely going to give it a try, thanks again for the idea.

Honestly I get it, I’ve been single for 11 years now. I went through a series of toxic relationships and the last one broke me. After her I decided to take a break from dating a try to figure out why I kept attracting only toxic women.

It’s been 11 years and I still haven’t figured it out, and now I’m in my 40’s and don’t really want to date again. What I’m trying to say is, take some time, heal, get your head straight, but get back out there sooner than later. It’s easy to fall into the “I’m happier single” mindset, but difficult to get out of.

Damn kids and your foil backed gem stones and the like, why back in my day all we had was post-it notes, and we were damn glad to have them!

You do you…in what ever way you wish to take that.

As someone with severe ADHD this sounds like a great idea. Management is talking about moving me up into a project management role so I’ve been studying the concept and tools, I can totally see how this could help. Thanks for the idea!

Seriously. I have a post-it note (just the adhesive strip) over my laptop camera, both work and personal devices.

The work laptop is obvious, company provided laptop with uninstallable software for remote administration that allows full remote control of the machine.

The personal laptop that runs Linux… tinfoil can be quite stylish as headwear when done correctly.

It happens, I wouldn’t even want to count how many times I’ve mixed up my facts in the last year. I have no idea why, since I never used Vine, but it’s history is a useless factiod that is forever stuck in my head.