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Seroim
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  • I did it!





    My basic kit is complete! In there, more or less in order of the photos, I have :

    • electrical tape on the loop
    • Sharpies
    • tape measure
    • headlamp, multimeter probes and magnet in front hard pocket
    • marking tape in front pocket
    • side cutters
    • long-nose pliers
    • flush cutters
    • knife
    • two adjustable wrenches, 6" and 8"
    • SAE and metric ball-set hex wrenches
    • Fluke 787 processmeter
    • Wera Kraftform Kompakt screwdriver kit
    • two channellocks, 6" and 10"
    • lockout padlock (got the notice somewhere)
    • Megapro Tamperproof
    • Megapro Tamperproof 2
    • small gauge wire strippers
    • normal gauge wire strippers
    • linesman pliers
    • not pictured : cable ties and connector box

    I'm only really lacking a drill/impact driver and a butane torch. The former can wait, I'll get the latter probably next week, to take the time to research. After that, it's all rarely used/luxury tools like network cable crimpers and cable strippers.
    3 people like this post: Imaginative Kane, Gerrick, Hydra
    « Last Edit: August 14, 2018, 10:59:53 PM by Seroim »
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  • I did it!





    My basic kit is complete! In there, more or less in order of the photos, I have :

    • electrical tape on the loop
    • Sharpies
    • tape measure
    • headlamp, multimeter probes and magnet in front hard pocket
    • marking tape in front pocket
    • side cutters
    • long-nose pliers
    • flush cutters
    • knife
    • two adjustable wrenches, 6" and 8"
    • SAE and metric ball-set hex wrenches
    • Fluke 787 processmeter
    • Wera Kraftform Kompakt screwdriver kit
    • two channellocks, 6" and 10"
    • lockout padlock (got the notice somewhere)
    • Megapro Tamperproof
    • Megapro Tamperproof 2
    • small gauge wire strippers
    • normal gauge wire strippers
    • linesman pliers
    • not pictured : cable ties and connector box

    I'm only really lacking a drill/impact driver and a butane torch. The former can wait, I'll get the latter probably next week, to take the time to research. After that, it's all rarely used/luxury tools like network cable crimpers and cable strippers.
    Does that kit allow you to take care of "basic" calls?
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    Now tell me.  What do you see?
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  • I did it!





    My basic kit is complete! In there, more or less in order of the photos, I have :

    • electrical tape on the loop
    • Sharpies
    • tape measure
    • headlamp, multimeter probes and magnet in front hard pocket
    • marking tape in front pocket
    • side cutters
    • long-nose pliers
    • flush cutters
    • knife
    • two adjustable wrenches, 6" and 8"
    • SAE and metric ball-set hex wrenches
    • Fluke 787 processmeter
    • Wera Kraftform Kompakt screwdriver kit
    • two channellocks, 6" and 10"
    • lockout padlock (got the notice somewhere)
    • Megapro Tamperproof
    • Megapro Tamperproof 2
    • small gauge wire strippers
    • normal gauge wire strippers
    • linesman pliers
    • not pictured : cable ties and connector box

    I'm only really lacking a drill/impact driver and a butane torch. The former can wait, I'll get the latter probably next week, to take the time to research. After that, it's all rarely used/luxury tools like network cable crimpers and cable strippers.
    Does that kit allow you to take care of "basic" calls?

    Definitely, which is why I'm happy. I don't need to borrow tools anymore. For installations I'd need power tools, but I just let the others drill holes for now.

    Just need the torch and some heat shrink now.
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  • I just woke up from a really unsettling lucid dream.

    I was sitting on my couch watching TV with some girl I've never seen before. We were talking about random bs and everything was fine until she wrestled me to the ground and pulled out a large syringe filled with a red/purple liquid. I tried to fight her off but despite my best efforts she injected it into my right arm. Through the spot that doctors put needles for blood tests and stuff. Then I passed out.

    I woke up in my bed with her for a moment then passed out again. I woke up in a room with dark blue walls and saw *my own brain separated from my body!* It had six tubes in it that must have somehow been keeping it alive. The girl was there and she had this grin on her face as if she were taunting me. I panicked and passed out again. Then I woke up in an odd room with again bunch of other people. They seemed to be hiding from something. My arm was still unable to move but the spot where the syringe went in hurt. I checked it and sure enough there was a puncture wound. I started telling the other people there hoping someone would believe me. Most of them laughed. One person did though. A former FBI agent named David. Once he saw the puncture wound he got nervous. There was a knock at the door and when that happened *everyone got nervous.* David answered the door and somehow I then knew what was going on. Aliens were in the process of destroying human society and had already started enslaving the planet. The alien was checking to make sure we were doing *something* but I don't know what. I ran towards an empty room and then the house we were in began disappearing right in front of me in a bright, light blue light. Anything that touched it disappeared so everyone ran. Most of us didn't make it past where where the walls used to be. Including me there were just three people left. Then it stopped and the alien said that the job was canceled. Like the whole thing was just some contract.

    That's when the dream stopped. As soon as I actually woke up I checked for a puncture wound.
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    7:42 PM <Govindia> eh, i like the taste of nuts in my mouth



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  • I just woke up from a really unsettling lucid dream.

    I was sitting on my couch watching TV with some girl I've never seen before. We were talking about random bs and everything was fine until she wrestled me to the ground and pulled out a large syringe filled with a red/purple liquid. I tried to fight her off but despite my best efforts she injected it into my right arm. Through the spot that doctors put needles for blood tests and stuff. Then I passed out.

    I woke up in my bed with her for a moment then passed out again. I woke up in a room with dark blue walls and saw *my own brain separated from my body!* It had six tubes in it that must have somehow been keeping it alive. The girl was there and she had this grin on her face as if she were taunting me. I panicked and passed out again. Then I woke up in an odd room with again bunch of other people. They seemed to be hiding from something. My arm was still unable to move but the spot where the syringe went in hurt. I checked it and sure enough there was a puncture wound. I started telling the other people there hoping someone would believe me. Most of them laughed. One person did though. A former FBI agent named David. Once he saw the puncture wound he got nervous. There was a knock at the door and when that happened *everyone got nervous.* David answered the door and somehow I then knew what was going on. Aliens were in the process of destroying human society and had already started enslaving the planet. The alien was checking to make sure we were doing *something* but I don't know what. I ran towards an empty room and then the house we were in began disappearing right in front of me in a bright, light blue light. Anything that touched it disappeared so everyone ran. Most of us didn't make it past where where the walls used to be. Including me there were just three people left. Then it stopped and the alien said that the job was canceled. Like the whole thing was just some contract.

    That's when the dream stopped. As soon as I actually woke up I checked for a puncture wound.

    Your dream reminds me of the Divergent series, actually. Have you recently read or watched it?
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  • Never seen it before though I have heard of it.
    “I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?” - Dave Chappelle
    7:42 PM <Govindia> eh, i like the taste of nuts in my mouth



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  • Happened to be watching this episode and came across this scene...if only I had this power! When you don't like that someone you like is taken, just have the computer delete their SO. :))



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  • So, not to be too weird/insecure but, I feel like I havent really made much of a connection with the regions members, save for a few. Am I offputting or do I come off as unpleasant?
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  • So, not to be too weird/insecure but, I feel like I havent really made much of a connection with the regions members, save for a few. Am I offputting or do I come off as unpleasant?
    No, you seem like a very friendly person to me. I personally just don't really connect with people outside of games or topic discussions, and I think that might be the case for others as well. Anyway, I don't think you have anything to worry about. :)
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  • So, not to be too weird/insecure but, I feel like I havent really made much of a connection with the regions members, save for a few. Am I offputting or do I come off as unpleasant?

    Oh, not, not at all! You're a perfectly enjoyable person.
    I Hope You Have A Nice Day :]
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  • So, not to be too weird/insecure but, I feel like I havent really made much of a connection with the regions members, save for a few. Am I offputting or do I come off as unpleasant?
    No, definitely not! I have a hard time connecting with people outside of Discord myself, which is why I'm not often on the forums here.

    To copy North, you are definitely a perfectly enjoyable person!  :D
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  • Thank  you guys. I'm honestly a little paranoid when it comes to online interactions. I think it's because I  want see the other person I'm talking to and gauge their reactions. It makes me nervous.
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  • I never listened to blues before in my life. I've been making an effort to explore the genre and I don't know why I never bothered. To borrow from an old meme, shit is so cash.

    I had wanted to learn the harmonica ever since Joshua pulled one out for the first time in the Legend of Heroes series. It's such an expressive, personal instrument that can do almost anything. Listening to some of the best bluesmen just reinforced that desire. I pulled the trigger today and got my first harp, as well as a method book. I might look up lessons as well if I get serious about it.

    Also helps that the harmonica is often used in the folk music of my people, so that's another reason I wanted to learn it.

    On the work front, I'm going to school again, and it's so boring. It really puts into perspective how much I learned on the job; they're making us do things literally no one does in real life and it frustrates me to no end. I wish I could just keep on working. Thankfully I can at least do weekends and holes in the week so I can get 20-25 hours easy.
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  • Warning: This dream fucked me up. It is truly disturbing.
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    I'm stuck in some sort of home, with supervisors who are very strict and were assholes.

    It was late evening and the house was of a contemporarily-renovated 1950s design. We were in the living area, the atrium was in front of us, and the kitchen was beside us. The outside deck was behind us, although I never saw it. I knew there was a table out there. (See Fig. I for clarification)

    I was eating in the kitchen and one of the women supervisors comes in and scolds me for eating in the kitchen and that we're supposed to only eat on the outside table.

    The next morning I decided I had enough, so I took out a knife (I think, or maybe it was a pencil) and murdered the supervisors. Then I went into the office to the left of the atrium and killed the people in there too. They looked like college students, and they were working on a project. I killed them too. One of them laughed when my pencil broke on their chest, so I used all my strength to ram the dull pencil into his heart. He let out a noise that I can't quite describe. It was a quiet noise. I may have gone upstairs and killed people as well, but it's fuzzy.

    Of course I get into trouble for this, but I don't remember seeing police. The next thing I remember is being talked to by someone. They told me that the people in the office were working on a project that would have saved lives or something. I felt very remorseful.

    I tried to walk into Student Government the next day. They were convening in a big church thing (Fig. II).  It was on the side of a much larger stone courtyard that I didn't get a great look at. The courtyard was depressed into the ground by a good 10 feet compared to the buildings around it. The church itself had a big stained glass window, but I could see the people through it.

    They looked at me when I walked out the door of a building adjacent to the church. I had forgotten what I had done momentarily, but I immediately realized why they were looking at me oddly. I walked into the church looking at my feet and sat way way far up in the pews (Fig. III). Student Government was meeting in the back of the church. The rest of the church had a few people in it, but when I sat down as far as I could from everyone, someone came and insisted they move back away from me. I felt shittier than I have ever felt. A man sat down next to me. He was in his 60s and had a bearded face. He looked like a biker. I was aware that he was someone who helped me get food or helped me stay out of trouble or something like that. I nod to him and look up to the altar to see someone start to speak.

    I go through the scenario in my head of what I'd say to the people in Student Government. I felt as if I'd been away a long time. Maybe I wasn't even a Senator anymore. I said aloud "But this is my Student Government", almost tearing up.

    I am aware that I murdered more than 20 people. This is my life now. I'm a murderer. I want to kill myself too. I ask people to kill me. They tell me to do it myself. It's a nightmare.


    Suddenly, as I start to wake up, I audibly ask myself "Wait, has this been a dream the entire time?" I am shocked and relieved.

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  • On the topic of sleep deprivation, I am an insomniac, but recently, I can get close to a normal sleep routine. I still wake up a lot during the night, but I nearly manage to get enough sleep as prescribed by doctors. There are still some nights where, try as I might, I don't get all that much sleep, but ever since I've been working out again, and getting my relationships in order, and being physically exhausted by the work I do, I have had a much easier time of falling asleep. My dad even commented on it the other day. He says I no longer have bags under my eyes, my skin looks a lot healthier and I just seem more alert than I have in the past.

    In other news, I encountered a strange situation today at work. Usually, people know I'm kind of a detached person and that I find it very hard to express my emotions (some people have openly wondered whether I feel anything at all), but today, this one colleague lodged a complaint and said she didn't feel like I cared at all about what she was going through with her dad's cancer. All I said was that it was unfortunate and I couldn't possibly understand just what she was going through, but that her clients had been complaining about her inattentiveness and somewhat short temper recently, so unless we could come up with a solution, her account would get deactivated by China. My boss knows me and also knows that I'm a very detached person who just gets overwhelmed by strong emotions and then needs to withdraw, and explained as much to her, but still. Made me wonder just how bad this situation has gotten. It's not like I can force myself to show more emotion. That's just not who I am.
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