well, I do go to a school that specializes in pumping them out 
Amirite @SkyzykS ?
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Great millwrights are in short supply. I am elated every time I find a good one.
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Somebody has to put that stuff together outside of a frictionless plane and under the influence (haha) of gravity.
One time I was like âHey! This beam is like x long and the span is only y wideâŠâ.
Response: âWell move the wall, dumbass!â.
It makes for some good laughs.
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Physicists turn a 100 page math proof into a 50 page research article. Engineers simplify the 50 pages with an âapproximatelyâ symbol.
Millwrights make the âapproximatelyâ work with a big hammer
The rest of us help turn the âstuffâ into money for the firm
Itâs a beautiful system. Iâm glad I fall into the ârest of usâ category
the bigger, the better!
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tippity tap tap @SkyzykS
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Careful with that hammerâŠ
An exercise in perpendicularity.
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âWeâre going to represent this horse as a rectangular prism to make the math simplerâ is a phrase I have used in conversation before.
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Iâve lost 7 lbs since the 1st of January, with wild fluctuations mostly caused by the weekends. Then my husband got covid and I spent a lot of time out walking the dog to burn off nervous energy (in addition to workouts) and give him quiet, and eating less due to mainly his lack of interest in food. So we were eating very plain, healthy low calorie food. I was still eating what seemed like a normal amount, but I guess it wasnât because suddenly this week Iâve found myself devouring an entire small pizza (probably the size of a Dominoâs medium) and other such. The scale hasnât moved as a result.
Confession: this is fucking pretty considerably with my head. Now I want to eat ALL the pizzas and Biggy Iggies and bags of popcorn and bento boxes and tuna rolls and steaks - and not gain back the weight Iâve lost.
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That looks fucking awesome lol.
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I confess I am eating 2 (maybe?) week old, half frozen beef jerky.
Started work at 7 this am, left at 5 pm, got called back in at 6 (right as I was preparing to make dinner). Waiting for a distributor to open up shop right now so I can get some parts. I found it sitting on my passengers seat, buried underneath my coats and bibs.
I think I remember buying it a couple weeks ago, but canât be sure. Jerky doesnât go bad right? This shit is hard as a rock though.
Anyway, Iâm done ruining my phone screen with my jerky crumb and oil laden fingers for now. Gonna polish off this bag.
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Weâre all behind you 110% in your efforts to survive by any means necessary.
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Thanks. 
Survival or gluttony⊠Either way I enjoyed it more than I should have.
Now to head home and have dinner.
Why bother teaching geometry, just give kids some hammers 
Been having constant trouble staying asleep and waking up too early. Went to my doctor, whoâs also my long-time occasional gym partner, so weâre pretty casual when speaking to one another and I get to be pretty demanding.
I insisted on:
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No FUCKING BENZOS. Took them for 2 weeks for jet lag long ago and then didnât sleep for 1 week after my last dose. House MD lied and I lived to tell the tale. Barely.
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Nothing that has any chance of raising prolactin. He knows my hypothetical history with deca. Plus RLS and sleep paralysis.
The dude gives me 7.5mg of mirtazapine every night. The conversation went something like this:
âYouâre fucking crazy, you quack. My 4kg cat got prescribed 3.75mg years ago for inappetence and lethargy and it was bouncing off the fucking walls and whining non-stop 2 hours after taking it.â
âThatâs a cat, you idiot.â
So I took it. Fell asleep immediately and slept for a full 8 hours for the first time in probably a decade without any dreams.
Moral of the story; Listen to your doctor.
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I hardly dream anymore - or maybe I donât remember them anymore. Either way, it is a little sad.
Yay! Today is left leg day. Really looking forward to it.
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I only remember dreams for about three seconds as I wake up, and in that tiny moment I marvel at the crazy parallel universe my subconscious mind inhabitsâŠand then itâs just goneâŠ