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Yep! Same here! (Or was it late June even?!)

A few years ago (or maybe a decade ago now), I remember thinking that early August (i.e. week of my birthday) was too early already!

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Good on ya! 😜

I've learned a few tricks about breaking things. The most surefire of which is:

Try to make a demo video (OR an in person live demo, if you are brave enough to waste other people's time), showing off how you'd use the thing to solve practical problems, and not just the sanitized test procedure the featured was developed against.

Works every time! I always walk away with 5-10 work ons, some rather critical + embarrasing! 😂

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Remember though: 20 or was it 50 generations of cloned rats later, and you have population collapse! 🤪

Just like the slop-collapse researchers were finding with AI slop! 🤔

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Yikes! So sorry to hear you're going through this right now

Was reminded about the problem of woodfire smoke last night, having forgotten that it was a thing at other house over winter...

Can concur that a lot of things can be weirdly irritating, e.g.:
* My colleague's perfume is strong enough that I have had coughing fits in recent weeks when in close proximity

* The fumes from the wastewater plant issues in Chch also give me severe grief. A few years ago a few months after the fire, I had one rather bad evening after being outside for <5 minutes unloading groceries only. That was enough for hours of decent flareup that night! (And hence, why I then avoided going outside if/when I ever smelt that smell outside... between that and omicron exploding everywhere during those 6-9 months is why I admittedly barely left the house for over half a year that year! Both inside AND outside air were bad!)

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Oh, it's *that* one! 😂

(Looks over at old CD rack... hmm... Hang on, I think I still have that CD... 🤣)

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Meh... they should just do as the hospital does. I remember how Dad said that one morning most of the nurses tried and couldnt find a vein to use, so then they brought in a specialist nurse with a fancy scanner to do it!

Pretty much like how there was also a fancy 180-degree sweeping wall mounted scanner at one of the hospitals in town for getting a good scan of all teeth in one go, instead of partially x-raying each side multiple times and still not getting full coverage... (yep... went there before my wisdom tooth extraction by the surgeon who had a private clinic there)

Pretty much all of these things that I've always found weird about how they do things would be simplified if access to all these scanners was just cheaper + more readily available in the field! 🙄

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Yikes... just remembered that I do have one larger (though still young) avocado that no longer has anything covering the frame it sits inside

Drat!

Hope it'll be ok

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It's raining really heavily now... much heavier than the forecast mentioned. But is supposed to now get down to 0 overnight here now!!!

(Am starting to really regret not moving the big productive dahlia into the glasshouse over the weekend...)

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I expect the cold weather this week to have done in my big dahlias too 😥

The small ones along with the begonias are in the glasshouse now, and will hopefully make it through the week, but may have also succumbed to the cold