I have been getting beaten down between 24/7 job uncertainty with the bad engineering market right now, a full-strip house renovation, and not sleeping well.

Yesterday renovation with my girlfriend’s family I hit a breakpoint of just going numb after the 3-4 hours of work I put into building the bath frame has to be shortened by 2cm to get the tiles flat that I wrongly calculated because my brain doesn’t work anymore. Like 50% of the work has to be redone and half of the holes through the tiles carefully redrilled.

Today I actually took a day off just working on my personal electronics project. Just a nice, sunny day playing with our dog, doing a bit of gardening and actually enjoying the day instead of just going and going renovating or working or going to social events. I really needed it. Back to the grind tomorrow.

  • DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    12 days ago

    I went to the garden center and picked up some flowers and did as bit of gardening myself - such as it is. I also made a casserole and hadn’t used the internet for several hours. I get it my friend in dullness. What is your electronics project, if you don’t mind the question?

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlOP
      3·
      12 days ago

      I am making a privacy friendly fitness band (smart watch with no screen) that is just meant to track biometrics without tracking you via GPS and the app or distracting you with messages and notifications.

      I design medical sensing devices for work so this isn’t too far of a reach.