Pet Peeves

[Ducky]

I'm just out the gap meself with the balaclava look but I never asked my lad to as much as look at it, he just hacked away as if I had done. I'll be saying it next time. Fuck that like me beard is all out of balance altogether

Yeah this is it. Me brother said "be grand, will be growing back in a few days". And while that's true, it doesn't negate the fact that the hair above it has a month's head start.

Sure, i can trim it back meself next week, but at the same time I've an overwhelming buzz of "I didn't hand a lad 30 fucking quid to set me up for having a balaclava 'tache and a few weeks of DIY to not look like an absolute gomie".

[Carnage]

Is it 30 quid for a trip to the barber now? Fucking hell, last time I was in it was a fiver.

[Ducky]

These lads are 20 for hair,.tenner for beard. Bit more pricey than some of the others around Sligo (usually €15), but the other best barber for that dollar amount tasks you with making some bullshit online account and booking him - even if he's spinning around in his chair looking bored he absolutely will not touch you without a booking.

I've app/account fatigue in general, but after being prescribed the Dexcom G7 glucose monitor (which I am immensely thankful for as I get it on the LTI card and has helped turned my general health around massively) which effectively dictates when I can/cannot eat or drink, any other non-essential app/login can eat a massive pile of faeces.

[leoos]

Dexcom G7 glucose monitor

I started on a G6 nearly 4 years ago. Absolute game changer.
The app isn't great in my opinion.
I have it looping the readings out to another app called xDrip that I found somewhere online.

[Ducky]

Dexcom G7 glucose monitor

I started on a G6 nearly 4 years ago. Absolute game changer.
The app isn't great in my opinion.
I have it looping the readings out to another app called xDrip that I found somewhere online.

Game changer for sure. I still stick my finger occasionally when the readings feel odd (and have had one or two sensors that read way too high), but have had a mostly positive experience with it all.

Heard of xDrip but never downloaded it. I use the hacked version of the G7 app that some lad on Reddit tinkered with - was able to sideload it to a phone that was listed as incompatible (most phones are compatible with the software but the FDA apparently take an age approving them, because then they become a medical device), and there's other quality of life improvements like being able to take screenshots.

[Mithrandir]

Somehow managed to do this on the new turntable 😫 Don't know if I had the tracking force too hight or if I actually dropped it on a record without realizing at some point. Not an expensive one to replace but a pain in the hole all the same. Just hope I haven't fucked the records I tried play on it now 

[Eoin McLove]

Fuck a duck, my eyeballs are bleeding 

[Jward]

Somehow managed to do this on the new turntable 😫 Don't know if I had the tracking force too hight or if I actually dropped it on a record without realizing at some point. Not an expensive one to replace but a pain in the hole all the same. Just hope I haven't fucked the records I tried play on it now 

I think it's your anti-skate, as well as your tracking weight
If you drop the needle in between grooves does the arm pivot in or out?
It should be out
Going by your photo, it's going in more than it naturally does anyway

Out of interest, does it still sound ok?
Is the sound evenly balanced between both speakers?

If it is, leave it!
Well, reset the anti-skate anyway

I may be way off, but I'd play around with it before replacing

[Sworntothecans]

Somehow managed to do this on the new turntable 😫 Don't know if I had the tracking force too hight or if I actually dropped it on a record without realizing at some point. Not an expensive one to replace but a pain in the hole all the same. Just hope I haven't fucked the records I tried play on it now 

I think it's your anti-skate, as well as your tracking weight
If you drop the needle in between grooves does the arm pivot in or out?
It should be out
Going by your photo, it's going in more than it naturally does anyway

Out of interest, does it still sound ok?
Is the sound evenly balanced between both speakers?

If it is, leave it!
Well, reset the anti-skate anyway

I may be way off, but I'd play around with it before replacing

New stylus and you'll be grand (and. I'd say you might have bounced it off the platter.

[The Heretic]

Getting to an age where you realise that you're no longer "indestructible" health wise, it takes a while to realise it but when you do it's sobering.

[Mr Barlow]

Getting to an age where you realise that you're no longer "indestructible" health wise, it takes a while to realise it but when you do it's sobering.

Here here

[Ducky]

Getting to an age where you realise that you're no longer "indestructible" health wise, it takes a while to realise it but when you do it's sobering.

I'm at that any little twinge and I'm thinking "oh fucking what now" stage

I'm extra paranoid after getting two wisdom teeth pulled out recently. Any funny sensations in my mouth at all and it's a potential catastrophe.

[Mithrandir]

Getting to an age where you realise that you're no longer "indestructible" health wise, it takes a while to realise it but when you do it's sobering.

Got my first greys this week, really faced me with my own mortality 

[Mithrandir]

Somehow managed to do this on the new turntable 😫 Don't know if I had the tracking force too hight or if I actually dropped it on a record without realizing at some point. Not an expensive one to replace but a pain in the hole all the same. Just hope I haven't fucked the records I tried play on it now 

I think it's your anti-skate, as well as your tracking weight
If you drop the needle in between grooves does the arm pivot in or out?
It should be out
Going by your photo, it's going in more than it naturally does anyway

Out of interest, does it still sound ok?
Is the sound evenly balanced between both speakers?

If it is, leave it!
Well, reset the anti-skate anyway

I may be way off, but I'd play around with it before replacing

Ah it's fucked now, won't play anything but noise/distortion. I've set it up to manufacture recommendations but just to be sure I've ordered a little digital stylus tracking force guage. Anti skate set to 2 as per setup info, but think I'm just a clumsy and easily distracted so probably just user error.

[Eoin McLove]

Getting to an age where you realise that you're no longer "indestructible" health wise, it takes a while to realise it but when you do it's sobering.

I've been on the downhill slope for 5 or 6 years. Despite keeping fit and being reasonably in shape I still find myself a bit creaky in the joints and I've had one injury after another. Usually work related. Usually repetitive strain sort of stuff. And as for the hair situation? Thank God I've  a beautiful fivehead.