Alright SO. I got a 3ds xl a couple of weeks ago from a really great classic games store here in the Philly area. It was a little beat up, but the price was decent and I really wanted a 3ds to hack, especially since I didn’t really get to experience it in its heyday. Brought it home, hack went mostly smoothly with only one hiccup that was the fault of a memory card. Was playing with it for about a week and a half and boom, the thumb stick broke. The store I bought it from had a 30 day guarantee that if there were any issues, you could bring it back for repair, replace or refund. I decided to go replacement route, as they had another in stock in a color I liked more, and with a better screen (plus an obviously working thumb stick lol).
Now, that being said, I want to know what the best way to handle hacking this one. Can I use my memory card from the previous hack? Will I be able to pick back up where I left off? And if so, how do I handle doing the exploit again to install the software onto the 3ds with that card? Or do I just dump all the files on said card back onto my Mac, hack it, and then write over it with the dumped files? And finally, do I lose my game saves/street passes? Not the biggest deal, but I was pretty far along on A Link Between Worlds and if possible I’d like to continue from where I left off.
Thanks for any help in advance!

I applied for a job some days ago and got an email two days ago to fill out online application. I answered 22 questions- long and short both and got an interview call yesterday. It seemed like a person with Canadian accent and he asked me some general HR questions. He said his HR will contact me if I get shortlisted. I received an email around 30 minutes later with an offer letter which was signed by the owner of the company. I knew he was the owner as I had kept an eye on the company’s LinkedIn for two days now.
Red flag 1: The letter put my start date immediately but I remembered filling in the form one-month later date. Why the hurry?
Red flag 2: The employer said in the email that they want me to do the training on weekends till I start my job and will send the equipments asap. Again, why the hurry?
Red flag 3: I tried to reply them with an email to their weekend training email and the domain no longer exists. Also, calls on the interview phone number are not attended.
Another minute thing that I observed is, I got the offer from an LLP but the actual business is registered as co.Ltd.
I think I am saved from a probable scam.

Signed up with cignelS this week to try their One Price service. Unlimited everything for a hard to believe $25 total. I have a OnePlus 10 Pro for reference. I ordered the SIM card and it arrived in 2 days. No paperwork, no instructions, just a T-Mobile SIM. I had Metro by T-Mobile and an introductory offer of $35 I've been running for 6 months was about to run out, my searching for more inexpensive options led me to cignelS. I popped out the Metro SIM, installed the cignelS card and turned the phone on. I really wasn't expecting much and much to my surprise the service booted right up and I had cell service. Didn't need to change anything in my settings.
Their communication was awesome, constant email check ins to see how it was going and they initially provided me with a temporary phone number until they could get a local number assigned. This took about 30 minutes and I had my new number. They can also port in a new number if requested. Initially my texts weren't working but they started working right before I got a call from a T-Mobile rep that was working with the cignelS rep I had spoken to. The T-Mobile rep was going to help but it wasn't needed as everything at that time was working as it should. I'm getting as good or slightly better speeds with 5g as I got with Metro. I live in a medium sized city in South Texas and at my house I'm pulling between 200-300 mbps here at 6 PM and I get over 600 in town.
So to paraphrase so far cignelS is an impressive deal, especially for $25/mo. I won't use ATT or Verizon due to terrible experiences in the past and in all the time I've spent with T-Mobile I've never had an issue.

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I stood there with Hoda, adding that sense of comfort to Keith as his past self continued considering his father's gun. This was memory, not life, and we could not change what was happening, so I knew that Keith would not choose his own death, but it was still chilling. No note, because... who would even read it? There was no one left, and my heart sank watching this.
Keith had saved lives again and again, had been there for so many people, but take away all sense of family, and what's left that's worth the fight? I didn't know where he got the strength from to keep moving and watched. Eventually, an old radio blared, an emergency alert going out that there was a barn fire. The summer had been dry and quite hot. A barn fire could spread to fields, and Keith moved. He shoved the gun back in its case, moving through the old house with purpose as he grabbed keys and hat. He called the Fire Department, "This's EMT Moorehouse. En route to barn fire to aid. Arrival time ten minutes. I'll have m'pick-up!"
We watched him drive to the location and get to work. Once in his truck, he called his EMS unit and then called the farmers. The memories blurred a bit, but he rushed in and threw himself into the situation. He saved lives, but in the more casual ways of doing so, helping those injured by the fire or the smoke, and kept moving, coordinating with the firefighters, police, and other EMTs. The combined efforts succeeded in halting the damage at a destroyed barn before it could spread to the fields. Hoda was watching very differently than I was, however, "His damage is still there. He should not be forcing this."
I mean, she isn't wrong, but I knew Keith by now, "It's what he knows, like with the shelters. He hopped on it with one arm, and I couldn't keep up with him using both arms. We see him putting himself in incredibly bad situations, but I think for him it's his normal, and.... there it is."
Keith's memories had shifted through multiple scenes of him working extreme situations, "That same look from the beach, just before Ravazh'Tik gave his opening speech. When we appeared, I was freaked out at what was happening, all the aliens around. Keith was completely calm, though. He just analyzed everything, and I think that's what freaked me out more. I was going through every emotion in my register, and he just... ran it by the numbers. That's the core of it, he shuts it all down!"
Hoda examined for what I was looking at, and I could feel the presence of the Trils as they narrowed down what we were looking at. She nodded, "Yes, I see it. He forces his grief to stop, like damming a river. This can be good, but he has caused a drought. Even now, as he sings his pain, he is doing it. We will go, and plan."
I felt Hoda disconnect, and after a final look at the memory of Keith, I pulled away, and felt the connection terminate. In the yurt, things had definitely changed. The light from the Trils had gotten to maximum strength, a kaleidoscope of colors as they achieved full bloom. I might never be the farmer that Keith is, but I knew that with blooms came seeds. They were about to spread their species, and I wanted to be there in that moment, but I was just exhausted. So instead, I followed Hoda out the Yurt to the kitchen tent. One of Marila's last acts before taking shelter was an upgrade to the tent, pulling out one of the walls over the main campfire so that we could protect it as well as to give the kitchens a bit more airflow and to hopefully keep the storm from blowing the whole thing down, even creating windbreaks in the tops as well.
If Hoda particularly noticed any of it, she said nothing, collapsed into a chair and uncovered the banked coals, feeding small amounts of kindling to help build it back up, then bring it back up and use a burning twig to light her pipe. I went over by the kiln where we had extra broth stored to keep it warm overnight and returned with two cups. Hoda took hers, and for a while we said nothing, letting the events we'd born witness to settle over us. It wasn't like the previous link, where I had issues separating what was and wasn't me, but more like a virtual reality of its own. We knew what he'd felt, what he'd experienced, and even as third-person observers... it was a lot.
I sat sipping my broth when it came to me, "His trauma response is helping others."
"What is trauma response?" Hoda inquired genuinely.
I remembered back to what I'd learned of it, and certainly there were athletes out there who had been push to the point, but I was explaining to someone with no frame of reference, "For humans at least, we all react to traumatic events in different ways, and that's what trauma response is. So.... Trayg got enraged as he experienced Keith's trauma and let out his rage on a stray log. Plenty of people in that yurt are crying right now, and that's another one. Keith... he takes care of everyone around him. He was the one comforting his grandparents mourning their son's death, and he was the one that kept Pop-Pop's farm going to keep Pop's memory alive. In training, he watched out for everyone around him, and when it all went sideways he prioritized the child, then focused on saving others rather than protect his own life. Even his... even his suicide attempt, it was thwarted by a call coming in for an emergency... and then he got dumped here, in a game where everyone stands to lose everything."
She sat back, and dipped her head in ascent to the point, but didn't say anything. Instead, it would be Marila who had some things to say about it all as she came into the campfire area, "I cannot believe that he sold the farm! Do you have any idea what that sort of crop yield would be worth?!"
I snorted, laughing. Here was me and Hoda, trying to deal with the damage to Keith's soul, and Marila was pissed off at this financial acumen, "It's not that simple, hon."
Marila didn't sit down, instead trying to stand still, then breaking in pacing, "While I understand that he was in pain, that's no excuse for not getting value out of the transaction."
Now Hoda jumped in, "He did get value, just not wealth. He helped a family begin their lives together with a home and a farm to tend.... trauma response?"
The last question was to me, and I just nodded my affirmation as Marila paused to try standing still again, "Yes, yes, what he did was extraordinarily compassionate. He could have gotten proper financial value out of it and helped far more people, though. If I'd had a farm of that size on Vendrix, it would not have taken so long to bring everything together."
She was irate, and I couldn't help finding it hilarious, "I mean, don't get me wrong Marila, it's a solid farm but it was only a small farm on our world. I watched this one show back home about farming, and got curious about it, so I looked up what the average was, and it was over four hundred and fifty acres."
...And the aliens are just staring at me again. This is the whole workload thing all over again, isn't it? I hit the green button, and Annabelle came on screen, "Good evening, Val. You have a question for me, right?"
"More of a request, really. Could you bring up footage of some large farms for me? I can't really think of a way to explain this right now."
Annabelle nodded, and after a moment images came up on the screen demonstrating Earth farms in the US, footage they already had from past stories. Marila was completely entranced, "Wait, the big turning devices, those are irrigation devices?"
I looked on the screen, "Uh... yeah, though I believe they can also trade out for chemicals for the crops, either to take care of insects or to spray stuff that makes the crops grow better. That might not be the case. You'd have to ask Keith for more accurate information."
Marila clearly made the mental note to start pestering Keith with agricultural questions, but Annabelle had her own questions for me, "Now, Val, we've all been watching what's been happening that last couple of hours, and I'd like to ask about what has been going on? We know it has to do with the Trils and their bloom, but I'm noticing some definite other things going on, such as your interaction with Trayg. Can you speak on what's going over there?"
This fucking game, "Sure Annabelle... It sort of ties back to the Trils. So by now, I'm pretty sure that Keith's singing and engaging with higher emotions and maybe some other factors led to them going through a bloom. Like with any plant, blooming brings with it seeds and my guess is that it's how they reproduce on a grander scale. They wanted Keith to lean into more songs that engaged his emotions, and that involved going into Keith's history."
The woman on the screen nodded sympathetically, while I worked to keep my interview face up to not show how deeply agitated I was at having to go into this, but it would spare Keith and he needed the relief after his latest. He'd physically broken himself saving the Rothani against the cougar, and now his emotional state to aid the Trils. Annabelle was giving me a chance to spare asking him the questions she had to as she continued, "So the Trils, Prodigal and Hearth, used their telepathic abilities to help with this?"
I put a smile on my face, "Yeah, they did, and it gave us all a chance to see into those emotions. You've seen Keith. He's generally one of the most positive people you'll ever meet, but we've all known people who seem happy while hiding very real damage. We all just got to see the damage, and I'm not going into the particulars of that. It's Keith's to talk about, not mine."
"I absolutely understand, but how are you feeling right now?"
I sort of just shook my head slowly, "So tired. It's all just kind of a mass of things the last few days, on top of the regular stresses of survival, the game, all of it. I'm sure I'll have it more together than this later one, but for right now, that's the best I can do."
Annabelle thanked me for the time, set up another interview for later, and cut off. I sat staring at my broth, unsure of how to proceed.
Hoda was ready to speak, "That is not important to us now. Keith needs to do nothing."
My face screwed up a bit at the sudden shift, "Nothing? How does that help him?"
"Because he has not done it, and he needs to," she spoke simply as always, slowly breathing out the smoke from her pipe as she did so, then continued, "You said it, that his trauma response is helping others. He wore a sling to stop him from using his injured arm while it healed. We have to cut off his response so his spirit can heal. He cannot be allowed to help anyone. We must help him."
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The East's number one haunted house in Asia True scary stories This haunted house was once the setting for the famous Chinese movie "House No. 81 of the Capital" Referring to famous haunted places in China, it is impossible not to mention house number 81, Trieu Noi Street, Beijing City. This place is known as "The East's number one haunted house" - one of the four houses with the heaviest weapons in Asia, carrying many haunting rumors that make everyone curious and scared every day. when heard. Used to be an ordinary house Accordingly, Trieu Noi Church is the most famous haunted house located in Chaoyang Mon area, Dong Thanh district, Beijing city. House No. 81 Trieu Noi was originally built by the British with permission from the Qing Emperor in 1910. Specifically, this was originally the Chinese Bac Hiep Language School built by American missionaries. Language practice and rest center. Built in the same year as this house, there is also the provincial Vuong Phu church. However, the construction process of this project was slower than the Provincial Palace. Later, due to war and riots, the missionaries decided to stop providing financial support in 1930. After that, this place was changed. The name became the California Academy, where many diplomats, scholars, merchants and other talented people were trained. One of them, American Chinese affairs expert Fairbank, studied languages ​​at this school in 1932. When the modern Chinese state was established, this work was approved by several government departments. Chinese government requisitioned. In the 1980s, it was the office of a unit under the Office of the Beijing City Department of Internal Affairs. During the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s, it was briefly occupied by the Red Guards. The fact that they withdrew from the house so quickly made the rumors about haunting even more valid. In the 90s of the 20th century, the Chinese Government assigned ownership of house No. 81 to the Catholic Church of Beijing City, land ownership certificate No. 00044, including 188 rooms on a total area of ​​2925.7 square meters. It is a brick house built in the French Baroque architectural style. By March 2016, the house was restored and opened for rent in 2017. According to estimates, the building's rental price is about 10 million yuan per year. However, there are also legends that this is an infirmary, a church built by the Dutch, or some say it is a maternity home for British wives, a home for warlords. Among the countless rumors, there are 3 stories that people have spread from year to year and can't help but panic when thinking about them. Accordingly, the first story is about the death of a woman believed to be the wife or lover of an officer in the Nationalist army, when this person fled to Taiwan, leaving her behind. Desperate, she hanged herself. Some people believe that the girl died not because of the outcome of the war but because her lover left her alone in this house. After her death, strange phenomena often appeared in house number 81. Every night when a storm comes or on full moon days, people around will hear very pitiful cries, and even the sound of bottles being thrown and broken. However, the Archdiocese denied the above rumors. They said there was no record that a Nationalist officer lived at the house. Locals told each other they heard screaming in the house. The cause could be caused by a thunderstorm, or by someone sneaking in there at night and making such sounds. The second story is about the construction workers in this building who often go missing. The incident became more widely rumored after the disappearance of three construction workers in 2001. At that time, this house was abandoned and the government had people rebuild it. One summer night, when some workers at the construction site drank too much and went to the apartment basement to find a place to go to the bathroom, they suddenly saw a secret place, sealed with bricks. Unable to hide their curiosity, they decided to go in to see what was inside and never came back out. But to be honest, in fact many of these unfounded rumors may have been spread by construction workers themselves. After they tell someone, the story will become more and more scary and horrifying. In the end, it became the shocking story we hear now. The third story involves another paranormal phenomenon associated with this scary house. Accordingly, anyone who walks through there will have a feeling of discomfort or fear in their heart. It is also said that in the summer, the entrance to this house is always colder than the modern house located only 20 meters away. Many people wanted to verify the above rumors and went to Beijing police to find out the truth. However, Dong Thanh Police DepaBecause of the above rumors and legends, this house cannot be sold or rented even though the real estate market in this area is always bustling.

3rd week of 1% testosterone gel, 5 mg a day. Been noticing an increase in my afternoon blood pressure. I am normally 125 and have been like 134 for the last 3 days. I am on a minimum dosage blood pressure medication so I check my BP twice a day…. Could it be that the testosterone could raise my blood pressure a bit? What are your thoughts ? Thanks…

Had a home inspection on a 1790-build multi-family home. One thing the inspector noticed right away is the main breaker in the basement was only 30 amps. There was a subpanel in the unit itself with 4 15-amp breakers but the inspector noted the wires connecting to the subpanel didn't match the ones observed at the main panel so hes not sure which breaker that's coming from. I checked the other units and they had varying mains ranging from 100A to 50A.
My main concern is constantly tripping the breakers; we had a 2-zone mini split AC and dishwasher running with all lights turned on and all was well but I'm wondering if adding my desktop computer will push it over the edge. If I wanted 100amp service, what am I looking at in terms of upgrades?
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My partner has been working for a charity organization as a kitchen worker since October 2023. In this position she follows a schedule, exclusively uses their equipment and reports to a supervisor. However she was forced to sign paperwork agreeing to her position as a contractor role in order to continue her position.
A complaint has been filed to employment standards at the end of April, however she was just dismissed without notice. I know that ES can take months to begin investigating and in the meantime she is ineligible for employment insurance benefits because of her miscategorized status.
I've further learned that this charity miscategorized many primarily indigenous and disabled people in a similar manner.
Should we submit a demand letter without prejudice demanding severance pay, vacation, stat and unpaid sick days? Is there anything else we can do to speed this along? If others are convinced to file with employment standards will it help speed up our case? Any advice is appreciated

20 year old male here I have severe health anxiety and OCD (take 100 mg of zoloft daily) recently over the past few months i've been taking my blood pressure ALOT I mean up to 20-30 times a day. Whenever I take it the lowest it will get is 121/68. Usually it sits between 134 and 124 over 72-85. I am so scared I have high blood pressure and am gonna die early. I obsess over it for hours looking different things up and I am never satisfied. Every place on the internet tells me im prehypertensive or have stage one hypertension. I eat pretty healthy but don't work out I just walk sometimes and do daily activities (I also just started working a 9-5). I am not overweight or anything I am 5'11 and 170 pounds. High blood pressure does run in my family but no one near this age has had it. I am just scared that since I am always anxious my blood pressure is even higher then what I take it when I am calm. This has caused me to believe that im going to die so young because i have terrible blood pressure and will have or already have heart disease. Any suggestions or thoughts? I am in a downward spiral and anything from another person and not the internet would really help me out.

As the title says, my grandmother passed mid April. It was always discussed that I would take her car (2006 Lexus, she was the original owner). Unfortunately, she never signed the title to legally sell it to me as she passed before we made it official. I do have the title, but she never signed it and we are passed the 30 day period DOT requires between the signing of it and getting the vehicle registered. She didn't mention the car in her will, and with the title still being her in name I believe that legally makes it a part of her estate. However no one in my family has power of attorney anymore so it's all up in the air. I am unsure where to go from here. We were going to meet to have her sign it and make it official but she passed a few days before this was supposed to happen. Any advice would appreciated, and if any more info is needed to help I'll gladly give it, thanks.

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• [UPDATE] Citicore Renewable Energy sets IPO price at 30% discount... Citicore Renewable Energy [CREC 2.70 pre-IPO] [link] advised the exchange that it has priced its IPO at ₱2.70/share, which is a 30% discount to the ₱3.88/share placeholder maximum price from its preliminary prospectus. This brings the maximum value of the IPO transaction to CREC’s shareholders down from ₱6.9 billion to ₱4.8 billion. The ~268 million shares in the overallotment option are secondary, so the proceeds of their sale will go to the selling shareholders and not to CREC.
  
  • MB: The initial maximum value of the IPO from the preliminary prospectus is not important; it’s basically just a placeholder that they use to build out the offer and loosely ballpark an enterprise valuation. The real number – the one that they go ahead with at the IPO – is always going to come as a result of the underwriters working the phones with institutional investors and potential anchor investors. They don’t just pick a nice number out of the air that they think will sell the shares and give investors some upside. This is a number that will clear the board and sell all the shares. Full steam ahead for the May 27 offer start.
• [NEWS] Globe now considering dual listing for GCash in 2025... Globe [GLO 2006.00 ▲0.8%; 111% avgVol] [link] CEO Ernest Cu said that the company might list GCash “sometime in 2025”. Mr. Cu also noted that while he prefers to conduct the IPO on the PSE, they are also considering the option of a dual listing to “take advantage of the liquidity in the US market.” GLO owns 35% of Mynt, the parent company of GCash, which was last valued at approximately US $2 billion in 2021. Other investors in Mynt include Ant Group (Alibaba), Warburg Pincus (American PE firm behind CNVRG IPO), Bow Wave Capital, and Ayala Corp [AC 625.00 ▲0.9%; 27% avgVol].
  
  • MB: According to reports, the Ant Group is likely to hold on to its shares through any IPO, but some of those other names (like Warburg Pincus and Bow Wave Capital) are of investors that will definitely need an IPO of some type to facilitate an exit. They’re not ride-or-die partners for GLO to help take GCash to higher and higher heights; they’re specifically designed to push huge sums of money into companies with promising IPO prospects, and then use an eventual IPO to sell out of the company entirely. So with that roster of investors, I fully expect that GLO and its co-investors will push to list GCash sooner rather than later. Until then, though, is anyone else getting tired of hearing GLO talk about it? They’re worse than MVP talking about hospitals and listing the hospitals unit.
• [UPDATE] US Federal Reserve meeting notes: “lack of further progress” on inflation... The US Federal Reserve (the Fed) [link] released the minutes of the meetings held by the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the body charged with making the decision on interest rates, and a reading of the minutes revealed concern by officials that “recent monthly data had showed significant increases in components of both goods and services price inflation”, and that “in recent months there had been a lack of further progress toward the Committee’s 2 percent objective.” The notes also revealed that “various” meeting participants were willing to raise rates further “should risks to inflation materialize in a way that such an action became appropriate.” Some participants “noted signs that the finances of low- and moderate-income households were increasingly coming under pressure”, which the FOMC considered to be a “downside risk to the outlook for consumption”. The FOMC noted the rise in the use of “credit cards and buy-now-pay-later services” and “increased delinquency rates for some types of consumer loans” as evidence of this trend.
  
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20 year old male here I have severe health anxiety and OCD (take 100 mg of zoloft daily) recently over the past few months i've been taking my blood pressure ALOT I mean up to 20-30 times a day. Whenever I take it the lowest it will get is 121/68. Usually it sits between 134 and 124 over 72-85. I am so scared I have high blood pressure and am gonna die early. I obsess over it for hours looking different things up and I am never satisfied. Every place on the internet tells me im prehypertensive or have stage one hypertension. I eat pretty healthy but don't work out I just walk sometimes and do daily activities (I also just started working a 9-5). I am not overweight or anything I am 5'11 and 170 pounds. High blood pressure does run in my family but no one near this age has had it. I am just scared that since I am always anxious my blood pressure is even higher then what I take it when I am calm. This has caused me to believe that im going to die so young because i have terrible blood pressure and will have or already have heart disease. Any suggestions or thoughts? I am in a downward spiral and anything from another person and not the internet would really help me out.

I hate when I have errands to run or things going on with friends where I can’t bring my daughter and have to rely on a family member to watch her. Nobody EVER puts her down for a nap when I’m not there. She’s 2, and it leads to an awful evening for me when she skips her nap. Everything is a tantrum and she’s near impossible to please. She’s always been this way and everytime someone watches her I tell her when she needs to nap and what to do. Nobody ever does it and they make excuses that she wasn’t tired or that they tried for 30 minutes and she wouldn’t go to sleep. That’s no excuse. Sometimes it takes me an hour to get her down for a nap, it’s not unusual behavior for her. My husband works late so I do dinner, bath and bedtime by myself and for most moms it’s already an exhausting time of the day where you are running on empty. Sometimes my mental health gets bad because I feel isolated because I don’t ever want to go anywhere by myself and deal with having an awful evening afterwards, it makes the alone time I got not even worth it.
Sorry for the rant. I’m just so frustrated and feel like nobody understands or cares. I’m tired.

I'll spend hours fighting in my mind between my desire to do something specific, usually play a game or do something with art, but I'll also be wanting to relax and not ready to move or actually make myself start. I'll build motivation and tell myself if I just start I'll be happier than sitting here waiting, I'll notice how much time I've already wasted, because I know when I don't start at all I go to bed mad at myself for it. I'll finally feel like I'm ready, and tell myself I'll start after I use the bathroom or get a drink since I'll usually have one of those needed... and then something comes up. Someone messages wanting my attention, the person I'm with starts talking about dinner, or my lap is suddenly used as a napping pillow, and suddenly I have to have my attention on that and I can't do what I'm wanting to either because I don't want to have to stop in 20 minutes, or there's no room and I can't move, or I'm just distracted enough to forget that was the plan. And I don't feel like I can just say no to the other person because I don't want to upset them. I was wanting to play some sims and had been trying to get myself to actually move to do it for like 2 hours, and right before I was going to get up and get on it when I came back, the guy I'm with wanted to nap, whatever, and suggested he use my lap, so now I can't use my laptop. And I feel like it's a dumb thing to tell anyone about because it feels like it would just be seen as my own fault, even I see it as my own fault, it just sucks because I know I'm fighting my own brain constantly and if I wasn't doing that maybe I wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
Does anyone else have that problem? I'm sure I've seen people here talk about having a hard time doing things they like some days, or the phenomenon of telling yourself you'll do something later and then never getting around to it, but I'm curious if anyone else has those times they finally do feel like they could do something that get messed up by something else stealing the attention with enough frequency to be noticeable or annoying at all. Also just ideas to get me past that point and onto doing the thing sooner would be appreciated, if anyone has any figured out, I really don't wanna waste my time off work doing nothing every day because I can't motivate myself to do things without a work schedule to follow 🙃😅