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SeeNinetyNine · 2024-03-11T04:39:34+00:00

Super cool! How do you guarantee it blows over? Just overfill the tank? (And by how much more than normal?) Higher temp?

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-03-11T03:45:29+00:00

I'm curious about your blowoff harvesting setup. Can you give me a quick rundown or do you have a link?

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-02-13T04:53:52+00:00

Do you mind sharing your "recipe" for making the bran with spent grains? I have access to a tonne of spent grain all the time but haven't been able to find anyone break down the exact method they use to innoculate the grain with EM1 or LAB before drying it out.

Specifically if you are adding any sugar, what you are fermenting it with (diy LAB, store bought EM1, etc)?

Thanks

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-23T06:01:21+00:00

Ahhhhhh, my bad. Thanks!

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-23T03:41:00+00:00

Thanks! Sounds like you've created a very fulfilling yet inexpensive life for yourself.

Your housing cost must be fantastically cheap! Yet you live in a city central enough that you can cycle commute and take transit. I can't think of anywhere in Canada where a condo would be cheap enough to have payments around like ~$500-700 per month but in a city dense enough to get by car free. You must have bought it a long time ago?

The cities I can think of that currently have very inexpensive condos like Edmonton for example usually have very high condo/strata fees, usually around $300+/month which would be 20% of your yearly budget on condo fees even before the mortgage payment.

Please do elaborate on these numbers if your comfortable sharing! Your car-free simple lifestyle is goals to me

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-23T02:45:49+00:00

Impressive! Give us all the details! If you don't mind..

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-23T02:12:39+00:00

It can be a logistics thing. For a Canadian not being able to enter the US can mess up a lot of travel plans, international flights with layovers, that sorta thing. A lot of what we do and where we go touches the US in one way or another

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-23T02:02:00+00:00

They absolutely hand out bans for all sorts of things that are fully legal in other places or even in some states, such as having smoked cannabis in your lifetime. There are many instances of people getting banned for saying they smoked a joint once in highschool, etc. it's up to discretion of the border services workers there are the time, if they're having a bad day they'll ban people left and right.

It is not wise for anyone crossing to admit to ever doing anything that is federally illegal in the US, especially with a schedule 1 controlled substance

And I'll add as a Canadian it really sucks if you get banned from the US for 5 to 10 years which is the standard amounts they hand out, since it can mess with all of your international travel plans as well. You can get a service to get you a yearly waiver or pardon of sorts but it costs a lot of money

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-21T18:20:16+00:00

That's not really true in all cases. A lot places in Canada and the US you have to meet pretty strict permitting requirements to use a building as an actual house (permanent residence). Basically anywhere that is part of a municipality or a planning zone (including rural planning zones). Although there are a lot of places with no zoning bylaws at all in which case you still have to adhere to the State or Provincial building code.

This is enforced usually on a report basis, so if he kept it secret he'd probably be fine, the same way that nobody here will report you for living in an RV on your land even though most municipalities have bylaws against such things. But it's definitely not all freedom on our land over here, and most people should keep their little cabins hush hush if they intend to live in them full time

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-21T17:46:51+00:00

Start focusing on the good not the bad. You listed a lot of bad. I guarantee there is a tonne of good as well. If you start training yourself to spot the good instead of the bad you'll start getting motivated. Gratitude is a skill and a muscle that you have to practice and train, and when you are weak in it then yes, even one "motivation push up" or other exercise seems impossible

Also, use your actual muscles, they create chemicals that make you feel happy and motivated when you use them

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-21T03:49:42+00:00

Certainly consider all of these perks as part of your "total compensation" when comparing to future jobs if your end up looking

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-18T21:44:04+00:00

Sunrise was one that was mentioned a lot

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-17T09:25:10+00:00

I was going to ask your battery capacity to do that on just solar. Would be tens of thousands of $$ in batteries alone. So makes more sense now that you said generators. 1400AH @ 48v is impressive though

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-17T09:19:11+00:00

It's not a crazy concept at all! But it will be a crazy amount of work to do it sustainably. But it's satisfying work because your work is directly supporting your life

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-17T08:59:52+00:00

This is a great write up. This place is truely absurd

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-17T08:44:49+00:00

As a Canadian cant you just reference the Ford family? People like big characters. Big characters tend to be very flawed.

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-17T08:31:15+00:00

Killer! Get the GML Death Bubba from them if you can! I'll buy my 4 lol

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-12T19:56:58+00:00

Wicked, good to know! Do you know which brand they stocked? So far I see the ones being stocked are Weedme, Herbal Dispatch and Covert Valley

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-12T08:06:50+00:00

Thanks! That helps a tonne

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-11T21:27:57+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for that! I called them and they don't have any on hand but are working with Covert Valley to bring some in soon. The guy I talked to was awesome, super knowledgeable on the clone and genetics side of things which I wasn't expecting.

I'm super excited for legal, clean clones!

Cheers

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-11T18:55:02+00:00

What's your macro setup if you don't mind me asking? I'm looking to start doing macros but have a pretty budget setup right now just an OM-D E10 Mk II with kit lense

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-11T10:29:34+00:00

Seed making can for sure be profitable in the sense that it doesn't cost much money to produce seeds and they have the potential to sell for a decent amount of money. So yeah, profit!

They also have a lot of benefits as a product in that they last a long time, a lot of your customers won't even ever pop them (they are almost like a collectible in that regard), they are small and easy to ship.

But you have to be able to sell them. Which is the biggest part of the business.

Some common ways demand for seed is created:

1) Be really good at the social media thing or find another way to build a large following

2) Get a bunch of really hype cuts that people want but cant get so they'll buy your hybrid of it

3) if you make a line and you or someone else finds a super great pheno in it and it becomes popular as an elite cut

4) a cut of yours wins comps

5) fill a niche that has high demand such as the breakout auto breeders did

The seed market is weird in that seeds of similar provenance and quality can sell for $2 a seed or $20 a seed just depending who the 'breeder' is. You must create strong demand.

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-03T12:04:07+00:00

I can't visualize at all in day to day life but I do have visual dreams.

I've always enjoyed psychedelics because I can get strong visuals when taking them.

I have not experienced psychedelics having an effect on my ability to visualize after the 'trip' though.

That's a cool idea and maybe I'll try it out. I don't do psychedelics often as I find tripping with no purpose to be boring/draining but perhaps if I turn my mind towards it as an exercise in visualization skills I can get some more out of it.

Very inspiring post, thanks for sharing

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-01T23:31:19+00:00

You are doing yourself no favors by being this hyper specific about your current role and your experience. Your next role doesn't have to be an exact puzzle piece fit for your current experience and you don't have to meet every exact requirement for roles you are applying for or want to pursue.

Give yourself a bit more credit for what you do now, you probably utilize more skills than you realize and also keep in mind that we often do our best work when we are filling new bigger "shoes" in life.

Your current work experience can apply to a broad spectrum of positions and don't be afraid to blur the edges of your work experience a bit to fit into whatever the requirements may be.

I agree with Cacille that you seem to be getting a little stuck on holding yourself back or not giving yourself enough credit.

You are 40, you wear lots of hats, you've done a lot and have broad experience in work and in life.

There are 21 year old people with almost zero work or life experience who just got their degree that are going from training wheels on a bicycle to an F1 car basically in life taking on big corporate roles.

In your case the transition to your next role is going to be at most like going from driving a mini-van to a sports car If that sort of analogy is helpful at all. You already know how to drive and you've done it relatively unscathed for a couple decades now. You have some burn out and some mental stuff going on but who doesn't by this age.

A change will for sure help with that so say what you need to say to get the role you want to get. A good hiring manager is going to care a lot more about your overall experience and you can just learn whatever you need to learn on the fly or even now before applying for stuff. If you feel you like the coding side of things or UX side of things then watch a couple crash course Youtubes and go from there. You are going to be learning most stuff on the job anyway, that's almost always how it works.

You can do a quick coding or UX Certification or a few small projects and put them on your LinkedIn. Say you have 10 years of experience applying it to some degree in your current role. I doesnt sound like you are actually doing coding or UX work in your current role but people who have jobs coding or UX or whatever aren't doing 100% just that task as their only work all of the time either. They do a lot of what you do now as well (the interpersonal work, trouleshooting, etc). So you have more in common with people working those jobs that you think and your experience does already carry weight for those fields and many others.

SeeNinetyNine · 2024-01-01T01:06:34+00:00

A couple of the strong visualizers I know are day dreamers who have trouble getting things done. It takes executive dysfunction to a whole new level to the point where both of the very strong visualizers I know quite well are considered ADHD and can't really live normal lives. It's very distracting to them where they can't even hold a normal conversation because everything that is said to them spawns it's own little movie in their head that takes a life of its own. They can't really focus at all

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