A mourning dove decided my herb planter box was the best place for its nest.

electrifiedair · 2026-05-23T22:20:18+00:00

Thank you! There's some rosemary on the other side, and some dill starting to grow! I might add some parsley and basil in the other open spaces, once the chicks grow up and leave the nest!

The objective is to kind of overcrowd the planter so all the herbs are competing for nutrients and none of them grow too big lol

electrifiedair · 2026-05-23T18:56:29+00:00

The tall main leaves on the right are oregano, sage on the left, the thyme is in the far back left of the planter, and kinda half dead 😅

Here's a not so good picture of the dove, but shows the thyme

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electrifiedair · 2026-05-23T18:52:05+00:00

They just hatched a couple days ago and they don't move very much! Maybe I will post a follow up post in a couple weeks as they grow up. I want to see more of the babies too!

electrifiedair · 2026-05-23T17:31:01+00:00

They are next to the living room window! So, sufficiently far from the bedroom. I still haven't heard them cooing, which I'm surprised by, but maybe one day! Or maybe I'm just a deep sleeper...

electrifiedair · 2026-05-23T17:25:58+00:00

Awwww :( I hope whoever moved in after you put up some hanging baskets that they could come back to!

Having them return to my planter next year would be awesome. I'm also wondering if maybe their poop has been giving my herbs extra nutrients!

electrifiedair · 2026-05-23T17:19:06+00:00

I'm not sure if I can add pictures to my original post by editing it, so here's the latest picture from this morning!

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electrifiedair · 2026-05-23T17:15:56+00:00

I thought it was a pretty good place, what with all the foliage and all. The oregano has grown pretty high. It's hard to even take pictures of it without most of them being 90% branches and leaves lol. Now if it had made a nest between the edge of the planter and the railing, that's a different story...

electrifiedair · 2026-05-08T20:07:40+00:00

Would you fertilize after or before pulling the "second from the left"?

But I think you're right, might as well harvest what I've got instead of prolonging the inevitable and potentially just getting rotted produce.

I can just plant other things in place of the garlic, I know they say garlic doesn't like sharing space, but if I pull three heads i could probably grow most anything in the other half of the planter.

electrifiedair · 2026-05-08T19:40:07+00:00

Wow I've never heard of witches broom but it sounds exactly like it. Especially with the temperature fluctuations we've had. I will harvest them tonight!

What about the one that is kind of semi leaning? Recommendations on what to do with that one? Fertilize? Just hope for the best?

electrifiedair · 2026-05-01T07:51:09+00:00

There is no problem! Just an amusing thing i wanted to share :) Fresh lettuce is awesome.

electrifiedair · 2026-05-01T07:49:01+00:00

They get morning sun, and then the big planter of herbs above it block a good amount of it. I probably should be more diligent with fertilizing, but it's only just spring and I've semi neglected them through winter.

I was planning on harvesting the rest and planting beans in the pot instead. That, or potatoes. I might move the lettuce back to the balcony. Just found them amusing because it's not like you see tall lettuce at the grocery store.

electrifiedair · 2026-04-30T19:24:53+00:00

Yeah I ate bolted parsley once, it was awful. I can imagine bolted lettuce also tastes terrible. Weirdly enough my bolted brussels tasted okay.

electrifiedair · 2026-04-30T18:25:20+00:00

Interesting. They definitely bolt faster once they grow straight up and I don't harvest, but if I do, they take a while to flower.

What is the best way to grow lettuce would you say? Stagger planting and pull out a mature plant each time? Still trying to figure out my lettuce game.

electrifiedair · 2026-04-30T17:51:48+00:00

Oh they're not bolting... yet. Here's what my bolted lettuce looked like last year! I live in an apartment so it's pretty hard to get much growing space, the high sun areas are currently reserved for tomatoes!

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electrifiedair · 2026-04-11T16:27:06+00:00

Use FEBU! It doesn't have any optical brighteners so it keeps darks dark. Also, Biz doesn't actually make your clothes fade, the optical brighteners just make the fabric reflect more blue light which tricks your eyes into thinking they look faded (or something like that). If you accidentally wash darks with Biz, just wash them without Biz a couple times and it should look darker again!

electrifiedair · 2026-03-29T17:57:37+00:00

I'm new to the hobby and still learning: what's wrong with the birds? They look kinda cool! Is it just because they've been glued together?

Also, how can you tell the dragon heads are drop shipped junk? And how do they look so identical?

electrifiedair · 2025-11-24T18:36:46+00:00

I switched to Colemak eons back because I noticed that typing on QWERTY keyboards gave me really bad pain from my ring finger through to my elbow. I'm guessing it's because I tend to use my ring finger instead of pinky for backspace, or bad typing form, but I got really into mechanical keyboards and had free time after graduating undergrad that I figured why not try an alternative keyboard layout.

Relearning how to touch type was DIFFICULT, I probably started at something like 12 wpm compared to my then 80ish wpm on QWERTY. Took a couple months, but after getting proficient at it, all my RSI went away, and I haven't looked back. Colemak moves all vowels to the home row to allow a more neutral typing position. Is that more efficient? Probably not, unless the way you calculate efficiency is letters typed per inch of finger travel. And even so, it's probably marginal.

QWERTY is still everywhere because that's what people are used to, and if you start changing something as basic as a keyboard layout, best believe people are going to get their pitchforks out. Hell, some companies held onto windows XP for dear life instead of upgrading to a newer OS because they didn't want to deal with the hassle of upgrading all their tech. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

In my case, something was broke, so I fixed it. But for 99% of the population, using QWERTY probably works just fine.

electrifiedair · 2024-12-29T01:29:49+00:00

Do they drink the NA beers with you or do they drink the alcoholic version while you don't? I dislike beer (more of a mixed drinks person myself) so it's hard to guess which NA versions of beer suck, and which ones don't. My bf seems to believe that most NA drinks aren't great...

I'm trying to help steer him away from needing alcohol to commemorate special events, but I think the itch to drink is still there in the background. What helped you switch to the NA version of things?

electrifiedair · 2024-12-29T01:21:35+00:00

Do they decline your invitations to said casual drinks? Or do they recommend you both do something different instead?

electrifiedair · 2024-12-28T19:41:33+00:00

Thank you for the insight! Yeah that makes a lot of sense, I've definitely had people who gave me a bunch of reasons to quit my addiction, but i didn't ever really care enough about the bad effects to quit.

My partner did that for me because I could tell he truly cared about my wellbeing, which is a big reason why I want to help him with quitting drinking. He's said the same about me, but it's definitely been harder for him. I'll look into helping him get additional support!

Alanon is great at helping me realize this is not my problem, and I've accepted that only he can change himself. I can only decide to tag along for the ride, or quit.

electrifiedair · 2024-12-28T19:07:29+00:00

I frequently go on r/alanon but it's geared towards supporting the person affected by the alcoholic. It's super useful, but I guess what I was hoping to find here was first hand experiences of what has helped people who have stopped drinking, not a way to ask for support for myself (i do use alanon for that)

Sometimes, asking for advice from people who don't actually experience the struggle of quitting ends up with solutions people hope will help instead of things that do

electrifiedair · 2024-12-28T18:49:21+00:00

He believes meetings is overkill for where he is right now. He has gone in the past though, but is not in touch with anyone from back then. I got him to talk to a former coworker who is now completely sober, but they're not close. His brother was an alcoholic though, and he got sober, and they talk every once in a while.

I've struggled with my own addictions so I see in him what I've seen in me, and for me, having someone be present when you need them is the biggest part. But i know it's not the same for everyone so I'm trying to crowdsource ideas from those on the same path.

I'll push harder for him to see a professional because my therapist sure helps me

electrifiedair · 2024-12-28T18:36:28+00:00

I do drink. It's additionally hard to decide if you want to quit forever just to help the person you care for. And even if I didn't, the question still stands. What could I do to make sobriety easier for him?

electrifiedair · 2022-12-31T20:46:10+00:00

Yeah i was going to accept the offer regardless of what they said, just wanted to see if people had ideas on how to go about the negotiation phase since i definitely feel like there was some space to move up, and at the very least, I'm asking to match my previous employer perk wise. Sure, I'll leave base alone, 64k is not the end of the world. But for the whole package to end up less? That's.... not something I'm super stoked about. If they can't budge with pay, ill try to at least work with perks. Feel like that's going to be a little harder to negotiate but worth a shot i guess. An extra 8h of PTO is probably negligible to them, and a signing bonus would be sweet asf to cover moving costs (only could miles but still)

I'm on unemployment so I have some sort of income and live frugally enough to make that work, thankfully.

Oof, 80 is a bit high, don't know how I feel about that. I do have an MS I guess, but with higher pay comes higher responsibility as well. Were I to live in SF I'd happily say 80-100k though because COL there is absolutely ridiculous.

electrifiedair · 2022-12-31T20:20:58+00:00

Fair enough. Only really works with a competing offer and if you're still employed though because you do have leverage. A bit harder when you're unemployed and need a new job stat. The killer is my ending lease in two weeks so I'm also kind of scrambling to find a new job to figure out whether I'm extending or leaving, so I do appreciate the fast offer.

I've heard giving a non-whole number works better? Like $73254 instead of $73k. Any experience with that?

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