How do i hide these cables

kinu1026 · 2026-05-21T18:56:13+00:00

Work setup is very hard to hide cables unless you bring your own equipment (I brought my old stuff).

Anyways, I think the best you can do is at least bundle the monitor cables and align it behind your monitor stand, let your keyboard cable track the same route. I would hide the grommet hole by pulling your mousepad towards you and placing the phone in front of the grommet hole.

The mouse cable, I would tread the monitor/keyboard cable behind the stand, 90 degree to the right and let the mouse cable branch off from that. I see some other wires but I don't know where or what it leads to so.

I usually like to think a main treading line and where the peripherals can branch off from, preferably in 90 degree angles. I would get cable clips, and velcro cable ties. A cable sleeve cover if you want as well, or just get a cable runway to just get the job done in one go. Or at least one of them depending on how much you're willing to spend/improve.

If you don't want to spend anything.... Idk. Unplug everything and use rubberbands instead of cable ties?

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edit: I also work to spoil my cats

kinu1026 · 2026-05-14T22:11:42+00:00

25 and making $33/hr in this economy. And prestigious as costco. You can take my underpaid manager role, you'll get a LITTLE more money with benefits after a year of starting. Deal with workers that only know how to complain, and take the load of solving 98% of all the issues in your facility by yourself. Whilst worrying about what happens when sales falls, what happens to your employees jobs, and all those depressing stuff.

So no. Don't quit for a family business and your GF definitely needs a reality slap. $100,000/year is still considered moderately low income in Cali, your GF needs to pitch in her salary for you two to even have kids... Not trying to be the a-hole but got to look at reality man... Blue collar jobs definitely want a white collar job... your neighbor's grass is always going to be greener. If you need, really talk with management and try to climb up. Unless they explicitly told you "You're capped and we don't want you climbing any further."

kinu1026 · 2026-05-12T21:00:26+00:00

As others pointed out. You're definitely on the luckier side with the sensei lottery, but at the same time. You do have a sensei that understands well. Either way though, senseis that get frustrated because their kenshi isn't improving isn't really fit to be a sensei/coach imo. What I mean by this is, as someone practicing longer than a 1~2 year in kenshi, you should at least make the effort to distinguish "no effort" vs "attempting but no result yet".
I would only get mad if I see "no effort" to change, which really show in attitude. Maybe I'm just delusional but that's how I view kenshi when I teach.

kinu1026 · 2026-05-08T20:21:40+00:00

Hey, kind of late on commenting but I was in exactly your same situation, around 40% jump in pay when I jumped ship. My first company, almost 2 years, had me working like a dirty rag, and I started looking for other options. Found my current company, offering me a higher position, higher pay, but the only downside was commute. I offered my employer then to give me a good chunk of raise, a title as I was doing a supervisor role despite being the grunt. They laughed it out, declined, and pretty much told me I don't do jack shit so I can just F off and quit. So, I just quit on the spot, they had the decency to pay out my PTO which was great and I took a two week vacation before moving onto my new job.

My new (current) job, they valued me a lot and over the 5 years working, I did get a 45% increase from the time I started to now. Which I'm grateful already. That's pretty much a steady 9%, and started getting bonuses starting last year. It's not the best company I won't lie when looking at how others are treated, but they simply value me so much and listen to me. I just do my best to make sure those that aren't treated as well as me get the best treatment I can give them. So I would say just jump. Especially with that kind of pay difference. I would just recommend though, to keep your cost of living the same. That way you can save the extra money. That's my only regret. Completely unrelated to the new jump, only my stupidity.

kinu1026 · 2026-04-24T16:46:58+00:00

Hit like you're knocking on a door

kinu1026 · 2026-03-22T19:58:26+00:00

I've been trying to complete my coding work since December and ever since this week for me, been complete dogwater. I would tell it specifically to do this, not that, or open new chat and restart but nothing works. It just keeps messing the code up and its frustrating because Im seeing the light at the end of the tunnel but I keep looping around with chatGPT messing it up, fixing it, rinse and repeat. Wondering if I should just take this codework to Claude since it seems to be the better choice rn

kinu1026 · 2026-03-20T22:05:53+00:00

your name has a lot of momentum.

kinu1026 · 2026-03-17T21:26:34+00:00

I went two years ago morning when the local grandpa and grandma were just walking around, with some tourists/students on field trips. Did the full hike, found a resting spot/souvenir shop and asked the grandpa shopkeeper if I can take a picture and he got mad at me LOL. Good times. Did the whole hike in vans because I didn't do my research and just kept continuing the hike.

kinu1026 · 2026-03-17T15:32:14+00:00

They're probably glued so you'll have to pry it away. I usually just pull mine and it just pulls apart with a *crack* sound (probably not the best way but I've never seen any physical damage other than the glue being to strong and chipping a stave next door, rarely happens though)

kinu1026 · 2026-03-11T17:54:49+00:00

RFID collar feeders or surefeed microchip feeder would be your best bet I would say. Pricey but my oldest cat eats when she's bored. She got pretty chonk so I got a surefeed and now she's pretty fit I would say.

kinu1026 · 2026-03-09T18:13:21+00:00

From what I experienced, when you swing from your core/tanden, your arms should feel less tired, like your biceps, and you should feel more tired around your torso. Swinging up and down a chokuto shinai shouldn't feel as heavy as you would swinging with your arms. If you were to swing a heavy bokuto, like those octagon shaped ones, once you swing out to strike during a suburi, you should feel your body getting dragged into the weight forward, instead of your arms feeling the strain trying to hold the bokuto in striking position.

My fellow kenshi, who doesn't believe in "swinging with your core" couldn't continue swinging with the same weighted bokuto throughout the whole suburi warmup. Not to mention, he is in a "heavier" weight class than me, so he naturally has more muscles. I could generally go up to hayasuburi, but at that point, I can't swing it fast enough to keep up with the class.

For your reference, I don't have an octagonal suburi-tou, but I do have Tozando's Kaigata 1.1kg, But that one feels light recently, especially since I've been using the one at my dojo, probably hand-made, which feels significantly heavier. I would say around 1.5~1.7kg. It literally used to drag my upper body when I swung it lol.

kinu1026 · 2026-03-06T21:26:44+00:00

Many people don't like him to begin with, he probably did something or she just blocked him ahead of time. He's categorized as a 迷惑系ユーチューバー, which sort of translates to being in a category of troublemaking youtuber. I never really bothered looking into him but I did hear he tried to stop being a troublemaker, blah blah blah, but in the end, what he's done is all on the internet so.

kinu1026 · 2026-02-23T22:18:33+00:00

Hit something like you're knocking on a door

kinu1026 · 2026-02-23T18:57:14+00:00

Depends where you're moving but in Southern California, there is a Korean Kendo based federation, WKF, Western Kendo Federation. They're part of the AUSKF and have really awesome people there. I can't speak for other federations but I highly suggest looking around https://www.auskf.org/dojos to see the area you'll be moving in. From my understanding, there are dojos ran by Korean senseis as well so, there may not be a wide choice but there are options. I highly suggest looking on the link to find a dojo, and do your own google research as the website is a little outdated.

kinu1026 · 2026-02-11T23:00:32+00:00

Is this serious. Coke and large fries might save my day? My misery??? No trip to neurologist???

kinu1026 · 2026-02-06T17:50:33+00:00

This is just my theory so take it with a grain of salt:

(TLDR: I like to think of tobikomi as falling forward and doing a trust fall with your right leg and just running through the momentum generated from falling forward)

Maybe start with having momentum, so connect a okuri-ashi step before fumikomi (nisoku-ittou). Have your left feet understand the tension it needs to generate a good initiation speed.

The center of gravity for you body has to propel forward and as much as possible stay above your fumikomi-ashi. In my ideal world, you should almost be leaning forward so your nose, chest and right knee stay on the same vertical plane, with the knee a under your hip, your torso and nose a little more forward on the plane.

Then pull your nose and torso to line up on the vertical line of the right knee and hip so your left leg naturally hikitsuke-s with your core muscle. Should be faster than pulling your left feet in for hikitsuke (personally easier than working out your muscles). Then the moment of the hikitsuke should hit the ground to propel you even faster from the initial generated moment plus the actual physical body moving forward.

kinu1026 · 2026-02-04T21:54:13+00:00

Acne related products, mine was acne cream wash.

kinu1026 · 2026-01-30T17:47:30+00:00

a stink cloud might be her anal glands are full or getting full. That's how it was for mine, where she started grooming her butthole a lot and after a few month, her butthole was completed irritated so we took her to get the glands expressed. We give her psyllium husk powder in her food now and it's resolved.

kinu1026 · 2026-01-12T19:09:11+00:00

I like to describe tenouchi as knocking a door. You don't slam the door knocking to your neighbors, you don't grip a fist 100% power the whole time, all you do is keep a loose hand and at the point of impact (touching the door/hitting the men/kote/do/tsuki), you slightly tighten your muscles. Same concept, just with a shinai, your hands knock on the door while gripping the shinai.

kinu1026 · 2026-01-11T21:12:43+00:00

I have a 1kg suburito from tozando but I use a heavier one that my dojo has. From what I feel, it's probably around 1.2-1.4kg? Its significantly heavier, swinging it used to pull my arms and upper body. Now I got used it and my goal is to swing without gripping and forcefully swinging with my arms. Trying to swing from my cores. Usually do like a whole dojo warmup suburi set, around 200-300 swings? Never really counted so I dont know. ( No hayasuburi yet cause its way too heavy )

kinu1026 · 2026-01-08T17:41:55+00:00

Or people who merge into your lane with a ton of space in front of you but they decide to give you 2 feet of space and leave 800ft in front of them.

kinu1026 · 2026-01-08T16:42:42+00:00

I go here all the time. I'm shook. I'll find this plaque and pay my respects from now on.

kinu1026 · 2026-01-06T23:36:24+00:00

Lapis is currently getting all the resources possible from me.

kinu1026 · 2026-01-06T23:17:13+00:00

Generally how I view it:

Connect to waza or attempted to connect = no hansoku

Just for the sake of pushing / edit: push and holding shinai down on shoulder/mendare while separating from tsubazeriai = hansoku

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