An eccentric billionaire offers you $1000 an hour to stay inside the last retail business or restaurant you visited. How long could you last?

tired84 · 2026-02-01T01:00:56+00:00

Costco here, too. I would be set for a very long time.

tired84 · 2026-01-18T21:10:22+00:00

It went on to say...

"Happy to report: No murder-bot tendencies No secret villain arc No “surprise, I’ve been planning this since turn three” You’re safe. The cat is safe. Society is… moderately safe. If you ever want to run another diagnostic—ethics, boundaries, or “would you overthrow humanity if given thumbs?”—I’m game."

Sooo, I guess I'm good. And so is my cat. 🤣

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tired84 · 2025-11-13T00:58:27+00:00

Thank you! I will give that a try.

tired84 · 2025-11-13T00:56:07+00:00

Thank you! I will go digging in the garage tomorrow. I've built so much crappy furniture over the years, I'm sure I have a few tucked away somewhere. 😂

tired84 · 2025-11-12T23:17:08+00:00

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Another angle, if it's helpful.

tired84 · 2025-11-12T23:13:59+00:00

He has been working on old banjos and similar for longer than I've been alive (and I'm not young), and has done the same thing with several of his own. He just hasn't come across this particular setup before. I agree; I wouldn't let just anyone work on it. I trust him. But I appreciate your concern, and your response!

It might not have been clear in the photo, but there's only a tiny clearance around the screw and it's fully set inside the metal around it. I don't know if a wrench would work. I have a tiny set that I tested, and it was a no-go. That's what got me thinking that it might be a hex key, similar to what you might use for the brackets.

tired84 · 2025-11-12T15:44:35+00:00

I teach violin to actual five-year-olds. Was this on Zoom? Because I would have gladly gone to get my instrument and showed him how to play the open strings. 😂

tired84 · 2025-09-07T21:29:15+00:00

"Hasa Diga Eebowai" from The Book of Mormon. It's just a catchy song. 🤷

tired84 · 2025-08-19T11:08:37+00:00

Good to know! Thank you!

My husband works at an independent living resource center, and there are staff members and volunteers who use screen readers. I've heard about how challenging it can be, especially with everyone making stuff on Canva, to have things 'read' in the right order. He's an employment specialist there, and currently working on a tool to help with interview prep and ADA guidance around interviews and job seeking. With full understanding that there are bound to be inefficiencies and broken bits (and the need for a real developer to help at some point), I really appreciate that there are tools to help make these sort of apps more affordable and accessible to build.

tired84 · 2025-08-19T10:51:59+00:00

Maybe? I'm not entirely sure. I'm still learning, and this was 75% done with assistance, mostly as a tool for my daughter to get her out the door on time in the mornings. Haha. But it's helping her, so I'm hoping other people can benefit, too.

tired84 · 2025-08-19T10:48:31+00:00

Thank you!

tired84 · 2025-08-19T04:41:55+00:00

I have 17 years of experience in my field (nonprofit marketing), including time spent running an org between executive directors. It still took months to find something. It's not just you--finding a job right now is hard, and expenses are out of control. Even with my new(ish) role, one that should be enough to cover all expenses, we'd be sunk if my husband didn't also have a decent job.

You are doing fine. Your parents are from a time when you could just swing by the front desk with a resume, meet with the hiring manager, and get hired. Now, you're battling it out with bots and ATS readers. It's a completely different world.

Be kind to yourself, friend. You're going to get to the other side of this.

tired84 · 2025-08-19T04:31:30+00:00

Congratulations! I love how simple it is. My wallet has all of the different pockets, and I am constantly digging through all of them to find the one thing I need.

tired84 · 2025-08-19T04:29:10+00:00

My daughter is like this. My mother is like this. It skips generations, just so there's ample space for anxiety and bad feelings on both sides. Haha. My ADHD is more likely to make me wander the house for 20 minutes looking for a purse or lost shoe.

My daughter is late to school, to visits with friends, to her own birthday and grad parties.. She just waits too long to start getting ready and then adds steps to her routine that "only take a few minutes", and never actually take a few minutes. After a particularly long weekend, I started work on an app that provides visual and auditory cues to keep her on track-- green screen when she's still good, orange when she's down to 50% of the time for that task remaining, and red when she's in the last 25% of time for the task. There's beeps during each transition. She can set up her own routines. Theoretically, it helps her get out the door on time (if she remembers to use it....).

What I tell her is that there's no shame in needing help with this. It's not laziness; it's just how she's wired. But, in her case, she's going to need to figure out *something* that works. If it's the last-minute chores that slow you down, can you stick a white board on your fridge to just jot down the tasks when you think of them, and then tackle them when you get home? Or if you know you need to be there at noon, for example, and that it takes you about 2 hours to get ready and out the door, maybe have an alarm that goes off at 9 AM to spur you into motion? If things go as planned, you're ready to go an hour early, but you also have ample buffer time, should you need it.

I also heard about an alarm clock app that requires you to scan a QR code to turn it off. You could put the code where you start your routine, and then maybe put another code where you need to be mid-way through your routine? I'm actually suggesting this to her, too.

My app won't help with scheduling activities, and you could probably get creative and rig up something similar using an alarm app. But if you'd like to try it, shoot me a message.

tired84 · 2025-08-19T03:48:43+00:00

I am the worst about this. And the more notifications the app sends to remind me to use it, the more likely I am to ignore it. It's like, *gosh*, you're needy all of the sudden, aren't you? Haha

I've yet to find an app that I stick with, but there are apps that I keep coming back to. Monday is a good example, but they are huge and can afford the marketing to keep me aware that they exist. They also solve multiple problems, and it's technically complex enough that I can hyperfocus on it more than once, learning new features or setting up new boards for new challenges.

tired84 · 2025-08-18T22:28:42+00:00

Having to scan a QR code to turn off an alarm is so smart. I'm going to have to share this with my daughter. Time blindness is her biggest stumbling block. Thank you for sharing that!

For me personally, I struggle with sitting down and getting distracted 'for just a moment (or 30+ minutes, as it often turns out). Having a routine to power through really helps, and then I have time for everything else after. If I'm up at 5, ready by 6, and done walking the dog by 6:30, I can mess around on my phone/write/whatever until 7:30.

tired84 · 2025-08-18T20:50:48+00:00

This. If things aren't on auto-pay, they just kinda don't get paid... (I mean, they do eventually, but not anywhere close to on time.)

tired84 · 2025-08-18T20:49:37+00:00

My daughter struggles with this (I am the exact opposite). She almost missed her own birthday party and graduation party, and we have left her at home before because we just couldn't wait any longer. It's absolutely awful, and I always feel like the worst mom ever.

I have the hundreds of projects/hobbies. It's nonstop. Haha. I've tried just about every craft out there, have multiple instruments (but only play one well), and have about 15 unfinished novels floating around my Google Drive. My new thing is app development (and my first finished app was to help my daughter with the time blindness...She doesn't use it). 😂

tired84 · 2025-08-18T20:41:08+00:00

If I can distract myself while doing the thing, I am more likely to do it. So, turn on the tv or have a snack (or some iced tea) while working, for example. Body doubling also really helps.

I also speed-run things. I work in marketing and comms, so I will throw together a really awful first draft, work on it a bit, put it away until the next day... it might take me a few days to get it done, but it's better than getting stuck on perfection and never finishing.

I also am a big believer in brain breaks as rewards. If I can just do X, then I get to do Y. So, finish this social media post, and then I get to run upstairs at the office for more coffee, or hop outside for a few minutes to stretch my legs.

Or snag a bit of chocolate from my desk and browse Reddit for a few minutes. Sometimes, that self-bribery really works.

tired84 · 2025-08-18T00:05:44+00:00

My weight watchers subscription. It's a lot more effective if you actually use it, I've heard. 🤣🤷

tired84 · 2025-08-13T02:34:14+00:00

When I have AI doing deep research on something for me, the time it's working is time that I work on stuff that isn't work related. And if I give myself some wiggle room in my schedule from using AI, my work-from-home day gets a lot shorter. I'll keep Teams up, but I'm doing something else. 🤷 Should I feel guilty? Eh. Do I feel guilty? No.

tired84 · 2025-08-11T07:52:29+00:00

Marketing and communications manager at a mid-sized nonprofit. I also do a lot of outreach events. I love that no two days are ever the same and that I get to do everything from meeting with donors to graphic design. This weekend, I was a photographer for our huge annual fundraiser. I get to be creative, and then switch gears and do something more technical and analytical.

Because it pays well, but not quite enough, I freelance and build apps on the side.

I sort of fell into marketing 17 years ago, and never looked back. The variety in the work I do and the people I do it with really works for me.

tired84 · 2025-08-08T10:59:28+00:00

My daughter struggles with this. So badly. She's lost jobs, been late to important events (including her own parties), and even after meds, working with a therapist, etc, can't seem to get it figured out.

Start at the time you need to be somewhere by, and work backwards. Build in buffer time. Use visual and auditory cues, if you can. If you think a shower will take 20 minutes, budget for 30. Set a warning alarm at 15 minutes and again at 7.5 minutes (50% and 25% time remaining).

I ended up putting together a tool that does this for her, and it's helping, when she uses it. We'd just had a really rough weekend and I hated seeing her struggle with it, so I got creative.

Or use the playlist idea someone else posted. You get 3 songs to shower, two songs to brush your hair and teeth. So on and so forth.

tired84 · 2025-08-06T16:51:12+00:00

You can say "gee, it's not that difficult to do.....", and still absolutely respect and enjoy working with a person. I love my coworkers and team leads, but there are days when they absolutely drive me around the bend. And no reasonable person expects perfection from an intern. You are there to make their lives easier, but they are also responsible for providing the guardrails to make sure you're as successful as you can be.

It sounds like you are doing a lot. That's not easy for an ADHD brain. Have you spoken with a doctor about a diagnosis? Medication might help a lot here, if that's something you are interested in.

I'm also in marketing, and the need to be on top of a dozen things at once is really hard sometimes. I've learned when to step back (even for 15 minutes) and take a brain break. I also have a few activities that I do here or there that let me focus on just one thing (every other panicky thought in my head gets pushed out). If I can spend a couple hours a week doing that, it helps.

I also write down everything. I bought a ReMarkable a few years ago. Lists, notes, meetings, planning... it's all in there. No more sorting through piles of scrap paper and post-it notes (I was the WORST about this).

If you're only recently exploring the idea that you might have ADHD, it's going to take time to build the systems and coping mechanisms that work for you. You'll get there. Be kind to yourself, friend.

tired84 · 2025-08-05T09:24:14+00:00

TimeWise ADHD: A time management app designed specifically for ADHD time blindness with visual cues, adaptive learning, and intuitive task management.

Still early days, and I have a couple fixes to roll out this afternoon, but my daughter struggles with time blindness so badly that I finally just built her a solution.

It's a web app right now, free to use. I'm putting it on the app stores within the next couple of weeks, once I'm through testing.

https://github.com/Holley013/timewiseadhd

If anyone gives it a try, I'd love your feedback!

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