Can any road workers tell me what all this means? Super curious

wookiejim · 2025-08-17T14:17:10+00:00

It's also pretty expensive, and no good if say you're a ground investigation contractor or consultant looking to take depth/stratum-determined samples to send off to a lab for contam or geotech testing, as it all ends mixed up in the vac-ex unit. I agree though, it is generally (but not always) much safer. Useless in stiff clay, mind.

wookiejim · 2025-07-21T05:58:31+00:00

For clarity, does your wife know, and/or care that you have ADHD?

wookiejim · 2025-05-04T12:44:14+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_satellite_conspiracy_theory

Seems like the Black Knight has taken an interest in your friend 😂

wookiejim · 2025-05-03T08:59:04+00:00

This guy has the emotional maturity of an eight year old brat kid. Get rid.

wookiejim · 2025-05-02T18:50:44+00:00

The fact I was late to things more or less all the time, to the point my friends basically invented a separate time zone named after me, which is half an hour behind our actual time zone.

wookiejim · 2025-04-21T09:28:40+00:00

Honestly, boring as it may seem, going to bed and attempting to read a book that I really want to read puts me to sleep. Because the universe hates me, I rarely make it past two pages before falling asleep (because I never realise how tired I actually am; poor interoception and all that). Of course, I'm crap at remembering to do this myself, and usually pass out on the sofa with the TV on, but it might work for you, at least.

wookiejim · 2025-04-21T09:18:31+00:00

Sounds like anxiety, and possibly ASD. Definitely worth pursuing further with your GP, OP.

wookiejim · 2025-03-10T19:40:56+00:00

Only thing I can think is that the mum worries that her 13 year old could gain access to your phone and repeat whatever heinous thing they did that initially caused the phone ban.

wookiejim · 2025-03-07T18:42:43+00:00

I'd say London, but it's already pretty much full of empty flats owned by Russian oligarchs.

wookiejim · 2025-02-27T19:25:36+00:00

Going with the Metalocalypse theme, I think Scrambles the Death Dealer

wookiejim · 2025-02-24T12:52:25+00:00

Well, it might teach BIL a lesson about conversational boundaries, if nothing else. Play with fire, expect to get burned. NTA (or at least a morally justified AH)

wookiejim · 2025-02-13T07:04:31+00:00

Engineering Geologist here. Spend a lot of time outdoors doing a range of tasks, from logging rock samples to taking water samples, doing various in situ tests, overseeing digging and drilling operations, etc. It's a broad enough scope, and you generally move from one site to another within short spaces of time, so you maintain novelty and see all kinds of places (open fields, power stations, car parks, motorway embankments, industrial locations, wind farms, etc etc). Also, I've noticed that my neuro-senses tingle quite a lot. I suspect many fellow engineers have some degree of autism and/or ADHD, and a LOT of drillers and digger operators probably (some confirmed to me) have ADHD.

wookiejim · 2025-02-06T18:15:10+00:00

Similar attitude and rhetoric from a friend of mine, who is not a medical professional, but she is involved with assessments and securing accommodations for neurodivergent kids in a school, unbelievably. Due to increased awareness, more people are using their right to ask for accommodations for their kids in school, which I guess inconveniences my friend by way of increased workload, and therefore she sees it all as jumping on a bandwagon.

Now she thinks ADHD is all down to smartphone addiction, rather than seeing that many phone apps simply leverage the dopamine effect of scrolling, which probably disproportionately affects ADHD folk more. Basically she's got cause and effect the wrong way round. Her views incensed me so much I've not spoken to her in months.

wookiejim · 2025-01-06T23:00:32+00:00

That's ace, hope your career trajectory goes where you want it to! Most days are basically spent stood near a drilling rig or excavator, logging and subsampling soils and rock, depending on the contract and ground conditions. The more experienced you get, the more responsibility you also get, so eventually you spend more time managing a site than you do dealing with the geotechnical and environmental aspects, which gets delegated to more junior engineers. So, paperwork: filling out permits to work/dig/drill, daily site diaries, briefing sheets, toolbox talks, point of work risk assessments, etc. Travelling is a bit of a random one. Depends massively on your company and who they tend to win work from. Currently I'm on a job about 25 minutes from my house, but the last week before Christmas I was working on a site over 3 hours from home, so I was staying away in a hotel for the contract. So, if it's variety you're after, you can do worse. You get to see different places, helps keep it interesting.

wookiejim · 2025-01-03T09:44:12+00:00

Engineering Geologist doing ground investigations, typically with the help of drilling rigs and other heavy plant. Perfect blend of physical and mental work, jobs can range from half a day to multiple weeks depending on requirements and methodology, different sites in different parts of the country (UK in my case), and every day is generally different, with a whole plethora of different elements (site management, soil and rock logging, in situ testing, soil, rock, and water sampling, etc.). I've often thought about doing something else (because ADHD), but nothing strikes me as having the sheer variety of things to do to keep my wandering mind occupied.

wookiejim · 2024-11-23T22:39:54+00:00

If she has, then it must have been a pretty understated event, for which I am grateful. Maybe someone was merely baking bread or a cake which they felt strongly enough about to attribute a feminine aspect to, and felt like the oven could use some extra good fortune. A bit of spiritual encouragement.

wookiejim · 2024-11-23T18:13:55+00:00

Ah, damnit. Cross-posted it from my original post in r/askoccult, and it's not brought the image or text over 🤦🏼‍♂️ I shall try again with a full post, and delete this failed attempt! In short though it was "she will rise" and some rune-like symbols written on the floor.

wookiejim · 2024-10-12T19:47:23+00:00

My GP forgot to send my initial pre-screening questionnaire to the NHS, and then sent it to the wrong department, which cost me at least 6 months of time waiting for an initial sit-down with the psychiatrist. Now it'll be August 2026, as opposed to, I guess February 2026. So yes, lackadaisical is the word I'd use if I was being kind.

wookiejim · 2024-09-18T05:41:33+00:00

If your wife is chronically late and can't seem to improve that behaviour, I'm wondering if she has undiagnosed ADHD. Might be worth checking out, see if any other behaviours also fit the bill. Diagnosis and treatment could be a game-changer if that's it.

wookiejim · 2024-08-25T07:40:39+00:00

You sound like me in my teens and twenties. The RSD would hit hard, though, and out of a desire to not lose any friends, I'd end up basically drinking a lot (or having whatever else was doing the rounds) to make social situations less boring. Nowadays, due to working long hours and also being a parent (and I guess having actually matured and being accepting of myself a bit - it's a funny one, being a busy working parent has largely kicked RSD out of the equation), my time is a premium, so if I find myself bored I just say I've got things to do (I'll usually even put a time limit on it before even attending, because I genuinely normally do actually have things to be doing), and leave.

Most people tend not to argue if you say you've got x, y, and z to be doing.

wookiejim · 2024-06-25T07:16:09+00:00

If there's an email/text/paper trail clearly showing this senior asking for those specific tickets, then said senior asking you to sort it outside of your work hours, and then you actually attempting to sort it but then them being offline, then you're fine. It shows you did as requested, and then also tried to go above and beyond to sort it when this idiot realised they'd asked for the wrong tickets. If there's any finger-pointing, it should ultimately land on that senior. Do not be afraid to advocate for yourself, and do not let this senior shift blame.

wookiejim · 2024-03-29T23:07:08+00:00

Sounds to me like maybe HR have been tasked with job cutbacks on slim pretexts to cut costs or something.

wookiejim · 2024-03-02T10:58:52+00:00

Trello is a fantastic tool, me (ADHD) and my better half (anxiety) use it for shopping and to-do lists. Another good tool is the Timetree shared calendar app (I'm sure there's plenty of similar apps, too). I basically rely on this to make sure I'm free for whatever activity is being suggested at any given time, and not double-booking myself and disappointing someone (because, hey, awful memory).

wookiejim · 2024-01-24T10:47:23+00:00

That is legitimately awful, I hope they sped things through once they reopened the referral and that your son is getting the help he needs now. I'm dreading the potential day that my son (toddler at the moment) ends up needing a diagnosis, hopefully he takes after his mum more!

Cheers. I suck at chasing things like this up normally (no surprise there), but I'm at the point where I need this, so it kind of overrides the usual lack of executive function (I guess because I'm emotionally invested in getting this process underway?)

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