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Read the instructions all the way through before making attempts to follow them. I was working on a soldering project with a vacuum tube-mount and the instructions said "Solder the coil and vacuum tube-mount... ...the vacuum tube-mount can only go in one way so be sure to install it on the reverse side of the pcb"
I tore off 5 out of the 14 traces trying to desolder that one component.
By fidelity for an hour to try and get it right you can save 5min of reading the instructions
haha this gets me a lot
When I open the oven door, I know there will be hot air hitting my face so I'll wait for like 2 seconds..
After 3 seconds I think, Okay, no hot air, anymore so I move in to get the dish and than the hot air hits my face... Everytime!
I remember about the hot air about .1 seconds before it hits me in the face. Ive got just enough time to go "Oh"
I'm like this when I microwave fresh veg. I cover the bowl in plastic wrap, and when the veg are cooked I KNOW the big balloon effect is steam hotter than boiling water, and I KNOW it will burn me if I try to take the plastic off without a utensil, but I don't want that steam bubble to collapse on the veg, so I try to get just a corner off, and maybe if I ... SSSSSSSTEAM BURN! Why oh why didn't I use a fork or something? Next time, I swear, I will be ready (not).
My dishwasher's rising steam blast is delayed longer than the hot air blast from my oven and I forget every time, leaning in too early.
Without fail, I try to use the wrong charger for my razor and every time I remind myself to label it. It's been about 6 years.
Label it, mark it, out some tape on it
How to spell rhythm.
Jamaican people have got the right idea spelling it riddim
Rhythm helps your two hips move. I have to say it to myself every time.
Hey, that's great. Thanks.
Never had an issue with that word, but God damnit if "occasion" doesn't get me just about every time. "Is it 1 C and 2 S's, or 2 C's and 2 S's...?" I remember after writing it down wrong, of course. Stupid English.
Not occasion, but for "necessary" I like "Never Eat Cake, Eat Sweet Salad And Remain Young"
For necessary I always think 1 collar, 2 sleeves. This has rattled through my head every time Iβve spelled it the last 20 or so years at this point.
Now if only I could remember itβs different not differant π£
I always just mentally pronounced it neck-essary to remind myself to only use a single C. It never occurred (thanks, spell check) to me to relate it to a physical object.
Mine, of course, is "ocurr" and its iterations.
Especially and adjacent for me, I even have to google them cuz offline spell checkers never get them right.
Chopping spicy peppers without gloves and without taking off my contact first.
As you can imagine taking off contacts with spicy hands is hell!
going on lemmy when I got stuff to do
Having a normal conversation.
I am always letting dishes pile up. I tell myself I'll wash the dishes I made today that evening or I'll just load the dishwasher instead. Long story short, I am always spending hours washes dishes for no reason.
Do them EVERY time. Just. Do. It.
That one little thing will spill into the rest of your life, and your life will change, guaranteed.
Leaving my wet towel somewhere it doesnt belong after a shower. I am a lot better than I used to be but I still forget it regularly.
Are you one of my kids?
the balance between authenticity and following social expectations. you're supposed to learn through osmosis, the values fluctuate based on a wide variety of circumstances, and nobody can have a conversation about it without pretending like there are no rules.
so I keep erring on the side of authenticity. mostly.
I just wish I had the self-awareness and self-control in these moments to choose being authentic. But, alas, I am not in charge. I'm Maggie Simpson pretending she's steering the car while Marge is actually in control. Honk honk
it's not all it's cracked up to be. I wish I had the self control to stop trusting random strangers with my true inner self. But I know either way it sucks to screw it up.
Turning on the power supply after building a computer. Gets me every time and i spend a few moments panicking before i figure it out.
BTW, the spiciness is only really a problem if you rinse with hot water. Use cold and you'll be fine
Edit: also, dont use the sprayer, and lower pressure.
Source: gassed out my parents kitchen after making salsa with scorpion peppers and filled the whole damn pot with damn near boiling water. It lingered in the air for fucking DAYS. Sinuses were really damn clear though so that was nice
I'll never learn to spell the word "medieval" without spell check.
just think βmedi(cal) eval(uation)β.
I always struggled with that word too, but remembering it like that will probably fix that issue for me. I don't really have many opportunities to use the word "medieval" though.
Hah, for me itβs βbureaucracyβ and βbourgeoisieβ. Too many vowels.
I could spell "bureaucracy" if I could spell "bureau", but I can't.
"mid evil" is just a minor villain in a movie.
Checking my trousers for handkerchiefs. So. Much. Chaos.
Letting batteries drain too far:
Also, I really should be buying Lithium AA/AAA cells now that I have so few devices that need them, but I keep buying a pack of alkalines each year. Ni-MH voltage falls just a tad short.
Misplacing my house keys. I always swear I will start putting them βalways in the same placeβ, but i never do, and itβs been now some decades I have my own house keys, that I scramble to find them every time I get out the door.
My keys, like my wallet, always stay in my pants pocket. This only fails on rare occasions that I forget to transfer my pocket contents when changing pants.
BTW, I'm someone who has a serious problem losing things because i set them down without thinking about it. Any task requiring numerous tools takes me twice as long as a normal person because I spend half my time hunting for the tool I just used a minute ago.
I think the only reason I rarely lose my wallet or keys is because I have internalized that I DON'T ever set them down.
You could install a little hook by the door and use that. The effort to put the hook up might encourage you to use it.
Once I build a cardboard key holder with the same thought in mind, I spend a couple of hours on it. Still remember its existence only once a week.
Same. I have had to buy a Tile device so I can buzz my keys from my phone. Game changer.
Same, until I got a pouch to store the keys, multi-tool, pen, and mini notepad in a single package. Now it's kinda like a wallet for all of the non-wallet things.
Tiles are a lifesaver i wish there was a more privacy respecting possibly open source solution
Being sober damnit