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No matter how many times I google “which way to undo a peddle” I still have google it again the next time I want to remove one.
UFO mate - unscrew forward only
Diving - I mean proper racing swimming diving in at the start.....used to be good at that now just stare at the pool and climb in....
Work in a shared space.
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Can't see me every going back to one.
Diving – I mean proper racing swimming diving in at the start…
My first triathlon (25 years ago) was using an indoor pool, everyone else was doing a diving start, so I thought I'd have a go. Think most people were on their 3rd lap by the time I'd finished coughing up half the pool. It was a very short Traithlon career but I did once come 6th in the Bishops Stortford Tri (out of a field of 12 entries).
I’ve pretty much given up on using a diary for work as I can’t even read my own handwriting. Can’t skateboard any more, forgotten how to play the bass and pretty much any of the martial arts I learned. I think composing the list of things I can still do would be a simpler proposition.
Program a video recorder.
SQL.
Write. My writing was always appalling, but these days using a keyboard all the time I struggle to write legibly at all.
Funnily enough, that’s one thing I haven’t forgotten how to do! When I left school, my handwriting was terrible, I was taught to use a sort of copperplate style, which doesn’t lend itself to writing quickly or neatly, whereas other friends of mine at senior school were taught to write in an italic style, much easier to write quickly in a cursive style.
When I started working in print and publishing, where I was having to proofread and mark-up manuscripts for the typesetters, it forced me to write neatly and legibly, although not in a cursive style. I tried copying one of my colleagues writing which was lovely, and although I never matched his for neatness, starting to write with a fountain pen, as a result of a long-running thread on here, has improved my writing no end!
On the other hand, I’m pretty certain that I’d really struggle to do photo-retouching and vector graphics in Photoshop and Illustrator now, I’m twenty years or so behind the software.
Having said that, I could probably use a simple vector graphics app for relatively simple things, I don’t think I’ve forgotten everything.
Riding a bike might be an issue now, it’s been a long time since I rode any of mine.
I've forgotten that.....
No genuinely, I keep forgetting. I'm sure it's early stage dementia.
Not worry about everything.
To be fair I've always been a worrier but I've made it into an art form now.
SQL.
Let me help...
select somehsit
from something.dbo.something.sometable
where somecolumn like '%something%'
No genuinely, I keep forgetting. I’m sure it’s early stage dementia.
This. I live with an almost constant feeling that i've forgotten important work tasks. Sometimes people remind me of things and I genuinely think they've made it up 🙁
My only saving grace is that I never forget social arrangements (priorities I guess).
I'm also shockingly nostalgic and constantly repeat stories to people because I can't remember if i've already told them or not.
Yep. Haven't mentioned it to anyone, but I did take a fair few knocks to the head when i was younger, drank and toked from a far too young age, and sometimes wonder whether it's affected my cognition.
Play the trumpet.
How to interact socially away from work.
How to handle my drink - even a small amount leaves me with massive headaches for days.
Anything I did in the following date ranges:
May 2001 - August 2002
June and July 2003
All of 2007
Half of 1997, patchy throughout
February to July and October 2010
All are related to having a few too many concussions and other brain traumas over my lifetime. Everything from big knocks to carbon monoxide poisoning and passing out from choking.
This. I live with an almost constant feeling that i’ve forgotten important work tasks. Sometimes people remind me of things and I genuinely think they’ve made it up 🙁
So much this! At least of makes staff meetings real fun...
Despite it being the easiest thing in the world to do.
Despite me joining numerous forum based public spreadsheets.
Despite there being more tools now than there has ever been to help me with it.
Despite me knowing the huge benefits this could have to my life.
I seem to have lost my ability to stop eating crap.
Admittedly I've probably never had it, just had a more powerful ability to do stuff and exercise far above what I can do now. To get that ability back, I need to stop eating crap. Oh bugger. 😀