Quality is Quality:

Quality is quality! As you know I fix and maintain vintage clocks, its become a small business and hobby. Recently I baught a Waterybury 20s Office clock with a damaged face but was running and a non running clock of the same type with an intact face. Bored I pulled it apart, the seller had attempted to fix it before and used machine oil to lube the wheels (Gears and Cogs). Anyway, it was jammed soild.

The oil did not help nor did the spring being wound so tight it had become kinked. I had buy a replacement; big mistake! I housed the main sping, and fitted the workings back together and begain my tests. I wound the clock up, and ping!

The main spring snapped, and flew at me, slashing my arm open. I had to go to hospital and get a couple of stitches. In my time working with vintage clocks, short of doing something stupid a main spring shouldn't break, I've worked with forging from the 1800s, to mid to late 1900s. Then I read the package, made in india!

Im thinking of quitting inktober (yet again) before i even really started on it. Idk just the thought of planning and actually making an ink drawing every day stresses me out. Although it was something that I easily did in the past. Even multiple ones a day... I think it's because of not having as much time to invest in art anymore I kinda lost my connection to it. I rarely get to sit down to actually paint. Every year I start the inktober challeng in hope to get my connection back but every time for the past 3 years I end up having to quit halfway through for multiple reasons like getting behind lacking time. This year I'm already stressed about having to catch up on the first few days that I missed.
Maybe I just had a bad start...I wanted to warm up by finishing one of least years works that I never got to complete and I totally messed it up and on top it tore apart when I tried to remove the one year old masking tape... Seems like an omen...
I will still dedicate this month to art and especially watercolor painting. But I think I will not do the inktober challenge for now. Maybe I will get to do the last half of it later but just now I need to get back into the peaceful/mindful mindset that I need for doing watercolor. Pushing myself with a challenge will not help here.
I started watching YouTube draw with me videos of one of my favorite artists there. It helps getting back into watercolors and Inks.

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Thinking about changing my moniker from Noodles123 to one of the following:

Please help me choose.

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Haha trent couldnt help it. Mr. Professional..mr. so serious broke. Well done crowd surfing santa. So happy trent is clean now. You can tell he is happier and can laugh at silly things now.

https://www.simplisticallyliving.com/usps-operation-santa/
THIS JUST OPENED TODAY FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
TO ANY STRUGGLING PARENTS or just parents in general
If you need a little extra help this holiday season, have your child write a letter to Santa!
🎅🏼 SANTA’S ADDRESS: 123 Elf Rd North Pole, 88888
If your child writes a letter to Santa and mails it to this address, USPS posts it to the website and someone anonymously will adopt your letter and buy the things or close to it and it will be shipped to your house from “Santa”!!! All you have to do is write the letter. Make sure to include their name, age, favorite color, clothes size, shoe size, and anything they might want or need! Make sure you put your exact mailing address (return address) on the envelope when you mail it so that way the person who adopts your letter to play Santa can ship the gifts! And if you want to be an adopter of a letter, sign-up on the USPS website to begin adopting!

Wanna stop breaking down? Stop obsessing so deeply with the world around. Ur crying cause you can't help but barely fucking saved urself?
Running urself to an early grave won't solve shit but double it and give it to the next person

HELP! I think I bought a white nationist motherboard!

For those with kids and a small budget some charities start doing Christmas assistance sign up in September just like this one. Hope this helps someone. Toys for Tots applications for 2025 are currently being accepted, with the Augusta Chapter accepting applications until the end of October 2025. For other areas, you can check your local chapter's website for specific application dates and details.

https://www.toysfortots.org/request-a-toy/

I'm at the verge of crying every day...Wednesdays and Thursdays are always the hardest work days for me currently. I practically have to drag myself to work everyday and it's hardest on these days.
Next Monday I have a 1:1 with my boss...I hope I can address the issues. Although I would prefer to talk to another person First to get their opinion before taking to my boss. I think that would be more strategic but I will not have a meeting with them until next Wednesday. And I don't think I can wait this long...the longer leave this unresolved the more anxiety I'm developing about this. It's such a dilemma: be strategic and tall to the righ person first, but deal with my fears and anxiety a week longer or just talk to my boss directly without having that other insight. I feel so burdened by it. And no one can really help me except those 2 supervisors. So I have to carry this until they have one for me.
I can barely focus on the little work I do have and that makes my anxiety even worse because I feel even more useless and like I'm not performing well that makes and my fears that they are planning to let me go even worse...