6ixStringJack: So many paralells. Like I said, if you happened to have been interested in computers more, you would have already figured out more than you ever needed to know. It ain't rocket science. I'd probably struggle more with knitting than you'd do with coding I'd bet.  |
| Brenda: I hear ya. I stopped knitting and crocheting for around 5 or 6 years. The crocheting came back faster. Had to look old knitting patterns I have to remember the knitting. But that was all. The clarinet doesn't need fixing. The reeds are a thin piece of wood that you put into the mouth piece. And it helps to make the different note sounds. They come in different thicknesses and they were pretty cheap the last time someone gave me a couple. Now, I don't know. To find a price I would have to look them up on line. |
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| 6ixStringJack: Yeah... That's about my experince with what I'm working on right now too. Last time I did any real work on it was almost 8 years ago by now, so there was about 7 years in between where I didn't have any practice. Some of it comes right back to you, but if I wasn't always super diligent at taking notes, I don't know if I really could have gotten back into it on this level. How much does it cost to fix the clarinet? |
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| Brenda: That's cool. I've learned a good number of things by doing over the years. And have been able to pick them up again if I haven't done them in years. Like knitting and crocheting. Had to relearn both after not doing them for a good long time. And once I've gotten a feel for it again it becomes muscle memory. I would imagine that if I could get back to my clarinet (which needs new reeds), it would be the same thing. I would hope. |
6ixStringJack: Hehe. Been known to step on a few toes myself.  Sometimes I luck out and the right person at the right time sees a coding request I've made and I get some assistance with automation. I've even been able to take code others have written for me and made it do other things without needing to bother them again. I just can't be arsed to learn and commit to memory all the basics and the ins and outs. I'm not interested in the coding itself. I'm only using it as a means to do what I'm interested in. Often times for me that just means a lot of persistence, trial and error and brute forcing things until they work right. But at least I've learned enough to do some of it automatically, and enough to know when something I want to do isn't going to be coded by anybody that I have access too and just needs to be done by hand. |
| Brenda: I am terrible with math but you need it to become an archaeologist. The reason for that is you need to be able to lay out a grid pattern and such for digging. But truthfully I hate it. When I was in high school just after VCRs came out, I learned how to wire one up to a tv. Teacher one day had a video to run but she couldn't connect the VCR to the tv. And apparently no one else in the class could. So, I got up and went over and did it. My dad always said if you can do something that no one else can. Don't worry about stepping on toes, just go do it. |
| Brenda: I guess that is true. But with history I find there isn't too much technical stuff unless you are discussing inventions like da Vinci's work. If you are talking people and maybe motivations for why they did certain things or certain events happened, then you get my attention. I do have a habit of picking stray bits of information, like a magpie. Do it with languages too. I was in a college class one time and the teacher asked, "Whose colony was New York before it became British?" Without thinking I said, "Dutch." The whole classes eyes were on me. Then he asked, "What was it's name?" Had to think for a minute and said, "New Amsterdam." Again whole classes eyes on me and I even heard, "How'd she know that?" I have no idea but I picked it up somewhere and it got lodged in my brain. And yes sometimes things can be used in writing with some tweaking. |
| Brenda: Yes, I can see what you are saying about computers. Course there are also a good number of people in the field, if you know one or a good shop to go to. You could be set. |
| 6ixStringJack: It's why college never was for me too. Couldn't pass College Algebra and Trig to save my life, but they told me they required that class that would never help me do anything else for the rest of my life no matter what job I got. But I can make old tech do some awesome things and I've been known to fix a car or two without any training. ;) |
| 6ixStringJack: My knowledge with computers would be somewhat similar to yours with history. You don't particularly enjoy doing the research or the idea of writing up technical stuff, but you're more than willing to go out of your way with something that is interesting to you or could help inspire more of what you actually are interested in writing. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't know as much as I lead on. Never did, but never needed too. Computers aren't really all that complicated once you know some under-the-hood basics really well and you develop the ability to correctly and reliably be able to research what you need to know how to do, and that's gotten way easier over the years. Knowing that you would know how to fix problems as they come up is more important than being able to fix one specific problem from knowledge alone. |
| Brenda: Computer stuff. I am limited on my knowledge. I can do certain things and maybe fix my own mistakes by trial and error. But when it comes to bigger stuff and complicated, my knowledge is like what I know about cars. It can fit on the head of a pin. |
| Brenda: I get ya. Sometimes as you said to me it helps to write things out so you can see what you need to ask, which can lead you to answers or in my case more questions. |
| Brenda: No, I'm more of a straight-up fiction girl when it comes to my writing. Though I do consider myself a history buff. As I said that is why I do everything long hand so I can change things if I need to are add more detail which is what the poet wants me to for a piece. Will get to that on Sunday. |