ok, this evening is a sumo evening.
it might be a bit of grass being greener on the other side but damn is Sumo just more pleasant to watch as a martial sport than boxing or UFC
no stupid press conferences, no setting up matches to ensure victories and pad records by the competitors, no moronic youtubers buying clout in the ring...
like I know there's going to be it's own drama and nonsense going on... but it's just so much less to deal with and you can just enjoy the graps 
currently applied to 5 other analyst roles in the company, because I'm on redundancy it becomes policy to fast track me to interviews if it looks like I'll be a good fit.
some of the roles are 12 month contracts as opposed to full time positions but they'll still look decent on the resume and put off the chaos for a bit longer.
OK, that works... Quite impressed with @jlc3dp
The PCB with LEDs to go inside is expected tomorrow.
Update: Someone asked me if this image was real, not AI, or proof of concept: FFS, it is a real photograph I took of a real 3D print!
And yes, I am mastodon only now, so bloody well boost 🙂 thanks. Yes, thank you.
P.S. never expected "bloody well boost" to work. Extra cool. Thanks all.
so... I'm going to be buying a new bow riser at the end of this month. that's something I've been planning for a while and I'm not diverting that plan.
but I'm going to try that "pause" and reset as a drive to get this drilling process done.
I've set up a target on the back of my shed and I'm going to try and spend most evenings doing an hour of drill weather permitting.
general rule of thumb seems to be that it takes around 2000 arrows to get through it and reprogram, the focus being to avoid shooting a reactive shot entirely... for some it's faster, for others it takes longer and, this is the bit I'm dreading, you need to stop shooting otherwise until you can break that mental trigger...
which means it's going to be long, boring and not at all fun process.
but I'm fairly sure I'm not going to properly enjoy myself until I get that control back.
so when I come up to full draw I'm essentially unable to hold my aim "on" the target I'm looking at without loosing the arrow, even if I'm not physically in the right position...
if I aim "off" the target I have no issue, but the moment my brain sees the point of the arrow lined up with where I want to shoot? the hand lets go.
the solution is essentially needing to break that connection between aiming and releasing and rewrite the process my head is responding to and... well it'll suck 😅
where the downsides kick in, particularly for archery, is that this tendency to shortcut and anticipate can take important decisions away from us... that drive to automate can make it really hard to resist and control specific activities, particularly when that involves a physical response...
this, in my case at least, is the root of my target panic...
to cut a long story short my brain has linked aiming the arrow and releasing it into a single mental trigger and it's annoying as all heck...
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