@Pierrette In case you are late to my storytelling, I freak people out, knowing things they forget they mentioned publically. People think I have a fantastic memory, but I take notes.. It's how I deal with my #ADHD. I don't need to reread them sometimes, if I write them once. I learned the first 3 verses of the Robert W. Service poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee, having heard it only once, and wrote it down. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee Decades later, I got the reading again for fun
@jose_suweeet I think different. Strange is a better word. My POV is not widely accepted but I was often pulled in for my secondary opinion. Such as..
In any Nuclear event, radiation fallout or some hot spot, the Military would come in with meters to measure and mark hot spots and safe distances around it. Because when I joined, they had just become CAF (Canadian Armed Forces) then reverted back in my time (5 uniform changes) To RCN (Royal Canadian Navy) so all things military were TriForces
@jose_suweeet This new improved Radiation detection equipment would work in a tank, an aircraft and at sea. Top Brass were involved.Lots of money, final review, a few senior people from each Element, Land Sea and Air were flown in to evaluate and critique them. They were set in Aluminum boxes. I'm a critical thinker (and I worry a lot LOL) and my first thought: galvanic corrosion. This would break down, ruin the components on the ocean. They hadn't thought about that. Land forces designed it
@jose_suweeet Later, when I ran out of Trade Related things to learn (15 years in) they put me into other fields, such as Quality Management, Safety and more. My bosses, recognized I had a good eye and thought differently and used it to their advantage. for example again, my high interest in computers, since the 80s, got me all the expensive courses, Novel, HTML, Perl, all Office Suites and software, and they made me the IT officer, responsible for everything computer related, hard & software
@jose_suweeet And while in Ottawa, the powers that be, were going to change the pension conditions again (3rd or fourth term of service change in my time) and the most senior at the table said, THIS OLD PLAN does not exist, we are replacing it with this: And I raised my hand. Ahem Squeeze Me, I have that 30 year plan. WHAT, you must be the only one, doesn't count. NO, Dave x too. And I could name others.I didn't trust the new plan and would not convert over. Hence, I did 33 yrs, but could do 43
@jose_suweeet People in charge are not all that creative. You need another set of eyes. It always amazed me that when Women entered the Navy, men made all the rules? They designed the uniforms, no one had (really) any Female input. I went to special meetings to discuss their roles, as they were new to us, on ships. That year we got 4 on my ship, and it was a game changer, discipline was a problem (male problems) and people made a lot of mistakes in the higher echelon. I was a thorn in their side
@jose_suweeet But, after I retired, the Civilian side of DND gobbled me up. The role of the Safety Advisors was Military and I was now a civilian with all this knowledge and skill but no longer any authority to impose. So the Commanding Officer had the role, but had me sit beside him as advisor. I was the Subject Matter Expert SME, in this regard but I had retired. So, for those that used me, they used me for that reason. They didn't know I was also ADHD. I was always brought along on flights
@jose_suweeet OH, and although I make plenty of typing and spelling mistakes, of my own, I can't pass yours. they glare at me. Printed Newspapers frustrate me, don't they have an editor, a well known Sports writer couldn't construct grammatically correct sentences. I know nothing about sports, but I'd send an email and say, could you check your article today? I found this. Now, digitally, some can correct it instantly. Since it's usually private at 4am, no one knows how many CBC corrections LOL
@jose_suweeet I'm so poor at it now, I am embarrassed. I excelled at English once. So much, that at the time I met my wife to be, I had not completed high school yet but was already in the Navy. My wife wanted to drop out of grade 12 before graduating and I threatened to stop dating her if she did LOL, I wrote her grade 12 English paper for one term and got her good marks. She's better at Maths. My super college educated boss, never transmitted a document without having me proofread it.
@jose_suweeet DND did funny things. I loved Word Perfect but they took a contract with Microsoft and I had to switch and learn MSWord, PowerPoint, Excell, and what was that one that did HTML pages? I wrote mine manually, I wouldn't use it. Too much useless code and bloatware. My boss wanted interactive scripts written and poof, I was at Dalhousie doing PERL. It was supposed to be a standalone course, but I came in at PERL with no previous background in Linux or whatever platform they used.
@jose_suweeet I needed a little help and a UNIX cheat sheet to get started there. But, I managed. When I got that much skill, the DND managers didn't want me writing scripts on their servers and turned off my access. Wasted $2000 course. Long story. I have a three inch binder of certificates, few have to do with my actual trade. I'd reached the top of that long ago, I was bored. keep me engaged, I'd take any course. And learn it.
@jose_suweeet Remember when Netscape had the stand alone HTML composer? I kept that forever too, long after Netscape was done. I learned HTML initially by looking at other people's source code and analysing how I could modify it for my use. On my PERL course, long before cookies, I already had tracking on my private webpage. Every visitor, unknown to them, generated an email to me, telling me what system they used, IP, time on page, etc.
My instructor didn't know how, I showed him
@jose_suweeet I still have to use patterns to remember things, like sorting photos from last summer, all just numbered files. Over winter, I ID them, order chronologically and delete imperfect or duplicates. I usually start with date format 20231129 FULL MOON.JPG, so I can search. High End machine, SSD speed, max memory, takes up to 20 min to find some things. There's nearly a terabyte in photos on my PC, but I backup to offline bigger drives. I used symbols for my DJ searches.
@jose_suweeet I had to own all my music (and I do) and no matter when someone says, It's perfectly legal , my friend who knows a cop says so, to use MP3. But, it's grey. MP3 are software licensing not music licensed. Even licensing bodies have no authority to issue permits. Copying Album to MP3 is a copyright violation. But, to compete with fly-by-night DJs who can search faster, I used MP3 but always carried the CDs as proof of ownership.
To find a song, I used index letters, [C] {60] [ROC]
@jose_suweeet and that's how I was able to process such large collections and find things.
for my Navy years, I began saving crests of ships, and photos accompanying that period in folders, the rest by decades. My boss in early days, had me do the file system on the network we were using.
Also, with a gift of gab, sometimes I was given to make presentations or deliver new material as a speaker. Weddings and Business gave me, the DJ their scripts & I did all formal speeches for shy organizers
@jose_suweeet When everyone had a MAC computer, I had to get a PC, because that was our office standard. Whatever was commonly used. Even personal purchases online of digital albums, have always been in MP3 format. I don't even play OOG on my phone, I'd rather convert it for standardization. Just a personal preference. Familiarity, like keeping Word Perfect for decades after everyone stopped using it. And not the new Coral version, the old 5.1 version, less memory use, smaller machines required
@jose_suweeet If you're using PC, I have free apps for bulk renaming. IE: 200 photos of the Buck Moon, , I don't want to type 20230812 Buck Moon 1234.jpg
I do 200 in one minute with the app, I just copy Paste the first part, it keeps the different ending 12344 ect, to keep from having same name issues. I don't think it's a military habit I picked up, I think it was how I process things differently.
@jose_suweeet Sometimes things don't work as well on the improved. Good example ACDC photo software. Worked flawlessly, used 3.1 until 3 new versions came out, until they made it free, and the features were gone, and the old one didn't run on newer OS. MS Photos is pissing me off, all the video and photo editing, they went online to do it with ChimpChamp. I can't even access that online, I block Microsoft links like BING and forced Microsloth bad choices. Now I have no current editor, 3rd party
@Pierrette When a doctor tested and found I was #ADHD , just before I retired, it looked like they wanted to add a chapter to their Phycology papers. It was uncommon to succeed under such difficulty the ADHD brings. The term was known and invented long after I was in the Navy. Friends probably knew I was, but a shrink was amazed. I showed them my lists. My desk was 1 inch deep in Sticky Notes. I sent 1000s of people all over the world, every phone call I was taking notes.
@Pierrette IN 2005, I lost a computer hard drive. By then, my notes had become electronic, and all the people in my life, friends all over the word, every country I visited, people I met, the names of the crew on the GTS Katie (Newsworthy, and I was there) and I lost everything. I can't recover. I can't find those people again. I have backups now. If known, everyone I talk to, I keep a +4 by their name to remind me, they are 4 hours ahead, or Italian is their first language. And then I remember
@Pierrette Two days ago (three maybe) a very young friend who stayed on Twitter, I have met in Real Life, he's younger than my grandson, but he's a wealth of knowledge and he gets something from me too. When I left Twitter forever, he called me on the phone to catch up. But I freaked him out when I sent a Happy Birthday text, he didn't remember ever mentioning that in public. I don't know how I know. I just do. It must have slipped out and I wrote it down. Now I know. Otherwise, I'd forget
@Rasta so I’m the Italian, what, six hours plus? 😁 myself have a good semantic memory but a terrible episodic one, sometime people recall events that involved me and that I totally can’t remember, tough remember very well pages of books I’ ve studied or the myriad facts and regulations involved with my job,and so many things I’ve read or known relevant to my interest… but not what happened to me even a little time ago or many years, doesn’t make a difference
@Pierrette Age can do that. My wife, who made me get Cognitive testing, because she thought my memory was failing, fights me over things we did this summer NO WE DIDN'T , YES WE DID, DID NOT, HERE'S OUR PICTURES THERE.. oh. LOL
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