Test Equipment Anonymous

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 11:31 pm As you get older everybody really should come to appreciate Cassandra's plight more acutely.

Doing most things for the first time is more interesting than repeating experiences. But by the 10th time...

Oh totally agree there!

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 11:31 pm Doing most things for the first time is more interesting than repeating experiences. But by the 10th time...

When I was teaching, I found the third time I gave a given lecture was the best. By that time, I'd got the bugs out and useful details in. After that, it went downhill because it became routine.

It rather depends on the job and how much you would like it to be turned into a routine action, involving no surprises. Something you can just do and be paid for.

For instance, fitting a kitchen. The first time you do it, there's all sorts of head scratching about how to go about it and there's ultra caution. You spend most of the time working out how to do it. If you had to do it a year later you'd do it in a third of the time. Then 15 years later, you've forgotten much of what you learned before and times have moved on. By then you may be earning so much it's easier to pay some daft bugger, who can't find a better way through life than fitting kitchens, to do it for you.

Couple of actual 10x8" prints from yesterday... (don't ask but it required eBay that puts TEA to shame )


This is like crack

Been a few years but thoroughly enjoying it!

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 11:31 pm As you get older everybody really should come to appreciate Cassandra's plight more acutely.

Doing most things for the first time is more interesting than repeating experiences. But by the 10th time...

Are you sulking?

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