Yeah, this is exactly what I was thinking, too. You redirect the behavior somewhere safe while still fulfilling the essential need.

My Dad is a mechanic and, whilst I am not, I’ve spent some time watching cars be disassembled, that looks to me like a plastics plug. So underneath your car is a whole heap of plastic lining that kinda seals off the underside, in parts, like mud flaps but for the wheel wells and front underside. Those plastic nubs on the end are plastic screws / plugs, to attach the plastic to the metal body, via a trim edge. That particular part looks like a bracket form of the plastic screw / plugs. Just check the plastic isn’t lose or bowing down near the wheel well where you got it from. It would be almost impossible to see where it goes without getting it up on a hoist.

I’m on the path to better systems than this, but as I’m too time poor, I gotta go with apps, and I just thought you might like to know I had as many songs in my Spotify Playlists and ported them over to Qobuz in seconds, if you want something quick for now. Qobuz talks you through it.

It’s multiple boats, from multiple countries and locations on aid missions, all converging to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza. The Italian dock workers have threatened to shut down the entirety of Europe if their boats or any boats in the flotilla is fired upon. Which will be interesting because that has happened, a drone has struck one boat so far, nobody has been harmed yet.

Same. I have to put snack foods in a bowl, I can’t eat them out of the bag or I’ll eat them all.

I’ve noticed sometimes I run to snacks when I haven’t actually drank anything all day.

I notice that if I eat a couple of pieces of fruit, I’m less likely to go overboard with other snacks, or even feel like snacking a lot. I have no idea what that’s about. Do I then snack on fruit at least once a day? That sounds like the smart option, but no. I try. But I’ve also gotta be in the right mood for a food, and I get a bit sensory about fruit sometimes. It also has to be zero effort, sometimes I don’t even have the energy to get into the fruit. Sometimes food has to be hand to mouth, no other effort or I won’t eat, but I will walk to the fridge and open it a thousand times, hoping it’s refreshed and stocked differently since last time. Which is more effort than just bloody cutting up or cooking the food! I think that’s when I’ve left it too long to eat and gone into deficit of energy.

I started making a banana bread with blueberries on top and adding a couple of different fibre and protein powders. And then I cut it into little squares and I can eat it cold from the fridge or warm it up, it’s zero effort all week, after making it… Which I rarely do because effort.

I’ll get there. Gotta keep plugging at it.

Yeah! Same! I say that all the time. Although the cringe policing wasn’t as hard core before days of constant public documentation of all of the things. You kinda just drifted away from people who were cringe, and they had to figure it out without anything being spelled out for them. At least kids nowadays have a very complex and comprehensive guide to follow. Kinda. I’m still glad I’m pre, all of that.

How boring would you be if you didn’t have some cringe stories! They prove you really lived life to the full. You can’t get 100% correct in a fallible meat suit and the fickle, gatekeepy, hot or not, societal mind.

Oh thanks! Great idea, back up to a back up. And good to know, I was feeling a little daunted, tbh.

Oh, em gosh, thank you so much! I might actually know a work around, your back up sparked a memory for me, I think I’ve been backing up to some dusty old hdd here and there, I might be able to patch most of it, without google photos! I might see what I can Frankensteins monster outta that, first. That’s such a detailed response, I so hugely appreciate your help, all those photos mean so much to me. Thanks friend!!

I’ve been using google photos for 13 years, haaalp! Is there an app that could drag everything over, possibly? Plus which supports that level of storage, I don’t care if I have to pay. I would rather pay and know I support competitive, but less evil software.