Therapy and electronics
Dec. 6th, 2021 04:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI'm starting to see a therapist for EMDR work for trauma recovery. Danae has been doing that for a while and has found it to be the most effective form of therapy she's ever had, and she's had a lot of therapy. I'm giving it a try on her advice and suggestion. Tonight, I've spent a lot of time going through old LJ posts to find events and dates, and it's been taxing. To be expected, when I'm specifically looking for dates of things that are traumatic events and triggers, but rough. I was also reminded of how much happier, confident, and outgoing I have been at various times in the past, and that's reassuring. It's a reminder that this is something I can be and do.
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I have a draft done of my preservation final, and now I need to do a bunch of work on the database final. I can do this.
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Tinkering is a wonderful distraction for me. When I'm able to fix something, it just makes me feel *so* good about myself! I think taking a little time away from finals to do some of that was worth it.
And I did fix that TV! The Y-sustain and Y-buffer boards arrived on the first. I installed them and still got no picture, but the clicking noise wasn't happening either. After trying permutations of parts, it's working correctly with the new Y-main board and the old Y-buffer board. I think they may have sent me a bad Y-buffer? Either way, it's working now. I played games on it for several hours to make sure it wasn't going to die again and have now posted it for sale on Kijiji.
While I was on Kijiji, I found someone selling a Heathkit multimeter for $25. I now own my first piece of Heathkit gear! It expects an 8.4 volt mercury cell battery that is no longer made as a power supply, but it looks like 9 volts will work in a pinch. I'm going to built a power supply for it eventually. For now, I need to figure out why the needle pegs high when turned on in any settings. Probably a short? So I have ordered a cheap multimeter to fix my multimeter with!
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I have a draft done of my preservation final, and now I need to do a bunch of work on the database final. I can do this.
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Tinkering is a wonderful distraction for me. When I'm able to fix something, it just makes me feel *so* good about myself! I think taking a little time away from finals to do some of that was worth it.
And I did fix that TV! The Y-sustain and Y-buffer boards arrived on the first. I installed them and still got no picture, but the clicking noise wasn't happening either. After trying permutations of parts, it's working correctly with the new Y-main board and the old Y-buffer board. I think they may have sent me a bad Y-buffer? Either way, it's working now. I played games on it for several hours to make sure it wasn't going to die again and have now posted it for sale on Kijiji.
While I was on Kijiji, I found someone selling a Heathkit multimeter for $25. I now own my first piece of Heathkit gear! It expects an 8.4 volt mercury cell battery that is no longer made as a power supply, but it looks like 9 volts will work in a pinch. I'm going to built a power supply for it eventually. For now, I need to figure out why the needle pegs high when turned on in any settings. Probably a short? So I have ordered a cheap multimeter to fix my multimeter with!
