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My Ukrainian doctor friend gave me his translations of the spec sheets for my nixie tubes today and I just wanted to jump up and hug him; these are so great! I haven't found translations online for them, so I'm going to share his somewhere.

I figured that even without electronics knowledge, he'd have things in the ballpark and I could figure it out from there, and that's how it worked! He said that the phrase "half-wave rectification" in particular was tricky for him, so I drew a diagram and explained half-wave vs. full-wave rectification.

When I was a kid, I always thought it would be great to learn about this stuff, but somehow never thought I could.

Looking at maps today, I see that, while I don't have any parts from Ukraine, I do have some from two neighbors. My replacement VTVM tube came from Slovakia and my nixie tubes are coming from Moldova.

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I want to make a dental appointment so I tried to get my insurance info from work's website. My login info doesn't work, so I tried to fill out the contact form for Delta Dental, but submitting the form gave me a blank page twice in a row so I may have to call.

Then I tried to enroll in a transportation spending account to pay for train rides with pre-tax money. I found a page that has a link to a benefits portal that says to go there to enroll. Clicking the link takes me to a page that says to learn how to enroll, click this link. Clicking that link takes me to a benefits portal page that has a link to click on to enroll. Infinite loop; see loop, infinite. I guess I'll have to call.

I hope making an appointment to replace my passport is easier.

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Well, when I forget to take my meds for a day, I *really* start getting too anxious to concentrate on much of anything. I've taken mine for today now, but I just spent about ten seconds trying to remember what website I need to open to do something I do everyday at work for hours at a time. That anxiety loop is so funny from outside of it. I can't remember the thing; that makes me anxious. I'm too anxious to remember it now, and that makes me more anxious about what will happen when I can't remember it which makes me more anxious...