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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 11, 2026
@TheresaReason I love that your sleep is solid! I remember my grandmother’s sleep being all over the place…two hours here, two hours there…I have a feeling it comes for us all eventually. My mum is 80 and is starting to remind me of my grandmother
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monstreline
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Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
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Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 09, 2026
At some point in the not too distant future, I will need to replace the 30 year old dental crowns that replaced my front upper teeth that were destroyed in an accident of sorts.
I’d hoped that when the time came, I’d be able to afford to do matching veneers for the rest of my teeth. Definitely a luxury, not a need but the novelty of having matching teeth for the first time in 35 years does hold a certain appeal to me.
Last night, in my dream, I was in a dentists office choosing the shade of porcelain I wanted them to use for my restorations and I brought my favourite lipstick with me to pick the perfect one.
My crowns are too cold a hue for my favourite red and my natural teeth are too yellow.
And this is what I get for being raised by a colour obsessed artist
I’d hoped that when the time came, I’d be able to afford to do matching veneers for the rest of my teeth. Definitely a luxury, not a need but the novelty of having matching teeth for the first time in 35 years does hold a certain appeal to me.
Last night, in my dream, I was in a dentists office choosing the shade of porcelain I wanted them to use for my restorations and I brought my favourite lipstick with me to pick the perfect one.
My crowns are too cold a hue for my favourite red and my natural teeth are too yellow.
And this is what I get for being raised by a colour obsessed artist
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 09, 2026
There’s nothing like a crisis to focus the mind. If I could achieve a fifth of this level of focus under normal operating conditions, my life would be so different than it is.
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monstreline
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Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 05, 2026
@sarahv I do. My prescription is changing twice a year right now, conservatively. With a replacement schedule that intense, they don’t have time to break.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 05, 2026
@sarahv I’m pretty sure I don’t have Alzheimer’s or early onset dementia. I’ve been doing it for a decade. I think I just really really hate opening my eyes to wildly fluctuating vision
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monstreline
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Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
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Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 04, 2026
@CowMan been there!
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monstreline
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 04, 2026
@deborahh @mayintoronto @Cassandra
So I was ordering progressive for the first couple of years, but my prescription is changing so quickly right now that I don’t bother. I just order single vision lenses at the reading strength from the progressive prescription and get the longest use of them that way. Wear the old pair for distance and the new pair for close.
When I did order progressives, I asked a kind friend who also happens to be an optician for my measurement details. He kindly obliged and indicated that a presbyotic, astigmatic hyperope is every optician and optometrist’s nightmare 🤪
Though my mother has been in progressives for 45 years and now orders them from Zenni with only measuring her own pupillary distance roughly herself and hasn’t had any issues with her lenses. She went from paying about $1200 for lenses to $200. Progressives for high hyperopia and high astigmatism weren’t cheap.
So I was ordering progressive for the first couple of years, but my prescription is changing so quickly right now that I don’t bother. I just order single vision lenses at the reading strength from the progressive prescription and get the longest use of them that way. Wear the old pair for distance and the new pair for close.
When I did order progressives, I asked a kind friend who also happens to be an optician for my measurement details. He kindly obliged and indicated that a presbyotic, astigmatic hyperope is every optician and optometrist’s nightmare 🤪
Though my mother has been in progressives for 45 years and now orders them from Zenni with only measuring her own pupillary distance roughly herself and hasn’t had any issues with her lenses. She went from paying about $1200 for lenses to $200. Progressives for high hyperopia and high astigmatism weren’t cheap.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 04, 2026
@rasterweb great point. And a common one it seems. I’ll have to explore if nearsightedness is more prevalent than farsightedness!
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 04, 2026
@webhat Interesting. I do as well…but put them right back on 😬
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 04, 2026
@mayintoronto @Cassandra the dream is vision correction! I’m farsighted with heavy astigmatism. I’ve reached the age that for most people is reading glasses but for someone already farsighted who has had the ability to accommodate most of their life…as that accommodation deteriorates, the hyperopia it hid spirals fast.
Right now my prescription is changing twice a year. I know it’s time for a new one because I keep thinking “I need to put my glasses on, I can’t see properly” but I’m already wearing them.
I get being worried about breaking your glasses. I’ve been ordering the cheapest ones possible so i can get a backup pair but cheap online glasses are a pretty recent development.
Right now my prescription is changing twice a year. I know it’s time for a new one because I keep thinking “I need to put my glasses on, I can’t see properly” but I’m already wearing them.
I get being worried about breaking your glasses. I’ve been ordering the cheapest ones possible so i can get a backup pair but cheap online glasses are a pretty recent development.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 04, 2026
@Cassandra then I think it might suck, be dangerous, or both to pace about without glasses 🤓
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 04, 2026
So far, I am astounded by these results!
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 04, 2026
@Cassandra are you farsighted or nearsighted…I think that has a big influence on one’s ability to do that. Probably easier for the mildly farsighted.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Apr 03, 2026
If you wear glasses full time, I’m curious…how many times per week do you end up (intentionally or accidentally) sleeping in them all night?
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Mar 31, 2026
@grimalkina
Oh FFS! What a nightmare, I’m so sorry!
Oh FFS! What a nightmare, I’m so sorry!
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monstreline
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Mar 26, 2026
@analogfusion that is a gorgeous image of a gorgeous camera!
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Mar 26, 2026
@LJ I’m impressed!
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
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monstreline
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Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Mar 17, 2026
@ansate a second vote for Nimble Needles tutorials in general. I could listen to Norman talk about knitting all day.
I usually avoid laddering by using the thinnest most flexible cable I can for the needles or project I’m using. I eventually transitioned from the Addi interchangeables to Chiagoo’s because they have adapters that let me attach a cable for a finer needle than the one I’m using. The more flexible the cable the less tension it applies at the loop point.
If a finer cable isn’t possible than use a cable that’s longer than suggested! The extra length will do a figure 8 thing at the loop points and take all the tension off the stitches and ladders across the transition.
I usually avoid laddering by using the thinnest most flexible cable I can for the needles or project I’m using. I eventually transitioned from the Addi interchangeables to Chiagoo’s because they have adapters that let me attach a cable for a finer needle than the one I’m using. The more flexible the cable the less tension it applies at the loop point.
If a finer cable isn’t possible than use a cable that’s longer than suggested! The extra length will do a figure 8 thing at the loop points and take all the tension off the stitches and ladders across the transition.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Mar 02, 2026
@molly0xfff well shit! I can't even imagine the frustration. And in black (or black adjacent) yarn too!
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Mar 02, 2026
@WTL damn...this thread is really making me want to run again after...15 (?) years!
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Mar 02, 2026
@Daojoan Thanks! I needed to hear that today.
In my pre-teen and early teen years, I would read so much that sometimes, I would be caught unaware by the morning light just to realize that I had read all night and now had to go to school.
MANY concussions later, I can't read a book. I can't connect the events on one page to the events on another, and sometimes not even to events earlier on the page.
It's as though my contemporary brain narrates books rather than reading them.
When I miss that feeling of reading, I usually open one of those books that I read when I was reading all night. Stories so ingrained in my brain that I can read them without feeling completely lost.
In my pre-teen and early teen years, I would read so much that sometimes, I would be caught unaware by the morning light just to realize that I had read all night and now had to go to school.
MANY concussions later, I can't read a book. I can't connect the events on one page to the events on another, and sometimes not even to events earlier on the page.
It's as though my contemporary brain narrates books rather than reading them.
When I miss that feeling of reading, I usually open one of those books that I read when I was reading all night. Stories so ingrained in my brain that I can read them without feeling completely lost.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Feb 24, 2026
@lapis phew! It usually takes me a few to think of anything!
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
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monstreline
@monstreline@ottawa.place
Interested and curious about almost everything. Most interested in dogs (mine), knitting (mine but possibly yours) and automation.
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Feb 15, 2026
@LJ what a cool small-world meeting! And your jumper is beautiful!
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