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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 21 (2026)

SlaveToTheGrind said:
Training benefits you personally and it could lead to better employment.
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Yep. We are ENCOURAGED to read widely on planning and related topics if we have time at work. (Which I don't during the day.) Taking courses, whether or not for CM, is permitted.
 
donk said:
Just a snall vial. I am actually diagnosed phobic of blood draws.
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I don't mind them as long as I don't actually see the needle go in.

My one diagnosed phobia is cleithrophobia, which is often mistaken for, but is actually separate from, claustrophobia. Enclosed spaces don't bother me--not having a way out does. (Oddly, lifts don't bother me in the least.) Even if I am a big wide open outdoor space, if I am in a crowd with no easy path to an exit, I don't like it.

That's why I don't do drive throughs that have a curb or some other way that keeps you from getting out once you are in. UNLESS I am the front car and have an easy path out if need be without being blocked.

(Notice how at the conferences I am always seated either on an aisle, or near an exit?)
 
Soooooooo... I booked us a small cabin on a farm for one night. Apparently I didn't read the German fine print to know that we would all be sleeping in a loft accessed by a ladder. 😳
 
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