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I love these flowers, they look so realistic. And best of all, don’t have to water them! 

Slippery, when wet.

Alone.

My custom Frame Arms Girl: Baihu

So a list of things that I’ve used during 2018 that I’ve thought was amazing, useful or just great to own.  They will not be numbered in any way, they are good in different ways.  Harder and Steenbeck Infinity 2 in 1: From my three airbrushes I own, this is by far my favorite. It is super easy to strip down and clean - no tools needed to access the nozzle, as compared to the other two (Iwata Neo and an old Hansa). Philips Hue: I replaced most of my lights in my apartment with bulbs and LED strips from Philips. Yes, they are pricey but they are so worth it. The light quality is so good compared to cheaper brands. The white is white, and the color rendition is high. I’ve tried some cheap RGB strips and the light always feel weird or the color is off. White is never white... Philips have actual white (two colors, neutral and warm) LEDs, which most cheap ones don’t.  Tamiya Extra Thin Cement: For model building this is a god send. Being of the “extra thin” type, it uses the surface tension to flow in between parts or in gaps to try to go in the correct place. Also being thin it doesn’t apply a thick layer as the standard cement might do (I own that too).  Bandai Sazabi Real Grade: Released this summer, this model kit proved to be one of the very best Real Grade model kits in the line so far. Very detailed, and very fun to build - at a reasonable cost compared to it’s Master Grade counter part.  Streamlight Microstream: I’ve been carrying this little light for some years now, and I have yet to find a worthy replacement. It’s simple, no frills. Just one lighting mode - on. It’s floody enough to use in every day use, and not too bright that it’ll blind you when trying to find for instance a port in a network rack or look inside a computer. The double sided pocket clip also works great to attach the light to a cap to make it a makeshift headlamp. The rear clicky switch is also my preferred input mode, since it’s so easy to use one handed compared to the twisties.  Lithium batteries: I’ve pretty much replaced all my non-rechargeable batteries with lithium based cells. They weigh less, they are more resistant to cold and the main reason... THEY DO NOT LEAK! I do not know how many things I’ve ruined because of alkaline leak.  IKEA Ladda: And speaking of batteries, I’ve started using IKEA’s Ladda batteries for a lot of things. They work great, and are of great value. From what the Internet says, they are pretty much rebranded Eneloop batteries which are considered the best rechargeable batteries out there. 

tl;dr: You have a friend suffering from anxiety/depression after “hitting the wall” from being over worked. Be there, reach out. Talk. This is when this person needs you the most. So living with anxiety and depression after “hitting the wall” after being over worked has been a quite lonely time - since march this year, although it’s probably been going on for about 4 years (but that is another story, I guess). Friends might not be friends anymore, or an unknown-ness that is not really helping. I mean, sure, I’m taking one day at a time trying to get back to whatever normal life I had before. But it’s so lonely now. A few of the few friends I’ve had contact with has said something like “I thought you might need some time for yourself” or similar. Sure, we all need that. But when it feels like everyone you know just disappears from your life, it’s not really helping. It’s quite difficult to just reach out myself and say “hey let’s hang out” or whatever. Just managing to stay afloat for a day is a heavy task in itself. Hell, just going outside was impossible for a couple of months. I’m serious...   That one day when all hell broke out, it felt like I was going to throw up just approaching my door to the outside. The “unsafe”, if you will. This went on for weeks, and soon months. Only thing you can do about it, is to pretty much force yourself to take one step longer each day. Practice, practice, practice. Baby steps, and don’t over step. Because that can have the opposite effect instead. You feel worthless, for not being able to do something you’ve done all your life - and that everyone else in the world is capable of doing. Like going to the grocery store to pick up food, or ride the bus. Or just simply taking a walk around the building you live in.   I know, it’s hard to imagine that you’re not able to do this. And I can’t even try to explain why it is impossible. It’s just the way it is. And no, you can’t just “shake it off”. It takes time. A long time. And there will be a looooooot of people that will not understand. People that probably don’t want to either. And people that really should understand, that works with shit like this. But they don’t... So it’s like you’re fighting yourself, and the people that really should be on your side.   The point of all this is just to let you people know, please don’t vanish from the people that need it the most. We need you more than ever when dealing with this kind of shit. Being alone doesn’t make anything better - it’s actually making it worse. Feels like you’re just... forgotten, useless. Discarded. Just a simple “hi” text now and then means more than you know...  This will probably just be a bunch of gibberish and shit not making any sense. I’m writing this 02:30 something AM, 1 jan 2017 because I can’t sleep. My mind is chaos right now, and I’m going between almost crying and just trying to fall asleep. 

The screen is not the best, since this model has a TN panel, resolution at 1366x768. Not the highest resolution version, and also being a TN panel the viewing angle is quite limited. It is hard to find the “sweetspot” on this screen for me, even when trying to adjust brightness to compensate for the viewing angle. However it gets the job done. I’ve also found out that there are IPS versions of the N22 Chromebook, but again this is the only version I could find in Sweden when I did the purchase.  Speaking of other things that are not the best - The speakers. They are not very good, but they get the job done. Need better sound? Just plug in a pair of headphones via cable, or Bluetooth. The 3.5mm plug is a combo jack, so it’ll support both audio in and out from a phone headset.  This machine is sadly not upgrade-able, the storage being eMMC is soldered on the motherboard - and same goes for the memory. Comparing this to the Dell, it seems that model is using a standard m.2 SSD, so it can be replaced with a larger one. Memory however seems soldered to the motherboard. Webcam, it has one. It’s alright, quite basic at 720p (1 MP). It is also rotate-able so you can for instance record a presentation. However the machine only has 32 GB eMMC storage, with about 22 GB free. So I’d suggest getting a USB stick or SD card if you plan to use that. There’s also a built in microphone next to the webcam sensor, which is useful if you rotate the camera. Don’t expect it being very good. It’s a pretty standard quality one, but I’m not sure how it’d work out in a classroom.  WiFi is working very well, using Intel 7265 (2x2 a/c support). It has no problems to fully utilize my 100 Mbps Internet connection. This is a combo card, meaning it handles both WiFi and Bluetooth. The Bluetooth standard it supports is 4.1. I haven’t had a chance to test the latter, but being Bluetooth it should work as intended.  Power brick is a smaller, somewhat lightweight version that looks a lot like Lenovos normal power bricks. Power plug is not the normal Lenovo, since it wouldn’t fit. Although I would’ve liked if they used USB C or something like that. Would be easier to find a replacement charger. Port feels sturdy, but I do not plan on testing abusing it further.  So, all this speak about hardware... but how is ChromeOS? Well, think of it being mostly like running the Chrome web browsers and not so much more. There are some “native” apps, that do not run in the browser as a new tab. So if you expect to get one to do some insane level of gaming or whatever, don’t. This is mostly for productivity and Internet browsing. However I feel this will change somewhat when the Google Play store will be launched for Chromebooks. That being said, it will probably work perfectly for most tasks in a school, like taking notes or doing reports for most subjects that don’t require you to install third party applications. Anyway, I’m quite happy with the basic usage in ChromeOS and that most stuff will be stored in the cloud (Google Drive, by default). This means I don’t really have to care a lot about if the machine breaks down.   If you’re curious about what is available for download to ChromeOS, it’s pretty much everything that’s on the Web store for Chrome.  There’s a lot of focus for school usage for the Chromebooks now, there’s some apps/tools that lets the teacher manage homework etc. Nothing I’ve tested myself though, since it needs more than one machine to test. But I’ve also seen for instance Dell sell a “class kit” with a whole solution for the classroom etc.  So to sum everything up, the Lenovo Chromebook N22 is quite powerful for it’s low price of 2490 SEK ($270), but since it’s one of the lower tier ones price wise it has some drawbacks. Screen is not the best, being a TN panel. Speakers are crap, but they get the job done. Battery life is very good, and the performance so far has not been disappointing so far.  Read more about it here: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/n-series/n22-chromebook/

Picked up some new brushes, at least paint seem to stick to the model now. Just need to figure out how to make it look good! #gunpla