徒劳无功

星期五晚餐后，开始为三个小毛孩制造些建筑物。

那三只仓鼠，总是在不对的地方小便，我那做得很满意，连接它们两个生活容器的楼梯，已经多处被它们尿到纸皮湿透，要烂了。

星期五晚餐后做的吊桥，情人老婆仔不满意，而且也没有想象中那么容易当作连接两个容器的桥梁，所以基本上是作废了。

星期六午餐后到晚餐前，还有晚餐后几个小时，做了个螺旋楼梯。第一个版本情人老婆仔不满意，仓鼠也只会上不懂得怎么下那楼梯，所以拆散做了第二个版本。

螺旋楼梯的顶端暂且是一个平台，完成后就放在仓鼠生活的容器里，要看看是否适合仓鼠运用后才继续下一步逐渐建成连接容器的完整楼梯。

晚餐后情人老婆仔用苹果引诱仓鼠们去用那螺旋楼梯，看来上楼梯不是问题，下楼梯也不知道是不是问题，但就是常常与其好好走完楼梯，它们会下到一半就跳下去，有时也会掉下去。

所以我在螺旋楼梯外围加上了类似围墙的东西。加完那围墙我觉得那螺旋楼梯好像比较像是艺术品，不像实用的楼梯…

再放回让仓鼠试用，好像也没有什么差别，是有会好好用楼梯走完的，但更多是走捷径和还是会有跌倒掉下去的。

两天总共用了有八、九个小时来做这些东西，结果好像都不行。

唉～ 怎么最近总是感觉很徒劳无功？

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我的不一样

二哥的大女儿每年不是全级第一名就是第二名，令人敬佩的学霸！

今天得知弟弟的大女儿也是全级第一名，又一位学霸！真厉害。

我，呃… 我没有女儿…

我玩笑的问了我那好好学习的儿子，他很笃定的自认不能全级第一。他应该也没有那野心吧？

其实他已经很好了，应该是比我中学时还要好，更重要的是他有正确的态度和自律，所以我很欣慰。

另一个态度很有问题又毫无自律的儿子，每况愈下的成绩在几个学期后已经到了触手可及全级倒数第一名的地位。

处于全级倒数十五百分率，再持续他下滑的趋势，全级最后一名是非常可能的事，唉～

当然不希望他会往那个第一前进，但他不改他那错误的态度，很难会有正向的进步。

或许有些人就是需要走冤枉路、吃尽苦，才会醒觉领悟的吧？

还在等他醒觉的那一天…

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Bye November

While November is Movember for the world, well, for those who know about Movember, November is also slacker month for me.

If you haven't noticed after more than a decade, there are only four blog entries in November, while the rest of the months have eleven entries.

Yup, very consistent, all these years.

For November is my self-proclaimed slacker month, where I get to slack and only post four entries, hehe. =P

But it's December now, so back to posting an entry every few days, instead of about one per week.

Oh well, it's not like I have been living up to my slacker extraordinaire reputation these few years anyway...

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一团糟

说了好一阵子，那要和同事分享我八字的皮毛知识的事，今天终于都发生了。

坦白说，真的是一团糟！

亏我为了准备分享的资料，忙到靠近凌晨一点，今天连第一个重要步骤都没有完成，更不用讲分析八字的部分了。

就是，根本都还没有到如何运用来分析八字的部分，时间就已经结束了。

不知道是解释能力，还是理解能力的问题？

还是就是想得太完美，而事实就是不可能在短短不到一个小时的时间里能够分享那么多的资讯的。

感觉很徒劳无功就是了，唉～

随兴随想 |系列|

十九年

情人老婆仔，结婚十九周年纪念日快乐！

感谢你的陪伴和关怀、爱护和不嫌弃我这木讷的番薯。

谢谢你还是让我牵你的手，和应酬我那常常都需要拥抱的喜好。

让我们继续一起做喜欢的事、一起吃喜爱的食物、一起变老（和变肥）。^_^

老婆仔随手插在一盆只有叶子的植物中的玫瑰，没有违和感的独立叶丛间。

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Long weekend

Next Monday is a replacement holiday for Deepavali, and I am taking next Tuesday off to make it a four days long weekend.

Only this is not a potato mode long weekend, as I will be joining the traffic jam as well as working most of the time.

The usual, simulation results that are wanted today, of which I haven't even completed the model generation. I am not denying that I am slow, but getting the yet again updated, n-th revision of the final final final mechanical CAD last Saturday, which I am only aware of this Monday, did not help. Nor is the complexity and the amount of changes and details added since the last CAD provided for my previous model generation.

I was on leave last Friday, the annual leave hitting max thing, every month I have to take a day or two to stay below. Sorted out some bank stuff as well as went to the pet shop to get new hamsters.

Initial plan was to write an entry about the hamsters this weekend, but that's not going to happen now.

This weekend will be a tiring one, spending time and energy on the road, working in not so ideal set up, and most likely poorer quality sleep.

I am tired already just writing about it...

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Scribble Pad is sixteen years old!

Happy 16th birthday, Scribble Pad!

As per custom, here are the accumulated number of views based on the counter. The one for 2023 is as of 13:55 hours.

2008: 4746
2009: 13300
2010: 23226
2011: 31677
2012: 37412
2013: 42469
2014: 46926
2015: 50532
2016: 53716
2017: 56798
2018: 59939
2019: 62732
2020: 65840
2021: 68205
2022: 70269
2023: 72064

Not surprisingly, following the trend, the view count achieved a new low. This is the way. =P

Besides not being a blog with images of scantily clad bodies and aesthetically pleasing faces, photoshopped or not, and the fact that my kind of taste is not for everyone, I am no longer active on social media and so I no longer link my blog posts.

Effect of advertisement is real. =P

Anyway, thank you for reading this blog. I sincerely hope you get something out of it.

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