@yogapaddlerun I *might* be pantless at the moment....

@yogapaddlerun I did not read carefully and initially thought you ended up pantless 😂

@yogapaddlerun LOL I was just standing outside looking at my garden beds and wondering if it was time to build a new bed so I have somewhere to put fall garden seedlings when they're ready to come out from under the grow lights in a couple of weeks. There's no such thing as too many plants.

@Helical_Code Digital applications of the test are tricky because monitor calibration comes into play. I find the numbers to be the hardest because I can often see the general shape of the number but not the details (1 vs 7 vs 2, 3 vs 8 vs 6 vs 9, 5 vs 6, etc.). My eye doctor gives me the test they use on kids with shapes. I do a little better with that one. She checks me every visit...I'm not sure why. Maybe to make sure it isn't getting worse since it's possible that it's not genetic?

@Helical_Code I would tell you that she is not keenly tuned in to color, but at the same time none of the rest of us are allowed to pick out paint, and if we're dressing up for something where appearance matters, she checks all of us before we leave the house.

@Helical_Code Where it does come into play is in our field work because utility locators mark utility locations using various colors of spray paint on the ground. Two years ago we had an intern that had been drilling with us for two months before I realized that he was so colorblind, he had to memorize the order of the stop lights. There was no way that kid could distinguish the utility markings. I have since learned to ask all of our new staff about their ability to see color #safetymoment

@Helical_Code I try to make all of my staff engineers color-aware. A couple of weeks ago one of them used a light blue for soil A and a similar light purple for soil B and when she presented her data to us in a meeting, there were three of us (me, the same reviewer, and our client) who couldn't tell them apart. She was astonished. And yet even after that incident, she still asked me why I had switched the color for soil C from green to brown mid-report. Obviously it's a test...I am testing you.

@Helical_Code oh wow that would be interesting! I'm glad my field isn't more sensitive to color. It's unfortunate that I have one frequently used software that plots data in various shades of yellow to green to brown. It's terrible. My report reviewer asked me to label the graphs because he's color blind. I had to apologize and tell him I had the same problem and that I couldn't distinguish them for labeling. That's why I include tabular data in the package.

@yogapaddlerun I have to think that it violates some kind of unspoken corporate rule...people should just leave you alone on Fridays. How the heck are you supposed to sneak out at lunch if you have a 3 pm meeting?

@Helical_Code Out of curiosity, I tested this morning to get an official classification and the results come out as Deutan

Whew made it to Friday! Finally got a full night's sleep. Unfortunately I have a slew of regularly scheduled meetings on Fridays; not sure who thought that was a good idea. The first bridge I ever worked on in NC opens today (I just did high level review services of the geotechnical design, but still exciting). Today is the last day of oppressive heat before we get a little break. I have a new, slightly lighter, spindle arriving today!

@GrandmaJ I have only been stung once in my life. My dad is highly allergic. Fortunately, I was not.

@Helical_Code My brother and father are also both color blind as you would expect. My mother...I'm not entirely sure how she puts up with us.

@Helical_Code I struggle with colors containing reds and greens. I can't always distinguish blue from purple. Tan is a concept that I understand but I generally either see green or red. Shades of green and brown are favorites for geologists to use in their graphs and I generally can't see the difference between the shades/tints. It's not severe, but it's enough to add some interesting moments to my life for sure!

@GrandmaJ Yikes! glad you got out of there quickly!

@Helical_Code We still laugh about it and I'm no longer allowed to dispense pills without reading bottle labels.

I always thought women couldn't be colorblind. I think the chances are like half of one percent. Probably why I was in my mid twenties and arguing over paint colors before it was discovered. Looking back though, it makes sense. I always thought my parents were painting the carport a god awful pink....it's tan/brown.

@Helical_Code Benedryl is my next stop. My SO was in a motorcycle accident once and broke her cuboid bone in her foot (we didn't know it was broken yet). She couldn't go to the hospital because no insurance so we were making do with the pain meds we had on hand. To a colorblind person, the pink benedryl was not so different in color as the orangish/red motrin. I gave her four. She woke up every couple of hours to tell me how much her foot still hurt and then she passed right back out.

I go through phases of sleeping fine and then waking up at 1 am for several nights in a row. Hopefully this phase passes quickly. 90% of it is work stress.

I swear Okra are like Zucchini, one day they're not there and then the next day they are massively huge. Some veggies are really good at hiding #gardening

@yogapaddlerun Climate change happens whether people believe in it or not. We actually used to get a more snow here than we do now (so I'm told, I'm not from here and have lived here only about 5 years). Weirdly, I've also experienced more hurricanes here than I did when I was living on the Texas coast. All in all we tend to get a little bit of every thing and none of it for too long so I can live with that happy medium. But the heat has been brutal this year.