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Ah a bittersweet moment of deep-youth, experienced. Looks like we gotta make you some big-crawling-baby knee-pads.

Right! Or the nuclear option: That fursuit I keep denying the need for, LOL. Imagine working with electrostatically sensitive stuff while wearing a literal bunny suit (as opposed to the cleanroom sort). Cottontail's shaggy arms are all wrong for soldering too. Hmm, this thought-experiment isn't going at all well!

Oh, dear...and down the rabbit hole it all goes.

I recently assembled a new dresser and just sitting there on the floor to do it was rough.

Sitting "kindergarten" or...? I can't sit like that anymore in Baby Mode myself...my back's too far gone & permanently damaged now, especially after The Assault. It's sad...sitting like that in a diaper looks especially cute. But not for me anymore.

Exactly.

Me dropping 0402 parts or AR15 detent springs.

@LittleAndAlone Yes, that's the nice thing about 0402s: You drop one and you can just immediately accept that it's gone and move on. (For those unfamiliar, an 0402 is an electronic component form-factor that's 0.04 inches long and 0.02 inches wide. It's about the smallest thing I can be bothered to hand-solder.)

Yup lol I don't even bother. Straight to the next one.

Surface-oriented resistors. I've seen 'em, just haven't dealt with 'em off-board yet.

Well, @BobbiSueEllen, you're not exactly missing a good time. Of course it's very gratifying to see one's design come to life, but failures are also common, and they're made all the more bitter by the long hours spent tweezing electronic sand-grains into place, heh.

Birdseed