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All Or Nothing

Tuesday, September 08, 2026 All-or-nothing thinking (also called black-and-white or dichotomous thinking) is a cognitive distortion where you see things in absolutes—either perfect or terrible, right or wrong, good or bad. In reality, most situations have a mix of positives and negatives, and this extreme “either/or” style can fuel anxiety, depression, and perfectionism. I’ve been thinking this way for years. I doubt it will go away anytime soon. That’s simply how life is at times and I have to deal with it. Well, from that description…it can stem from anxiety or depression. Both of which I have. Sounds great to me don’t you think? Yeah that’s what happens when overthinking is normal. I wish it wasn’t this way. But it is and there’s not much I can do about it. Such is life.

MySQL DateTime

Been attempting to put a datetime variable into a MySQL Database via ColdFusion. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong.



At first I tried:




#createODBCDateTime(now())#


For some reason that was only giving me the date and not the time.



Then I tried splitting up the date and time into two different fields, one for the date and the other for the time. Then I tried this code:




#createODBCDate(now())#

#createODBCTime(now())#


That gave me the date, but still not the time. Well I did some searching and then found there's a built in function in MySQL to do this. Why not.



Talk about simple:




NOW()


Well guess what, it worked just like a charm.

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