The acquaintance of mine who died this spring from cancer? Well, his wife/widow has cancer now too, fairly severe from the sound of things.
Their son is 6 years old, and I cannot imagine what they're all going through.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Their son is 6 years old, and I cannot imagine what they're all going through.
Some days the problem is that your a fucking idiot.
Turn oven on.
Wonder why oven is smoking so much.
Put pizza in oven.
Timer goes off.
Pizza is cold and uncooked.
OMG OVEN IS BROKEN!!!!!
Turned on bottom oven, put pizza in top oven. Forgot to remove drip tray from bottom oven after seasoning skillet.
Turn oven on.
Wonder why oven is smoking so much.
Put pizza in oven.
Timer goes off.
Pizza is cold and uncooked.
OMG OVEN IS BROKEN!!!!!
Turned on bottom oven, put pizza in top oven. Forgot to remove drip tray from bottom oven after seasoning skillet.
So many thing has happened since last year. The country is ruled by sicarios and drug lords. We have a new mayor. They lowered my salary, now I can't pay the school Gaby is going. The new administration fired most people that knew how things work, hired the double of people to do nothing. Now there are 20 people in my small office. Have I ever mention that I really don't like being surrounded by people? I feel like I'm going to have a nervous breakdown. Our savings are decreasing. But hey, we sold my dad appartment so we got extra money, but today Vero had a car accident.
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Dave
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If it’s in the context of “your a fucking idiot” I will comment every time.
I'm enrolled in a faculty enhancement online workshop. It's extra pay and I might learn a thing or two. This workshop is about "fostering a culture of belonging." That's useful. I try to make my students comfortable in the classroom. If they're comfortable they're less likely to plagiarize because they actually pay more attention. This week's topic is microaggressions. Holy shit, it's like PC Principal from South Park put this module together. Apparently every student is a poor, trans, addicted, abused, indigenous Guatemalan refugee with three exploitative jobs and five disabled children. I think this is the 21st century version of your grandfather telling you he carried his three siblings on his back through whiteout conditions to school, and then somehow found the time to work double-shifts in a munitions factory. These descriptions are so detached from reality.
Way to go!
The important bit is the 50km. The rest is just weakness leaving the body.
Am currently at the Emergency room at the city hospital waiting for my wife to be seen for an issue that might be serious, but might not. She can’t sit in a chair, so we’ve been lying down on the grass outside their front door for an hour, waiting for her name to be called. They say some people have been waiting for as long as three hours.
The Sun is starting to go down, and the temperature is beginning to drop…
—Patrick
The Sun is starting to go down, and the temperature is beginning to drop…
—Patrick
Godspeed. A few months ago I had a bad stomach flu where I couldn’t even drink a sip of water without vomiting. I went to the ER just because I knew I needed IV fluids and it was a Sunday so there weren’t other options. I told them that, they did a cursory check, and gave me IV fluids. That cost a bit over $900. I have good insurance so I only had to pay $35 but it’s still insanity.Not shown: What the bill will end up being for all of this.
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Every time I try to learn about loose leaf tea, I feel like I'm reading a bunch of gibberish that people are pretending has meaning. "Salagadoola means mechicka booleroo" means about as much to me as "TGFOP means Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe" but the tea people seem to think that explains everything.
Even wikipedia isn't helpful. They give more explanation about what all those grades mean about leaves and leaf tips and growing regions, but none of that tells me anything that's useful to me as a consumer. No information about how it impacts the taste of the tea. No information about if companies lie about the grades they're selling. Just a whole lot of magic words that translate to other magic words.
It all just screams "SCAM!" to me, but I've had some loose leaf tea that I liked more than most of the tea bags I've had, and I would like to cut down on the packaging waste.
I ended up impulse buying a pound of tea off of Amazon. I have no idea if I'll like it, but it'll probably be better than some of the crappy tea bags I've put up with recently. Maybe one day I'll do the work to find something to match the excellent tea I had as part of a sampler pack I got years ago.
Even wikipedia isn't helpful. They give more explanation about what all those grades mean about leaves and leaf tips and growing regions, but none of that tells me anything that's useful to me as a consumer. No information about how it impacts the taste of the tea. No information about if companies lie about the grades they're selling. Just a whole lot of magic words that translate to other magic words.
It all just screams "SCAM!" to me, but I've had some loose leaf tea that I liked more than most of the tea bags I've had, and I would like to cut down on the packaging waste.
I ended up impulse buying a pound of tea off of Amazon. I have no idea if I'll like it, but it'll probably be better than some of the crappy tea bags I've put up with recently. Maybe one day I'll do the work to find something to match the excellent tea I had as part of a sampler pack I got years ago.
It's hard to talk about different teas as a matter purely of quality. I mean, that's obviously part of it, but there's almost as much difference in style and preferences in tea as in, say, wine, or beer.
I drink a lot (as in, liters per day) loose leaf tea, but I am really mostly knowledgeable about my tastes, more than about actual good vs bad.
If you're going to be trying different types of tea (green, white, oolong, red), try to find a good water heater you can set to a specific temperature. Green tea with boiling water is just plain yucky, while I really like it with 80°C water.
I drink a lot (as in, liters per day) loose leaf tea, but I am really mostly knowledgeable about my tastes, more than about actual good vs bad.
If you're going to be trying different types of tea (green, white, oolong, red), try to find a good water heater you can set to a specific temperature. Green tea with boiling water is just plain yucky, while I really like it with 80°C water.
Adagio is pretty expensive, but they have some sample packs that’ll let you try a few different types and decide on your own.
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I’m sure there’s cheaper options, but I’d just try small sample packs to see what you prefer. I don’t know that the grades are independently enforced or even used by everyone.
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I’m sure there’s cheaper options, but I’d just try small sample packs to see what you prefer. I don’t know that the grades are independently enforced or even used by everyone.
figmentPez
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And it's kinda hard to talk about what you do/don't like about something without having a basic vocabulary for how to discuss a specialist topic. That's kinda my point. It's hard to find a good guide to how to get started in tea, when most of the top search results just focus on the bizarre naming schemes for tea grading, and not actually discussing how to compare teas, and what loose leaf teas to start with, how they compare to commonly available bagged teas, etc.
I came here to whine, not get tea recommendations. If I wanted to start a discussion of where to buy tea, and what teas everyone likes, I would have started a damn tea thread!
I just wanted to whine about how all the guides I've found for loose leaf teas focus on a bizarre and unhelpful tea grading system. It's like if all computer buying guides focused solely on the naming conventions of processors, video cards, etc. but never actually talked about user experience, benchmarks, or anything your average consumer wants to know when buying a computer.
There probably are better tea guides out there, and I know that I could start a thread here, or on Reddit, or a bunch of other places. I just think it's fucking stupid that whole articles exist to list abbreviations that come from silly names whose origins are steeped in colonialism, but don't actually give any practical information if you're not a tea wholesaler, and that those articles are the easiest to find.
I just want to be able to passively take in some relevant information on a subject before I have to start doing any actual work on the issue, and it is work to try to communicate to someone else what teas I've had and liked and what I haven't liked, and how to put that into words.
How it started:
Had to take a week off work since then to look after the wife. The diagnosis is that she has no injury/clot, just a nerve constantly shooting pain down her leg for no good reason other than to torture her for her past sins or something. So we have been moving her between couch and reclining chair about once every 2-3hrs with applied heat and propped pillows for that entire week. Yes, even during the night. Also there is the medicine regimen of relaxants and painkillers to make things more bearable. For her, any kind of sitting is agony. That includes when going to the bathroom. Luckily I have a ton of sick time, but I haven't slept more than an hour or two at a time for a whole week. Her sister (who does MedAssist for a living) came over yesterday to help out so I could put in a day of actual work and prove I'm not playing hooky, but let me tell you...putting in a 10hr workday on a week of haphazard involuntary polyphasic sleep was SO much fun.
Having her out of commission also means I've had to do all the cooking and cleaning and stuff, because I'm really the only useful worker in the house right now. Oh, and did I mention that our washer crapped out two weeks ago? There's a new one on the way to replace it (which was on sale for "only" a THOUSAND dollars--AAAAGGHHH) which should be here on Wed, but that still means I had to truck four loads to and from the laundromat on top of everything else. I still haven't finished folding it all.
And that brings us to today. Got a phone call waking me up at 7:30am (after going to bed at 6:30am) telling me that surprise! The new washer is ready to deliver early and should be here in half an hour and isn't that wonderful? Yeah, sure is, because in order to get anything into the basement, I have to first pull one of the flights of the back stairs out of the way (it weighs about 200lb/90kg) and I wasn't expecting to have to do that until Tuesday night. So I throw on some clothes and some water for tea to wash down some prophylactic Aspirin and run down there to get started pulling out the stairs and find that the other two adults in the house have gone off to have Breakfast with The Boys(TM) leaving me by myself with an invalid wife and a sleepy teen. JUST GREAT. I had gotten as far as pulling all the screws by the time the delivery folks showed up, and fortunately one of the dudes volunteered to help me remove (and reinstall!) the stairs along with the delivery. I would've tipped them for it, too, but they left before I could do so.
After I finished reinstalling the stairs (and the storm door, which also had to be removed), I headed back upstairs to get ready for work when I got a notification that the guy was here to look at our boiler. Oh, did I mention that our house is heated by a boiler which has to be something like 150yrs old? Well, it went out at the end of last Winter, so yeah, the last couple of weeks where our outdoor temperature has only been in the 40's (that's in the single digits for you Celsi-fied folks), we haven't had any heat ON TOP of all that stuff I've already mentioned. Looks like we just need a new thermocouple/thermopile which should only be $75 or so, but I don't know how much the guy is going to tack on for installing the thing (because I'm fine working with electronics, but I don't enjoy working with gas piping if I don't have to). He's apparently a friend of the (extended) family, but...still, I'm sure that'll only count for so much.
Once that's done, we can prepare for my son to have a video meeting at 1pm with his principal. He's been slacking off on his studies, so much so that we're now at that CTJ point where if he doesn't turn himself around RIGHT NOW, he may be dropped from the program and either be compelled to attend in-person schooling (which he absolutely hates...and I don't blame him, cuz I hated it, too) or else get shipped off to wherever it is they send kids who maybe aren't delinquent enough to go to full-on reform school, but ARE recalcitrant enough that they can't handle "normal" school.
Oh, and my wife's follow-up appointment from her ER visit is at 3pm today. Yes, one week IS the soonest we were able to get an appointment for an emergency room follow-up because the Health Care system here in the USA is obviously run by people who don't have to worry about their own health, and it reeeeally shows.
SOOooooo....yeah, looks like I'll be calling off work again today...
And my week is only just starting...
--Patrick
How it's going:
Had to take a week off work since then to look after the wife. The diagnosis is that she has no injury/clot, just a nerve constantly shooting pain down her leg for no good reason other than to torture her for her past sins or something. So we have been moving her between couch and reclining chair about once every 2-3hrs with applied heat and propped pillows for that entire week. Yes, even during the night. Also there is the medicine regimen of relaxants and painkillers to make things more bearable. For her, any kind of sitting is agony. That includes when going to the bathroom. Luckily I have a ton of sick time, but I haven't slept more than an hour or two at a time for a whole week. Her sister (who does MedAssist for a living) came over yesterday to help out so I could put in a day of actual work and prove I'm not playing hooky, but let me tell you...putting in a 10hr workday on a week of haphazard involuntary polyphasic sleep was SO much fun.
Having her out of commission also means I've had to do all the cooking and cleaning and stuff, because I'm really the only useful worker in the house right now. Oh, and did I mention that our washer crapped out two weeks ago? There's a new one on the way to replace it (which was on sale for "only" a THOUSAND dollars--AAAAGGHHH) which should be here on Wed, but that still means I had to truck four loads to and from the laundromat on top of everything else. I still haven't finished folding it all.
And that brings us to today. Got a phone call waking me up at 7:30am (after going to bed at 6:30am) telling me that surprise! The new washer is ready to deliver early and should be here in half an hour and isn't that wonderful? Yeah, sure is, because in order to get anything into the basement, I have to first pull one of the flights of the back stairs out of the way (it weighs about 200lb/90kg) and I wasn't expecting to have to do that until Tuesday night. So I throw on some clothes and some water for tea to wash down some prophylactic Aspirin and run down there to get started pulling out the stairs and find that the other two adults in the house have gone off to have Breakfast with The Boys(TM) leaving me by myself with an invalid wife and a sleepy teen. JUST GREAT. I had gotten as far as pulling all the screws by the time the delivery folks showed up, and fortunately one of the dudes volunteered to help me remove (and reinstall!) the stairs along with the delivery. I would've tipped them for it, too, but they left before I could do so.
After I finished reinstalling the stairs (and the storm door, which also had to be removed), I headed back upstairs to get ready for work when I got a notification that the guy was here to look at our boiler. Oh, did I mention that our house is heated by a boiler which has to be something like 150yrs old? Well, it went out at the end of last Winter, so yeah, the last couple of weeks where our outdoor temperature has only been in the 40's (that's in the single digits for you Celsi-fied folks), we haven't had any heat ON TOP of all that stuff I've already mentioned. Looks like we just need a new thermocouple/thermopile which should only be $75 or so, but I don't know how much the guy is going to tack on for installing the thing (because I'm fine working with electronics, but I don't enjoy working with gas piping if I don't have to). He's apparently a friend of the (extended) family, but...still, I'm sure that'll only count for so much.
Once that's done, we can prepare for my son to have a video meeting at 1pm with his principal. He's been slacking off on his studies, so much so that we're now at that CTJ point where if he doesn't turn himself around RIGHT NOW, he may be dropped from the program and either be compelled to attend in-person schooling (which he absolutely hates...and I don't blame him, cuz I hated it, too) or else get shipped off to wherever it is they send kids who maybe aren't delinquent enough to go to full-on reform school, but ARE recalcitrant enough that they can't handle "normal" school.
Oh, and my wife's follow-up appointment from her ER visit is at 3pm today. Yes, one week IS the soonest we were able to get an appointment for an emergency room follow-up because the Health Care system here in the USA is obviously run by people who don't have to worry about their own health, and it reeeeally shows.
SOOooooo....yeah, looks like I'll be calling off work again today...
And my week is only just starting...
--Patrick
I know what you mean. I'm friends with a family in College Station and their eldest daughter had to attend one of those. At first I thought Mary Catherine Harris was a Catholic school, but it's really for kids who are at high risk of not graduating. Apparently the daughter's grades were in the sewer and her parents had to send her there for her senior year. She was able to graduate and join the Army, then washed out of training. Now she's attending community college and is doing all right. She got knocked back but the important thing is she's on her feet.
I am 47 today. That seems utterly impossible.
Dave
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I got it on chrome with ublock, switched to firefox with adnauseam (which is ublock with extra data garbling), haven't gotten it since