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2024.06.01 14:13 anonme1995 Can you quit your job & still qualify/ apply for PFMLA??
Looking for some PFMLA advice, or maybe someone who has done this before. There's so much information online for PFMLA and the verbiage sometimes is hard to understand. I am wondering if I quit my job prior to the birth of my child or qualifying for early medical leave (if requested by doctor), can I still apply and recieve PFMLA benefits. For example, lets say I resign August 1st, baby is born end of September, will not working for 8+ weeks or any amount of time void me from qualifying for PFMLA benefits? Aka the 12 weeks of family bond leave + whatever the doctor approves for medical leave (most likely 6 weeks additional if uncomplicated).
Background/ rant: I am a FT employee and have been with the same company for 6 years. I am currently 22 weeks pregnant and so far my pregnancy has been great. No issues. Haven't even had to use any sick time so far. The company is spiraling, lots of major changes in the company. My position has changed drastically since the beginning of the year. I was given a promotion with intent to a pay raise, its been 90+ days since said promotion and my pay plan "wont be ready until July". I was informally promised it would've been ready May 1st. Despite this, I still continue doing everything asked of me and more. I started working a little longer hours and now work weekends which I hadn't in years. I had just been informed they are moving which office I work out of to a new location in a different town. I have been working in the same office for 6 years and never was told that there could be a possibility to move. The move happens July 1st. I currently live a 2 mile drive from my job, that was the most attractive reason I took it in 2018. Now the new office is located 25 minutes, I know this is not a lot for some people, but I live in the city, traffic gets bad, highways get backed up and I just don't want to travel extra for work. I'm not the only one moving, so is both of my staff members who i oversee, They are uprooting our entire department. One of my employees came to me a month ago, talking about how stressed she was from work that she would go home and cry. I fought for months with my directors to let them know how the entire department feels on not being paid for new roles/ extra work & being promised by them, but they under deliver. I warned them that people may quit. They said "let them quit". Yesterday one of the girls I have been working with side by side and then became her manager since 2019, resigned. She just hit 5 years with the company. She cried but said it was effecting her way too much, between the extra work no pay and all of the changes. When she resigned, our COO replied with "thanks for letting me know" and that was it. This has been my tipping point. I don't think I can work here anymore. I don't want to spend my 3rd trimester stressed. It's not good for me or baby.
So, if I resign, would I still qualify for PFML benefits since I have been paying into it since it started in 2021..
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Background/ rant: I am a FT employee and have been with the same company for 6 years. I am currently 22 weeks pregnant and so far my pregnancy has been great. No issues. Haven't even had to use any sick time so far. The company is spiraling, lots of major changes in the company. My position has changed drastically since the beginning of the year. I was given a promotion with intent to a pay raise, its been 90+ days since said promotion and my pay plan "wont be ready until July". I was informally promised it would've been ready May 1st. Despite this, I still continue doing everything asked of me and more. I started working a little longer hours and now work weekends which I hadn't in years. I had just been informed they are moving which office I work out of to a new location in a different town. I have been working in the same office for 6 years and never was told that there could be a possibility to move. The move happens July 1st. I currently live a 2 mile drive from my job, that was the most attractive reason I took it in 2018. Now the new office is located 25 minutes, I know this is not a lot for some people, but I live in the city, traffic gets bad, highways get backed up and I just don't want to travel extra for work. I'm not the only one moving, so is both of my staff members who i oversee, They are uprooting our entire department. One of my employees came to me a month ago, talking about how stressed she was from work that she would go home and cry. I fought for months with my directors to let them know how the entire department feels on not being paid for new roles/ extra work & being promised by them, but they under deliver. I warned them that people may quit. They said "let them quit". Yesterday one of the girls I have been working with side by side and then became her manager since 2019, resigned. She just hit 5 years with the company. She cried but said it was effecting her way too much, between the extra work no pay and all of the changes. When she resigned, our COO replied with "thanks for letting me know" and that was it. This has been my tipping point. I don't think I can work here anymore. I don't want to spend my 3rd trimester stressed. It's not good for me or baby.
So, if I resign, would I still qualify for PFML benefits since I have been paying into it since it started in 2021..
2024.06.01 13:12 Motormommy Has anyone looked at the div class differences on dmaorg site? Reordering the 25 Clancy posts - the last post could be Nico- 024 02MOON 25
 | I noticed something on the dmaorg site- that the posts each have different formatting according to 5 "div class" sections. The formatting really isn't that different in each class and it doesn't seem to be connected to the various file types that are posts. (this was examined using a lot of help from the dmaorg fan wiki which already had the letters typed and I copied and pasted them.) submitted by Motormommy to twentyonepilots [link] [comments] We know it's a cycle, it has happened again and again. What if the moon dates don't order as our actual dates do? There were 5 timeframes for the posts- the ones that were already there when the site was found or shortly after, the ones that were posted just before/during the trench era, the ones that were posted after the files were terminated and the site was restored (during scaled and icy) and the ones that were posted ahead of Clancy. If we reorder the 25 Clancy posts by their div classes (putting class 1 first, then 2, etc.), it puts the yellow stripe picture right before the letter it decodes. We also get the 024 02MOON 25 last. And I just realized that this letter is not signed. What if it's a bishop describing recruiting banditos? What if a bishop is realizing he's not so different from them? That he once believed he was a citizen, an escapee, an exception? Is he following the torches to find the banditos? Spreadsheet I used to organize the posts Clancy Posts when Ordered by _Divclass CLASS 1: 017 07 MOON 16 Cheetah running gif 018 07MOON 08 _note.gif written signed I’ve made it out. I feel weightless. I know that place had always held me down, but for the first time, I can feel the levity that I had hoped for. It’s been three nights now, and my breathing has changed. It’s slower, and more full. It’s like the air out here is worth taking in. I can see it back in the distance, and I’d be lying if I said that it wasn’t constantly on my mind. I wish I could turn that fear off, but maybe the further I go, the less that fear will affect me. I feel betrayed by what I assumed was home - if I ever end up back there, I won’t be able to look at it the same way. They are asleep. They’re so sure that they know the truth, and carry on throughout their day with the same meaningless tasks. They’ve forgotten to look up, and to look outward, to understand that this isn’t about ‘in there.' This is about ‘out here.’ This new world surrounds me. I used to think the walls back home were massive – these green cliffs engulf me, and place me right in the middle – Trench is quite precarious at times, and it’s easy to grow weary. But it’s real, and it’s true, and I’d much rather endure reality than to mindlessly be obedient to a life that someone else created for me. I’ve obsessed about this world for so long, that it feels more like home than anything I’ve experienced. Somehow, in this vast openness, I feel more protected than ever. The landscape feels endless, and I’ve found myself walking for hours without any true evidence of getting further down. But I’ve seen plants and colors out here that I’m not sure I’ve witnessed before. There’s a beauty in the strangest places, and the curiosity of what’s next continues to motivate me. I wonder who else is out here. If what I assumed inside is true, there’s got to be more like me. Sometimes I’ll feel a presence, or think I see something in my periphery, only to look up and see nothing. It’s just another thing that I’m afraid of that also excites me. It all just confirms all of the things that I hoped to be true for all of this time. I am out here and I am very alive. I’m sometimes scared, but always discovering something new, and I will not stop. Cover me!
17-35.4527.jpg typed signed I can’t face this page for long enough to write what I’m truly feeling. I am only wrought with more questions about what I assumed to be true, questions about what my own path is, and the question that has plagued me every night that I lie here, back in city: Did I give up? The force I saw between him and his bishop seemed tense to me, and frightening. But the memory of that exchange has had time to fester and replay in my mind long enough that I’m questioning if I even remembered it correctly. I assumed the bishop was forcefully retrieving his subject, but now I wonder if the bishop was actually trying to save him, and he refused. I stayed out there for five days after I watched it happen. I haven’t seen him since. Maybe he got away, and was still out in Trench with me. Maybe the bishop chased him down, and brought him home. Home? Did I just call this place home? After all of the endless beauty that I saw out there, am I now convincing myself that I’m actually better off within these confines? I admit, it was more difficult than I expected. Nothing could have prepared me for how much the ‘unknown’ can consume me. Vast landscapes and endless possibilities, yet coupled with endless danger. I became anxious. I became tired. I became hungry. Every step I took became harder than the last, jumping from jagged rocky step to step, or pulling myself through thick forest - it all became debilitating, and I was sure that I couldn’t go on. Keons approached as the sun rose one morning. I wasn’t scared. I was relieved. After all that he had taught me, his presence was the most comforting moment that I had in days, and I couldn’t help but be happy to see him. In true Keons fashion, he wrapped his arms around me, then put his hands under my face, looked me in the eyes, and said, “Clancy, child, let’s go home.” I’ve been here for a few weeks now, and while the routines of this world are comforting, and certainly easier than life out there, my mind keeps bouncing between the two places. Which one is home? Are the bishops protecting us, and the torches upon the hilltops dangerous? Or is it the other way around? My dreams pull me from world to world, and I feel lost in between all of it. There is still so much I do not understand.
Larger map of trench including voldsoy 024 02MOON 09 __ev-i-D__ence.jpeg typed and says signed but isn’t I'm not as scared as I used to be. Their mystery begins to fade as a method to defeat them becomes more clear. I no longer feel powerless. I can outsmart them. This new power of psychokinesis worked, and I believe it can work again. I stand here, looking down at the line where the water meets the sand - a starting line. All the while, knowing there is a finish line across the Strait. Their compass lies, but mine remains true. I've left embers of inspiration, I only hope whatever spark was left has grown to a torch, and together we create an inferno [SIGNED] - Clancy CLASS 2: 988 06MOON 18 cla_ncy-98806MOON_18_-1 jpg typed signed CLANCY_S JOURNAL The perplexities of the Dema horizon didn't occur to me until my ninth year. It was then that I began to contemplate the existential, and decide what type of impression I wanted my life to make. Naturally, to fuel my hope, I looked out upon the distance of the land that had cultivated me, only this time with a new awareness of the obstruction that my youthful ignorance had allowed me to overlook. Was it there the whole time? How had I not seen something so obvious? I am reminded of the moment daily, as the idealization directly collides with a unique hope for my own future. As a child, I looked upon Dema with wonder, today, I am wrought with frustration, as I spend each day squinting for a glimpse of the top of the looming wall that has kept us here. It was upon my ninth year that I learned that Dema wasn’t my home. This village, after all of this time, was my trap. Before I became realized, I had deep affection for Dema. There was a wonderful structure to the city that put my cares to rest. Streets and locations were dependable, and the responsibilities of the day seemed to be accomplished with minimal effort. Once a task was taught and understood, we delighted in our ability to complete our obligations timely, and felt secure in knowing tomorrow’s duties would be accomplished with the same efficiency. We all worked to represent our bishop with honor, and knew that each inhabitant of our region had a like-minded dedication to consistency. Keons embodied the spirit of this dedication. Of Dema’s nine bishops, Keons was revered as unwavering and forthright, possessing the ability to achieve focus that was rare for most on our region. We all admired him, and felt honored to be inhabitants his region. While we had heard legend of the ruthlessness of other bishops, Keons possessed a stoic demeanor unlike anyone I had ever met, and we were all proud to serve.
ba_dge jpg FPE citation 017 07MOON 17 Picture - trench - bandits 018 07 MOON 05 This entry is another letter from Clancy. The white squares on the outer edges of the image correspond to the letters "WAKE UP". It is titled _he_a_vy_.jpg typed, inverted, signed They’re asleep. The night took forever to arrive, and now we’re almost ready. We’ve studied the watchers and know that there’s no chance that we can step through unnoticed. So, instead of trying to hide ourselves, we’ll make sure that all of us are noticed. It’s been one year since the last convocation, and tomorrow’s Annual Assemblage of Glorified will be the biggest spectacle this concrete coffin of a city has seen all year. If we time it right, we’ll divert the attention of the watchers and finally take the step though. We’ve had no contact, but we’re hoping the other side will be able to find a way in. We’re not sure of the breach location, but we are willing to risk being smeared in order to find it. We know that we must go lower, and wait for the torches. They’ve never seen anything quite like this, and by morning, everything will be different. I’m terrified and excited, all at the same time. They don’t control us.
1619250308151109140519-Ø-919.jpg made me a weapon written, signed What is this thing? This device? This gift? Some sort of neurological connection or expansion. Psychokinetic weapon? This is absurd. Why was this given to me? Why am I the only one that can weild it? Was this the reason that I survived? My mind is racing as I wait here on the rocks - staring off into the darkness. Waiting for our torches to be mirrored - the signal he told me to wait for. It feels oddly familiar. Not the spikes in my hand, but the power it harnesses, I've felt it before. Is this also the source of those rumors I heard in the dark corners of the city? Legends and stories that I assumed were myth, inspired by children's nightmares - tales of what the bishops would use the bodies for. Those "honorable" citizens who acheived The Glorious Gone - referred to as available vessels. It all begins to make sense. The episodes I would have: the blood red vision, my dreams of flying, the out of body account of the rider in the river, the decaying hosts of the television show, the robed figures that commanded the doomed ship... Had we all been "seized" by the bishops using this same technique? Is this where their power comes from? Are they immortal, or just feeding off the next body, giving their hosts a brief second-life? I am in my original life, why am I available to this control? This whole time I thought I was battling my inner self. Was I actually under assault for something else? someONE else? This small eerie island has made me a weapon. We both believe that we can use it to change the momentum of this war. Now, we must return to the mainland where they should be there to recieve is. We will destroy and rebuild. Though it's been years since he last spoke with them, I hope they have not lost faith in The Torchbearers plan. But how could any of this have been planned?
009 12MOON 29 unnamed-(1).jpg d_e_ath__eat_erz Vultures on wall 011 07MOON 08 se__elf picture of kid 017 07MOON 07 017_07MOON_07 typed signed To refer to Dema as m[y] home has never felt accurate. Dema, t[o] me, has simply been the place that I’ve existed, or, the ‘slot’ they’ve put me in. I’ve heard stories abo[u]t the ide[a] of “home,” and its depiction has always seemed warm f[r]om the storyt[e]llers’s de[s]cription. [T]here was a romant[i]c ownership of the p[l]ace they inhabited that I admired, but cou[l]d never relate to. Thi[s] place, my p[l]ace, however, s[e]ems devoid of the romance and wond[e]r that the old stories tell. But somewhere between the iron order and infallible [p]recis[i]on of Dema, a hum of wo[n]der exists. It’s this quiet wonder that my mind tends to [g]ets lost in. This hope of discovery alone has birthed a new version of myself; A better version, I hope, that will find a way to experience what’s beyond these colossal walls.
I.jpg vulture gif turning head (actual dates?) 018 07MOON 06 _they_ca_ntseeFCE300.gif torch gif 022 03MOON 17 is-ø-lat-ed.jpg written, signed I haven’t had the ability to write for what seems like a lifetime. This deprivation is what weighed on me the most. Not the lack of food, or the change of scenery - they wouldn’t let me write anything down. Well, at least not without them present … I remember that day vividly. First, they let me out. Even though the hallway was still gray and drab, the new experience was a shock to my system - significantly different than usual captivity. I tried to match the rhythm of the nameless guard’s footsteps as we echoed down the long corridor. I followed close behind, as if I had no choice. Cold concrete encapsulated us and seemed to cast a spill of synthetic calmness. Obedience. We arrived at a blue door. It was an odd contrast to this concrete maze. As I went through the doorway, I found myself in another typical gray Dema room. The only difference was who was waiting for me. Four of them. Three of them were unknown to me, but one was clearly Keons. I knew his voice They proposed an idea. A television show - or whatever it was. I had no idea that I was known outside of my cell, but they informed me that I had garnered notoriety for my schemes and outbursts. They wanted to use my face for the benefit of the city. They handed me a pen - a familiar instrument. Yet, they must be present when I use it. They wanted to manage my imagination and vision. Although shackled, at least I could create again. Thus began the sessions. Everyday my cell door would open. I followed the guard down the familiar hall, through the blue door, to sit down at the desk and chair. My designated creative space - perfectly centered under their watchful eye. Sometimes three, sometimes eight - not once were all nine present. He was never there. I would have felt it if he was. At the end of the session, Keons would take my pen, gather my writings, and send me back. This went on for months. What were we creating? I wasn’t sure. A variety show with songs and set pieces? Were the rulers of this stifled city actually attempting entertainment for its people? Everything I created had to be “for the benefit of the citizens of Dema” a phrase I heard often. I didn’t question them - I was happy to be out of my cell - and putting words to paper. On the final day, I wrote the last line, I was asked to name it? The question caught me off guard. This seemed like a decision they would make. Show Day: They dressed me up and asked me to smile a poor attempt at hiding my sleep deprivation. It was all so colorful, as if compensating for the grayness of the city. It was a blur. Before I knew it, it was over, and I was back in my cell. I can only remember fragments - only blurred hallucinations of color and chaos - like a dream. The confusion of it all hangs overhead. What was it all for? … but it wasn’t over I guess it went well enough for them to request more of me. I was useful to Dema, and my creativity was exploited in new forms - They wanted me to be the entertainment at the Annual Assemblage of the Glorified - a performance at sea for the premiere citizens of Dema. I knew those weren’t the real bishops on that ship. I’ll quicken the entry - I need to keep up with the Torchbearer. During the performance, we were attacked by something in the water. I don’t know what possessed the creature to attack, but it was odd, and felt incredibly intentional. Many lost their lives in the attack, and I was thrashed through the bitter cold waves, yet somehow survived. Did this icy cold preserve me? Why was I spared? I am still so cold as I write. This place feels foreign - nothing like Trench. From the frigid sea, the air here is somehow colder than the water that surrounds it. I have a strange feeling that this island will provide answers. I must go.
__cla_im00FFFF letter, typed not signed I found a way in. A way they'll never suspect, and a way they'll never understand. Everything about our cause is so hard for them to understand, but so close to the hearts of the glowing resistance. I can reach them all. I can recruit everyone with eyes that see beyond the horizon. I can teach them. They can learn what I've learned, and fly by all of the constructs Dema has placed in front of them. We will take it back. CLASS 4: 017 02MOON 12 _ .jpg picture of yellow lines to mark “we are banditos” in next letter and numbers that spell trench 018 07MOON 01 e_sr_eve_r.jpg typed/ lines taped together signed A lifeless light surrounds us each night. Never could I imagine that something so luminous could feel so dark. It’s this glow that reminds us of the dreamless existence we’ve been sentenced to. But what I call a sentence, others accept as normalcy. How did they so efficiently eradicate the dreams within us? When the bishops instituted Vialism as mandate, they effectively reversed the hope that many arrived with. Am I the only one who realizes that we’ve been lied to? Am I the only one not afraid of the notion that the nine have hijacked our trust, and extinguished the hope that once motivated our existence? We used to close our eyes and picture a better life, now this city is full of dry eyes caught in a trance of obedience, devoid of any trace of an identity. The only significant light I’ve seen has been in the eyes of those smeared - such a curious sight, to see bright eyes strangled by the darkness of bishop hands. As their penance fades, so dims their memory of something more. My hope of something more is all I have in this rigid tomb, and I will not let it die.
2_1_2.gif inverse jumpsuit pic that matches shape of letter from 018 07moon08 022 03MOON 18 W-eap-@on.jpg image of psychokinesis / seize Keons CLASS 5: 013 01MOON 08 _ti_su_p map of dema compass missing _ti_su_p.png sev_ering__tiez 3 blanks 018 07MOON 05 _o__ut_.gif landscape 018 07MOON 18 Unalone.gif letter written and signed I can’t believe what I just saw. I'm still trying to understand. This whole time I was sure I was all alone - a single soul in this vast unknown world. But a few days into this trek, I looked down to see a figure headed the same way I was. I’ve tucked myself in these caves and crevices, trying my best to keep hidden, but he was out in the open, making his exhausted journey right down the middle of Trench. I was curious enough to follow alongside the path with him. He seemed unaffected by the fear of the unknown - the fear that tends to cripple me. To him, the terrain seemed familiar, as if he had been out here before. While lost in my curiosity, they appeared. I had heard about them back in Dema, but to my knowledge, the stories were merely myth. Ten, twenty, and then what seemed to be a hundred Banditos appeared upon the cliff, all looking down at him. He only stopped for a moment to look back up at them, and then continued on his way. His energy changed, and I wasn’t sure if he was frightened or encouraged by their ominous presence. They warned him of what was about to come. It was a blur. First seeing the figure, then the Banditos, only to now have my eyes opened to the oncoming Bishop upon a white horse drawing closer in the distance. The figure halted, and waited. When the Bishop stopped, I was sure he looked up, directly at me, so I hid deeper back in a cave. The presence of the robed rider seemed to paralyze the man. He stood still as he was approached, powerless as the outstretched hands smeared his neck. I had never seen a Bishop possess power like this. Keons had always seemed gentle and warm - this Bishop, at least out here, seemed like something else. So I ran, and I’ve been running for as long as my legs and lungs can handle. Maybe this note will be my proof that what I witnessed was not a dream. A million questions race through my brain. Am I not the only one traveling through Trench? I’ll travel a little further, and maybe I’ll get a moment of rest tonight. I may have made a mistake, leaving. This spot, between two places, is beginning to feel like an endless and hopeless abyss. At least Dema is a place that I know, and at times like this, I miss a lot about what I know. This will all be much tougher than I imagined. Nothing out here is familiar. I’ve witnessed the presence of others for the first time today, and I feel more alone than ever. Cover me.
_maniac_Clay typed letter, not signed These campfires feel like home, as I stare deeply into them, finding more and more clarity. They tried to tell us we were different. But the flame that burns inside of me is the same fire I've found on the hilltops of Trench. The Banditos have lived their rebellion, and a resistance is growing inside the concrete walls - one powerful enough to burn out all of the stale teachings, and usher in true hope and a path to actual life. We march in the morning. The revolution shall arrive with the sun. |
2024.06.01 04:52 Upstairs-Pound-7205 The ugly duckling classroom.
I was responding to the post about Type B teachers and decided this was better to be a post all its own. I've been in the same classroom for over 10 years. It's a former woodshop, and it has a story that's important to me. This is a long story, but it would be worth reading if you are the type who likes a redemption arc.
TL:DR: I inherited a crazy hoard, and slowly cleaned it up.
To preface, I'm a type B person. I grew up in the house of a pack rat, and I adopted a lot of the same habits as a result. Once the amount of stuff I have gets to a certain point, I stop noticing the mess and it grows and grows. The only way that I keep organized is minimalism at this point: not only to make it easy to clean but also to lower the number of decisions I have to make on a given day.
When I got hired as a computer teacher, I got the woodshop as my room. You might be thinking, OoOoO, I'd love to have a woodshop! Wood floors, big room, what's not to love? Well no-one wanted that room. Why? Because it had been the place of 3 decades of hoarding and neglect.
Every square inch of the room was covered in graffiti. Every cabinet door was hanging on by a thread. Every lock was either broken or the latches were missing. Garbage was piled 4 feet high taking up 2/3s of the room. By garbage I mean a huge collection of broken objects that were clearly meant to be projects for the future by the well meaning woodshop teacher. Pieces of drawers, old dresser parts, massive rusted metal bookshelves, broken carts, rusted chicken wire. Sawdust filled every gap.
More than half the shelves were broken or bending under the immense weight of ancient textbooks, unfinished projects, random trinkets, sky high packets of paper, and ungraded student work. The old teacher had put up a homespun barricade in front of his hoard, and only using 1/3 of the room to teach. He was clearly only using hand tools because the machines were completely buried. That wood floor? Warping everywhere, with some boards sticking 3 inches out of the ground.
Attached to the room was a storage room, meant for hardware and lumber. There was just enough space to open a door about 2 feet and then climb over about a 5 foot high pile that filled the entire room. More projects that never got done, or jigs that were made for some long forgotten project that were kept just in case.
I opened my classroom computer case and found it choked with a layer of sawdust that felt like it was going to spontaneously combust. Ironically, the fire alarm was in a protective plastic casing, that was also choked full of sawdust. The only visible machine, the drill press, was used as a shelf for lesson packets. The room had two external walls that offered almost no insulation from the outdoors. In the summer it got stupid level hot in there because the closet contains a transformer that pukes heat. In the winter I would open the closet door to try to heat the room up, because the only other source of heat was a hot water blower fan that was located 15 ft up on the ceiling, and its power switch was - you guessed it - 15 feet up on the ceiling.
At one point the room had a drinking fountain that had been removed. There was a huge hole in the wall with pipes sticking out. To solve this, the previous occupant had bolted a long piece of corrugated sign board over it. This too, was of course, covered in drawings of phalluses and messages attesting to who was here and in what year.
So yeah, no-one wanted the room for a reason.
What was worse was it was the dumping ground for everyone else throughout the years. Staff had gotten used to offloading their damaged furniture/crap there. Sometimes I would come back and find a new gum-ridden folding table with a sheared off leg had been tucked behind the barricade.
The clean up
This took years.
Being a new teacher I was initially hesitant to just throw stuff away. What if I threw away something valuable? Something that someone was expecting back one day? I started by just vacuuming up sawdust and throwing out reams upon reams of paper packets. Many of them were stuck together with spilled finish and wood glue.
Eventually I got bolder. I got some super thick gloves and threw out anything that was heavily rusted. The old chicken wire, coffee cans full of nails and random screws. Wood that was loaded with bent rusted nails/screws. Then I threw out the broken porcelian, warped and cracked drawer parts. I coordinated with the custodians to pitch the tables/chairs with missing legs, snapped tops, etc. I managed to cobble together enough lock parts and hinge components to get 1 cabinet working and locking - I had to dig through the school to find a working key.
Over time, I eventually pitched the vast majority of the unfinished projects. I finished a few of them myself and gave them back to their respective owners who were frankly astonished to see them. I found 12 library books that had been checked out during the Dewey Decimal system/card catalog days - and the librarian was amazed that they still were intact. With the permission of the district/school I dispersed the student tools to custodial staff/maintainence who could better use them. I didn't need 20 hand saws for instance.
I repaired the drill press, the belt sander, 3 scroll saws and the band saw. The lathe was sadly beyond saving and apparently the table saw was long gone for some reason - though I am sure it pre-dated safety. Each of those tools went to maintainence.
It took a very long time to get rid of the paints, the finishes and other caustic crap. Massive red tape obviously. Eventually it was all gone though. The lumber got taken by another woodshop teacher, along with any remaining useable hardware.
I kept a small reserve of tools for myself for repairs and fabrication.
I remember when I finally reached the back of the room and took a heavy rusted bookshelf off of the shop counter. The counter was is in pristine condition - unlike the rest of the room. It had been buried long ago before the teacher had let kids get away with non-stop graffitti, carving, cutting and drilling into the hardwood tops.
With the room completely clear of crap, I began fixing/replacing all the broken cabinet hardware. I took out all the non-broken shelves and began scrubbing them down, along with the cabinets themselves and their doors. I repaired my desk, which of course had only one working drawer at first. Two were jammed and another was falling to pieces - held together by an improvised job using wire brads. I properly disassembled, scraped, sanded and glued/clamped the drawer and repaired the tracks on the other two.
I called in several work orders. The carpenters tried their best to salvage the wood floor but it was so warped that they ended up replacing sections with plywood. Not the best looking, but at least it was flat. I had the electrician remove the power cut off, since I didn't want a kid shutting off a room full of computers because he wanted to see what the big red buttons around the room did. The plumber capped the old fountain pipes behind the wall and the mason put a fresh coat wall section over it. The painters came in and did a full scale remediation over the summer of what could very well have been lead paint peeling all over the cieling. The HVAC guys cleaned out a metric f-ton of dust out of the duct work in my room, and now my room recieves proper heat and AC. Bear in mind this happened over a decade of time, not right away.
This year I finally managed to replace the last of the missing cabinet locks and got them all on a universal key. There were so many empty cabinets that I gave the space to the students to store their backpacks and jackets during class.
Every time a new teacher comes in and says "wow I wish this was my room" my across the hall co-worker says "you should have seen it when he got it." It is now a lab with multiple 3D printers, a dedicated repair station for electronics, and plenty of space for students to grab a laptop, pull up a chair and work together on coding, CAD, pretty much anything.
This summer my storage room will finally be cleared of the last of the crap. The school rotated its derelict and outdated computer gear in there for the last 4 years (since my storage was the only nearly empty one at the time). I figured if my storage was going to be the repository for any crap it may as well be computers that my students could take apart and learn from. However, that's all going away.
When I look back at this whole process, and really I only wrote a snippet of it here despite this being a Reddit book - I'm amazed that someone like me could even do this. I struggled cleaning my room as a kid. Now I conquered a mountainous horde and came out the other end with a minimalistic, clean room that is easy to maintain. It's weird how students respect a space that is already clean, and I've had way fewer instances of kids damaging the space or even leaving trash behind.
So this is the message to you type B people out there like me. You don't have to manage every little thing, just whittle it down to something you can handle and make things as simple as possible for yourself. You can do it.
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TL:DR: I inherited a crazy hoard, and slowly cleaned it up.
To preface, I'm a type B person. I grew up in the house of a pack rat, and I adopted a lot of the same habits as a result. Once the amount of stuff I have gets to a certain point, I stop noticing the mess and it grows and grows. The only way that I keep organized is minimalism at this point: not only to make it easy to clean but also to lower the number of decisions I have to make on a given day.
Every square inch of the room was covered in graffiti. Every cabinet door was hanging on by a thread. Every lock was either broken or the latches were missing. Garbage was piled 4 feet high taking up 2/3s of the room. By garbage I mean a huge collection of broken objects that were clearly meant to be projects for the future by the well meaning woodshop teacher. Pieces of drawers, old dresser parts, massive rusted metal bookshelves, broken carts, rusted chicken wire. Sawdust filled every gap.
More than half the shelves were broken or bending under the immense weight of ancient textbooks, unfinished projects, random trinkets, sky high packets of paper, and ungraded student work. The old teacher had put up a homespun barricade in front of his hoard, and only using 1/3 of the room to teach. He was clearly only using hand tools because the machines were completely buried. That wood floor? Warping everywhere, with some boards sticking 3 inches out of the ground.
I opened my classroom computer case and found it choked with a layer of sawdust that felt like it was going to spontaneously combust. Ironically, the fire alarm was in a protective plastic casing, that was also choked full of sawdust. The only visible machine, the drill press, was used as a shelf for lesson packets. The room had two external walls that offered almost no insulation from the outdoors. In the summer it got stupid level hot in there because the closet contains a transformer that pukes heat. In the winter I would open the closet door to try to heat the room up, because the only other source of heat was a hot water blower fan that was located 15 ft up on the ceiling, and its power switch was - you guessed it - 15 feet up on the ceiling.
At one point the room had a drinking fountain that had been removed. There was a huge hole in the wall with pipes sticking out. To solve this, the previous occupant had bolted a long piece of corrugated sign board over it. This too, was of course, covered in drawings of phalluses and messages attesting to who was here and in what year.
So yeah, no-one wanted the room for a reason.
What was worse was it was the dumping ground for everyone else throughout the years. Staff had gotten used to offloading their damaged furniture/crap there. Sometimes I would come back and find a new gum-ridden folding table with a sheared off leg had been tucked behind the barricade.
This took years.
Being a new teacher I was initially hesitant to just throw stuff away. What if I threw away something valuable? Something that someone was expecting back one day? I started by just vacuuming up sawdust and throwing out reams upon reams of paper packets. Many of them were stuck together with spilled finish and wood glue.
Eventually I got bolder. I got some super thick gloves and threw out anything that was heavily rusted. The old chicken wire, coffee cans full of nails and random screws. Wood that was loaded with bent rusted nails/screws. Then I threw out the broken porcelian, warped and cracked drawer parts. I coordinated with the custodians to pitch the tables/chairs with missing legs, snapped tops, etc. I managed to cobble together enough lock parts and hinge components to get 1 cabinet working and locking - I had to dig through the school to find a working key.
Over time, I eventually pitched the vast majority of the unfinished projects. I finished a few of them myself and gave them back to their respective owners who were frankly astonished to see them. I found 12 library books that had been checked out during the Dewey Decimal system/card catalog days - and the librarian was amazed that they still were intact. With the permission of the district/school I dispersed the student tools to custodial staff/maintainence who could better use them. I didn't need 20 hand saws for instance.
I repaired the drill press, the belt sander, 3 scroll saws and the band saw. The lathe was sadly beyond saving and apparently the table saw was long gone for some reason - though I am sure it pre-dated safety. Each of those tools went to maintainence.
It took a very long time to get rid of the paints, the finishes and other caustic crap. Massive red tape obviously. Eventually it was all gone though. The lumber got taken by another woodshop teacher, along with any remaining useable hardware.
I kept a small reserve of tools for myself for repairs and fabrication.
With the room completely clear of crap, I began fixing/replacing all the broken cabinet hardware. I took out all the non-broken shelves and began scrubbing them down, along with the cabinets themselves and their doors. I repaired my desk, which of course had only one working drawer at first. Two were jammed and another was falling to pieces - held together by an improvised job using wire brads. I properly disassembled, scraped, sanded and glued/clamped the drawer and repaired the tracks on the other two.
I called in several work orders. The carpenters tried their best to salvage the wood floor but it was so warped that they ended up replacing sections with plywood. Not the best looking, but at least it was flat. I had the electrician remove the power cut off, since I didn't want a kid shutting off a room full of computers because he wanted to see what the big red buttons around the room did. The plumber capped the old fountain pipes behind the wall and the mason put a fresh coat wall section over it. The painters came in and did a full scale remediation over the summer of what could very well have been lead paint peeling all over the cieling. The HVAC guys cleaned out a metric f-ton of dust out of the duct work in my room, and now my room recieves proper heat and AC. Bear in mind this happened over a decade of time, not right away.
Every time a new teacher comes in and says "wow I wish this was my room" my across the hall co-worker says "you should have seen it when he got it." It is now a lab with multiple 3D printers, a dedicated repair station for electronics, and plenty of space for students to grab a laptop, pull up a chair and work together on coding, CAD, pretty much anything.
This summer my storage room will finally be cleared of the last of the crap. The school rotated its derelict and outdated computer gear in there for the last 4 years (since my storage was the only nearly empty one at the time). I figured if my storage was going to be the repository for any crap it may as well be computers that my students could take apart and learn from. However, that's all going away.
So this is the message to you type B people out there like me. You don't have to manage every little thing, just whittle it down to something you can handle and make things as simple as possible for yourself. You can do it.
2024.06.01 02:21 Mysterious-Singer-16 Slip and fall - 26 weeks
Sitting here in the Labor & Delivery triage unit at my birthing hospital — after a not so lovely slip and fall today. 26 weeks and expecting a baby girl in September.
I went on a routine walk in the park as I usually do one daily, and was literally 100 ft from returning back home when I slipped on a small patch of uneven sidewalk. Thankfully, I caught the fall with my right elbow and knee, avoiding falling directly on the abdomen. I called my husband, mom, and then OB nurse in a panic. Especially since I didn’t feel baby kick probably until an hour or so after the fall. They recommended me to come in for observation.
Update: Baby is thankfully doing great, normal heartbeat and no contractions/signs of early labor or distress — all in all, I’m glad I decided to call my doctor and follow the advice to come to the hospital just to be sure. Was an emotional mess and sobbing my eyes out for a while, now I feel ok. Just a bit banged up from the fall, but everything is fine and I’m thankful that we’re doing alright. I ended up under observation for 4.5 hours before being discharged to go home.
*** I read previous slip and fall posts in this sub, and I’m glad that other moms ended up getting checked out as well. Hopefully this doesn’t happen to anyone expecting now but if so I definitely recommend getting evaluated, better to be safe then sorry. 🤗
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I went on a routine walk in the park as I usually do one daily, and was literally 100 ft from returning back home when I slipped on a small patch of uneven sidewalk. Thankfully, I caught the fall with my right elbow and knee, avoiding falling directly on the abdomen. I called my husband, mom, and then OB nurse in a panic. Especially since I didn’t feel baby kick probably until an hour or so after the fall. They recommended me to come in for observation.
Update: Baby is thankfully doing great, normal heartbeat and no contractions/signs of early labor or distress — all in all, I’m glad I decided to call my doctor and follow the advice to come to the hospital just to be sure. Was an emotional mess and sobbing my eyes out for a while, now I feel ok. Just a bit banged up from the fall, but everything is fine and I’m thankful that we’re doing alright. I ended up under observation for 4.5 hours before being discharged to go home.
*** I read previous slip and fall posts in this sub, and I’m glad that other moms ended up getting checked out as well. Hopefully this doesn’t happen to anyone expecting now but if so I definitely recommend getting evaluated, better to be safe then sorry. 🤗
2024.06.01 00:57 Powerful_Driver4382 Tandem Axle Bunk house, there has to be more options!
Help. I have been doing a lot of research on travel trailers, and we have a short list of trailers that somewhat suit our needs. However, I keep coming back to the trailer should really have Tandem Axle for towing safety. Below is a list of our needs and wants, but maybe someone can enlighten with my concerns for a single axle. So far the only trailer that comes close is the Micro Minnie 1800BH which seems to be scarce in Ontario.
We need a trailer that can sleep 4 comfortably that is accessible in road mode, bunks for kids, dry bathroom (ok with no sink), some storage, under 24 feet.
Would like it to be no slides, but willing to budge as long as we sleep and use the bathroom in road mode for long trips. 8 cu. Ft. Fridge or larger, hitch or bike rack over hitch.
We plan to do mostly boondock camping or long haul family trips, so lighter is good. Our tow vehicle can tow over 10,000 lbs but would like to be close to 5,000 lbs fully loaded (other gear in the truck).
The Geo Pro 19BH or the Keystone outback 17BH seem great other than they are single axles.
submitted by Powerful_Driver4382 to GoRVing [link] [comments]
We need a trailer that can sleep 4 comfortably that is accessible in road mode, bunks for kids, dry bathroom (ok with no sink), some storage, under 24 feet.
Would like it to be no slides, but willing to budge as long as we sleep and use the bathroom in road mode for long trips. 8 cu. Ft. Fridge or larger, hitch or bike rack over hitch.
We plan to do mostly boondock camping or long haul family trips, so lighter is good. Our tow vehicle can tow over 10,000 lbs but would like to be close to 5,000 lbs fully loaded (other gear in the truck).
The Geo Pro 19BH or the Keystone outback 17BH seem great other than they are single axles.
2024.05.31 23:44 Ecstatic-Ad-4124 I need help finding a Good-Decent chair!
Hello everybody! My main problem is that i've been searching for a ergonimic chair for quite a while now, and everyting that i find is either sold out or out of produciton, so i may need your guys help!
My conditions: -is a good mesh -the bottom is a foam of some sort -i am 180cm (5.10 ft) and ~70kg (~154lbs) so its need to fit me -it needs to have a head rest -preferable to be under 300 euro max 350 -it needs to ship to Romania (max 50 euro for shipping) (shipping can be calculated separately from the chair price) -and most importantly it needs to whitstand time (so decent build quality) and heavy usage
my finds for the past months were: - Sihoo M80d (is not in production + cheap quality) - Tircova (i cannot find it to Romania / where i find it it either sold out or does not ship) - Atlas (mainly same reasons as the tircova) these are mainly the chiars that have my conditions +-;
submitted by Ecstatic-Ad-4124 to OfficeChairs [link] [comments]
My conditions: -is a good mesh -the bottom is a foam of some sort -i am 180cm (5.10 ft) and ~70kg (~154lbs) so its need to fit me -it needs to have a head rest -preferable to be under 300 euro max 350 -it needs to ship to Romania (max 50 euro for shipping) (shipping can be calculated separately from the chair price) -and most importantly it needs to whitstand time (so decent build quality) and heavy usage
my finds for the past months were: - Sihoo M80d (is not in production + cheap quality) - Tircova (i cannot find it to Romania / where i find it it either sold out or does not ship) - Atlas (mainly same reasons as the tircova) these are mainly the chiars that have my conditions +-;
- I have search my main used markets (olx.ro and fb marketplace)
- I even found some steelcases and Herman Millers for under 350, but were beat up, and old gens, like very old
2024.05.31 21:58 DilloIsTaken My 1st time driving an S2000 in Japan. My thoughts on the experience.
 | https://preview.redd.it/t2so1o9w0t3d1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=520ee2272973cccc2e2a29bfaad3270ad9a69ea2 submitted by DilloIsTaken to Honda [link] [comments] For context, went to Japan this month and I wanted to experience the roads there so I rented a S2000 for a day from Omoshiro Rent-a-car. I know I could've picked a JDM-only car like a R34 GTR or a FD2 CTR but I wanted a car that's really fun to drive and has a lot of character. My sis also liked the idea of driving with the top-down so the S2000 fit the bill. Also, I picked the AP2 instead of the AP1 mainly because of the handling tweaks done to the AP2. Doing my research, the AP1 seems to be prone to snap-oversteer (light steering, snappy throttle). Also, I'm not really used to driving FR cars (only drove my friend's GT86 and E36 328i a few times); I mainly drive FF cars (my car is a 15' Civic Si FB6) so I don't wanna risk sliding the car by doing something stupid by mistake. Anyways let's get on the review! https://preview.redd.it/9ny0o3rlit3d1.png?width=511&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b58dda7d07a991e0b52e7038874abdb41fa875d Interior: Getting in it the 1st time, it does feel a bit claustrophobic especially with the roof up. My FB6 definitely feels like a hotel room in comparison to the size but it didn't hamper my driving that much and just got used to it eventually. Unfortunately though, you can only change the height and the position of the seat; you can't move the steering column which sucks a bit but it is what it is. The transmission tunnel also felt a bit too high and made shifting a bit uncomfortable for me. Also, the throttle pedal did feel a bit far from me but my car was also like that until I installed a pedal spacer. Overall though, it being a bit crampy does give it some character. Moving on to the seats, I watched a few vids saying they sucked but I was genuinely surprised that I liked them. I'm a bit past 5'10" and on the skinny side, and it didn't made me uncomfortable even driving for 3 hours. The bolsters held me pretty well going around the Hakone pass and they didn't dig at me during the drive. They do make it a bit hard getting in and out of the car but not a big deal. There isn't much features or buttons but that's not a bad thing. I love how everything is tailored towards just the driving experience and gives you no distractions whatsoever. I also love how driver-centric everything is. There's no BS here whatsoever. Stuff does rattle a lot in this car but I won't knock it down too much since it is a bit old. Also, the LCD gauge cluster is cool af. https://preview.redd.it/6heuv97k4t3d1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=06d157151d72c985417a2abbac39c2ae12c15843 Transmission: One of the things that people really hype this car for is its transmission and I would have to agree. The shifter has a short-throw with a satisfying notch to it, almost like a bolt-action. One thing though is that it shows how beginner-friendly the Civic Si is in comparison. My car has a bit of a longer throw and less feel to it. I love the shifter in my car but it does feel a bit of a plastic toy in comparison to this. Unfortunately though, I feel my experience was a bit hampered with it being a RHD car. I will acknowledge that this is purely skill issue on my part but I wasn't used to the hand placements with my left hand. I unfortunately did mis-shift a few times so I didn't drive the car as hard as I maybe should have. https://preview.redd.it/a4mrg3sr9t3d1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=b58199ec417feb625adf4950fa0b0ba9237040f5 Engine: This one had the F22C1 which outputs around 240 HP and 163 lb-ft of torque. In context, my car has the K24Z7 which only has VTEC on the intake side so this car is the 1st car I've driven with VTEC on both cams. My opinion on it is definitely controversial but I was a little disappointed with the engine personally. At low RPMs, it has this smooth induction noise till VTEC kicks at 6000 RPM and it screams all the way to 8000. While that is amazing, I wasn't doing that my whole drive so it felt like I was blueballing myself. You'd have to drive this car past 8/10s to really get all the fun out of the engine but as for me, I was a bit hesitant to really go hard since I was in unfamiliar territory. Under 6000 rpm, it just felt like nobody was home till VTEC kicks in. I know the K24Z7 isn't liked by a good amount of people but driving this really made me appreciate the K24. For me, it feels more of a balanced package with it being not too much of a dog to drive while still being rev-happy. Handling: This was probably the best aspect of the car for me. I feel like this set the bar for how a sports car should handle like cause goddamn it this car drove amazing around the corners. People weren't kidding on how this car drove like it was on rails even on really tight corners. You almost feel no understeer and it just wants to rotate all the time. The chassis, even though its a roadster, is tuned and reinforced so well; there's no flex or body roll in this car. The 4-corner double-wishbone setup, the x-bone frame and all the details does make a difference when driving this car. In conclusion, I understand why some people pay a lot to get this car because it's becoming such a rare breed now. A reliable sports-car that has so much character and is so fun to drive is getting so rare or becoming so pricy nowadays unfortunately. Interestingly though, I know the 9th gen isn't as liked but driving one of the most well-liked cars of all time and coming back to my car, I started appreciating the package that the 9th gen gives. In the future though, I would really love to have a S2000 as a 2nd car. Anyways, sorry for the long text. I might have gotten out of hand😅. I don't mind answering some questions regarding driving in Japan since it was definitely a daunting but interesting experience. TLDR: car very good. https://preview.redd.it/jisvrfarht3d1.png?width=2006&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ab97232acf0e81be1c5b7ec53ce3726fdf437dc |
2024.05.31 21:30 Key-Management4386 Need help finding boots to surprise my partner with! ASAP
Hi! My partner is early in their transition and is starting to experiment with their clothing style. I want them to feel comfortable and have fun exploring. We were looking together online for clothes for them to get, they were able to find and put together an outfit they really liked but every shoe option was too small. They were pretty deflated about that understandably. If you look under the men's section for what they're looking for, there's a lot less option than women's.
I am FTM, my shoe size in Women's is a 11. Anything past size 9 is pushing it as far as finding shoes in person. My partner's shoe size in Men's is 13. From what I'm seeing online, it sounds like that's about a Women's 14? I can't tell. Hence why I don't buy my shoes in mens sizes lol.
SO. What I'm looking for is the equivalent of a Men's 13. Trying to get it ASAP (amazon is fine) to surprise them with before Monday. I am looking for combat boots, I'll link specific ones they liked and hopefully someone can help me figure this out together!!
https://us.shein.com/ROMWE-Grunge-Punk-Sexy-Strappy-Backless-Halter-Neck-Mini-Dress-With-Circular-Cutouts-Bodycon-p-29922794.html?mallCode=1&imgRatio=3-4
Those are the shoes they were wanting originally. If you click the boots in the photo (at least on a computer) it will pop up ones like it.
https://www.amazon.com/Gothniero-Platform-Motorcycle-Buckles-Size5-5-10/dp/B0CK8PMQ9Z/ref=sr_1_19_sspa?crid=34IQI6B1TL2TR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.idrlslTwb994omVQZt8ul8tkp8M5M8v158ze49oUzbyqfHGLNUGGEIKLgfS6K1TwcW5YNSEnuho6XeRTgYjqwH9ADWSGK9ZlPm90V_IK40vz5AIHH87CnUx5dzBe2OjQhxBExU_gf6DUCNaJuP9kV-pZQxMXvtgr1jk7tMxGForrH4Xlkx2iV5VWN0omB_2N2dnSWeoQSS00pNk_weMTy3CLMInOsjiBXf6wLImlB8gbqJHILaSgjo-OEmswsy2Zp7X3R-26MYNwrVRqUJSf3yoWodD1dvetGeDC7LiwRsg.Yu_kD2HDlZsfBLiSAV8r7iZMYGQ5hkwH15-eCoqOfZ0&dib_tag=se&keywords=sexy+boots+platform+men&qid=1717182694&sprefix=sexy+boots+platform+men%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-19-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGY&psc=1
Also something like that. Any help is greatly appreciated and if anyone has any ideas on how to help them experiment or explore their gender identity it would be appreciated! Aside from surgery, I have transitioned and have been out for 2 years now. It felt like doors opened for me. I want them to feel like they have a safe comfortable space to express themselves (themself?) but also respect their journey as well and not push anything on them. The other part of me wants to try to hype them up to try a bunch of different clothes and stuff and suggestions and shit but it's not MY transition so.
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I am FTM, my shoe size in Women's is a 11. Anything past size 9 is pushing it as far as finding shoes in person. My partner's shoe size in Men's is 13. From what I'm seeing online, it sounds like that's about a Women's 14? I can't tell. Hence why I don't buy my shoes in mens sizes lol.
SO. What I'm looking for is the equivalent of a Men's 13. Trying to get it ASAP (amazon is fine) to surprise them with before Monday. I am looking for combat boots, I'll link specific ones they liked and hopefully someone can help me figure this out together!!
https://us.shein.com/ROMWE-Grunge-Punk-Sexy-Strappy-Backless-Halter-Neck-Mini-Dress-With-Circular-Cutouts-Bodycon-p-29922794.html?mallCode=1&imgRatio=3-4
Those are the shoes they were wanting originally. If you click the boots in the photo (at least on a computer) it will pop up ones like it.
https://www.amazon.com/Gothniero-Platform-Motorcycle-Buckles-Size5-5-10/dp/B0CK8PMQ9Z/ref=sr_1_19_sspa?crid=34IQI6B1TL2TR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.idrlslTwb994omVQZt8ul8tkp8M5M8v158ze49oUzbyqfHGLNUGGEIKLgfS6K1TwcW5YNSEnuho6XeRTgYjqwH9ADWSGK9ZlPm90V_IK40vz5AIHH87CnUx5dzBe2OjQhxBExU_gf6DUCNaJuP9kV-pZQxMXvtgr1jk7tMxGForrH4Xlkx2iV5VWN0omB_2N2dnSWeoQSS00pNk_weMTy3CLMInOsjiBXf6wLImlB8gbqJHILaSgjo-OEmswsy2Zp7X3R-26MYNwrVRqUJSf3yoWodD1dvetGeDC7LiwRsg.Yu_kD2HDlZsfBLiSAV8r7iZMYGQ5hkwH15-eCoqOfZ0&dib_tag=se&keywords=sexy+boots+platform+men&qid=1717182694&sprefix=sexy+boots+platform+men%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-19-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGY&psc=1
Also something like that. Any help is greatly appreciated and if anyone has any ideas on how to help them experiment or explore their gender identity it would be appreciated! Aside from surgery, I have transitioned and have been out for 2 years now. It felt like doors opened for me. I want them to feel like they have a safe comfortable space to express themselves (themself?) but also respect their journey as well and not push anything on them. The other part of me wants to try to hype them up to try a bunch of different clothes and stuff and suggestions and shit but it's not MY transition so.
2024.05.31 20:05 rocknroller2000 Replacement receiver and surround,atmos,speaker recommendations needed
 | Current system Sharp lc-60le830u lcd tv Denon 1612 5.1 (older non atmos) avr Jbl venue stadium towers (2) Cambridge soundworks "the surround" by henry kloss surrounds (2) Cerwin vega ht101 sub Cerwin vega ls-6c center win 11 pc hosting tv/movie files on a plex server Nvidia sheild pro running plex viewer submitted by rocknroller2000 to hometheater [link] [comments] Room is a two story (approximately 21 ft) with the cambridge side surrounds forced to be mounted near 1st floor ceiling level due to Room archway on one side and window obstruction on the other. (Pics 2 and 3)Those speakers are 30 years old bought back when I had a townhouse so I plan to replace them with some angled or adjustable mount type type speaker. My seating positions are far enough away and the kloss cabinets have side firing tweeters so the sound is actually pretty good, if not entirely spatialy acurate. I've lived with it this way for the past 25 years in the current house so addressing it right now is certainly not a crisis though recommendations for reasonably priced (budget friendly) replacements that cam be better directed to the seating positions would be appreciated. Really prefer to stay under $200 per speaker as it's hard to justify more given I already have a working solution for those. ***My actual primary dilemma is the receiver is starting to have hdmi port issues so trying to decide the best replacement approach. I'm leaning towards the denons, since that is what I have been using for a long time and I'm comfortable with them and their overall quality. I also like yamaha and have been using that brand in another room for decades. I used to buy, repair and resell audio equipment, and my personal experience is that i really dont care for Marantz and onkyo. Ive seen way to many failures and recalls (especially onkyo) so im going to stay away from those. I don't need any flash features (wifi,multiroom,etc.) I'll definitely be getting atmos capable one but the related speaker choices I see in front of me are 1) add 2 rear surrounds. There was some previous lighting (removed) but the cabling coverings are still present and could be partially reused (pic 4) 2) add 2 wall mounted front height speakers 3) add 2 front-ish atmos speakers . These would have to be mounted under the overhang in the front half of the room. There is some unused legacy lightingand cable covering that could removed and the speakers located in its place (pic1) Which do you think give me the most bang for the buck in terms of added sound improvement from just 2 more |
2024.05.31 19:49 TwentyCharacters_Max First age and gender, then read description lol
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FVf4CQ08j7hSnwvudH9M2CaXFgHfuUo1
Link is for I think about 5 pictures, background is censored and in some there are color filters, but no other filters that alter my shape or features in any way. No make up in any of them either.
I assume by now you've seen them and probably thought of an age and gender for me, so type that out first if possible.
OKAAAY now I can say it. I'm 19, FtM, trans dude, 5'4 or 162cm and stopped growing a while ago. I don't know what to improve upon to help pass better. I'm closeted in public so my hair is long, and I tuck it under a beanie when in private/with friends or partner, so sorryzz, can't take it off. Considering this, what haircut do you suggest for my face shape, for when I can finally cut it off in a few months? I think something too short will make my face too round, and long hair is, well, long hair. Any suggestion is welcome!
I'm pre-T and pre-top surgery. Do you guys think either of those will help? Do I have any chance or is my body/face too feminine to ever pass even with medical transition? Is it over for me or nah?
My voice passes well, many many people who never seen me personally "mistake" me for a boy (euphoria!).
My body just sucks though. I'm a 26D (which the binder doesn't make flat) and a very small waist, and huuuuuge hips. Believe me or not, losing weight won't help much because I'm on the borderline between underweight and healthy weight, I've been thinner and my body was still hourglassy. I can literally feel and see my hips so my bones are just fucked up. I also tend to have thick thighs due to a genetic thing so yay I'm always losing haha (fml).
I gain muscle quite quickly, I'm just dysphoric to go to the gym because my mom insists to make the personal trainers only train my legs which... needless to say I don't need them to be any thicker. I'll definitely work out when I start T tho.
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Link is for I think about 5 pictures, background is censored and in some there are color filters, but no other filters that alter my shape or features in any way. No make up in any of them either.
I assume by now you've seen them and probably thought of an age and gender for me, so type that out first if possible.
OKAAAY now I can say it. I'm 19, FtM, trans dude, 5'4 or 162cm and stopped growing a while ago. I don't know what to improve upon to help pass better. I'm closeted in public so my hair is long, and I tuck it under a beanie when in private/with friends or partner, so sorryzz, can't take it off. Considering this, what haircut do you suggest for my face shape, for when I can finally cut it off in a few months? I think something too short will make my face too round, and long hair is, well, long hair. Any suggestion is welcome!
I'm pre-T and pre-top surgery. Do you guys think either of those will help? Do I have any chance or is my body/face too feminine to ever pass even with medical transition? Is it over for me or nah?
My voice passes well, many many people who never seen me personally "mistake" me for a boy (euphoria!).
My body just sucks though. I'm a 26D (which the binder doesn't make flat) and a very small waist, and huuuuuge hips. Believe me or not, losing weight won't help much because I'm on the borderline between underweight and healthy weight, I've been thinner and my body was still hourglassy. I can literally feel and see my hips so my bones are just fucked up. I also tend to have thick thighs due to a genetic thing so yay I'm always losing haha (fml).
I gain muscle quite quickly, I'm just dysphoric to go to the gym because my mom insists to make the personal trainers only train my legs which... needless to say I don't need them to be any thicker. I'll definitely work out when I start T tho.
2024.05.31 17:08 United_Zebra9938 Advice: I want to do better as a parent
Due to a lot of my personal actions and inactions (not deliberately) I set my son up to fail and I am trying to correct the course to create a strong bridge between home and school. I am being vulnerable and transparent here. My first attempts at working with the school left a sour taste in my mouth but I'm still trying.
TLD Background about my 3rd grade ADHD son's issues, how I and the school dropped the ball in intervention, what I'm trying to do moving forward, am I expecting too much, what can I do bettewhat are my options moving forward.
Location: Columbus, OH. Columbus City Schools.
Me 33F (Mom):
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TLD Background about my 3rd grade ADHD son's issues, how I and the school dropped the ball in intervention, what I'm trying to do moving forward, am I expecting too much, what can I do bettewhat are my options moving forward.
Location: Columbus, OH. Columbus City Schools.
Me 33F (Mom):
- Single mom, 12 yr military (now veteran), ADHD diagnosed @ 29 & medicated.
- I used electronics with my son (8) to be able to get through life, now he is addicted.
- I didn't try hard enough to make home a learning place. I know the things I should have done. I have all the knowledge & skills to apply them and I didn't. But if you know the spoon theory, I had 2 spoons when life required 15 from me; it was rough and I was alone. I have been out of the military since Nov 22 and through that confusing time, I'm finally coming around to having the capacity to put forth more effort. I also go to school full time.
- He made zero progress in 3rd grade and failed his state & I-ready tests in order to go on to 4th grade.
- He will be going to a summer school and has the chance to retake his test at the end of the program to be advanced to 4th grade. I have no qualms about him staying in 3rd but somehow the student portal is showing he was advanced to 4th without me signing the paperwork I was told was needed to do this.
- Diagnosed ADHD early May. First try of medication made zero difference, follow up in June. He has dealt with symptoms for a while but wouldn't participate in therapy. I finally decided to pursue diagnosis and medication due to the difference it made in my life.
- School: calls home weekly, a huge disruption in class (there's a group of them and the teacher spent too much time trying to control them instead of teach, I truly, honestly feel bad for her), can't concentrate & distracted easily, "refuses" to do his work, big emotions (cries/bangs head on wall/"I'm stupid"/"I want to die") when he can't do something/makes a mistake/is redirected. There's more but for purpose of length...
- "Refuses" When I said this the school quickly said "that has nothing to do with ADHD". I had to explain he wasn't being defiant and that it was his self-esteem. When he has a writing assignment and time is up, there's nothing on his paper. How I see it is he can't concentrate, he's not retaining the information needed to do the assignment because he can't concentrate, he gets overwhelmed /frustrated when it's time to work because he doesn't understand, and when he can't understand how to do the work he sees it as a mistake, he thinks he's stupid. So therefore, in his child mind, if he doesn't do the work, then he can't make a mistake and then he won't feel bad about himself. Correct me if I'm wrong.
- Home: When he did have homework, I could see he retained a possible 5% from school. I would walk through problems with patience and reassurance if he asked for help which normally would lead to the big emotions listed above. I would give up with him at times, normally around the 45 min mark. I also had a hard time helping because I didn't know how it was taught in class and I ended up confusing him. I have signs everywhere "flush the toilet when your'e done" "turn off the lights when you're done" "your towel goes here" which he helped create, but he doesn't do them and when I remind him and explain to him that it's okay he forgot, we all make mistakes, I'm just reminding you = big emotions.
- He knows right from wrong and what's expected of him because we talk about it all the time. He experiences extreme remorse and it appears that he feels horrible for acting out but can't control it.
- Yes I know the electronics played apart in his inability to regulate, I'm working on a plan to slowly taper him off.
- When seeking diagnosis, his doctor provided a letter for me to give to the school requesting 504/IEP eval. In February, district psychologist called, explained why a 504 would be better, which led to me declining an evaluation. She sent a follow up email the next day letting me know the 504 coordinator from his school would contact me but didn't provide her contact info.
- At the same time, the teacher was sent an evaluation form (Vanderbilt) from doctor. The receptionist at the school "couldn't" get the fax to send. After trying to figure out what was going on and questioning about a 504 meeting, the teacher finally got the form sent to the doctor in mid April and also forwarded my question about a meeting to the school's 504 coordinator.
- After a meeting with the principal at a family night (last week) about all the 3rd graders who failed, I asked again about a 504 meeting. I got a call the next day to schedule the meeting.
- Wednesday I had a meeting with the coordinator and teacher and we came up with a few accommodations to try out and put on a 504. Things we came up with (I haven't seen the paper plan yet): daily behavior reports (that I am creating with a home reward system), teacher class notes for take home, able to stand in designated space while working and noise cancelling headphone for independent work, verbal/private cues for redirection from teacher & providing me a teacher workbook so I can see what & how things are being taught to I can help more at home. Different seating didn't work. Teacher tried a project board away from the desk to act as a partition but it didn't work and he felt sad/excluded. I then found out he completed a writing assignment by sitting under the teacher's desk.
- I asked about IEP because some of the request I made weren't 504 applicable. Extra time on test (which helps me tremendously in college), smaller class sizes, behavioral intervention, more detailed instruction & one-on-one help and I named a few others but I forget. I wanted a more intense intervention so we can get him (and me) on track and so we can build the skills now and not struggle for years. The agreement was to get the 504, get on a more helpful level of medication, take the 504 to summer school, create a strong communication relationship with who is teaching him & make more effort at home on my part. I think it's a great plan even though I want more than what is being offered. It'll get us a baseline of data and see what does and doesn't work but my stubbornness wants more. If this makes me sound like an entitled parent let me know.
- I have zero faith in his school and I feel like they dropped the ball and I do not want to work with them further, just waiting on the 504 doc to sign. Through school choice lottery, he was selected to go to an alternative traditional school next term. I'm waiting on an email response so I can talk more about the school and my son and what resources they have that could support us all in correcting the course.
- I reached out to a parent-2-parent support program through the state and have been matched, waiting on initial contact from the parent. I know a lot of what I wrote here I will talk with them, but I always like to get multiple perspectives and I appreciate the time you all dedicate to this forum.
- Research, research, research. I'm trying my best to balance my full workload and being fully committed to advocating for my son but I'm not an expert and I have a lot on my plate.
- Coming up with a plan to taper off electronics, make them a reward along with progress reports cards with goals that me, the teacheschool and my son can all collaborate on.
- A learning corner in the home and a schedule for us to learn together.
- Looking at schools that support more with social/behavioacademic intervention but 2 require IEP & referral from district and 2 are $30k plus and I've missed financial aid apps and state scholarships require IEP. One of the schools actually teaches the child at their pace to ensure mastery of subjects before moving on, not based on grade level and it saddens me that these options are out of reach for him because I'm not wealthy. But, I'm still looking.
- Am I doing anything wrong?
- Expecting too much?
- Acting entitled?
- Misunderstanding anything?
- Are there financial tuition resources for kids without IEPs?
- Should I just play the long game or is intense intervention a reasonable request?
- How can I ensure that 504 is being followed?
2024.05.31 16:08 peachy_ricky New Indoor Olive Tree Help
 | Hi all. I ordered an olive tree from Home Depot a few weeks ago and it seems to be dropping at least a few leaves everyday. What’s puzzling to me is it seems to be dropping healthy looking, green leaves instead of the leaves turning brown and falling like I’d expect if it was being under or over watered. I’ve watered lightly once a week since I got it. I’m suspecting it’s because even though we have the full spectrum grow lamp above it, this is still less sun than it was grown in outdoors. Any tips would be appreciated to keep this thing alive! For reference it is about 2.5 ft tall at the moment. submitted by peachy_ricky to plantclinic [link] [comments] |
2024.05.31 11:13 anibele I’m 17 and I have no idea how to start my life. Please help me.
This is honestly a final cry because I have nobody near me to speak to, I’m at such a loss for what to do. To sum things up, I applied to uni under a deferred entry but I hate all the unis I chose and my parents are unsupportive in me going at all, wanting me to pursue work full time instead to move out / support myself, I don’t know what career I want and my life feels over before it’s even began.
Right now, I’m taking a gap year as I received a full scholarship under the Asia Kakehashi program to study in Japan for four months. My friends all think I’m thinking too far ahead, but what the hell am I gonna do after those four months? I know that makes me sound dumb, but please hear me out, I’m desperate.
I’m 17 years old and I want to pursue further education, but my parents are incredibly unsupportive due to the money aspect of it. My mother and father never went to University, nobody in my family have ever gone, and nobody in my family wants to go nor wants me to go— they’re actively against it.
When I told my mother I was pursuing further education to get my A levels it was awful, I’ve never seen her so angry. I’ve still gone off to do my A levels and have, so far, received 5 A grades at AS level and 2 As at A2 level (still waiting for my results for the other three, but I’m thinking I’ll get A’s overall). I got 14 As and 2 A’s at GCSE.
I feel like it’s all such a waste. I feel like I’m wasting my potential. I’ve got all of this going for me, I’ve got a scholarship to JAPAN ffs, and absolutely nowhere to place it. I feel like no place is going to want to take me on because I have no idea what I want to do and when I tell people they just tell me to ‘do anything’ and I really don’t think people realise how difficult that is without any parental support or money. Realistically, grades mean nothing, and I never realised how much money would hold me back in life.
I’ve spent the past two years working on my university application and applying to Uni’s and I received unconditional offers from 3/5 of them, but after going to see them I just hate what they had to offer. I went through some stupid phase of wanting to go to city universities, and it’s just not me at all. I applied to Manchester and Birmingham and Royal Holloway but again, after seeing them, I just hated it. I need to make a decision by the end of this week and it makes me physically sick thinking about it, as I have exams too. I also physically can’t afford to go. Yes, I can get student loans and grants, but my parents are offering no help and I’m doing my absolute best working part time to obtain money but it’s not enough.
If I’m gonna be in debt, I want to go to the perfect place, I can’t afford to waste this opportunity, and I think that’s why I’m struggling so much. This is THE opportunity, it’s defying my parents wishes, if I’m going to go all out I need to make sure I love the place I’m going to, or else what am I gonna do as a backup? But at the same time I feel like I can’t go somewhere local because, again, what a waste. All these grades just to stay at home. Idk.
I’m creative, so I want to go into film, set design, media or art of any kind. I cant work in a job that isn’t around people, which is why I’ve opted out of animation. Cant stand the idea of being on my own and drawing all day. My only shot is to get a scholarship somewhere and I think I have the potential for it with my personality, experience and grades, but I just don’t know where or how or who to reach out to and it’s killing me inside. I feel like if I do an apprenticeship I’ll miss out on so much, because everyone talks about how uni is the best time of your life.
Honestly I’m tempted to just drop out entirely and study business in college and open up a shop or some shit. It’s so cliche, but that’s my ACTUAL dream, just owning my own place and having my own rules. A couple months back I wrote up a massive document detailing the brand, potential names, I designed potential logos, did research into legal and what I would need to get started but it would be so much more expensive than just biting the bullet and going to school again. Renting a place or buying a property, renovating, getting a permit and training staff, etc. I know school is kind of an easy way out but i feel like I NEED to put my grades to use, otherwise what was the point in it all?
I just want to reject all my offers, crawl into a hole and give up. I have nobody to help me figure things out or help me apply and I’ve tried doing so much research but I just can’t find anywhere. All my friends are going away and I feel so lonely and tired and isolated and stupid and useless. It doesn’t matter what I have going for me if I can’t use it.
I don’t really know what I expect from posting this but I was just hoping someone out there would be able to relate and she’d some light on how they pulled themselves out of this rabbit hole. I just want to settle, but my mind won’t let me. Please help.
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Right now, I’m taking a gap year as I received a full scholarship under the Asia Kakehashi program to study in Japan for four months. My friends all think I’m thinking too far ahead, but what the hell am I gonna do after those four months? I know that makes me sound dumb, but please hear me out, I’m desperate.
I’m 17 years old and I want to pursue further education, but my parents are incredibly unsupportive due to the money aspect of it. My mother and father never went to University, nobody in my family have ever gone, and nobody in my family wants to go nor wants me to go— they’re actively against it.
When I told my mother I was pursuing further education to get my A levels it was awful, I’ve never seen her so angry. I’ve still gone off to do my A levels and have, so far, received 5 A grades at AS level and 2 As at A2 level (still waiting for my results for the other three, but I’m thinking I’ll get A’s overall). I got 14 As and 2 A’s at GCSE.
I feel like it’s all such a waste. I feel like I’m wasting my potential. I’ve got all of this going for me, I’ve got a scholarship to JAPAN ffs, and absolutely nowhere to place it. I feel like no place is going to want to take me on because I have no idea what I want to do and when I tell people they just tell me to ‘do anything’ and I really don’t think people realise how difficult that is without any parental support or money. Realistically, grades mean nothing, and I never realised how much money would hold me back in life.
I’ve spent the past two years working on my university application and applying to Uni’s and I received unconditional offers from 3/5 of them, but after going to see them I just hate what they had to offer. I went through some stupid phase of wanting to go to city universities, and it’s just not me at all. I applied to Manchester and Birmingham and Royal Holloway but again, after seeing them, I just hated it. I need to make a decision by the end of this week and it makes me physically sick thinking about it, as I have exams too. I also physically can’t afford to go. Yes, I can get student loans and grants, but my parents are offering no help and I’m doing my absolute best working part time to obtain money but it’s not enough.
If I’m gonna be in debt, I want to go to the perfect place, I can’t afford to waste this opportunity, and I think that’s why I’m struggling so much. This is THE opportunity, it’s defying my parents wishes, if I’m going to go all out I need to make sure I love the place I’m going to, or else what am I gonna do as a backup? But at the same time I feel like I can’t go somewhere local because, again, what a waste. All these grades just to stay at home. Idk.
I’m creative, so I want to go into film, set design, media or art of any kind. I cant work in a job that isn’t around people, which is why I’ve opted out of animation. Cant stand the idea of being on my own and drawing all day. My only shot is to get a scholarship somewhere and I think I have the potential for it with my personality, experience and grades, but I just don’t know where or how or who to reach out to and it’s killing me inside. I feel like if I do an apprenticeship I’ll miss out on so much, because everyone talks about how uni is the best time of your life.
Honestly I’m tempted to just drop out entirely and study business in college and open up a shop or some shit. It’s so cliche, but that’s my ACTUAL dream, just owning my own place and having my own rules. A couple months back I wrote up a massive document detailing the brand, potential names, I designed potential logos, did research into legal and what I would need to get started but it would be so much more expensive than just biting the bullet and going to school again. Renting a place or buying a property, renovating, getting a permit and training staff, etc. I know school is kind of an easy way out but i feel like I NEED to put my grades to use, otherwise what was the point in it all?
I just want to reject all my offers, crawl into a hole and give up. I have nobody to help me figure things out or help me apply and I’ve tried doing so much research but I just can’t find anywhere. All my friends are going away and I feel so lonely and tired and isolated and stupid and useless. It doesn’t matter what I have going for me if I can’t use it.
I don’t really know what I expect from posting this but I was just hoping someone out there would be able to relate and she’d some light on how they pulled themselves out of this rabbit hole. I just want to settle, but my mind won’t let me. Please help.
2024.05.31 04:52 fruity_soda How can I change my mindset to want to pursue excellence?
Hi everyone.
Very happy that sghenry is created. Compared to SGFI, it seems to be a safe space for me to start this thread without getting flamed (hopefully). I’ve been feeling a general sense of malaise for many years and it seems to be caused by my lack of motivation to grind and pursue excellence in anything that I do. This has been the theme of my life since young. Why study so hard to be cream of the crop/get scholarship (etc) when I can be above average with moderate effort? Why put in effort to train at sports/win championships when I can run around with my friends? Why hustle at work when I can earn above average income with moderate effort? Why work out so hard to achieve a model appearance when a basic 30-45 mins workout (4-5 times a week) can allow me to more or less maintain my physique? Why put in so much effort to learn the technicalities of investment when I can follow boring generic investment advice and execute through automation? I’m nearing my mid 30s, and have always picked the path of least stress/resistance. I live like a moderately-rich college student (paradoxical) without the stress of exams. I mostly spend on food (salads, avo on toasts, overpriced beverages, etc), peace of mind, health and convenience. If it’s not a vice and if it cannot bankrupt me, I just do it. As for luxury goods or other material possessions - nope, too stressful. Travel? I still travel about 2-3 times a years but it's getting mehhh. I travelled quite a bit when young and all the cities are starting to feel the same to me. Travelling is also kinda stressful tbh. I also don’t have kids because it is probably stressful. Even my job is not really stressful - by the stroke of luck I’ve landed myself a generally braindead and cushy job (individual contributor, no direct reports, sure there are occasional crunch times but I don’t work more than 3-4 hours a day on average, mostly don’t go into the office even though I’m supposed to as my manager is overseas anyway). I’ve more or less accepted the fact that I’m basically unemployable if I were to lose this job - I don't have the physical or mental will to look for new job or to (gasp) commute to work everyday or most days. It is quite scary but somehow still doesn’t light a fire under my ass. While not at the FI level that I want to be, I have about 27 years of annual expenses at moderate level expenditure saved/invested (excluding CPF). My husband loves to work - he is happy to pay for the mortgage and most dates/things. Anyway, our monthly mortgage is low and I can pay off the entire mortgage on my own if push comes to shove and will still have 2 decades of savings/investments remaining.
Of course, I’m not under any illusion that I would achieve a prestigious scholarship, obscenely high-paying job, Victoria Secrets body or high passive income if I had put in the effort. My point is that I don’t even try. I'm somehow so easily content to live in a middling way. I can’t find any motivation to put in the effort because: (1) I probably don’t desire the outcome that much and (2) the outcome doesn’t seem to be worth hard work. I feel like I’m operating at 50% capacity in terms of effort, and spend the rest of my energy/time idling and puttering about. I am really good at wasting time although I also know that time you enjoy wasting is probably not wasted.
I’m not depressed or anything (or at least I hope I'm not). While I'm generally happy go lucky (most people would have that impression of me and I also view myself this way), I really admire and am lowkey envious of people who are striving towards goals (it doesn't even need to be monetary)! How can I change my mindset? How can I find something to strive towards? How can I want to strive towards excellence in something?
The crowd here seems to be a motivated bunch - please enlighten me!
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Very happy that sghenry is created. Compared to SGFI, it seems to be a safe space for me to start this thread without getting flamed (hopefully). I’ve been feeling a general sense of malaise for many years and it seems to be caused by my lack of motivation to grind and pursue excellence in anything that I do. This has been the theme of my life since young. Why study so hard to be cream of the crop/get scholarship (etc) when I can be above average with moderate effort? Why put in effort to train at sports/win championships when I can run around with my friends? Why hustle at work when I can earn above average income with moderate effort? Why work out so hard to achieve a model appearance when a basic 30-45 mins workout (4-5 times a week) can allow me to more or less maintain my physique? Why put in so much effort to learn the technicalities of investment when I can follow boring generic investment advice and execute through automation? I’m nearing my mid 30s, and have always picked the path of least stress/resistance. I live like a moderately-rich college student (paradoxical) without the stress of exams. I mostly spend on food (salads, avo on toasts, overpriced beverages, etc), peace of mind, health and convenience. If it’s not a vice and if it cannot bankrupt me, I just do it. As for luxury goods or other material possessions - nope, too stressful. Travel? I still travel about 2-3 times a years but it's getting mehhh. I travelled quite a bit when young and all the cities are starting to feel the same to me. Travelling is also kinda stressful tbh. I also don’t have kids because it is probably stressful. Even my job is not really stressful - by the stroke of luck I’ve landed myself a generally braindead and cushy job (individual contributor, no direct reports, sure there are occasional crunch times but I don’t work more than 3-4 hours a day on average, mostly don’t go into the office even though I’m supposed to as my manager is overseas anyway). I’ve more or less accepted the fact that I’m basically unemployable if I were to lose this job - I don't have the physical or mental will to look for new job or to (gasp) commute to work everyday or most days. It is quite scary but somehow still doesn’t light a fire under my ass. While not at the FI level that I want to be, I have about 27 years of annual expenses at moderate level expenditure saved/invested (excluding CPF). My husband loves to work - he is happy to pay for the mortgage and most dates/things. Anyway, our monthly mortgage is low and I can pay off the entire mortgage on my own if push comes to shove and will still have 2 decades of savings/investments remaining.
Of course, I’m not under any illusion that I would achieve a prestigious scholarship, obscenely high-paying job, Victoria Secrets body or high passive income if I had put in the effort. My point is that I don’t even try. I'm somehow so easily content to live in a middling way. I can’t find any motivation to put in the effort because: (1) I probably don’t desire the outcome that much and (2) the outcome doesn’t seem to be worth hard work. I feel like I’m operating at 50% capacity in terms of effort, and spend the rest of my energy/time idling and puttering about. I am really good at wasting time although I also know that time you enjoy wasting is probably not wasted.
I’m not depressed or anything (or at least I hope I'm not). While I'm generally happy go lucky (most people would have that impression of me and I also view myself this way), I really admire and am lowkey envious of people who are striving towards goals (it doesn't even need to be monetary)! How can I change my mindset? How can I find something to strive towards? How can I want to strive towards excellence in something?
The crowd here seems to be a motivated bunch - please enlighten me!
2024.05.31 04:47 Downtown-Error Keep or Sell Rental Property - Giant Sinkhole
Hi everyone, my husband (25M) and I (26F) own a condo that we rent out and are in a bit of an odd situation and we aren’t sure if we should keep the condo or sell it. Some background: we started renting the condo out about 2 years ago, the tenants are great and have had no complaints about this whole situation thus far. Their renewal is up in 2 months and if they stay and we don’t decide to sell we will not be increasing their rent.
Approx. 2 years ago we became aware of a sinkhole in the neighboring street to our unit. The street the sinkhole is in is still within the complex of the condos and thus the responsibility of the homeowners to repair. The sinkhole is due to a breakdown of the storm drain tanks that are under the complex. Apparently there are 9 tanks in total, each about 300ft long and 8ft in diameter, so MASSIVE tanks. The one tank that is beneath the sinkhole is ENTIRELY corroded and needs to be replaced. Another tank on the other side of the complex is also in need of replacement but hasn’t caused a sinkhole yet. And ALL 7 other tanks are in some degree of decay and need to be repaired or replaced. The complex was built in 2007 so less than 20 years old and it is assumed that these tanks are about that old as well.
Over the next 2 years, the property management company that manages the condo and the HOA board of directors, has dragged their feet in addressing the issue. First, when it was discovered that these tanks were in total disrepair they said “we didn’t know that there were storm drain tanks under the units and therefore we had no way of knowing we needed to maintain them.” Second, when they got quotes to do the repairs on the tank they dragged their feet so long on calling a vote to pay for the quote (more on this in a second) that the quotes expired. Third, they have yet to even call a vote - which they need to do to take out a loan on all of our behalf to pay for the repairs ($3 million approx.). My husband and I have attended every board meeting over the past 2 years so we know that it has just been slow and negligence. Also, no communication via email or signs for those that can’t attend the meeting.
This brings us to today - they have started construction on the first tank where the sink hole has been growing steadily over the past 2 years and is now probably larger than a car. They started construction because it was deemed a safety hazard (it is about 4 ft from someone’s garage) and to fund it have pulled the money from the communities reserves, depleting the reserves (approx $600k). They are still in progress on the construction and will be for the next 7-8 weeks. Then at that point they will still some day need to call a vote to fund the rest of them, whether it is via a loan (and each unit would be responsible for $20k - could be financed over 5 years maybe) or via raising dues (our monthly HOA payments are already $250/month).
Here is our question, do we keep the condo or get out while we can?
We have about $190k left on the loan and we make about $300/month profit (after current HOA dues and mortgage), it looks like other condos in the complex have been selling for around $300k right now. But this was before construction, and I am worried that a) we will have to disclose the full situation and b) most loans will need the condo to be good financial standing ie. have a reserve fund to approve the loans (this was even an issue back when we bought the condo originally). Or do we keep it as a rental property as we have planned for the next 40+ years (hopefully will be a good bit of retirement fund at that point) and just deal with the headache for the time being. Never having been in this situation, we are struggling to see the forest through the trees and knowing if things are going to get better or WAY worse and we would have wished we sold. I think our current worst case scenario is if they raise dues to like $500+ a monthly to pay back the reserves and pay off the rest of the tanks - who would be willing to buy a house with that kind of HOA, and should we try to sell before that happens?
No one in our family has rental properties and no one has dealt with an HOA/property management situation like this before that we know of.
Would love to hear what others would do in our situation!
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Approx. 2 years ago we became aware of a sinkhole in the neighboring street to our unit. The street the sinkhole is in is still within the complex of the condos and thus the responsibility of the homeowners to repair. The sinkhole is due to a breakdown of the storm drain tanks that are under the complex. Apparently there are 9 tanks in total, each about 300ft long and 8ft in diameter, so MASSIVE tanks. The one tank that is beneath the sinkhole is ENTIRELY corroded and needs to be replaced. Another tank on the other side of the complex is also in need of replacement but hasn’t caused a sinkhole yet. And ALL 7 other tanks are in some degree of decay and need to be repaired or replaced. The complex was built in 2007 so less than 20 years old and it is assumed that these tanks are about that old as well.
Over the next 2 years, the property management company that manages the condo and the HOA board of directors, has dragged their feet in addressing the issue. First, when it was discovered that these tanks were in total disrepair they said “we didn’t know that there were storm drain tanks under the units and therefore we had no way of knowing we needed to maintain them.” Second, when they got quotes to do the repairs on the tank they dragged their feet so long on calling a vote to pay for the quote (more on this in a second) that the quotes expired. Third, they have yet to even call a vote - which they need to do to take out a loan on all of our behalf to pay for the repairs ($3 million approx.). My husband and I have attended every board meeting over the past 2 years so we know that it has just been slow and negligence. Also, no communication via email or signs for those that can’t attend the meeting.
This brings us to today - they have started construction on the first tank where the sink hole has been growing steadily over the past 2 years and is now probably larger than a car. They started construction because it was deemed a safety hazard (it is about 4 ft from someone’s garage) and to fund it have pulled the money from the communities reserves, depleting the reserves (approx $600k). They are still in progress on the construction and will be for the next 7-8 weeks. Then at that point they will still some day need to call a vote to fund the rest of them, whether it is via a loan (and each unit would be responsible for $20k - could be financed over 5 years maybe) or via raising dues (our monthly HOA payments are already $250/month).
Here is our question, do we keep the condo or get out while we can?
We have about $190k left on the loan and we make about $300/month profit (after current HOA dues and mortgage), it looks like other condos in the complex have been selling for around $300k right now. But this was before construction, and I am worried that a) we will have to disclose the full situation and b) most loans will need the condo to be good financial standing ie. have a reserve fund to approve the loans (this was even an issue back when we bought the condo originally). Or do we keep it as a rental property as we have planned for the next 40+ years (hopefully will be a good bit of retirement fund at that point) and just deal with the headache for the time being. Never having been in this situation, we are struggling to see the forest through the trees and knowing if things are going to get better or WAY worse and we would have wished we sold. I think our current worst case scenario is if they raise dues to like $500+ a monthly to pay back the reserves and pay off the rest of the tanks - who would be willing to buy a house with that kind of HOA, and should we try to sell before that happens?
No one in our family has rental properties and no one has dealt with an HOA/property management situation like this before that we know of.
Would love to hear what others would do in our situation!
2024.05.31 04:03 Rhendricks Over/Under May 31st - At Phillies, 5:40 CT - Miles Mikolas Vs Aaron Nola
Hey Everyone! Welcome to the Cardinals Reddit Daily OveUnder Contest! I’ll post these daily as long as I’m able to, but I’m sure real life will get in the way here and there. This is all for fun. No prizes other than bragging rights.
2nd Place: 2 Points
3rd Place: 1 Point
Correct Tie-Breaker: 1 Point
10/10 Correct: 1 Point
0/10 Correct: 1 Point
I'll keep a tally and post the results as a comment in that day's post and link it in the next day's contest thread. Points will keep accumulating throughout the season. I will be using MLB GameDay and ESPN for official scoring.
Good luck, everyone! I hope you enjoy! I'm also always open to feedback on how to improve or suggestions for questions (it can be tough trying to get enough variety!).
Not required for entry, but I’d appreciate leaving a comment/vote for visibility on the page
2) Fly Ball Outs Induced by Aaron Nola - O/U 10.5
3) Pitches Thrown by Both Starting Pitchers Combined - O/U 181.5
4) Farthest Ball Hit Allowed by Miles Mikolas - O/U 410.55
5) Total Combined Team Batting Average with Runners in Scoring Position - O/U .2455
6) Runs / RBIs Produced by Cardinals 2B - O/U 1.5
7) Phillies Runs Scored in Innings 5-7 - O/U 1.5
8) Double Plays Turned by both teams combined - O/U 2.5
9) Pitches Thrown by Cardinals Bullpen - O/U 58.5
10) Total Pitch Timer Violations for Both Teams Combined - O/U 0.5
Tie Breaker: Total Combined Distance (FT) of the Farthest 3 Balls Hit in the Game
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Rules:
- Each question must be answered, including the tie breaker.
- Entries must be submitted before 1st pitch (I’ll do my best to turn off accepting responses at game time).
- Editing is turned off for the form entry. Duplicate entries will all be disregarded.
- At least 5 entries must be made for points to be earned for the day.
- All questions regarding the named probable pitcher will default to the starting pitcher for that team in the event that the probable pitcher does not make the start.
Scoring:
1st Place: 3 Points2nd Place: 2 Points
3rd Place: 1 Point
Correct Tie-Breaker: 1 Point
10/10 Correct: 1 Point
0/10 Correct: 1 Point
I'll keep a tally and post the results as a comment in that day's post and link it in the next day's contest thread. Points will keep accumulating throughout the season. I will be using MLB GameDay and ESPN for official scoring.
Good luck, everyone! I hope you enjoy! I'm also always open to feedback on how to improve or suggestions for questions (it can be tough trying to get enough variety!).
Not required for entry, but I’d appreciate leaving a comment/vote for visibility on the page
OveUnder Contest: May 31st
At Phillies, 5:40 CT
Miles Mikolas Vs Aaron Nola
OveUnder Form Link
May 28thResults
May 29thResults
May Standings
| Reddit Username | Points |
|---|---|
| u/DSchibler | 13 |
| u/fujiesque | 10 |
| u/Flimsy-animator756 | 7 |
| u/Kevindoesnotcare | 7 |
| u/Weezy2337yadude | 7 |
| u/dan81989 | 6 |
| u/more_whales | 6 |
| u/SomethingAvid | 9 |
| u/dquizzle | 5 |
| u/gonelikecommonsense | 5 |
| u/Nurlitik | 5 |
| u/PCBangHero | 6 |
| u/ski_mom | 7 |
| u/EE89 | 3 |
| u/FKACaptainFlaherty | 3 |
| u/jmikesyo | 3 |
| u/mogli9998 | 3 |
| u/newtickled | 3 |
| u/Pantherspats | 3 |
| u/SGT_Apone | 3 |
| u/zap_the_frank | 3 |
| u/InternetGoodGuy | 2 |
| u/jacksonfake | 2 |
| u/3236-on-MC | 3 |
| u/StrangerFront | 3 |
| u/Xerowaltz | 2 |
Overall Standings
| Reddit Username | Points |
|---|---|
| u/DSchibler | 28 |
| u/InternetGoodGuy | 12 |
| u/more_whales | 12 |
| u/zap_the_frank | 12 |
| u/gonelikecommonsense | 11 |
| u/PCBangHero | 11 |
| u/SomethingAvid | 11 |
| u/Dan81989 | 10 |
| u/fujiesque | 10 |
| u/StrangerFront | 10 |
| u/NotGordan | 9 |
| u/Nurlitik | 9 |
| u/Flimsy_animator756 | 8 |
| u/jacksonfake | 7 |
| u/Kevindoesnotcare | 7 |
| u/MVPBaseball2069 | 7 |
| u/ski_mom | 7 |
| u/Weezy2337yadude | 7 |
| u/EE89 | 6 |
| u/jmikesyo | 6 |
| u/Paulspike | 6 |
| u/SGT_Apone | 6 |
| u/theredd636 | 6 |
| u/dquizzle | 5 |
| u/seattle_lib | 5 |
Full Standings Spreadsheet
OveUnder Questions for later reference:
1) Total Batters Faced by Miles Mikolas - O/U 24.52) Fly Ball Outs Induced by Aaron Nola - O/U 10.5
3) Pitches Thrown by Both Starting Pitchers Combined - O/U 181.5
4) Farthest Ball Hit Allowed by Miles Mikolas - O/U 410.55
5) Total Combined Team Batting Average with Runners in Scoring Position - O/U .2455
6) Runs / RBIs Produced by Cardinals 2B - O/U 1.5
7) Phillies Runs Scored in Innings 5-7 - O/U 1.5
8) Double Plays Turned by both teams combined - O/U 2.5
9) Pitches Thrown by Cardinals Bullpen - O/U 58.5
10) Total Pitch Timer Violations for Both Teams Combined - O/U 0.5
Tie Breaker: Total Combined Distance (FT) of the Farthest 3 Balls Hit in the Game
2024.05.31 01:02 PatekCollector77 Noob questions about 900ft direct burial run
Hello fiber experts:
I will be building a barn on my property and will have a trench open for power so figured I should run fiber as well.
Some details: The trench is about 900 ft long with several bends and will not have any access points between the two ends (the electrical is direct burial and the is going across a meadow).
Here are my questions:
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I will be building a barn on my property and will have a trench open for power so figured I should run fiber as well.
Some details: The trench is about 900 ft long with several bends and will not have any access points between the two ends (the electrical is direct burial and the is going across a meadow).
Here are my questions:
- Should I buy pre-terminated cable so i can do it all myself or un-terminated cable and hire someone to do the terminations after I lay it in the trench? Obviously labor costs vary by region but is there a chance that that would be offset by better deals being available for bulk un-terminated cable?
- Also, am I limiting my options for getting the correct cable for my needs by only looking for pre-terminated?
- As the electrical will be direct burial and the trench goes through an unimproved field, there will me no access points along the run between the two ends. Because of this I am planning on using direct burial fiber but would it make sense to run non-direct burial fiber through a conduit anyway if its cheaper or similar cost? The trench will be mapped very well so if the cable did fail completely, I could dig up and cut access points along the run to replace it.
- I know very little about fiber standards but at a minimum I want 1 gig throughput and would consider 10 gig if the price difference was under 2-3x of 1 gig. What cable and connector should I use? I have a Unifi system and switches with SFP ports on both ends that I would like to just plug the transceivers directly into.
- My instincts tell me to run a second fiber cable for redundancy and leave it dark until I need it, but the cost for this whole project has already ballooned and while I value resiliency/reliability, this is not a critical business deployment. Given that the trench will be properly dug and backfilled to protect the cable, how likely is it to have a direct burial cable fail? I am inclined to risk it with one cable and just install a point-to-point wireless bridge if it does fail catastrophically down the line.
2024.05.31 00:56 KaceMobileNotary Should I bother adding a 5th bedroom in my basement?
I finished my basement during the pandemic but opted against my original plans for a 5th bedroom near the egress window in favor of more living space. I still positioned the closet door under the staircase on the side in case I eventually changed my mind. Now it’s a random storage closet, but if I add the 2 walls and a door, it will be the bedroom closet. If I do make this a bedroom, I would also convert the basement half bath into a full bath. There is a large unfinished utility room that I could easily steal space to enlarge the bath and add a tub or shower. The bath would be directly across the hall from the new bedroom. My house would go from a 4 bed, 2.2 bath to a 5 bed, 3.5 bath. The cost of the reno and permits would likely be less than $2k. Would buyers be turned off at a basement with very limited entertaining space, or would they rather have the bedroom and additional shower? The basement living area would be cut down to only about 350 sq feet with a 100 sq ft bedroom. My subdivision is fairly new with about 200 houses built with 3-4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. Only a handful of my neighbors have put in a bedroom and full bath in their basements. Would these changes help or hurt me if I needed to sell quickly?
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2024.05.30 20:00 jqseedy 2024 Bayshore Marathon - 39F - BQ, PR, and a Crohns comeback
Race Information
Name: Bayshore Marathon
Date: May 25th, 2024
Distance: 26.2 miles
Location: Traverse City, MI
Website: https://www.bayshoremarathon.org
Strava: Private but here are my race results: https://runsignup.com/Race/Results/26384/IndividualResult/gCXB?resultSetId=457928#U50528915
Time: 3:32:38
Goals
Goal
Description
Completed?
A
3:35 (BQ with buffer)
Yes
B
3:40 (BQ)
Yes
C
3:45 (PR)
Yes
Background
I'm a 39y female (bday in Feb so will be 40 at Boston.) Have run 2 marathons before - NYC in 2008 in 4:20 and Chicago in 2015 in 3:58. Have been a lifelong hobby runner and a decent middle distance runner in high school/early college but never purposely trained for a marathon. In the years since, I went through medical training, had 2 kids, was diagnosed with severe Crohns. While watching Boston on TV in 2023 I decided I wanted to run another marathon and hopefully BQ. I signed up for the Detroit 2023 marathon and hired a coach. The week I hired the coach, I ended up in the hospital with a severe Crohns flare and bowel obstruction. After 2 weeks off running and minimal nutritional intake, I tried to ramp back up in attempts to train but was always too sick. I eventually gave up and decided to take a few months to rest and get my Crohns under control. Fast forward to Nov 2023, I started feeling good again and decided to give the goal another chance. I started to gradually ramp up my mileage to a base of around mid-30s/wk, easy. I registered for Bayshore and decided not to use a coach. I settled on the Hal Higdon Intermediate 2 Plan but added some 'quality' work midweek and threw some MP miles into my long runs.
Official training started in late Jan. I peaked at 52 MPH, getting in 2x20 mile runs and 1 22 mile run. I missed 4 runs due to the flu but other than that, never missed a run. I tried to lift twice per week as well. Many runs were done in the dark at 4:45am through the MI winter (very.mild this year!) and my husband held down the fort while I did my weekend long runs. I did a lot of hills in my training at some of the metro parks even though the course is flat. I had some posterior hamstring tendonopathy and saw a PT 1x/wk. My training paces started to slowly improve and I began to feel confident I could hit that C goal of a substantial PR. My close running friend who I have known since HS track was confident I could run faster, but I was skeptical.
This was also my first time ever fueling/hydrating in training. I bonked at about 19-20 in both previous marathons and never carried fuel or water. This time I would eat 1-2 waffles before a long run and a gel or crackers before a shorter run. I got used to using Maurtens on the run (after some trial and error with various gels due to my sensitive Crohns gut) and drinking Gatorade Endurance and/or LMNT on long runs.
I alternated between Asics GT 2000s and Brooks Adrenaline trainers and did 1 long run in my race shoes Adidas Adizero Adipro 3.
Pre-race
I decided to follow the Meghan Featherstun carb loading 3 day plan. I probably got in around 400g carbs and really avoided fiber and fat. The day before the race I drive up with my family (about a 4 hr drive) and walked around TC with the kids (5 and 7 year old boys.) I ate pancakes for lunch, plain pasta for dinner, drank Gatorade endurance all day, and snacked on sooo many pretzels and gummy candies. I felt like a swollen tick by race day and was very worried I'd have major GI issues, as I usually need to make a portapotty stop 2-3x on a long run.
My family and I were sharing a small 1BR AirBNB which was probably a mistake because I woke up at like 4am with nervous jitters and had to sit in the dark to not wake up everyone else.
My husband drove me to the start line where it was a nice, calm vibe. It was VERY humid and drizzly but the temps were great at mid 50s. I chatted with some of the runners but mostly kept to myself. I went to the bathroom 3x which was helpful in clearing the system before the race.
Race
I lined up about 30 ft behind the 3:30 pacers. When the race started, it was very congested and I felt myself going out too fast based on the other runners running quite fast around me. My plan was to maintain 8:20s for the first 19-20 miles and then pick it up if I felt okay. My first few miles were at 7:58-8:10 pace and felt VERY hard. I was convinced I went out too fast and this race was going to be a disaster. I even started thinking about dropping out when I saw my family at the 10k mark but the idea of disappointing my kids kept me going. I figured I would slow down once the crowds spread out and tried to relax.
A few miles into the race I realized that I was still maintaining that 8:05 average pace but it wasn't feeling so hard. I got out of my head a bit and turned on some music. I took a gel every 3.5miles (Maurten Caf at 0, 7, and 17.5) and had Gatorade at every water station. I probably only got 1-2 oz in and eventually decided to walk through the stations, rather than run, to get more in my mouth and less on my shirt. I learned my lesson of wearing a white tank top which is now pink and yellow from the Gatorade. I also started with a handheld but tossed it to my husband at around mile 7 because it was annoying me.
I felt like I was working the entire race, which made me nervous, because I would hear runners chatting easily all around me. In fact, there was a runner who has a blog I have followed for years (she posted her recap earlier!) who I was very nearby for most of the race and I wanted to say hello, but I felt so winded I didn't think I could carry on a conversation. I decided to stick to myself and keep my eyes up.
Around mile 18 or so I realized I wasn't yet bonking and I was still okay, and started to move up when other runners were fading. I would systematically focus my gaze on a runner in front of me and try to reel them in. My legs were really starting to fatigue and I kept thinking I was going to blow up, but never did. I was negotiating with myself, telling myself I could walk, telling myself I could slow down, etc. I was never one for mantras, but found myself repeating "This is easier than Crohns." "This is easier than residency." "Don't let your kids see you quit." "Forward is a pace.)
I agree with the other poster that the end of the race was a bit confusing but the finish on the track was great. I saw 3:32 on the clock and FREAKED OUT as I was coming in. I saw my husband and kids in the stands and was teary eyed.
Post-race
This was a dream day. It felt like everything came together. Somehow I managed to run COMPLETELY even splits: 1:46:17 for each half. The carb load worked, the on-course fueling worked, and my stomach behaved. It completely felt like redemption for blowing up the year before with the Crohns flare. I met up with my kids, ate some food, had a giant bagel from Bubbie's Bagel, and walked around until it was time for the kids race. There, I cheered for my kids from the stands while my husband ran with them.
Lots of quad soreness the next few days but nothing unexpected. By today, 5 days out, I feel completely normal.
Looking forward, I am optimistic that my 7+ min buffer will let me run Boston next year. I'm not sure how I would change my training as I feel like the mileage was the most I could fit in with work, parenting, and the limited daylight of MI in the winter, but I'd be open to adding in more speedwork. Open to any feedback.
I tend to not do very much racing - I rarely do 5ks or half marathons, but it might be fun to train for a faster 5k in the summefall. Part of me wants to do Boston 2025 and then be done with marathons - the other part wants to see how fast I can get in the marathon. Not sure where this will go.Thanks for reading!
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Name: Bayshore Marathon
Date: May 25th, 2024
Distance: 26.2 miles
Location: Traverse City, MI
Website: https://www.bayshoremarathon.org
Strava: Private but here are my race results: https://runsignup.com/Race/Results/26384/IndividualResult/gCXB?resultSetId=457928#U50528915
Time: 3:32:38
Goals
Goal
Description
Completed?
A
3:35 (BQ with buffer)
Yes
B
3:40 (BQ)
Yes
C
3:45 (PR)
Yes
Background
I'm a 39y female (bday in Feb so will be 40 at Boston.) Have run 2 marathons before - NYC in 2008 in 4:20 and Chicago in 2015 in 3:58. Have been a lifelong hobby runner and a decent middle distance runner in high school/early college but never purposely trained for a marathon. In the years since, I went through medical training, had 2 kids, was diagnosed with severe Crohns. While watching Boston on TV in 2023 I decided I wanted to run another marathon and hopefully BQ. I signed up for the Detroit 2023 marathon and hired a coach. The week I hired the coach, I ended up in the hospital with a severe Crohns flare and bowel obstruction. After 2 weeks off running and minimal nutritional intake, I tried to ramp back up in attempts to train but was always too sick. I eventually gave up and decided to take a few months to rest and get my Crohns under control. Fast forward to Nov 2023, I started feeling good again and decided to give the goal another chance. I started to gradually ramp up my mileage to a base of around mid-30s/wk, easy. I registered for Bayshore and decided not to use a coach. I settled on the Hal Higdon Intermediate 2 Plan but added some 'quality' work midweek and threw some MP miles into my long runs.
Official training started in late Jan. I peaked at 52 MPH, getting in 2x20 mile runs and 1 22 mile run. I missed 4 runs due to the flu but other than that, never missed a run. I tried to lift twice per week as well. Many runs were done in the dark at 4:45am through the MI winter (very.mild this year!) and my husband held down the fort while I did my weekend long runs. I did a lot of hills in my training at some of the metro parks even though the course is flat. I had some posterior hamstring tendonopathy and saw a PT 1x/wk. My training paces started to slowly improve and I began to feel confident I could hit that C goal of a substantial PR. My close running friend who I have known since HS track was confident I could run faster, but I was skeptical.
This was also my first time ever fueling/hydrating in training. I bonked at about 19-20 in both previous marathons and never carried fuel or water. This time I would eat 1-2 waffles before a long run and a gel or crackers before a shorter run. I got used to using Maurtens on the run (after some trial and error with various gels due to my sensitive Crohns gut) and drinking Gatorade Endurance and/or LMNT on long runs.
I alternated between Asics GT 2000s and Brooks Adrenaline trainers and did 1 long run in my race shoes Adidas Adizero Adipro 3.
Pre-race
I decided to follow the Meghan Featherstun carb loading 3 day plan. I probably got in around 400g carbs and really avoided fiber and fat. The day before the race I drive up with my family (about a 4 hr drive) and walked around TC with the kids (5 and 7 year old boys.) I ate pancakes for lunch, plain pasta for dinner, drank Gatorade endurance all day, and snacked on sooo many pretzels and gummy candies. I felt like a swollen tick by race day and was very worried I'd have major GI issues, as I usually need to make a portapotty stop 2-3x on a long run.
My family and I were sharing a small 1BR AirBNB which was probably a mistake because I woke up at like 4am with nervous jitters and had to sit in the dark to not wake up everyone else.
My husband drove me to the start line where it was a nice, calm vibe. It was VERY humid and drizzly but the temps were great at mid 50s. I chatted with some of the runners but mostly kept to myself. I went to the bathroom 3x which was helpful in clearing the system before the race.
Race
I lined up about 30 ft behind the 3:30 pacers. When the race started, it was very congested and I felt myself going out too fast based on the other runners running quite fast around me. My plan was to maintain 8:20s for the first 19-20 miles and then pick it up if I felt okay. My first few miles were at 7:58-8:10 pace and felt VERY hard. I was convinced I went out too fast and this race was going to be a disaster. I even started thinking about dropping out when I saw my family at the 10k mark but the idea of disappointing my kids kept me going. I figured I would slow down once the crowds spread out and tried to relax.
A few miles into the race I realized that I was still maintaining that 8:05 average pace but it wasn't feeling so hard. I got out of my head a bit and turned on some music. I took a gel every 3.5miles (Maurten Caf at 0, 7, and 17.5) and had Gatorade at every water station. I probably only got 1-2 oz in and eventually decided to walk through the stations, rather than run, to get more in my mouth and less on my shirt. I learned my lesson of wearing a white tank top which is now pink and yellow from the Gatorade. I also started with a handheld but tossed it to my husband at around mile 7 because it was annoying me.
I felt like I was working the entire race, which made me nervous, because I would hear runners chatting easily all around me. In fact, there was a runner who has a blog I have followed for years (she posted her recap earlier!) who I was very nearby for most of the race and I wanted to say hello, but I felt so winded I didn't think I could carry on a conversation. I decided to stick to myself and keep my eyes up.
Around mile 18 or so I realized I wasn't yet bonking and I was still okay, and started to move up when other runners were fading. I would systematically focus my gaze on a runner in front of me and try to reel them in. My legs were really starting to fatigue and I kept thinking I was going to blow up, but never did. I was negotiating with myself, telling myself I could walk, telling myself I could slow down, etc. I was never one for mantras, but found myself repeating "This is easier than Crohns." "This is easier than residency." "Don't let your kids see you quit." "Forward is a pace.)
I agree with the other poster that the end of the race was a bit confusing but the finish on the track was great. I saw 3:32 on the clock and FREAKED OUT as I was coming in. I saw my husband and kids in the stands and was teary eyed.
Post-race
This was a dream day. It felt like everything came together. Somehow I managed to run COMPLETELY even splits: 1:46:17 for each half. The carb load worked, the on-course fueling worked, and my stomach behaved. It completely felt like redemption for blowing up the year before with the Crohns flare. I met up with my kids, ate some food, had a giant bagel from Bubbie's Bagel, and walked around until it was time for the kids race. There, I cheered for my kids from the stands while my husband ran with them.
Lots of quad soreness the next few days but nothing unexpected. By today, 5 days out, I feel completely normal.
Looking forward, I am optimistic that my 7+ min buffer will let me run Boston next year. I'm not sure how I would change my training as I feel like the mileage was the most I could fit in with work, parenting, and the limited daylight of MI in the winter, but I'd be open to adding in more speedwork. Open to any feedback.
I tend to not do very much racing - I rarely do 5ks or half marathons, but it might be fun to train for a faster 5k in the summefall. Part of me wants to do Boston 2025 and then be done with marathons - the other part wants to see how fast I can get in the marathon. Not sure where this will go.Thanks for reading!
2024.05.30 18:57 Green_Department4776 Devastated and feeling lost. Long post about my current situation
My girlfriend of 2 years broke up with me. This was my person my love and I thought we were soulmates. We met at school, a 2 year program. My last semester was her first. We’re both chefs and our entire lives are revolved around the food industry so we both have very busy schedules and intricate ideations about how we want to be apart of this industry and do better for the world. She grew up in a family without a lot of emotional support and a lack of trust while I grew up the opposite with a overwhelming amount of support and unconditional love and affection, which has made us who we are today. The last 2 years have the best in my entire life. I had found someone that I could trust and love unconditionally, someone that I could live my entire life with and build that life together and she used to feel the same. That I had shown her that I was someone she could rely on that no matter what I would still love her and be someone that could motivate, challenge, build with together and she’d do the same. It’s difficult for her to be as open as I am though and would often keep extreme emotions inside until it flooded out, but I was always there to support her and try my best to match her needs wether that was a smaller thing or something bigger, we found ways to communicate together that didn’t make it so she had to bottle up. Unfortunately she has depression and a lot of things that have happened in her life have been very hard, but still I have always wanted to be her support. She took a little under a year off school where we lived together in the city 2 hours from our school at that time I had been working with a restaurant group which is one of the best in the world and she didn’t work but supported my growth at work. After that year she went back to school with a new mindset and has been working extremely hard being group leader in all of her semesters which is basically being the sous chef. She was coming out of that depression and was beaming like it had been that first 6 months we spent together. We would go back and forth visiting each other over our weekend but she would come to the city more than I would visit her due to my work being difficult with my hours and often having to change my days off every other week. Admittedly I should’ve visited her more I wish I had. Fast forward to this summer the restaurant is opening a new location in a different city and they asked me to come open it. It comes with a promotion and pay raise and incredible experience. I was hesitant at first but she motivated me to follow my dreams and grow as a cook and chef so I accepted and soon became excited about the new opportunity. She agreed to come with me when she finished school that it would be her last semester when I opened and that by her graduation in August she would come be with me in this new place, perfect! My life was changing and for the better a new city and opportunity to put myself in a place where I had to grow to become better in the industry and an even better person in our relationship. I felt that we had a jackpot. She had many different interests that she would follow in this new city and was excited about it being a great place for us to have a new chapter and build our home and new community together. I move about a month before I’m suppose to start work. Setting up our new apartment and exploring the new city. 2 weeks into me being here she is offered by some of her professors/chefs to apply for their masters program full scholarship, a 2 year program in California that requires a paid internship at some of best restaurants in the world led by the best chefs in the world. An amazing opportunity and something she had to do and I supported this. I didn’t want to deprive her of a life changing opportunity and I wanted to support this. But it was really difficult to wrap around that she wouldn’t be joining me that I’d have to go through this process without her being there in person that we’d be long distance and that really hurt me. We had spent so much time apart me at work in the city and her at school up north and it was really difficult. We just wanted to be together. Fast forward another week my birthday was coming up and a few days before we were on zoom watching a movie and talking all night and she told me her cousin just got engaged and that led to her saying when she wants me to propose. We had talked about being married countless times together and what our future would look like living in different places in the world and being together. But this time really made me feel better and more confident about our current situation. She had been planning to visit me a week after my birthday when she had time away from school and right before I start this new job. 3 days after my birthday we ft and she broke up with me saying that she loved me so much but she couldn’t give me what I need and that she was so focused on school it’s consuming all of her energy now, she kept saying how much I mean to her and that she doesn’t want us to not be in each others lives that she wants to still be together but not in a romantic relationship but that I deserve someone who puts me in the center of their lives that I should be the first priority and right now I’m not. This broke me. I told her I didn’t want to do this that I need her in my life and that I loved her. The next few days were hell. I saw she started archiving any pics of me leaving 2 on her instagram. I feel broken that my whole life which I uprooted for us to have a better situation and build together was over. That now I’m truly alone. I don’t have any friends or family here and I am about to start this job that’s going to need my focus and attention and I just feel broken. We ft 3 days after she broke up with me and I was so nervous and I felt all of my endorphins coming back the hour leading to us talking like I had drank 5 cups of coffee. I didn’t know what I was going to even say I just needed to see her. I told her that I can’t do do this and I need her in my life that she is my soulmate and how hard this for me she started crying and kept saying that she needs me in her life also that she wants to still talk to me text me about all the things that are happening in her life. She ended up talking about her dad who is actively abandoning her of her inheritance and basically any relationship they could have that he’s done this all his life and that he was supposed to marry this woman and move to another place with her but at the last minute left and moved to Hawaii that she’s been abandoned her whole life, when I said that I didn’t want to make comparison but that’s what you’re doing to me right now she quickly ended that conversation. She ended it saying “you never know in the future” and that she still wants to communicate. I don’t know what to do I just feel so lost. I just want to be together. I’ve been heartbroken before but not like this. I’m in so much pain. In times of distress I try to put myself in a position of rational thinking that whatever pain I’m now will be far from the worst things that will happen to me in the future. But I am just so heartbroken and it’s been the hardest time I’ve ever had.
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2024.05.30 17:41 D2KT Update on my previous post asking for advice on cleaning/servicing Split ACs (both indoor & outdoor units). Here's my own experience
About 10 days ago, I made a post on this subreddit, asking for advice and personal experience with getting your Split ACs cleaned. Since I've gotten mine serviced, I thought I'd share my own experience and advice for getting yours done.
I have 3 Split ACs.
Only the outdoor units for the ground floor Orient and Gree were ever cleaned once in 2022. The indoor units of all 3 AC's were never serviced to the best of my knowledge. Only the removable plastic filters on top of the cooling coils/fins were regularly cleaned.
All 3 ACs were 'fine'. The Gree one I felt didn't work as well as it did in 2012-2014 (lol) but since then, we've moved to a hotter city (Peshawar), but it's now a ground floor room that it's installed in, rather than an upper floor one. Although, the house overall is hotter because unfortunately it's facing East (back of the house) to West (front of the house). The room it's in faces West.
But again, no complaints or perceivable downgrade in performance.
Before: (Gree)
After: (Gree)
Going by the at 1 hour mark temps, (3.4°C vs. 6.6°C), this is a near 2x increase in performance. It's considerably more than 2x when you factor in the difference of the hotter weather and the time of the day when the after readings were taken.
In ~ 14 years, the indoor unit was never cleaned. Outdoor unit was cleaned "officially" once and might have been "cleaned" by rain regularly before we moved here, since it didn't have full roof cover on top, where it was placed.
Before: (ground floor Orient)
After: (ground floor Orient)
Compared with the before readings i.e 5.6°C in exactly 84 minutes, this is also a near 2x increase in performance. Before factoring in the hotter weather + difference in time of day when readings were taken.
Before: (upper floor Orient)
After: (upper floor Orient)
The guy doing the cleaning said it would take 5-6 hours for temps to go under 30°C.
It's hard to compare with the before figures, but considering before, it dropped 3.4°C in 31 mins and after cleaning, 3.8°C in 27 mins, factoring in the much hotter time of day and weather change, it's definitely a noticeable increase in performance.
Also, the indoor unit of this AC wasn't nearly as dirty as the other two. The outdoor one was just as dirty as the other Orient, and more than Gree.
After reconnecting the refrigerant lines, he used a small dishwashing sponge and some shampoo to work up a lathefoam and then rubbed it around the connecting joints, to see if there was any leak (bubbles would pop in the foam if there was) after opening the compressor valves.
The reason is because the indoor unit is held like this when it's being pressure washed. If you hit these (blue) fins at an angle then you'll bend them. It also depends on the pressure you've set. Too low and it won't clean as good or as quickly and too high and you'll have a higher chance of bending these fins, or worse, splashing water on the electrical components on the top end.
Ideally, the pressure has to be just right and you have to move the pressure washer spray gun such that the water coming out of its nozzle is always parallel to the fins. And if you're lazy and not squatting down or bending your knees, then you'll be hitting the fins on the other end at an angle because you're only moving your wrist to direct water at that end, which is why all of the fin bending happened on that end in my case.
Make sure you talk to the guy and explain that fins will be bent if he doesn't adjust the pressure via the spray gun nozzle and if he doesn't keep the water spray parallel to the fins. They keep it high because it washes faster that way. So you have to remind him that, although a few bent fins aren't the end of the world and can be straightened, having them bent every year on a AC is just not ideal. Keep the pressure low via nozzle (less sharp stream of water, more mist-y) and move your hand up and down along the length of the indoor unit. Don't take "khuday ba khair kai" for an answer.
This is one of the reasons I personally think using a pressure washer over a garden hose is better because with a pressure washer, your water stream is uniform at all times so you can direct it accurately and with a garden hose, you'll have to use your thumb to create a jet and you'll be adjusting your thumb many times, risking a splash in places where you don't want water to go.
Also, I have a 600W blower so I used that to dry out the electrical components side for about a minute or so. You don't need to worry about fully drying out the condenser coils/cooling fins because that portion gets wet during the normal operation of the AC itself when warm humid air goes over it and moisture condenses all over it as a result.
It's on the underside of the top corner (?) of the outdoor unit. You'll splash it with water if you direct the spray gun/garden hose like this, behind the fan
P.S: If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate being corrected about any of this.
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I have 3 Split ACs.
- One Gree (non Inverter, 1.5 Ton (18K BTU) ~ 14 years old)
- 2 Orient (both Inverters, 1.5 Ton, one ground and one upper floor, and 5 and 6 years old)
Only the outdoor units for the ground floor Orient and Gree were ever cleaned once in 2022. The indoor units of all 3 AC's were never serviced to the best of my knowledge. Only the removable plastic filters on top of the cooling coils/fins were regularly cleaned.
All 3 ACs were 'fine'. The Gree one I felt didn't work as well as it did in 2012-2014 (lol) but since then, we've moved to a hotter city (Peshawar), but it's now a ground floor room that it's installed in, rather than an upper floor one. Although, the house overall is hotter because unfortunately it's facing East (back of the house) to West (front of the house). The room it's in faces West.
But again, no complaints or perceivable downgrade in performance.
Performance Difference:
Since I randomly came across cheap room thermometers (with a hygrometer as well) on Daraz, I bought a couple of them last year. As I didn't have these before, I couldn't tell how fast room temperatures were falling when the ground floor Orient was newly installed. So any drop in performance over the years wasn't really noticed (or noticeable)Before: (Gree)
- The room in which Gree is installed is on ground floor, facing outwards (West), size of 13x15 sq ft. Readings were taken on May 16, starting at 11:00 pm.
Initial reading: 30.7°CTotal drop of 3.4°C in 1hr 4mins.
After 29 mins: 28.7°C
After 64 mins: 27.3°C
After: (Gree)
- this room (and the house overall) is the coolest at 12-2pm. It gets hotter around evening, and the hottest around dusk 7pm, till 11-12pm, after which the rooms at the ground floor start cooling down.
- readings were taken right after it was cleaned. May 21 (weather has gotten noticeably hotter than May 16), starting at 12:00 pm.
Intial reading: 32.4°CA drop of 6.6°C at the 1 hour mark and a total drop of 10.5°C in 2 hours.
After 1 hour: 25.8°C
After 2 hours: 21.9°C
Going by the at 1 hour mark temps, (3.4°C vs. 6.6°C), this is a near 2x increase in performance. It's considerably more than 2x when you factor in the difference of the hotter weather and the time of the day when the after readings were taken.
In ~ 14 years, the indoor unit was never cleaned. Outdoor unit was cleaned "officially" once and might have been "cleaned" by rain regularly before we moved here, since it didn't have full roof cover on top, where it was placed.
Before: (ground floor Orient)
- Coolest room in the house. Size 14.75x13 sq ft. Readings taken on May 16, at 8:20 pm
Intial reading: 30.7°CTotal drop of 5.6°C in ~ 1.5 hours.
After 14 mins: 29.2°C
After 1hr 24mins: 25.1°C
After: (ground floor Orient)
- Readings taken on May 25 (weather is even hotter than May 21), at 2:00 pm
Intial reading: 32.8°CTotal drop of 5.4°C in 45 minutes.
After 8 mins: 30.5°C
After 45 mins: 27.4°C
Compared with the before readings i.e 5.6°C in exactly 84 minutes, this is also a near 2x increase in performance. Before factoring in the hotter weather + difference in time of day when readings were taken.
Before: (upper floor Orient)
- Hottest room in the house. Faces west with direct sunlight. Size of 17.5x14 sq ft. Readings taken on May 16, at 12:41 pm
Intial reading: 33.3°CTotal drop of 5.6°C at ~ 1.5 hour mark and 6.6°C at 2 hour mark.
After 31 mins: 29.9°C
After 1hr 32mins: 27.7°C
After 2hrs 1min: 26.7°C
After: (upper floor Orient)
- Readings taken on May 25, much hotter weather compared to May 16, at 3:10 pm, with sunlight coming in directly through the windows but covered by regular curtains. It was like this throughout all 5 readings.
Initial reading: 37.0°CA drop of 5.7°C in 1.3 hrs and a total drop of 7.3°C in ~ 3.5 hrs.
After 27 mins: 33.2°C
After 1hr 17mins: 31.3°C
After 1hr 56mins: 30.7°C
After 3hrs 35mins 29.7°C
The guy doing the cleaning said it would take 5-6 hours for temps to go under 30°C.
It's hard to compare with the before figures, but considering before, it dropped 3.4°C in 31 mins and after cleaning, 3.8°C in 27 mins, factoring in the much hotter time of day and weather change, it's definitely a noticeable increase in performance.
Also, the indoor unit of this AC wasn't nearly as dirty as the other two. The outdoor one was just as dirty as the other Orient, and more than Gree.
Cleaning Experience
- Gas Leakage:
After reconnecting the refrigerant lines, he used a small dishwashing sponge and some shampoo to work up a lathefoam and then rubbed it around the connecting joints, to see if there was any leak (bubbles would pop in the foam if there was) after opening the compressor valves.
- Bending cooling fins with a pressure washer:
The reason is because the indoor unit is held like this when it's being pressure washed. If you hit these (blue) fins at an angle then you'll bend them. It also depends on the pressure you've set. Too low and it won't clean as good or as quickly and too high and you'll have a higher chance of bending these fins, or worse, splashing water on the electrical components on the top end.
Ideally, the pressure has to be just right and you have to move the pressure washer spray gun such that the water coming out of its nozzle is always parallel to the fins. And if you're lazy and not squatting down or bending your knees, then you'll be hitting the fins on the other end at an angle because you're only moving your wrist to direct water at that end, which is why all of the fin bending happened on that end in my case.
Make sure you talk to the guy and explain that fins will be bent if he doesn't adjust the pressure via the spray gun nozzle and if he doesn't keep the water spray parallel to the fins. They keep it high because it washes faster that way. So you have to remind him that, although a few bent fins aren't the end of the world and can be straightened, having them bent every year on a AC is just not ideal. Keep the pressure low via nozzle (less sharp stream of water, more mist-y) and move your hand up and down along the length of the indoor unit. Don't take "khuday ba khair kai" for an answer.
- Avoiding water on any electrical components:
This is one of the reasons I personally think using a pressure washer over a garden hose is better because with a pressure washer, your water stream is uniform at all times so you can direct it accurately and with a garden hose, you'll have to use your thumb to create a jet and you'll be adjusting your thumb many times, risking a splash in places where you don't want water to go.
Also, I have a 600W blower so I used that to dry out the electrical components side for about a minute or so. You don't need to worry about fully drying out the condenser coils/cooling fins because that portion gets wet during the normal operation of the AC itself when warm humid air goes over it and moisture condenses all over it as a result.
- Cleaning agents:
- Outdoor units:
It's on the underside of the top corner (?) of the outdoor unit. You'll splash it with water if you direct the spray gun/garden hose like this, behind the fan
- Washing indoor unit without disconnection:
- Price:
Before and After pics
- Gree before and after
- Orient (ground floor) before and after
- Orient (upper floor) before and after (somewhat similar to Alex Jones's famous before and after)
P.S: If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate being corrected about any of this.
2024.05.30 13:51 Then_Marionberry_259 MAY 29, 2024 AOT.TO ASCOT CLOSES FIRST TRANCHE OF FLOW THROUGH PRIVATE PLACEMENT
 | https://preview.redd.it/dsxornqdyj3d1.png?width=3500&format=png&auto=webp&s=b0cb9892514cca58de1a535c09ddf9910276e10d submitted by Then_Marionberry_259 to Treaty_Creek [link] [comments] VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascot Resources Ltd. ( TSX: AOT; OTCQX: AOTVF ) (“ Ascot ” or the “ Company ”) is pleased to announce that, further to the Company’s news release dated May 7, 2024, the Company has closed the first of two tranches (the “ First Tranche ”) of the C$5.0 million non-brokered flow through private placement (the “ Offering ”), the proceeds of which will be used to fund the 2024 exploration program at the Company’s Premier Gold Project (“ PGP ” or the “ project ”), located on Nis g a’a Nation Treaty Lands in the prolific Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia. The Offering consists of 6,024,096 common shares of the Company, which qualify as "flow-through shares" within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “ FT Shares ”), at a price of C$0.83 per FT Share. Under the First Tranche, the Company issued 1,204,096 FT Shares for gross proceeds of C$999,400. The second and final tranche of the Offering is anticipated to close on or before June 14, 2024. The gross proceeds from the issuance of the FT Shares will be used for “Canadian exploration expenses”, and will qualify as “flow-through mining expenditures” as those terms are defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada), which will be renounced to the purchaser of the FT Shares with an effective date no later than December 31, 2024 in an aggregate amount not less than the gross proceeds raised from the issue of the FT Shares. The FT Shares issued in the Offering will be subject to a hold period expiring four months and one day from their issue date. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of any of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful, including any of the securities in the United States of America. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ 1933 Act ”) or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for account or benefit of, U.S. Persons (as defined in Regulation S under the 1933 Act) unless registered under the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws, or an exemption from such registration requirements is available. On behalf of the Board of Directors of Ascot Resources Ltd. “Derek C. White” President & CEO, Director For further information contact: David Stewart, P.Eng. VP, Corporate Development & Shareholder Communications dstewart@ascotgold.com 778-725-1060 ext. 1024 About Ascot Resources Ltd. Ascot is a Canadian mining company focused on commissioning its 100%-owned Premier Gold Mine, which poured first gold in April 2024 and is located on Nis g a’a Nation Treaty Lands, in the prolific Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia. Concurrent with commissioning Premier towards commercial production anticipated in Q3 of 2024, the Company continues to explore its properties for additional high-grade gold mineralization. Ascot’s corporate office is in Vancouver, and its shares trade on the TSX under the ticker AOT and on the OTCQX under the ticker AOTVF. Ascot is committed to the safe and responsible operation of the Premier Gold Mine in collaboration with Nisga’a Nation and the local communities of Stewart, BC and Hyder, Alaska. For more information about the Company, please refer to the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca or visit the Company’s web site at www.ascotgold.com. The TSX has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information All statements and other information contained in this press release about anticipated future events may constitute forward-looking information under Canadian securities laws (" forward-looking statements "). Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "expect", "targeted", "outlook", "on track" and "intend" and statements that an event or result "may", "will", "should", "could", “would” or "might" occur or be achieved and other similar expressions. 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Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions made with regard to: the estimated costs associated with construction of the project; the ability to maintain throughput and production levels at the PGP mill; the tax rate applicable to the Company; future commodity prices; the grade of mineral resources and mineral reserves; the ability of the Company to convert inferred mineral resources to other categories; the ability of the Company to reduce mining dilution; the ability to reduce capital costs; and exploration plans. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and opinions of management at the date the statements are made. Although Ascot believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements and/or information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements since Ascot can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. 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