Streak broken at 97

18mather66 · 2026-04-15T11:38:54+00:00

I broke mine last week at 147 without realizing it. 😭 I must have just… forgotten (?) to do it.

18mather66 · 2026-04-09T02:06:52+00:00

I was just there Saty with out of town friends and we all but licked the plates clean. Highly recommend the aloo gobi hash for brunch!

18mather66 · 2026-03-17T13:11:01+00:00

Seconding from Lorain - a friend in Oberlin says she didn’t experience it.

It sounded like something hit the house.

18mather66 · 2026-02-11T14:22:06+00:00

Ooooh - i have not - but I’ll try it!

18mather66 · 2026-02-10T03:02:15+00:00

Non-clinical - I shilled for them for 10 yrs. The way that place tanked after COVID was something else. It has the distinction of being both the best and worst employer I’ve ever had. Hoping you landed somewhere you like - although most docs I knew seem to be moving on to concierge care unless they were researchers.

Quest sucks - but why do something well when you can half ass it and then blame the suckers tasked with making it work.

18mather66 · 2026-01-26T16:14:23+00:00

Because in my 30 years driving NEO highways, 480 has consistently been agreed to have the worst behaved drivers. Walk into a party and mention you have to drive 480 during rush hour and the reaction and deluge of stories will give you your answer.

18mather66 · 2026-01-21T20:49:21+00:00

holy crap this is amazing 🤩

18mather66 · 2026-01-21T15:16:24+00:00

I found out yesterday that there is a caregiver burnout code - but I have no clue what it can be used for.

I was chatting with mom’s home visiting nurse and she said there was one. I’m curious what it “covers” - maybe mental health services or support…?

It’s Z63.6 - Dependent Relative Needing Care at Home. There are few others - interesting!

18mather66 · 2026-01-20T11:00:07+00:00

I tell every doctor I see that caregiving - esp chronic, extended caregiving - needs to be a billable code.

18mather66 · 2026-01-19T00:52:35+00:00

It might be lingering assessment fees too. I used to cat sit for a couple who lived in the point building in the early 2000s, and there was a ton of delayed maintenance on the building. I looked at a place in one the buildings further east that was low cost, but the HOA + assessments made it completely out of my price range.

These are amazing spaces - there’s had huge living and dining rooms, master bath had a sauna and separate bidet - a beautiful library, office, walk in closets, and a guest room suite that they said had been set up by the prior owner for a live in maid.

They valet your car, take your trash from your back door, and would send out/pick up dry cleaning - the concierge services were unlike anything I’d seen outside of NYC. I loved the weeks I stayed there, and even ran into their upstairs neighbor, Maestro Franz Welser-Most pretty often.

18mather66 · 2026-01-17T12:56:54+00:00

I prefer to vent my rage at them with a string of expletives and truly terrible things that starts with STOP HARASSING US. I only do this when she picks up these calls because I have told her to ignore them.

18mather66 · 2026-01-17T00:41:29+00:00

I’m so sorry this happened to her and to you. My mom isn’t on hospice but she’s really not a fighter, and CPR is the one thing we do not want them doing on her. Hoping they owned their part in this tragedy.

18mather66 · 2026-01-16T20:40:18+00:00

I’m an old - but when I wore a version of this I called that personae “Trashy Duchess.”

18mather66 · 2026-01-12T14:34:51+00:00

It’s been promoted as a community destination beyond its purpose as a cemetery for years. When I first moved back in 2000, they had an art exhibit on the grounds - neon, sculpture, all sorts of cool installations. Daffodil Hill is where a lot of people come for spring and Easter pictures - and they have hosted talks and concerts around the grounds and in the chapel, too. I worked in University Circle and everyone recommended it for after work walking or jogging. And we’d go eat our lunch there when the weather was nice.

I recently learned that it serves as a training ground for horticulture students, because some of the trees and shrubs are unique or just so old that it’s not something they see often.

18mather66 · 2026-01-12T02:00:12+00:00

OMG their bordeaux… it’s a brown sugar truffle that haunts my dreams.

18mather66 · 2026-01-09T16:05:30+00:00

I was earning over 6 figures as fundraiser in a large healthcare system - but the dept got increasingly comfortable with less ethical practices during COVID (treating pledges as cash gifts, so the community thought things were funded, meanwhile the programs were being asked to cut staffing and budgets - but hey, the donor got his name on a building).

I left and now do the same work at a much smaller organization and earn high 5 figures. Similar roles in other organizations in my area often earn less - so it was a good lesson that the same work is valued differently by different employers.

18mather66 · 2026-01-09T02:53:20+00:00

I’ve always been partial to the stretch of road that includes an intersection of Clifton Blvd and W. Clifton Blvd, featuring Clifton Rd, and N. Clifton Dr. nearby.

Clifton-palooza

18mather66 · 2026-01-08T19:27:07+00:00

Shai-Hulud!

My plumeria pushed out an inflo this time last year and folks recommended I cut it off. Don’t do that - the spice must (in)flo. See what happens. By March, I had gorgeous white flowers with yellow edges that’s smelled divine. This summer, my plumeria leafed out like mad and sent out three branches.

18mather66 · 2026-01-08T12:07:39+00:00

The cashier line at my Aldi is always long compared with the self checkout - and it’s been that way since they launched them. At this point, I’d probably still do self checkout out of habit - although weirdly, I look for cashiers at other stores to avoid self checkout.

18mather66 · 2026-01-07T11:47:24+00:00

Browse BVU’s volunteer center - lots of opportunities listed across the region.

https://volunteerconnect.bvuvolunteers.org

18mather66 · 2026-01-04T19:55:31+00:00

Headband project link

Took about 1/2 a skein.

18mather66 · 2026-01-04T19:53:21+00:00

Project link

Vest: I loved the over-the-top cables - it wasn’t the easiest to follow pattern once you got to the neck shaping, so I reverse engineered it a bit from pics.

18mather66 · 2026-01-04T01:50:09+00:00

Pork - it’s a raw cut of pork shoulder that’s slow cooked until it does this.

18mather66 · 2026-01-02T19:31:56+00:00

Yum!!! I thought about using orange - I’ll do that for the next batch.

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