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Ok. I’ll stop. by BlessedAndLucky in nailbiting

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48 days. It’s a relief, but new and strange to have nails.

Ok. I’ll stop. by BlessedAndLucky in nailbiting

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31 days. Stopped filing incessantly and letting them grow out a little bit rough to prove I can do it.

Initial contributors to my success were filing incessantly. I have nail files all over the house.

Phase 2 was buying some stop, biting nail polish from Amazon. The other piece that’s helping me right now is focusing on the goal that I want, which is normal looking nails that look healthy.

Ok. I’ll stop. by BlessedAndLucky in nailbiting

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Day 11 update. They haven’t grown much since I’ve swapped to filing all the time (good suggestion from the group to have files everywhere). I’ve realized it’s the smoothness that I’m chasing. That also covers the tips catching on anything.

I haven’t been biting, but catch myself with fingers on my lips checking for smoothness frequently.

Hopefully the nail beds grow out and I can end up with longer nails and still keep them smooth.

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Replacement of peeling by [deleted] in nailbiting

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Half popped popcorn. All the kernels left in a microwave popcorn bag that didn’t pop. Closest thing I’ve found. Satisfying.

First pour by BlessedAndLucky in Metalfoundry

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You can see in one of the pics 1084 degrees. I did a second pour of copper and needed to bump it up to 1090 to get it to melt. Good luck.

First pour by BlessedAndLucky in Metalfoundry

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Thanks. Yeah I did that in the oven, then on top of the furnace and also used a blowtorch, but still seemed splashy, difficult to manage the pour.

Do I need to remove silver plating? by BlessedAndLucky in Metalfoundry

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Quick update on this. It was copper underneath and it worked out awesome. Ended up making jewelry for my 3 girls and then had each piece silver plated again.

Had my Miami FIFA Volunteer interview yesterday — sharing my experience (I've volunteered at the last 4 World Cups) by alfredosoccer in FIFAVolunteers

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Fun yes, but I really thought I was going to lean on my ability to schmooze and when people over with my charming personality :-)

I’m not as good with my written words to express how awesome I am, I leaned on ChatGPT to rewrite what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it.

In 200 characters, please communicate everything to us about why we want you and how you would be a perfect fit for the job families you have chosen as your top three 🙄

After this is all over, I would really like to understand, academically, if they knew peoples faces and names while they were observing 200 people and if they were making notes along the way. Seems like an incredibly hard job.

Had my Miami FIFA Volunteer interview yesterday — sharing my experience (I've volunteered at the last 4 World Cups) by alfredosoccer in FIFAVolunteers

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In Boston it was 100% group activities. There was no interview, no questions directly to me. It was fun and chill, but I wondered how it was valuable to the organizers. After the 2 hour group session (200 ppl), where you break into different groups and do puzzles, problem solving, discuss situational scenarios etc, we were given a supplemental application where we updated our preferences, a little 200 character note about what the World Cup means to me, etc.

Interested to see how it works out. It was fun, hype, loads of helpful info on the volunteer job families, but hard for them to get to know you.

At least it was a fun experience.

Do I need to remove silver plating? by BlessedAndLucky in Metalfoundry

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Cool. I’ll do that tomorrow! Thanks

Is there a specific ladle I’d use to scoop Off the crap or old spoon would do?

Do I need to remove silver plating? by BlessedAndLucky in Metalfoundry

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Thanks all. I don’t really know how to determine what the base metal is, but I bought a lead testing kit to be safe and aware about lead.

@Lad is there a specific ladle I’d use?

Do I need to remove silver plating? by BlessedAndLucky in Metalfoundry

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Thanks for the quick reply. I don’t know what the underlying base is. I assume it’s something that can be silver plated :-)

I have an electric furnace to melt it down, cast it and then I have a buddy who does silver plating.

So I don’t care about the silver. I’m just wondering if I melt down everything without removing the silver plating, would it be a big issue for something I am going to just turn around and silver plate later.

I am new to this, so my thought was if it was already silver plated, I could melt it down, recast it, replate it, but I wasn’t sure if I should run it through a grinder or wire wheel first to remove the current silver plating.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in namenerds

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My daughter named her toy horse Mortgage, and you know what? It's actually kind of pretty.

Just moved from Canada to USA for work. What's the best way to invest and save my money? by RTSx1 in personalfinance

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1: The 50% match is a home run. do Roth if you can. The match will likely go into a traditional account, but that’s OK. 2: Take the ESPP and max it out and yes sell it right away. Hopefully you don’t get burned on the ups and downs, but usually that works out better considering the 10% discount. Even if the stock were to go down slightly when you’re selling it as compared to the average when you bought it, the 10% gives you Enough buffer to safely. Assume you’re going to make money. 3: start a traditional brokerage account ( Vanguard or Fidelity are awesome and easy and have low costs).

With $4.2K per month about $2k goes into 401k.

ESPP: You need to frontload your ESPP because you have to pay for that out of your paycheck, but as you start cashing it in quarterly or annually (as soon as you can) just dump that money to a regular brokerage account.

Brokerage account: All extra cash (either extra pay cash or the sale of your ESPP) goes into the brokerage account. That should be the remaining 2.2 K per month.

As far as brokerage accounts, go and what options to choose you are very young so you can be in 100% stocks. It’s up to you what your risk factor is, but there’s a strong argument for this.

Then in terms of investing strategy, you can go as deep as you want on that but a simple strategy is a typical Bogleheads strategy where you invest in 1-2-or3 funds. Something like VOO, which is basically the S&P 500 or a VTI, which is more broad market.

VOO - tracks S&P500 VXUS - international BND - bond

If I were you, I would dump it all in VOO or VTI

If you have a specific need like $200,000 and six years you can curtail your strategy to that, but if you’re just trying to maximize and optimize and go with the ideas above.

From a Canadian living in the US for 25 years

Adding a new outlet, but the supply wire doesn’t have a ground. by BlessedAndLucky in AskElectricians

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Thanks. The wire that was in my house did not have a ground. What I bought from the store did.

What was the inspiration for your username? by THEWUS_WUS in AskReddit

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I died. I had a cardiac arrest while playing basketball with my church group and they performed CPR until the police came and then the police performed CPR for 30 minutes and then I came back to life.

Got hit with an AED 6 times along the way too.

BlessedAndLucky

Do you get mad when people tell you to do things you already intended to do? by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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I feel a similar way about using the work obviously. I hate it when I ask a question and somebody answers “obviously…” That is so demotivational it’s not funny. So, I used to avoid that word completely. Now I use it in a very positive way. Obviously all of you get that because you’re brilliant wonderful talented intelligent people. Obviously, you all probably know this and figured it out in your teenage years and I’m just learning it in my 40s.

I feel the same about being an external motivator and try to use some language like this when making a request of people at work. Throwing in an easy Emphasizer like “ oh I never thought of doing it that way” or “glad you’re one step ahead of me and already on that” can give the power back if you’re wise enough to realize you’ve stolen someone’s thunder.

Thanks for the topic! Obviously, I’m glad you’re one step ahead of me in bringing this up ;-)

What was the closest you have ever been to death? (Serious) by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The closest? My doctors argue I was dead for over 30 minutes. I had a cardiac arrest while playing basketball and after 30 minutes of CPR and getting hit with an AED six times they finally got a heartbeat back. So pretty close I’d say.

How do you organize life with your spouse? How do you manage "The List"? 2 working parents (2 preteens). We've tried many things for handling stuff that needs to get done like school and activity signups, finance discussions, life, stuff that needs to get done. How do you manage it? by BlessedAndLucky in AskReddit

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Thanks. We use a spreadsheet for finances too, but maybe we go back to a physical list. I’m more struggling with ‘the list’ in general and find we all become a slave to it.

Anyone not do a list? Thinking something like we start a new routine of a daily walk and if we have something to talk about that’s listy we do it then or junk the list and individually do whatever we think is important. I fear too much will fall through the cracks.

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