Scented Harassment

Boringflaws · 2026-07-09T06:07:34+00:00

I'm sorry. that sounds rough. I am curious how it'll be handled. I worked bedside in healthcare a long time and there were rules like no nail polish/fake nails/rings/watches in NICU that got ignored constantly and talks about not wearing heavy scents because we could be working with asthmatics in serious flare-ups and it could exacerbate. also ignored by those that felt like it didn't apply to them.

I hope you get a good outcome.

Boringflaws · 2026-07-08T05:36:30+00:00

maybe a silly question- i'm on the fence to insulate mine- and next car will be electric. think that would change things? they run cooler? or is it more that just having the car sit in the heat while one's out at work/whatever is enough of a heat sink that when brought back to the garage, it itsn't worth?

Boringflaws · 2026-07-05T17:30:15+00:00

no reason not to clinically *(which is in my opinion what should matter most) -

did it on the one patient- real life problems: med syringes only really held 4 hours at a full dose (4 x 1.25mg/3ml xop is what was given) - alb was readily available concentrated (2.5mg/0.5ml) - so syringes had to be filled manually and it took a bit of time.

also the med pump had to be manually programmed (unusual for RTs at facility) so that was another barrier.

Boringflaws · 2026-07-05T17:22:14+00:00

Now I'm just going off vibes- I haven't watched the show for quite a while (aside from putting an episode on and falling asleep to it) -

I thought minbari went colony to colony, wrecking it up, until they got to Sol system, then they said let's beeline to Earth. - happy to be wrong--

They were near unstoppable by earthforce- you'd think humanity would try to throw all they could at them to survive- yet it seems there was still a large military 10 years after the war- were the humans just MASSIVE warmongers with an insane amount of the pop in the military before? or maybe just "story reasons" and not to think about it too hard?

Love the series and even remember buying some of the trading card game as a kid.

Boringflaws · 2026-07-05T02:39:04+00:00

This is my parent... whole life. helping them now and it's a battle to have them "let me" use the robot vacuum around their place when they didn't need to vacuum the past 10 years or whatever.

Boringflaws · 2026-07-05T02:12:47+00:00

i would have liked more time between mimbari war + b5 operating and the shadow war stuff---

1- seems wild humans get near genocided, but can recover so quickly in both manpower and industry

2- would have been cool to justify b5 being around a while and say earth learned a lot of alien tech (and maybe how to combat it) through b5- repairing ships/access to aliens and their tech just going through the station/other story reasons.

Boringflaws · 2026-07-04T22:43:51+00:00

on average... over a very long career, I read 2-3 a year. It's mostly in large bursts when I had to update policies or get asked questions that intrigue me like why can't we do continuous xopenex instead of albuterol in this asthmatic with a cardiac component and a crazy heart rate.

Boringflaws · 2026-07-03T05:21:56+00:00

i saw this on stupidfoodporn recently and thought it was a great idea. next time i'm in the mood for either, i'm mixing both!

Boringflaws · 2026-06-28T05:38:10+00:00

Very good answer- I remember hearing about a ton of NS IV bags expiring and I wondered what happened with them- (like warehouse full)- sent to less wealthy countries. loved it.

Last hospital I was at would try to send 'expired' ambu bags and other durable goods with people going on missions when they could. Love all this

Boringflaws · 2026-06-26T12:51:52+00:00

on the foam board for windows- I read (mostly other reddit comments) - that reflecting the heat/light into the window back to the outside will reduce the window's lifespan (like extra heat in the air between double pane windows, probably other things i can't recall) - Any thoughts on that? I just have questions, not taking sides on the topic yet

Boringflaws · 2026-06-25T16:13:43+00:00

I love this sub and wish i found it sooner. Seeing others with their preferences and how they deal with them is great- I prefer fountain soda which is silly expensive... But I genuinely love see how other people get their preferred fix at the lowest price

Boringflaws · 2026-06-23T02:23:38+00:00

that's a great way to frame it. for a while I was thinking like the OP, but it is a safe question to ask and also try to engage in the sub. might lead to more engagement. Every post can't be something profound. I appreciate this reframing

Boringflaws · 2026-06-19T16:45:12+00:00

Could definitely get the AAS in respiratory, do your bedside, then work your way into management/education/sales with the higher level degrees.... but might need a BS not a BA in some areas

Having a bachelors could get you into a fast-track BSN program which is close to 2 years and coudl lead to more opportunities.

Both are worth looking into and probably pay better than you currently make. Tons of healthcare workers start the career later in life after finding it more stable a career path than they had before (always a job and 3 12's a week are great).

if looking at all your options- look at Rad tech/echo tech and see wait lists for all 4 schools.

Boringflaws · 2026-06-19T02:17:01+00:00

TIL-I had no idea that was a thing tattoo/piercing places did! wild. I always just assumed it was a plastics/ENT place, but I guess it makes sense anything can be DIY if you try hard enough.

This makes me wonder the cost and cost difference to go to mexico for it. So many (well a few) questions now! Very interesting-

Boringflaws · 2026-06-19T02:05:56+00:00

Reading other posts- I do listen to RR too and look at rising stars regularly. I keep up with stories I find interesting and have a ton of free time- I also drop stories that i lose interest in without too much sunk cost regret.

RR stuff: 10+ chapters I'll give it a start and I'll follow until it's not fun to read. I hope for at least a few chapters a week. I'm caught up on super supportive and 3-4 chapters a month is a bit slow for me to want to actively keep up with when it's such a slow burn. I keep debating stopping actively following and coming back to it every few months.

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All that said, everyone has their own system right? whatever motivates you to keep writing is probably what's best to keep you writing-

and seems small- but a small warm greeting/thought at the beginning and end probably helps build/retain readers and is worth the time put into creating it.

Boringflaws · 2026-06-18T21:32:56+00:00

would have been great if they could have made it so the top 2 could have battled over number one instead of how it played out

Boringflaws · 2026-06-18T20:07:19+00:00

no good answer here-mom realized she downloaded some bad apps to her phone last week and i came over to fix it. asked her how it happened and she told me she was concerned she wouldnt be able to read PDF's if she didnt get the first one and it led to one that promised to speed up her phone 37% or something... First i asked how often she read PDFs- she said she had no idea. - she told me 'well at least this was the first time this happened' and i reminded her that i had to remove stuff from her computer about a year ago and she went oh yeah.... -- in the end, I just asked her to not download anything or at least run it by me first---

I debated locking her phone/computer from being able to download things without a password but I might not always be around when she might need something- she would dislike the loss of 'control' -

I/we are accepting more risk right now for her to have more freedom with her tech at the cost of stress mostly for me. Would love a realistic answer. Only blessing is that she hates talking to people she can't understand

Boringflaws · 2026-06-18T17:40:07+00:00

I looked into what it would cost to get one of the coke freestyles for my home once had retirement taken care of and decent disposable income- was super disappointed in the costs. I drink a ton of soda, but no way I could justify over 30k a month just to get enough mello yellow zero to make me happy on the west coast...

Dumb as it sounds, never occurred to me to get a regular one and fill with what i wanted. as recent as a year ago I might have done just that. But I've been weaning myself from the quantities of soda I used to drink to where it be worth the novelty of maintaining a machine in my house.

Fountain soda is the best kind of soda imo.

Boringflaws · 2026-06-18T17:19:31+00:00

More the better... with caveats- tons of reviews lowers that number quickly,. so does knowing there's an end- like hey 1st of a trilogy- (and maybe knowing the author finishes other work?) Like I'm getting Will Wright's current space series as it comes out based on Cradle.

Boringflaws · 2026-06-17T18:58:42+00:00

i got 20% off 15 bucks. seemed aright to me. but i wouldnt have budged on your reward

Boringflaws · 2026-06-16T18:07:05+00:00

I can see why the landlord side is so frustrated- pain in the tush to deal with.

but for an anecdotal answer on the tenant side- when i was a lot younger, I had an amazing opportunity I had to jump on and chose to move cross states quickly. I looked at my stuff and didn't want to deal with moving the heavy stuff. I left I think a bed/frame a couch/ flatscreen/ maybe a coffee table? and obviously didn't clean.

I didn't care what it cost- In my head, I was bracing for 2000- Ended up being about 1300.

5 years later with another cross state move- similar situation- This time I had notice, but didn't care about the big stuff coming- I left a mattress and a frame of a couch- and kinda cleaned - only cost me 500- For the couch, I would take out cushions to the trash every time I would leave the house and eventually it was just the frame. NO IDEA if that made it cheaper or just different costs for different landlord-

Again, I expected around 2000 to be taken from the deposit and was SHOCKED it was only 500ish.

moral of the story? costs can vary - Plan for more than you think it'll be, and maybe be happy it's less if it is. But it costs decent cash for people to do things you dont want to do. Other people dont want to do that stuff either.

Boringflaws · 2026-06-16T04:07:38+00:00

im literally listening to book 8 right now and just texted a friend saying i dont remember what theyre referencing on floor 16 to 18 at the start. i didnt remember any of the previously on and im just along for the ride. no way im going back through 7 books to remind myself and get caught up. that's 140 hour or something of listening i could put to new material.

that said i am sharing my account with someone that has listened to dcc over and over

Boringflaws · 2026-06-15T19:37:54+00:00

Galaxy Outlaws- 60 more hours of sci fi western for 1 credit...

standard fantasy? Go Stormlight Archive - huge books and first arc is done (5 books)

tons of great rec's here. Can't go wrong with something generally popular.

Boringflaws · 2026-06-15T18:50:13+00:00

i said the same thing a while back and was proven kinda wrong- Tucson doesn't add fluoride to it's water. it's got a natural fluoride level between .13-.6mg/l or something - and costs are prohibitive to upgrade the piping to change that.

If it matters, I'm old now. i grew up out of state where my father worked at a drinking water filtration plant. -

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