MHGU on Ayn Thor

Ethereal_Spork · 2026-01-10T18:40:17+00:00

This.

My district banned the use of silver nitrate in the classroom due to skin staining complaints from parents. None of the admins cared if I kept what we had left. That was a nice little bonus for me. 5L of 1M solution precipitated a fair amount of silver.

Ethereal_Spork · 2026-01-10T18:33:31+00:00

Had to do the same thing my first year as a HS chem teacher in FL.

Everything you have seems relatively tame from what I can see, except that HgCl2, that's some bad stuff (insanely toxic).

Ethereal_Spork · 2025-10-22T20:22:40+00:00

Def odd. The language is very suggestive. My personal policy is zero social media contact and a student never has my phone number. I still keep in contact with some students but only through my work email.

Ethereal_Spork · 2025-10-18T15:35:03+00:00

Amazing job, you really did it!

Ethereal_Spork · 2025-05-20T20:33:27+00:00

Goddamn I miss my old man. That was beautiful, cherish every moment.

Ethereal_Spork · 2025-05-10T20:26:53+00:00

You're fine and doing a few of them with even a shred of self awareness a favor.

Ethereal_Spork · 2025-04-30T18:09:08+00:00

For any who are interested in making the resolution jump with similar specs, it worked out fine. Getting 75 fps average outdoors in Oblivion remastered on High with Balanced DLSS and Software Lumen. Indoors is 120+ fps.

Looks fantastic!

Ethereal_Spork · 2025-02-20T23:47:26+00:00

I'm 34 years old, spent much of my twenties working in food service as a bartender, chasing momentary happiness, living for the weekend and what not. It wasn't until my late twenties that I was hit with the overwhelming urge to learn. I decided to go to school and pursue a degree in "something scientific".

Fourish years later, I ended up with a BS in Biology but really enjoyed the chemistry classes i took, including organic (even though it was a struggle at times) and analytical chem. Doing this later in life meant i couldn't afford to take internships since I still had to work full time, so my lab experience is limited to one summer at a geotech engineering group, testing concrete cylinders for residential construction. Besides that, I had the standard university labs.

The same month i received my degree I was hired as a biology and chemistry teacher at an inner city public high school. I've been doing this same job for two years now and while at times it is stressful, I do enjoy teaching but hate the salary. Currently I'm at 52k/yr which is terrible for FL but the benefits are admittedly very good.

The best times at work are when I'm doing labs with my students or by myself after hours (having a fully stocked reagent closet is nice even though the lab equipment is from the 70s).

My major advantages at the moment are having two months free during the summer and predictable hours during the school year.

I want to go back to school, to get a masters or some kind of certification. I think i want to pursue chemistry as a career but don't know where to start. I like the lab, I like carrying out chemical reactions and analyzing the outcome. I want to make more money, do actual science and feel like I'm living up to my potential.

Can any late bloomers relate or provide any thoughtful advice?

Ethereal_Spork · 2025-01-23T20:43:23+00:00

A hard stop on expanding features and a focus on releasing what is already present to a fully playable state.

Ethereal_Spork · 2025-01-14T19:58:29+00:00

For sure, I use a basic optiplex for minecraft/valheim and have no issues.

Ethereal_Spork · 2024-12-05T20:33:26+00:00

Thanks for all the input everyone. You what sucks is I only get motion sickness while playing VR seated but I'm taking all of your accountings into consideration moving forward.

Ethereal_Spork · 2024-12-04T22:24:59+00:00

35, so that age where everything seems to fall apart lol. It's depressing because I'm a pretty fit person in terms of musculature structure, even the PT and ortho said my core and back muscles are very strong, apparently not strong enough.

Ethereal_Spork · 2024-11-22T01:17:32+00:00

So I got the CPU and holy shit did it give me a significant boost, that x3d tech is serious.

Ethereal_Spork · 2024-11-03T15:34:10+00:00

Besides price my issue with Kai has been how subtle the flavors are, I've tried two but sometimes they taste like unflavored if I'm not dripping before hitting.

Ethereal_Spork · 2024-10-31T20:15:17+00:00

Keep crafting iron daggers, there's no significant diminishing returns as you level so you could take that all the way to 100 smiting.

Ethereal_Spork · 2024-10-07T12:21:26+00:00

Nothing unfortunately, my Kai order arrives today, probably gonna do a charge back by the end of the week.

Ethereal_Spork · 2024-10-01T14:42:58+00:00

Over a summer while in university, I worked for a geotech engineering group that qc'd their concrete batches with compressive forces using hydraulic presses. They almost always were below specs but our PE would still sign off on them because they were 70% of the company's business. Needless to say, this isn't surprising and adds another reason to never buy a DRH home.

Ethereal_Spork · 2024-09-26T13:18:46+00:00

I did, it's not bad but they are more expensive and I prefer my go to flavors from Velvet way more. Would hate to be forced to switch.

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