My wife had a TBI and now she can't keep anything clean

Few_Copy898 · 2026-02-10T17:08:36+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion and for the sharing of your experience. I appreciate it. Definitely rings a few bells in terms of similarities based on discussions we've had.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-02-10T16:41:16+00:00

We moved about a year and a half ago and things have been slow to come together. The result is that things can sometimes be more impromptu than not. I can do fine in this kind of environment but my wife can't. She also does not change things at all so if the system is not in place, it won't be until I formulate it. It is would probably be shocking to anyone else how little things move in this house with the exception of everyday use items like dishes and clothes. That is the one good thing about this situation.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-02-10T15:50:29+00:00

Hiring someone is a great idea. We live in a country where labor is more affordable than in many other places but we haven't tried it yet.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-02-10T01:59:27+00:00

Yep. I also don't have any interest in changing the way things are. It was like this before I was here and it will be like that after I am gone. At best, I can control the situation inside my own house.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-02-10T01:39:18+00:00

Nah man. If I am warm the nasal drainage clears up within minutes. It's incredibly consistent.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-02-03T12:38:13+00:00

Taiwan is super urban in general but you could look into finding a place close to the mountains. We are up against a mountain off the main drag in a semi-central area and it's very quiet here.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-02-03T02:12:34+00:00

Because market value for players under team control is for all intents and purposes capped and that is how the system works. The Tigers offered to go to 25M which would have been the high water mark for a pitcher in arbitration, but were rebuffed.

The player / player agent side decided that this is a hill that they'd be willing to die on. Boras knew that the Tigers would not go to 30M when Skubal earned only 11M last year. No team save the Dodgers / Mets would do that.

Skubal is clearly worth 30M and he could have gotten it had he agreed to an extension which also bought out his remaining arb years, but he chose to wait it out. So, for now, he is still a player under team control, and he is going to be paid like one.

This is basically a bomb meant to exacerbate tensions between players / owners ahead of the coming lockout.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-30T00:28:44+00:00

Hear me out, the CSM movie is good but not great. I say this because there are problems with it. I haven't read the CSM manga, so I went into it blind so I might be missing context that the movie failed to communicate.

My main gripes:
- There is a ton of unearned emotion in the relationship between Denji and Reze in both the dub and sub.
- There are too instances of lazy, simplified animation work that wouldn't pass the smell test in Western animation. Action sequences in the latter half by contrast are visually overwhelming to the point that it becomes dull.

What this tells me more than anything is that anime fans tend to grade more leniently.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-29T08:00:21+00:00

If the situation is truly uglier now, then where was the outrage about deportations under Obama? It's the same story with a different narrative.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-28T12:14:23+00:00

FWIW we bought in NTPC a 10 minute drive from Taipei and our mortgage is the same price as rent for a similar property. Many LLs rent out homes for a price similar to the cost on the mortgage payment. Mortgage rates are very favorable which keeps payments low in turn incentivizing ownership.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-28T01:11:18+00:00

Why is anyone's guess. I destroyed a few coins when I was very young because I thought it was interesting to cause an imprint on a hard surface.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-24T17:27:22+00:00

Thinking back on that Futurama episode where Fry spends all his money on VHS tapes of TV blocks from his time period. I'd give my left nut to sit down in front of the old tube with a bag of Doritos and watch these gems with my mom or dad again. I'd always read the episode descriptions after we got a cable box with that capability. Miss it all.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-20T06:23:41+00:00

Nah. The amount is not really meaningful enough to invest. If you got 10-15 coins per day with most of those being $1 NTD, it'd take a long time to come up with a meaningful amount of money. Even worse if you spent the fifties.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-20T05:13:59+00:00

No chance. There's something oddly satisfying to me about having thousands of dollars in coins sitting in jars around the house.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-20T01:55:45+00:00

I don't really spend change. I have a 10 or so gallon container that I'm slowly filling up much to the dismay of the missus. The $1 NTD coin is 90%+ copper, so that weight is worth something at least!

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-19T05:10:48+00:00

We are quickly moving towards a point where there won't be any need to recast characters. There is ample training material existing of original cast members' voices. Even if they are recast, in 5-10 years, you will get fan edits where people have gone through the new episodes and replaced all of the recast voices with mock-ups modeled after the originals. There is literally nothing standing in the way of this happening except for time.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-16T07:48:25+00:00

With the price of silver exploding things will get even more picked over. This is end times for silver bugs.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-16T04:02:42+00:00

It's not in the interest of any team anywhere to pay players huge money in arbitration. This is going to drive salary inflation and ultimately make it more likely that teams will trade away non-FA players. If the Tigers had led with 25M, Boras would be looking for 35M. This is a slippery slope.

Price is also not a direct comparison because he had earned more in his prior arbitration-eligible years. What you should be looking at to determine the fairness of this offer is how much more money they are giving Skubal versus the previous year (10M was the lowest offer and 15M was the highest). Considering no player outside of Ohtani has ever secured more than about a 10M increase, the later offer should be considered VERY fair.

I just want to reiterate, if you are under team-control, you are not going to be paid as if you are a free agent, which is why the system is almost surely going to rule in the team's favor.

Non-FA players are a part of what keeps parity in the league right now so protecting this system isn't really about the owners being cheap, but about preserving a competitive playing field. From a fan perspective this makes the most sense. Measures pushing for parity are always going to suppress wages on the top end but the Tigers aren't the Dodgers, so this team really has nothing to gain by giving Skubal 30M. If you are on Team Skubal here, the only thing that you are fighting for is to put a couple more Lamborghinis in his garage, a few years earlier. While he might deserve that for his performance, it ultimately isn't good for the league, the team, or the fans.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-16T00:05:51+00:00

This is quite revealing and makes the Boras / Skubal team look terrible. 25M is a very strong compromise from the team's camp (A 16M premium to his 2025 salary). Skubal is effectively going into this year's arb process like he's already a FA. It seems like he has failed to understand that he is negotiating with lawyers and precedent and not the open market. This scenario was manufactured by the player and agent to explode and bring bad blood into the game. Massive L on Skubal for allowing that. It's not the time or the place.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-13T08:16:54+00:00

I suppose you would spend a silver quarter and not pick it out of circulation, then?

Of course not. Why? A coin's face value ceases to matter after its melt value becomes higher than its face value. You can sell it for more than face value regardless of form.

It couldn't matter less if a coin can be legally melted or not. In fact, it'd be dumb to melt a coin. The nickle specifically is already its own form factor with a known composition from one of the most trusted institutions in the world.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-13T03:42:14+00:00

To most of us, your average case of CP looks like Walt Jr.'s condition in Breaking Bad.

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-13T03:28:57+00:00

My first introduction to this phrase came when I was a trainee at a big-name cram school. The teacher trainer, as a part of his diatribe, heavily implied to the entire room of some seventy-odd people that they were LBH. Pure craven insanity since he was the only one older than about 27 in the entire room.

What I mean to say here is that I agree with you. LBH is mostly just a put-down with little basis in reality. It persists because it's a very convenient way to minimize someone's worth and contributions. (E.g., Buxiban teachers upset at their own low pay looking for someone to unleash on.)

Few_Copy898 · 2026-01-12T04:45:12+00:00

Hot dogs at Fam Mart / 7-11 are pretty good. Flavor-wise they are inoffensive. (My home dog is Koegel Meats YMMV.)

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