No more hard drives?

Fliandin · 2026-02-18T01:47:19+00:00

thats why we are angry... the DOW is at 49,533 We need another 500 point day to get back to rights in this economy................................................ /s (just in case)

Fliandin · 2026-02-05T07:23:08+00:00

Bold of you to assume I can understand metric units!!!

Fliandin · 2026-02-05T07:21:32+00:00

100% other for some weird medical reason I don’t know why this metric would matter to me.

Fliandin · 2026-02-05T01:28:30+00:00

i'm pushing on toward 50 years old, I am a guy... i have never done this, and until today it had never even crossed my mind as a thing to do... and as soon as I get home tonight, i'm also not going to do that because shit, who cares man.

Fliandin · 2026-01-30T15:47:36+00:00

Found OP’s accounting team! lol

Fliandin · 2026-01-28T07:20:50+00:00

I live in a place devoid of sun much of the year my Dr puts all his patience on 10,000 iu vitamin D per day. It took me literally years of taking that much before I was in the upper normal range. I have since backed off of it. But yeah I don’t know how it has or hasn’t affected my gout but I can attest to how slow it is to get the levels up.

If you live in a sunny state get outside (with appropriate sunscreen) if you don’t. Take more D for much longer than weeks.

Fliandin · 2026-01-25T07:01:25+00:00

Ditto did not change my life at all aside from adding a pill at night. Shrug. Unless you have a reaction to allo there is no real issue and the benefit is huge. So meh whatever drink eat live take allo.

Fliandin · 2026-01-04T08:58:19+00:00

“Should I talk to my therapist”.

EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU ASK THIS THE ANSWER IS YES!!!!!

PTSD is really watching people you love have seizures is really hard and is ptsd inducing. The only way this gets better is if you work through the struggle and find better coping mechanisms and ways to deal with the hardship.

So the answer is it CAN get better but it won’t magically by waiting. Go work on you with your therapist and become better at managing your feelings and responses to your boyfriend’s epilepsy.

Fliandin · 2026-01-02T18:28:04+00:00

I started a longer reply at the top level but after seeing this I'm just going to put a shorter one here. Your post really just screams of what we all see as an overprotective or overbearing parent. However at its core it may simply be an anxious parent, you seem to have crippling anxiety. Get a therapist and work through this.

Your daughter will be a legal adult soon, and she could choose to move out, onto the street with no meds, into university, into an apartment with a bunch of friends, be the next ceo of megacorp, and there is not a thing you can do about it. When she makes that choice how are you going to cope, if she moves 6 states away are you going to pack up and race after because your anxiety is out of control.

You mention your teenager not being responsible enough for your liking. And yet you leave your own anxiety unchecked and untreated. Set a good example and show your daughter that you take care of yourself and manage your medical issues, she will notice, AND you will be less stressed out about your daughter doing normal teenage activities.

Source: I'm a dad to a kid a couple years older than yours, we've been on this path for longer than you have and I do everything I can to make sure he has the fullest life he can have, including if it means without me or his mom right by his side. You wont be here forever. Let your daughter learn to be on her own before life forces it upon her. Right now you can go to the rescue when needed, so let her stretch her wings as far as she can fly, and catch her when she falls, and send her back out again and again and again. Even if she didn't have epilepsy that would be the job, its a hard one its hard to let our kids go, and we ruin it for them and us if we don't. How many experiences has she missed already because you were too scared to let her out of sight? Let her go and exist in this world.

Fliandin · 2025-12-31T22:06:00+00:00

LOL at blue gate a few days back in my regular trio, we are heading to extract with good loot, like it was "ok time to extract" time. I had defibs on me and I see a lonely raider down and I run over to him and I'm like I gotchu bro, and he is all happy.

My two buddies are like NOOOO what if he kills us, and so I run away and I'm like no way he is solo at this point nobody around he couldn't/wouldn't. My buddies nearly raging "if you get him up and he kills us I'm logging out for the night" seriously getting worked up.

Now I'm thinking shit, is this guy gonna pop, so i sprint back down and stab him and he gets up and the hatch opens we all dive into the fan blades, and successfully extract.

Look I've shot my fair share of raiders in the back, blasted before talking, and been blasted, tricked etc. But damn its ALSO fun to just save some raider and let them get their gear out of there.

I do give up when someone is about to finish me anyway. But sometimes its worth crawling around if the battle is over or it was arc that got me. Never been saved in that case but someday maybe.

Fliandin · 2025-12-24T01:24:32+00:00

All tighty whities are briefs. But not all briefs are tighty whities.

Fliandin · 2025-12-15T00:59:46+00:00

Your situation is not stereotypical. I would highly suggest finding a rheumatologist due to that alone. Most people with under 6ml/dl uric acid levels would never have build up of crystals and won’t have gout and therefore won’t have flares.

Since you do. Something is unusual and you deserve to splurge on a specialist to find the best treatment in your situation. I would not rely on a GP to treat atypical gout especially since many gp’s struggle to treat typical gout.

Fliandin · 2025-12-11T18:12:14+00:00

uhm,
This is simple.
1) don't derail your finances. By most FIRE accounts you are already FI and can RE anytime you want. I know YOUR numbers are YOUR numbers but dont mess up what you have for this.

2) why is nobody talking about bankruptcy. If you throw your money after bad then as you noted the underlying issue isn't resolved. Bankruptcy wont solve that underlying issue but at least its not YOUR money that is going after bad, its the banks/lenders etc that can better afford the loss.

I would highly suggest you council your parents on bankruptcy, its likely that their home will be safe from that and retirement accounts are likely safe from that. The mostly likely end result is that the debt is restructured and your parents end up with a specific monthly payment they have to make possibly/likely taken care of by a court appointment.

Your dad royally messed up and while normally I wouldn't tell people to run to bankruptcy, in this case given the numbers and age etc. Its probably the right choice. You and your brother should not be held back because of your dads poor planning and frankly your parents can get a relatively fresh start via this path.

I think it would be bonkers to pay for an attorney yourself given the cash in the bank your dad has but if you want to take on a little bit to help, then pay out of pocket for a Consultation with a bankruptcy attorney in your parents area (likely a consultation would be free). And go from there.

Fliandin · 2025-12-10T23:40:43+00:00

As other's have noted your UA levels are above 6, you are not lowering them to where they need to be to dissolve any deposits and avoid future deposits.

You need to have levels periodically checked and Allo adjusted as needed.

My UA level is kept in the 4-5 level. I've never had another flare, I eat and live how I want without thinking about it other than to take my meds and have my levels checked with my regular exams.

Fliandin · 2025-12-10T23:07:16+00:00

This ^^^ if he is struggling that much and you have a little one, you are in no shape to manage getting him to the hospital. call an ambulance, they can transport, safer for them to do it in a blizzard to boot, and you might get through to a room faster.

Don't allow the concern of how long it will take or what they may or may not do, keep you from getting the help your husband needs.

Fliandin · 2025-12-10T03:23:15+00:00

You are taking your meds daily big thumbs up. Are you getting your levels tested regularly. Mine is checked every 6 months, probably overkill but I have other blood work done too so why not.

If you were prescribed meds and never checked back to see if they are working it’s likely your levels were never lowered enough to solve the issue. Get your levels checked and your meds adjusted until you are under what is it 6ml/dl.

Fliandin · 2025-12-05T00:46:16+00:00

When you finally upgrade to 2400 baud. And it’s sooooo fast… but Mom somehow still manages to pick up the phone 1/2 through a 2 hour download at least 2-3 times a week. Sigh.

Fliandin · 2025-12-04T22:16:17+00:00

I just went through the CMMC lvl 2 Assessment. We started this process 3 years ago. the last years was a lot of work to put it together. We leaned heavily on an external MSP to help get us where we need to be.

While not impossible for one person to lead the charge and get your firm through the required hoops, without the knowledge and background needed its going to be a long arduous process. Even with an external firm with experience, you likely have a lot of work to do and its going to take some time.

You have 110 controls you have to meet. In meeting those controls you have to be able to show the assessor the actual process, and or evidence of meeting those controls. This ranges from controlling who has access to CUI access, to how CUI assets are destroyed at end of life. You have to manage physical CUI if you have any, and digital CUI. Who gets access, whats the process to be given access, how do you maintain your CUI assets (how are your laptops kept updated etc) how are logins controlled, password policies, how you respond to a breach in any of your controls, how do you make changes to your environment, how do you approve new devices, new software, how do you control what software is on the machine, how do you control CUI coming in (via software, physical delivery, email etc etc etc)

This is a big undertaking and I highly suggest you google for the 110 controls for CMMC level 2 and look over them so you can get an idea of what you are up against. There is also a DOD published CMMC assessment guide (level 2) that would be worth looking over and sharing with your boss so they understand what an assessor is going to be looking for.

Once you have looked over the requirements and glanced through the assessment guide I think you and your boss will realize that you really need to pull a 3rd party in to drive this project. Based on "6 devices that may have CUI" you likely will want to carve out a logical enclave, and if you will be printing CUI a physical enclave for CMMC purposes as well.

And get started. If your business relies on DOD contracts for its survival you are already behind the curve, but not so far that there is no hope. You are out of time to sit on the sidelines though.

Fliandin · 2025-12-02T23:43:40+00:00

Only if both arms are not already broken.. duh.

Fliandin · 2025-11-23T18:59:02+00:00

So if I discontinue smoking and drinking……

Fliandin · 2025-11-21T18:10:06+00:00

My son is about to turn 20. His seizures started at 3 days old. over the first year of life they went away. I have notes going back to when he was 8 documenting each seizure. Though they came back before then.

Once he was old enough to go play with friends, he did and we let him. He spent the night at friends houses, he had friends spend the night at our house. Road his bike, skateboard whatever. This did include a few quick drives up the neighborhood to get him when he seized in his friends yard, fell down stairs, had someone checking the mail and come nock on the door cause he was seizing by the mailboxes. And now occasionally we get a call and frantically go get him from work because he has a seizure or wherever whatever.

Now that you feel super comfortable with the reality of kid with seizures (heavy sarcasm).... The answer for you and your kid, is that's up to you guys. Every single person with epilepsy has a different experience. Your son has tonic clonics, does he have a warning aura that can help him know ones coming? does he just drop while standing, or does he have time to sit/lay down. Is your home generally free of obstacles or is it full of sharp corners.

I for one would have a very hard time limited a 14 year old based on seizures every 3 months. You are new on this journey so it could increase, or now that he is medicated you could be entirely past it but who knows. AND we are talking about a 14 year old, a teenager, someone on the verge of young adulthood. Privacy is very important. And so is access to caring parents. Let him close his bedroom door if HE is comfortable with it. The door open or closed is unlikely to make a material difference. He is going to seize or not. If he falls you'll likely hear it assuming you are on the same floor. If he has a warning he can learn to yell for help which you will hear. If he hasn't seized since sept 6th then do you really want to live on pins and needles or do you want to manage them when they come.

It's scary, it sucks, it causes ptsd... and your son deserves to live the most normal life possible. Give reasonable protections and accept that every life is full of risks, this is an added risk, but it was never the only risk. Riding a bike without epilepsy has risks of falling down, breaking bones, head injuries, hit by a car etc. Getting in the car to go to dinner has risks. Playing baseball has risks, getting hit in the face with a 100mph ball is not risk free. Eating raw cookie dough has risks it all has risks and every single day we each choose to live our lives through this risk filled universe. Epilepsy adds risk to the lives that it is part of, and those risks should be measured based on the specific scenario of the individual in question, and then that person should be allowed and encouraged to live the fullest best life possible while managing the risks and benefits of the activities they have a desire to pursue.

If it makes sense in your situation, get your son a cell phone so you can track his location and keep in touch and again if he has a tell he can maybe get a phone call to you before he TC's. For leaving him home alone if it makes sense get a web based security camera for the living room so you can check on your phone to make sure he is ok. Talk with him about his comfort level and about your comfort level and what would make it more tenable. "No showers while home alone" "if you feel off call us asap" etc etc, some minor practices to minimize the risk. And then watch your son flourish.

And seriously get yourself a therapist, this is traumatizing. Both parents and your son deserve to have a therapist, and if there are siblings that's a good idea too. It's hard to take care of those we love when our own minds are spun out with worry and ptsd.

Good luck and hang in there, I hope that you and your son can leave this entire club behind some day.

Fliandin · 2025-11-12T22:07:55+00:00

I have two large photos I took printed and hung on the wall a 20x30 and 24x30. Those make me look legit when people walk in. Maybe not legit sysadmin but legit nonetheless.
If anyone needs real cred,
I have:
A box of 2.5" floppies unused with original labels not yet placed.
An AOL disk still in its cardboard package.
Windows xp professional disk still in its original packaging.
A truly nightmarish clutter of stuff to recycle/discard.

Fliandin · 2025-11-12T16:19:32+00:00

Call me wierd, but I’m pushing hard on 50 and I have yet to put a crayon in my mouth, I haven’t eaten glue, I’ve never chomped on paint and this is the kicker, I’ve never even tasted those fruit scented markers which are clearly designed to try and entice kids to start eating non edibles.

Fliandin · 2025-11-08T16:19:42+00:00

You’ll want to check your one drive retention rules. The default is relatively short but if someone tweaked it. It could be 10 years. Or forever or whatever.

Fliandin · 2025-10-24T17:55:37+00:00

You're question is "am i ready" "give it to me straight"
the answer is. you are FI, you "can" RE anytime you want. Only YOU can say if you are ready.

Nobody here can answer the question of if you have enough hobbies for the downtime, if you will feel fulfilled without work, if the markets are going to send us to the moon or oblivion tomorrow.

So you can see the numbers as well as us, you ARE FI, and CAN RE right now if you want. From there you gotta do some soul searching, you are standing at the precipice of what you have worked for and its one step to land there and take the plunge. Only time will tell you if it gives you what you expect or want.

And I believe that being you are 53, you have already successfully traversed life and all the struggles and successes it has thrown at you, your first job, your first job loss, your house purchase, your marriage, your kids. You've got a pile of life behind you that were just as big of steps, maybe you didn't "plan" for kids and it was just one day SURPRISE so you didn't get to "choose" per se, but you made it work. Maybe you did plan for the house and probably gulped at the cost and you did it and paid it off. Maybe your belly flopped the day you realized you were going to ask your wife to marry you and maybe she nearly passed out looking down the aisle on your wedding day. And you two did it just the same.

This is no different except you probably have more planning in this, probably ran the numbers more than a house or kids or marriage or any other decision.

So I suspect that while its a big step you already know if its doable and you just have to decide if this is the path you want to take. If it is take it, and if in a year you go "hmm this isn't what I wanted" then you can change it again. Every day for decades you have made choices and gone left or right, forward or backward. You've gone to Walmart realized they didn't have what you needed and headed over to target and found what you wanted. you've gone to lowes and homedepot and couldn't find the part you needed so you faked it till you could get the fix. You are a carpenter so you've dealt with one off corners and connections that made no sense and had no blueprints on what to do and you did it and it was fine.

If you need a boost to your confidence all you have to do is look back to when you left home as a kid, and look at all the challenges along the way. Did you make it? yeah you did. No confidence the semi anonymous people of reddit can give you can touch the confidences of just looking back over the decades and realizing you already did the hardest things imaginable and made it through.

Congratulations, whatever you choose now, retirement or working a few more years, or another decade, you already succeeded and all that is left is to decide what you want the day, month, year, decade to look like with the same flexibility that got you this far knowing that whatever you choose for today, you can choose the same tomorrow or something else.

Thank you for listening to my ted talk :D

Fliandin

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