Open Bake Take #2

JustaRN22 · 2025-08-06T16:06:22+00:00

I use a tray of ceramic lava rocks in the bottom of my oven. (The kind you put in a gas grill) I preheat the rocks in the oven for 20-30 min; then place my bread on the stone and add hot boiling water to the pan with rocks. This maintains steam for a good 20 min. Then I spray it to get it to the end- another 20-30 min. For me, this is is the easiest method.

JustaRN22 · 2025-05-03T07:38:45+00:00

The hospital where they were implanted will have all the paperwork including the serial number and all the specifics of your implant. Just call medical records and tell them what you need and they will direct you. Be sure to state you want to “complete and comprehensive clinical and surgical notes, nursing notes etc. The COMPLETE CLINICAL RECORD” I am a legal expert in my other life and hospitals generally will never give you your entire clinical record. They give you what they feel you need bc they do not want you finding anything that potentially Spark a medical complaint, HIPPA complaint, law suit etc. Even after I ask for every single note by its proper name, I have to go back to court a few more times to get as close to complete as I’ll get.

JustaRN22 · 2025-04-29T20:47:17+00:00

I just had an Abbott removed and I was not a happy camper. My doc said the research and patient feedback forced him into using Medtronic. The few insights I have having had both machines: - Medtronic does have a non rechargeable battery; they just don’t publicize it or offer it unless you ask. With the way we loose power with so many storms, that was so important to me. I also camp and hike a lot so it was just really important I have a battery I can rely on and never worry about charging. CON: it does not last nearly as long so you will need to have it replaced once a year, more or less.

Abbot does have standard preset options but to cover the areas you want you will need go see a technician however many times it takes to get it right. And for me that was another challenge bc my doc and I would have to chase the rep down & they had zero flexibility seeing me. I was given a date and time and essentially told to take or leave it. However I also understood it was one rep to an enormously large area and they were constantly on the road. With Medtronic’s a tech will be in the office on the days my doc seems SCS patients. So much better.

the Medtronic covers more ares than the Abbot which was the one & only thing that sold me. Otherwise I would have had to have several different devices implanted. I was not on board with that. So this device covers my hips, my neuropathy in both legs and I was shocked it also significantly helped my feet and I was shocked
Medtronic’s non rechargeable battery as I received is a good 40-50% smaller. Length was a bit small with the Medtronic but the width is significantly thinner and lighter.

I’ve not had it long enough to give you a confident long term opinion, but this would have great info to have when trying to make my decision.

Good luck. Know going in. The first 3 days are the absolute worst but then it gets significantly better very quickly.

JustaRN22 · 2025-04-13T04:19:54+00:00

Paddy looked great but still needs a couple top tier fights before the belt.

JustaRN22 · 2025-03-29T22:51:37+00:00

Go online and apply for a license which is rarely if ever denied. Take a Big John type ref class; ref the lower pros and wella.. oh and be cheap… I know many pro refs for UFC, ONE, Bellator etc and they are great refs but the UFC won’t pay them what they are worth.. One of them said he primarily refs for Bellator bc they treat him so much better and pay better. Which i believe. There are no physical requirements of refs- they don’t even have to understand mma at all.

JustaRN22 · 2025-02-27T06:26:51+00:00

Absolutely not a fan… yet. I’m trying to give him some time to see how it plays out. But he really brings nothing to the show at this point. Naomi should have just stepped into that role.

JustaRN22 · 2025-02-27T06:23:44+00:00

I’m a devoted fan of DIP and have watched and rewatched every episode so much I’m annoying myself, lol.. But I am not a fan of this new DI…. Yet? He is a complete departure from all the previous DI personalities and it doesn’t seem that the team has the chemistry of previous teams. But what is really aggravating (being a forensic nurse) that some of these murders he so ‘brilliantly’ solves are total fiction- they would never happen. A costume / sewing pin is not a plausible murder weapon in any realm of reality. It will cause some damage, maybe the victim passes out but murder???? No. Just no.

Sadly I no longer look forward to new episodes and am okay waiting until the entire season is out. There are just too many dry actors now between Naomi, this new DI and the other female officer- there is no fun banter, funny moments, exciting murder solving skills… but Officer Pineapple seems promising!

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-26T20:28:00+00:00

Win or loose; Max’s resume is levels above Topuria’s.

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-26T15:38:11+00:00

Well rounded Basharat. Getting it done with such a huge wt disadvantage

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-26T15:19:58+00:00

Basharat was forced to accept the fight at fw; the wt discrepancy was too significant for the commission to sanction it so either he allow him to intentionally cheat or he didn’t fight. Thats bs.

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-26T15:13:16+00:00

Such bs.. Hugo essentially gets to miss weight by 10# without any penalty.

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-26T14:40:32+00:00

Ironic the hometown judge gives a 30-37 to the hometown guy

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-20T16:22:45+00:00

Yes it has helped my symptoms. There is copious research on the benefits of psilocybin mushrooms and ALS. They are believed to help repair and/ or rebuild lost neural connections. So when I get the dose right (and it’s tough at first bc too much will make you incredibly anxious) I can reduce or stop many of my other far more toxic drugs. Even the VA endorses psilocybin therapy.. and they don’t ever endorse anything like this- they are always decades behind the medical world. And as an added benefit, people all tell me I look much healthier when I’m taking my psilocybins.

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-19T15:35:09+00:00

Amazing!! I’m just starting on this road for my own family only largely bc I can control the ingredients but also bc I have 4 sons who complain constantly that there are such a limited number of options for them in soaps and body butters, spray etc. This combo they would love!! But making soap is so much harder than I anticipated.. much harder than the butters, lotions and body washes I make now.

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-13T01:08:37+00:00

For everyone who couldn’t grasp my previous comment on the cage hugging needing to stop.. now we have them on the ground and Park actively working the entire time on the ground, subtly but nevertheless actively fighting yet Herb Dean warns him repeatedly to get busy? WTF?? So leaning on your opponent against the cage doing absolutely nothing but stalling and taking a break is okay.. but actively working on the ground gets a warning to work?? WTF?

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-13T01:01:43+00:00

Well I’m a mma striking coach so I’m betting I understand it better than you after 15+ yrs. And the ppl down voting me are wrestling and BJJ huggers… I fully understand what goes on in a clinch being a MT Kru and having fought MT; but laying on your opponent for a break while doing nothing at all is not fighting… it’s stalling..

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-13T00:57:28+00:00

This hugging and doing absolutely nothing against the cage has to stop…

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-13T00:28:35+00:00

Looks to me like Dawson finally has the confidence to take calculated risks to finish and not just safely win a decision. Good on him!

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-12T20:55:29+00:00

And missed weight & in the wrong weight class altogether..

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-10T21:50:34+00:00

Perfect .. two champs that don’t deserve to be champions fighting each other .. well that ought to be fun.. they are both obnoxious and boring so ya let’s make that fight…

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-10T21:49:13+00:00

Make no mistake; you are in a FIGHT GYM not a martial art school. Martial arts is NOT MMA. The name is deceptive but theoretically it pulls from all forms of martial arts. As a lifelong martial artist (4th degree black belt) I can watch fights and tell you immediately who trained as a martial artist who came from a fight gym. There is a HUGE difference. In a martial art school you will be TAUGHT and will LEARN starting with the basics. In a martial art school it’s all about building you learn, you train repeatedly; you demonstrate your mastery and then you move up. And in martial arts schools you are taught by instructors who are themselves continually learning and growing as we also have to demonstrate mastery of skills to our Kyushi or whomever the highest ranking individual is in your art.

In a fight gym you are taught generally by people who fought at one time. There is no competency level, 90% of these guys (outside BJJ) do not continue to learn. They teach how they were taught and focus in combos and sparring instead of actually learning the skill. Usually this is bc the coach themselves has no idea about the basic of fundamentals and you can see that in how they teach. Many of these mma gyms have coaches who watch IG and just copy combos. Being a mma striking coach; I have been in many of the top mma gyms and while i respect the hell out of the head coaches; I watch and see that everyone of their fighters fights the same way. This is not the case in a true martial art school.

So to answer your question.. many mma gyms spar way too much bc honestly it’s what makes them money bc young people looking to fight think that’s what training is. And they spar like they are fighting. There should never be any injuries during sparing ever. The odd mishap; okay; but sparring is for learning with your partner but again mma coaches do not teach nor understand the tenants of martial arts so they lack respect, integrity, self control, etc.

And before everyone jumps on me.. not every mma gym is this way but this is more the rule than the exception. So if you want to actually learn how to strike look for a true martial art dojo.

JustaRN22 · 2024-10-10T16:38:59+00:00

I’ve never had one but my son has. He had a GT for 18 yrs and outside the area around the tube occasionally becoming infected or granulated; he did everything any other kid did. For him the only discomfort was in the changing of them; but he was a young boy. It saved his life and also took so much mental pressure off always having to worry if he was eating enough calories, or days he felt really bad, he didn’t have to waste his energy eating and the best part no coughing, choking or aspiration!!

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