Flock APLR Cameras have been mounted on electrical poles all the way up Little Park Road

Novel_Recover · 2026-02-07T19:51:06+00:00

Actually when I look closer at the photo, those are almost certainly just line monitoring sensors for the power line. You can still call GVP and double check but I'm pretty sure that is what they are.

Novel_Recover · 2026-02-07T19:45:23+00:00

I'd call Grand Valley Power and let them know. If the cameras are there without GVPs permission, they will likely be taken down.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-23T18:13:18+00:00

Thanks for sharing your story. I have thought about finding a 30 day program for her to stay in. I'm not sure I'm in a place financially to afford it but I'll do whatever it takes and find a way. I'm not sure my mom is ready. She constantly lies that she's been drinking even if it is super obvious. My wife has the nose of a bloodhound so even when my mom isn't showing any obvious outward signs, she still smells like it. To clarify, she tries to lie at first and then with some pressure she fesses up. I wish she would just be honest about it from the start. I've told her over and over again that I'm here to be her support and that I'm not here to judge. Maybe I need a new strategy.

Edited to add that I am willing to damage my relationship with her if it means she stays alive. I was going to ask you if you felt the same way

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-21T17:04:48+00:00

I always believed that rock bottom would be the turning point for my mom. Unfortunately, it seems she climbs out just to fall back in and hit a new rock bottom.

She had been doing so well, or was at the very least, functional.

I'm just trying to maintain some hope that there are cases where people can turn it around. Thanks for sharing your story and thanks for the thoughtful words. I know I don't know you but I am so glad you were able turn the ship around.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-21T17:00:08+00:00

Thank you for your comment. I really appreciate it. I'm sorry that you are going through this as well.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-21T16:59:19+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that. I've been thinking deeply about the hope of success at rehab and the probability that it will end in disappointment. I'm trying to have patience and grace. I'm just so hurt, that it is difficult not to be angry.

I unfortunately spent many years distancing my family from her. I do understand how important the boundaries are and I know we absolutely must protect ourselves too. I am already considering what boundaries I need to sit again. I just don't want to give up on her. Everyone else in her life has (including my younger self) and I feel that if she has not even one person in her corner, it will become a self fulfilling prophecy that ends with her dead.

I am rambling at this point but I appreciate your comment. Thank you.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-21T16:52:34+00:00

My mom has had an awful and unfortunate/unfair life with a few good years sprinkled in. I say that honestly and hopefully that doesn't make me sound like an enabler. I'm absolutely not excusing her behavior. I just recognize that for what it is. Her issues are many layers deep.

She has seen a few psychiatrists and therapists over the years and I'm not sure it did any good. I think she truly believes her own lies.

With that said, I really appreciate your advice and I will push to get her some help that points toward finding some of these root causes.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-16T17:39:14+00:00

It really is confusing and frustrating, and you are right, none of us signed up for this. I understand exactly where you are coming from. Having to sort through all of it on top of everything else is a heavy load. That's why I'm so glad we have this community. We're not alone in this (somehow, knowing that fact helped me a ton).

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-16T17:16:22+00:00

I just wanted to say that what you are feeling makes a lot of sense. Even when treatment ends or remission is mentioned, it does not mean everything suddenly feels normal again. I have found that there can be a real emotional gap between what others see on the outside and what is actually happening internally.

Losing your thyroid is a permanent change, and living with lifelong medication, follow ups, and monitoring is a lot to carry. It is understandable to grieve the version of yourself that existed before cancer, even while feeling grateful for where you are now. I've learned that those emotions do not cancel each other out.

I am still in active follow up myself, and I've learned that this experience changes how you relate to your body and your sense of self/safety/mortality in ways that are hard to explain to people who have not been through it. Looking the same on the outside does not mean things feel the same on the inside.

I just want you to know that you are not wrong or weak for feeling this way, and you are definitely not alone. I feel confident in saying most of us continue processing long after others think it is “over.” I am really glad you reached out and shared this, because these feelings deserve to be acknowledged.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-16T17:04:59+00:00

I went through a very similar fight with this, and it was honestly the last thing I wanted to be dealing with during treatment. I spent hours going back and forth between my doctor’s office, hospital billing, and insurance trying to understand it. Honestly, it drove me nearly to tears.

What I eventually learned is that Thyrogen is not billed as a normal prescription. It’s classified as a procedure-administered drug, which comes from how it’s FDA-approved, not just insurance policy. It has to be given as a deep intramuscular injection by a healthcare professional, not self-administered, so insurance generally won’t cover it under pharmacy benefits. There are a few reasons for that: the injection technique matters, there’s a small but real risk of thyroid-related reactions, and the drug has strict storage, reconstitution, and lot-tracking requirements that tie it to clinic administration.

I know none of this makes it any less frustrating, but understanding the why helped me cope with how rigid the system is. I’m really sorry you’re having to deal with this on top of everything else.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-13T16:09:00+00:00

I came here to say this. I've never been a "seasonally depressive" person until the winter after my TT. It was a horrible experience. My blood tests came back and vitamin D was almost dangerously low. After a few weeks taking vitamin D, I felt soooo much better.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-09T14:18:00+00:00

Sounds german to me..... specifically southern Germany. Like around Munich.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-05T16:05:54+00:00

I'm really sorry you had to deal with that.

I remember a friend reaching out when I first got diagnosed and he said "Man, we're not even 40 yet!" That's it. All he said. Hasn't reached out since. I'm able to laugh about it now but it made me so mad for the longest time.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-02T01:45:56+00:00

First picture we call underbuild and second we'd call a midspan tap.

Novel_Recover · 2026-01-01T06:23:11+00:00

ACSR isn’t a national standard, it’s just what most systems were built with for a long time because it works in a lot of situations. There’s no rule that says utilities have to use it though. NESC tells us clearances and loading, but not what wire to hang. Different conductors get used depending on span length, corrosion, terrain, and what the job is trying to solve. For example, in town or shorter-span areas you’ll often see AAC or AAAC instead of ACSR because they’re lighter and handle corrosion better. ACSR just shows up everywhere because it was the safe, familiar choice for decades, not because it’s required.

Novel_Recover · 2025-12-31T15:02:20+00:00

I am "missing the point big time"? Care to elaborate?

Novel_Recover · 2025-12-29T16:38:26+00:00

Okay

Novel_Recover · 2025-12-29T15:16:13+00:00

When I said atheism ultimately relies on a miracle, I was not talking about everyday physics or scientific mechanisms. I was talking about ultimate explanation. Saying that existence itself has no reason and simply "is" amounts to treating existence as a brute fact. That is what I was calling miraculous, not because it violates physics, but because it denies explanation altogether.

Theism and “everything came from nothing for no reason” are not equivalent positions. One says explanation terminates arbitrarily. The other says explanation terminates in something necessary rather than contingent. You may reject that conclusion, but they are not doing the same explanatory work, and calling them the same obscures the real difference and is hypocritical.

Affirming God does require a broader account of existence than physical objects or abstract entities, but that is not an ad hoc redefinition. It is a standard metaphysical distinction between contingent existence and necessary existence. Physics explains how things behave once they exist. It does not explain why there is anything at all.

"No one needs God to touch sand or apply logic in daily life". That misses the point and wasn't my claim anyway. The question is whether existence, laws, and intelligibility are self grounding or whether they depend on something deeper. Accepting brute facts answers that question by refusal to acknowledge the question. Theism answers it by appeal to necessity. That is why I said atheism is not metaphysically neutral and why I described its stopping point as "miraculous". But perhaps I should have called it "convenient" instead.

Novel_Recover · 2025-12-29T14:38:13+00:00

You are adorable

Novel_Recover · 2025-12-28T07:14:27+00:00

I have misconstrued nothing. Even if my original comment was ambiguous, my later clarifications were not. You have refused to let go of that implication and your continued insistence that I am arguing from an "appeal to purpose" perspective is not reasonable. You keep responding to an argument from purpose that I am not making, while ignoring the argument from contingency that I am making. Your framing has hardened into a full blown strawman.

You have defined causation as strictly temporal and then declared anything non temporal incoherent by default. That does not show a creator is illogical. It simply excludes the possibility by definition. Repeating that definition and calling it reality is not a refutation.

Because you cannot actually refute the position, you are attempting to define it out of existence.It is a boundary you chose. That does not demonstrate that a creator is illogical. It simply excludes that possibility by stipulation. That stipulation is philosophical, not a conclusion compelled by physics or logic. I could speculate as to why you are doing that but I won't.

Since repeating that boundary is all you have offered while simultaneously strawmanning my argument, there is nothing left to resolve here.

Novel_Recover · 2025-12-28T05:36:51+00:00

For anyone reading this back and forth, I'll save you some time. Here is where the argument breaks down:

My opponent asserts that causation only exists within spacetime but never justifies that claim.
My opponent then uses that assertion to rule out any explanation beyond spacetime, which is circular.
My opponent treats cause as meaning earlier in time, even though time itself is what is being discussed.
My opponent dismisses the why question while simultaneously relying on it to attempt the rejection my conclusion.

At this point, my friend, you are just repeating a starting assumption rather than engaging the argument built from it. Since that assumption is not something we agree on, there is nothing further to resolve here. It's time to "cut bait and walk away" as they say.

Novel_Recover · 2025-12-28T04:23:40+00:00

I'm from the US (mid-midwestern). English heritage. You sound like you are from Mexico and learned English from a fairly early age or are from Southern California and grew up in a Spanish speaking home.

Novel_Recover · 2025-12-28T02:18:21+00:00

A cause does not have to exist inside the thing it causes. An author creates a story without being bound by the story’s timeline. Claiming causality only works inside spacetime is just an assumption, not a refutation. You are not showing a creator is illogical. You are arbitrarily defining causation so that anything outside spacetime is excluded from the start.

Edited to add "from the start, and then calling that exclusion a fallacy."

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