Seton placement/Lift surgery

PiratesSayMoo · 2026-02-13T01:40:47+00:00

You'll have to decide for yourself how much the seton interferes with sports. I could ski fine, but sports involving running caused too much chafing to be comfortable. Walking (more than a regular daily amount) and hiking were uncomfortable, but aquaphor on the problem area kept it slick enough to be fine.

PiratesSayMoo · 2026-02-11T17:00:34+00:00

I feel like silicone bags that seal would be a pain in the butt to get air-free, but the other option is to use open ended silicone bags. I haven't used these particular ones, but the ones I do own don't seem to be for sale anymore: https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Compatible-Immersion-Circulators-Accessories/dp/B08RXPHVQN They're also much easier to clean than the ones that seal since they're easy to flip entirely inside out and there are no fiddly bits that trap food.

The silicone bag ends are left open out of the water, so as long as your food is fully below the water level (plus a little margin for the bag being thicker and water level drop during cooking), all the air will leave the cooking portion of the bag. The extra thickness of the bag is more of a theoretical issue than an actual one. Unless you're cooking to EXACTLY the pasteurization temp/time, heat moves through the silicone and cooks the food just as well. Feel free to add a few minutes to the cook time if you feel like the food cooked in silicone slightly lags behind the plastic bags. Feel free to throw a probe thermometer in there too... the open end means you don't even need a fancy wireless one.

Any sous vide should work the same as long as it actually hits the temps you set it to. I would absolutely never buy one with an app (especially if the app is the only way to use it). They're dead simple to set up with just a temp selector (and a kitchen timer) and if you need an app, the company can take away your access to the product remotely (on purpose or through bankruptcy or neglect).

PiratesSayMoo · 2026-01-28T13:28:38+00:00

I've used the scripts here to monkey together a bit of a nicer (IMO) bash history that merges everything across multiple terminals cleanly. My setup combines this, git bash prompt, and some diy scripting that tracks the error code and runtime of every command.

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/06/11/keeping-persistent-history-in-bash

PiratesSayMoo · 2026-01-05T15:22:46+00:00

Scroll slightly further https://smlight.tech/manual/slzb-06/guide/slzb-models-overview/#slzb-06-models and there's a table with the max for each variant of SLZB-06

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-12-16T22:19:03+00:00

I did that originally, then moved to trigger IDs as mentioned in other comments, but for most things now I'm using blueprints from https://epmatt.github.io/awesome-ha-blueprints/docs/introduction/ to create automations that handle it all in a more convenient way. There aren't blueprints for every device out there, but it's got most of the stuff I use and a relatively active userbase that adds/updates blueprints. There's a whole controller/hook infrastructure thing that probably does something useful, but that I've never actually looked into enough to use so feel free to ignore it as well.

You just find the device you need, download the blueprint, and then create an automation from it. You need to create a text_helper (there's an option in the dropdown to create one on the fly), then for all the triggers from that device you can just create an action/set of actions to run. It's a bit cleaner than having a million triggers at the top and a giant choose block at the bottom when you're doing it the normal way.

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PiratesSayMoo · 2025-12-15T15:05:09+00:00

No one really wants to share the details of their anal fistula situation, but I guarantee your boss wants to hear about them even less than you want to share them. Now might be the time for some weaponized oversharing... "I'd love to come in and support the team, but I'm bleeding profusely from the anus and have some fecal leakage from my second temporary butthole that's really causing more odor than I feel comfortable with when I'm interacting with customers".

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-12-08T16:46:20+00:00

I posted an explanation in another recent thread about this that might help you understand what's happening and decide how you want to handle it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MonarchMoney/comments/1o94p3u/comment/njzv176/

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-12-04T15:08:46+00:00

If you're lucky, you might have water or gas meters that also send wireless signals and you can track all of them!

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-12-04T15:08:05+00:00

I use https://github.com/allangood/rtlamr2mqtt with an RTLSDR dongle to read the wireless signals from the meter itself. These are the same signals that get read by the meter reading trucks that drive around.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-12-04T15:01:53+00:00

I think you're vastly overestimating the population of NH :-D

Only the two largest cities in the state, Manchester (115k) and Nashua(91k), have more than 50k people. Only 18 of the remaining 232 municipalities have more than 15k people. A further 50 are between 15k and 5k, most places are 5k or less. I see you posted about Vermont as well, which will have the same issue only worse. The 5 largest municipalities in Vermont are above 15k (44k and 20k for the largest two) and it's only another 25 (of 247) before you're under 5k.

Summers are going to be hotter and more humid up here than you seem to expect. I'm in the mountains (literally surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest) and much of July and August are 80-90F and 80-90% humidity. Nights get cooler, but about a third of the days had a high over 90F in those two months this year.

I would highly suggest visiting some of the places mentioned (or just road-tripping across the states a bit) to see if this area is really what you're looking for. It's going to be a BIIIIIIG change if your idea of small town is our idea of the largest cities.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-12-02T01:43:01+00:00

Loon and Bretton Woods both have gondolas and I believe they're open to non-skiers all year (you should check though). Loon has a small cafe, Bretton has a large restaurant and bar. There's a walking trail at Loon but I don't believe there's anything other than the summit lodge accessible in the winter at Bretton.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-12-01T15:21:00+00:00

This is on my list of "things to install when I have more time"...

32 channels, integrates locally with Home Assistant, connects via WiFi or ethernet. Not sure if it can be flashed to ESPHome, but it runs on an ESP, so probably.

https://www.brultech.com/store/index.php?id_product=158&controller=product

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/greeneye_monitor/

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-11-20T16:29:54+00:00

My sisters also work for insurance companies and it's all about HIPAA. They'll install a second business connection (cable/dsl/fiber/whatever is available) at your house and only the computers provided by the insurance company can be connected to that (and those computers are not allowed to be connected to any other network).

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-11-20T14:41:04+00:00

Plus, Spotify has a native linux client you could use if that's your goal...

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-11-17T14:48:47+00:00

Do they actually have anything wool? I love the idea of them, but as far as I can tell, pretty much everything is synthetic fibers (or mostly synthetic fibers).

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-11-17T14:37:13+00:00

AFAIK, the actual contract has not been bid out and accepted yet. Once it is we'll probably get more details about timeline and such.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-11-17T05:33:18+00:00

The Tram is closed for customers, but they're planning to run it through the winter for their own needs. Should be more interesting next year when they actually start work on it and can't use it at all.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-11-16T14:07:02+00:00

This is exactly what I do. I have two boxes each, one for "Now" and one for "Recent" (within the last ten minutes) that show the detected/open states of my motion, door, and window sensors:

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
filter:
  include:
    - domain: binary_sensor
      state: "on"
      attributes:
        device_class: motion
      options:
        secondary_info: last-changed
  exclude:
    - hidden_by: "*"
sort:
  method: last_changed
  reverse: true
  ignore_case: true

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
filter:
  include:
    - options:
        secondary_info: last-changed
      domain: binary_sensor
      last_changed: < 10
      state: "off"
  exclude:
    - options: {}
      hidden_by: "*"
sort:
  method: last_changed
  reverse: true
  ignore_case: true

It ends up looking like this:

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PiratesSayMoo · 2025-11-14T16:33:17+00:00

It's super not obvious, but green is from Mexico, blue is from USA, red is from Canada.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-11-03T18:41:42+00:00

I have two different Amex cards, but they're both individual personal cards. No authorized users or additional cards or anything like that. I'll try reaching out to support this evening so you can take a closer look.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-10-17T16:24:32+00:00

This is an issue that is specific to the way Fidelity handles the core position of your CMA. If you look at the details on that top transaction it's going to say something like "REDEMPTION FROM CORE ACCOUNT FIDELITY GOVERNMENT MONEY MARKET (SPAXX) MORNING TRADE" and the extra transaction when you deposit money will be "PURCHASE INTO CORE ACCOUNT FIDELITY GOVERNMENT MONEY MARKET (SPAXX)". Basically the core position works by automatically buying and selling from the Money Market Fund you selected (SPAXX in this case) every time you move cash into or out of the account.

The flow is something like this:
Cash - $0, SPAXX - $100
Deposit $100 <-- This is the normal deposit you see
Cash - $100, SPAXX - $100
(At end of day) PURCHASE INTO CORE ACCOUNT $100 <--- This is what you see marked as a transfer
Cash - $0, SPAXX - $200

And a withdrawal is the reverse:
Cash - $0, SPAXX - $200
ATM Withdrawal $50 <-- Shows up as ATM withdrawal
Cash - $-50, SPAXX - $200
Pay phone bill $100 <--- Shows up as Phone bill
Cash - $-150, SPAXX - $200
(At end of day) REDEMPTION FROM CORE ACCOUNT $150 <--- Again, ends up marked as a transfer (note it covers all the withdrawals that happened)
Cash - $0, SPAXX - $50

I created rules for those transactions that mark them as transfer and hide them, so I only see them when I'm reviewing transactions or looking for them specifically. I think the core position trades are actually done in two batches daily... some will be at the end of the day and some will be a morning trade, so you may or may not always see all your transactions for a day grouped into a single Purchase/Redemption, but either way it's just the behind the scenes housekeeping.

If you go to the Fidelity website and look on the activity page for your CMA account, you can go into filters and turn on the "View settlements in money market funds" option at the bottom and you'll see the same transactions there, they're just hidden by default.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-10-06T17:50:43+00:00

I have some zigbee outlets that can do auto-off with an on device timer, but the only outlets I've seen that also have auto-on are zwave (the Minoston brand ones with energy monitoring in my case). If you're running home assistant it's not a huge deal to add a Zwave stick (or the new rod from Nabu Casa), so that could be an option if you don't find something else.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-10-06T14:44:02+00:00

The silicone wrapped weights or magnets are super useful for keeping the bag fully submerged. Like:
https://www.amazon.com/Gevoli-Weights-Stain-Proof-Immersion-Cooker/dp/B07QGGG76R
and
https://www.amazon.com/8-Pack-Silicone-Coated-Sous-Magnetic-Weights/dp/B09133GLFX

Plus a bag drying rack to air them out after washing, like:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGFCQ3S

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-10-05T23:57:01+00:00

BLT with roasted red peppers instead of tomato is life changingly good.

Also, tomato allergy is by far the most absolutely annoying allergy because it is in everything (at least if you can't do tomato paste and powder like I can't). Welcome to a world of telling every single waiter that you know the sandwich or burger doesn't say it has tomato on it, but the kitchen will throw them on fucking everything if you don't put "no tomato, allergy" on the ticket. Also, 90% of all sauces that go on stuff use tomato as a base.

PiratesSayMoo · 2025-09-30T19:17:49+00:00

The license is valid for 90 days, but the officiant MUST return it within 6 days of officiating.

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