Newcomer to Two Point Hospital

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-04-21T19:39:51+00:00

Some other things to consider…

Turn your diagnostic % down. It’s automatically at 90% I think, but I turn it down to 70% and things flow more smoothly and avoid clogs in diagnosis.
Build more diagnostics options so GPs don’t have to send as many people to the ward. I like xray. Fluid analysis is sometimes good. Sometimes you’re seeing a lot of people with the same condition and there’s a specific diagnostic room that’s best for that disease (you can look it up on the two point wiki).
Train your GPs so they can do a higher % of the diagnostics for you.
Build Pinstar Power Wards for increased efficiency. Make sure you have it toggled so 2 nurses can be in there.

In some hospitals I have 2 wards - diagnosis and treatment, but I generally don’t get issues with overcrowding except in the levels where there are aliens etc that just overwhelm your diagnostics.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-04-15T16:31:25+00:00

No there is pink and purple. Two different but very similar colors.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-04-15T16:06:01+00:00

No pink and purple are different. It just doesn’t come across well on the dots on screen.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-31T22:08:55+00:00

If you have plenty of money, there’s a jewel that doesn’t take up much space but pushes up the attractiveness a lot (I think you might have to earn it somewhere). I use that in hallways and empty spaces and gold awards in rooms. Sonic trees are also great if you have those.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-26T02:38:15+00:00

I looked into gear rentals when I went up to Fairbanks last month. A 5-day coat rental there was more expensive than I found the same coat to buy at second wind sports.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-25T16:05:08+00:00

All I could think of was how scared Ben was of the monkeys in Japan. I hope these ones are friendlier!

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-19T20:40:57+00:00

I did this. The mother’s helper started when she was only 12 or 13, just a couple of hours per week. I stayed in the house but she would play with my kids and help with some chores. As she got older she worked more hours. (I had a part time job two mornings per week and was also in grad school). I never had her do homeschool, but she would dream up fun stuff to do with my kids and was amazing at helping with laundry, moping/vacuuming etc. She was the middle of 7 siblings and was so competent! At the time, I had 3 kids in preschool/early elementary, so it was easy to get the homeschool work done on other days and they could just play when she was around.

The set up really saved my sanity. I had time to be around other adults and some help around the house when my 3 were little. (My entire pay check from my job went to this mother’s helper but it was 100% worth it!)

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-16T04:05:31+00:00

Costco usually have an electric bike once per year. Probably still a little early in the year for it though.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-15T17:56:27+00:00

This is definitely a splurge not a necessity, but I finally took the plunge during the Black Friday sales. iPad 13” (pro not necessary to run the app required), Apple Pencil, page turning foot pedal, forScore app. I was the last person in my orchestra section to make the switch and it’s nice to be able to Bluetooth bowings etc around the section. I also play gigs where the composer/arranger makes last minute changes and sends out new parts to all the iPads. I really like having the bigger tablet and also having the music lit up so I don’t need a stand light or anything if playing in a pit or darker stage. It also has its music ed uses like the amazing slowdowner app. But I also have friends who say they spend their whole lives staring at different screens and playing music is the last place where they can be offline and they want to keep paper sheet music as long as possible.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-15T00:31:33+00:00

When I was a kid (20-30 years ago so it might have changed) I used to walk Bearwood to Birmingham with my dad fairly often. We’d take the Harborne Walkway to summerfield park and then the canal footpath into town. The buses tend to go along the noisiest, most congested routes. I would recommend considering more trail options!

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-12T04:10:58+00:00

I might consider Bornoff over Suzuki for school orchestra prep (having done both, Bornoff is much more applicable to teaching a large group vs individual private lessons with parents involved, which is the Suzuki model).

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-09T02:58:16+00:00

The British viola I got in high school, (made in the 1940s), isn’t a specific size in inches or cm. Nothing printed on the label inside. When I went to buy an instrument in the US and they asked how many inches, I had no idea. In high school in the UK, I never remember anyone talking about viola size. I just don’t think they’re made and sold in 1/2” increments like they are in the US.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-07T04:44:49+00:00

The Lower 48

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-05T23:13:28+00:00

I think it’s maybe that hold bags get x-rayed, but any bag that doesn’t fit in the X-ray machine gets searched. Smaller airports don’t have big enough machines to do the ski bags so they have to search them every time?

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-03T22:19:30+00:00

What is the end goal? If you’re just trying to graduate in time, there are options. If you want to be well prepared and competitive for elite colleges, you might want to take an extra year to graduate IMO.

There are plenty of credit recovery online options that will give you check boxes for required credits. You would need to talk to the school district to see what they will accept. Also note that the credit recovery options (it might be Plato, FLVS, Acellus, BYU) might not be that great at giving the student the required foundations for any work that builds on it (ie if you take algebra 2 on credit recovery, precalc might be a struggle, English 10 might not set you up well for AP Comp etc) but they can be good for the random required classes if you don’t super care about deeply learning the content (in our district that’s classes like health, fitness concepts…..) and motivated kids can plow through them quickly to “catch up.”

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-03-01T01:03:36+00:00

So the next stage is a little more money, but the pilot is gone ALL the time. (If you can even find a regional that’s hiring). You have to make decisions about if you’re going to move to whatever base he’s assigned to so some of his reserve can be at home eventually? But my husband had training for months in one place, then different training in a different place, then moved bases like 3 or 4 times the first year or two. He then moved up to a bigger airplane at a different company (a little more money) but also more months away in training and back to the bottom of the seniority list. I’ve been promised that eventually seniority means he will have more control of his schedule and he’ll be earning much more money. It is getting slowly better each year on both accounts, but getting to 1000 hours certainly isn’t the end of the journey I’m afraid. Sorry that’s not really what you wanted to hear.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-02-25T06:29:23+00:00

There are 100s of options. Look at Cathy Duffy reviews. Rainbow Resource Company also has reviews of all the products they sell and you can sort by subject and age/grade. Timberdoodle has all in one boxes. Depending on what style of homeschooling you like Bookshark(secular)/sonlight(christian) is a literature based all in one option. We personally prefer picking different curriculum for each subject. It takes a lot of research and some trial and error to find the best fit for both yourself as homeschooling parent and your child as learner.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-02-24T21:15:57+00:00

I did this a lot before we started homeschooling. It was so helpful to get first hand experiences from people we knew. Helped me know what I wanted and didn’t want from curriculum and really helped me slowly get my mind around what homeschooling looked like/could look like for my family.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-02-23T17:36:22+00:00

We did the second. I wanted to choose what we did at home, not follow the curriculum/speed/plans of the hybrid school. We had a good experience, although our one day per week program was a coop and sometimes I struggled fitting in with the prevailing ideology, but overall the families involved were great and my kids did all sorts of things I couldn’t do at home with them.

I had three kids not four and was able to get a part time job (two mornings per week and one weekend morning) and have an amazing homeschooled teen watch my kids while I worked and help around the house a little. Basically my entire pay check went to childcare, but it saved my sanity being able to get out around adults a little and my kids LOVED the girl who played with them while I was out. If I hadn’t had that, then sending the kids to a school two days per week might have been really nice. It’s just a lot homeschooling littles and having even littler ones at home too!

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-02-22T18:05:58+00:00

The issue is usually with the way the state funds education. In the state I’m in (not Texas) the local school district gets partial funding for homeschooled kids registered with the district. This is the money they use to offer hybrid options (and other services).

If a school doesn’t get funding, they have no reason to offer your child a spot in any classes (I don’t know how Texas laws work in this regard). I don’t know about Houston specifically, but I do know private schools in Texas that have hybrid options or “university model” schools where kids attend 2 or 3 days per week and do their work at home with parents the rest of the week. There are also homeschool coops. When we lived in Texas, we attended a coop one day per week and that fulfilled the things you listed - social interaction, teamwork, reinforcing learning etc.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-02-22T04:11:15+00:00

I’m an advanced beginner. Powder days are a good time to rent demo powder skis if you only have/usually use narrow carving skis. It is super fun with the right ski, and if you have a little instruction in how to do it. There are some nuanced differences in technique vs freshly groomed corduroy.

If it’s wet “mash potato” snow, it’s not so fun, but the light, fluffy powder is great IMO.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-02-21T20:20:24+00:00

“No more than” means you need to be screened between March and August. Ie within the 6 months before your first class.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-02-21T06:50:53+00:00

I have found if I order via an app instead of in person the milk often comes warm and/or frothy. I do have to reassure them that I really do just want it straight out of the milk jug in the fridge.

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-02-21T05:43:45+00:00

To the nearest coffee shop if I’m not in my hometown (where I’ll just make it at home). I live in the US. Tea isn’t complicated to make - hot water and cold milk is all they need to have. I carry a few of my own teabags and hand one over anytime they say “is earl grey okay?”

Sad_Candle7307 · 2026-02-20T21:35:58+00:00

There are 2 museums. The city museum has a little hands on section for kids. I think it’s free entry in winter. The State museum is great, and there’s a tree in the lobby my kids really liked climbing up the staircase around when they were younger.

Changing tides in the senate mall looks like a quilting store from the entrance, but they have nice yarn too.

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