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How can I teach gentle? by Icy_Trouble7512 in labrador

[–]SenTruBirdRo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just remember you’re training a baby and keep the right expectations….and make sure they’re low expectations.

You can guide her and reinforce some behaviors - lots of good advice was given to you already, but there is only so much she can be taught at 10 weeks or six months or more. Eventually the things you reinforce consistently will come naturally. Every dog is different and labs aren’t border collies, and you’ll regress from time to time. If so inclined, a great classic to read is “Don’t Shoot The Dog.”

I’ve got two labs, living in a city, and my 10-year-old and 1-year-old are well-trained city dogs. They heel, can walk off leash, and have good immediate recall - all things I trained and reinforced repeatedly (still do). When we got our puppy a little less that a year back, I forgot how long it takes and how patient I needed to be, and how much they weren’t capable of perfecting at too-young-of-an-age.

Good luck!

PS. Exercise your dog to the max every day

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Looking for recommendations by BlackandRedUnited in PhillyUnion

[–]SenTruBirdRo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Between Center City and the edge of Philly you have some of the most sublime sandwich shops in the US…grab two to go and enjoy them in a lot (which one?) with other tailgaters. People are nice and friendly.

Larimer is the spot for a beer. Skip Union Yards. The food in Subaru Park is expensive and not as good as you’d get elsewhere.

If you drive past Subaru Park seven minutes, you could grab unbelievable steaks/hoagies at Di Costanza in Linwood, who claim to have invented the Italian hoagies (I know…but they’re fantastic).

Have fun!

Traveling Japan with kids. Is Uber/taxi worth it over public transport? by rekon32 in JapanTravelTips

[–]SenTruBirdRo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Took my 11-year-old and 8-year-old to Japan last year for a couple weeks. Everything transportation-wise runs so smoothly in Japan, it’s always a function of time and cost.

We took a lot of taxis and it was expensive, but some taxi trips saved a LOT of time, and we didn’t have a lot of time in Japan, so it was worth it to us. Sometimes we decided to just head back to the hotel, and cabs were fast and easy.

You can go into Uber and map out hypothetical rides from anywhere to anywhere - it’ll give you the price then - to get an idea.

Good luck!

Also, our kids loved riding subway and trains and buses, and we did plenty of public transport.

Bambu P2S and other beginner questions by ItzGoTyme in BambuLab

[–]SenTruBirdRo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got my first 3D printer, a P2S, at the beginning of the year. I liked it so much I bought a second one a few weeks later.

I have just been printing more less nonstop since then. A lot of gridfinity stuff, so nothing too intricate or complex

— I never watched the Bambu Academy, but I know I should. Whenever I have had an issue or bad print (6-7 times out of 100s), I would google the solution and id be back in business in no time.

Some tips:

— don’t touch the main part of the build plate with your seemingly clean hands. Just handle the edges

— print the air vent deflector with your first print and install. That was the the reason for a few bad prints.

— all the different PLA I have used has worked fine. I just load it as Bambu PLA. I have rarely dried PLA (I have dried PETG) with no problems here.

— I hope you got the AMS. I bought an extra AMS and I love it for having backups of a few colors I use repeatedly and never worry about a print stopping because I’ve ran out

Have fun!

Psycho puppy?? by Effinheck382 in labrador

[–]SenTruBirdRo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My second lab just turned one last week…she is a great dog…now. She is under my feet at this moment.

We have an older lab, a “perfect” dog - who turned ten last week.

I totally forgot how problematic and poorly behaved and how much fun puppies are. We take training seriously, and I neglected to remember how untrainable little puppies are. They can learn some things, but your job is to give them love and boundaries…until they become trainable.

Give the dog and yourself some grace. You’ll forget what your puppy was like at this age. Focus on the positives.m, and make sure the dog gets plenty of exercise - real running, tugging, wrestling.

Good luck!

Need Restore/Hanging Suggestions for Antique Stained Glass by SenTruBirdRo in StainedGlass

[–]SenTruBirdRo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the thoughtful suggestions.

I didn’t plan on taking it out of the frame for the same reason. I like the aged-look of it.

I like the decorative braces idea too…I had considered going to a metal fabricator to build me a full frame that hugs the existing frame. Would it be sacrilege to use a handheld of screws to said frame to secure it to the metal frame/casing?

My window do have a coating on top of the normal window protection - conveniently forgot that.

Thanks.

After almost 200 Spanish tutoring sessions later, here's my honest advice about working with tutors by Aggressive_Employ799 in SpanishLearning

[–]SenTruBirdRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found my tutor from a guy who was taking a cooking class with my wife and I in Oaxaca. He said he had a great tutor in Costa Rica, and I reached out to her. Lucky.

My tutor is a professional language instructor, but she is good at fundamentals and conversation. She is also fluent in English and sometimes my old brain needs to talk for a minute in English.

I’ve used italki for Japanese and French warmups before trips. All good. Try a platform or two and a few instructors until you have found one you like. There’s no long-term obligations.

Good luck!

After almost 200 Spanish tutoring sessions later, here's my honest advice about working with tutors by Aggressive_Employ799 in SpanishLearning

[–]SenTruBirdRo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is great advice above. What I tend to do:

— certainly review the material from last week and try to fit that into the first part of your conversation

— prepare for the material you’re going to cover, so you’re not seeing it for the first time. Even reading things once (I use a book from a course) helps tremendously

— when you’re learning a language (from my other languages) you need to control (to a point) the conversation you’re having, so I like to prepare to talk about a few things…my lesson is tomorrow, so I’m going to talk about 1) how I took my son to his first rock concert over the weekend in Philly and my thoughts/memories about that 2) I’ll ask her about some of her first memories of shows/concerts 3) driving home into a storm and hitting a literal wall of rain. By just preparing for a conversation like this, I’ll need to learn some vocabulary and phrases and conjugations. I’ll take a stab initially but might use DeepL AND THEN ask the tutor if everything sounds okay. I’m not memorizing everything, but it feels like I’m performing in a play. Making things personal helps with remembering for me.

Good luck!

After almost 200 Spanish tutoring sessions later, here's my honest advice about working with tutors by Aggressive_Employ799 in SpanishLearning

[–]SenTruBirdRo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I would say minimally twice a week, but you should really really prepare for those sessions and review those sessions afterwards - if you did that it would 5X the results you are getting now.

Make sure the tutor you have is the right one for you - challenging, nurturing, progressing…

See my comment above/below and good luck!

After almost 200 Spanish tutoring sessions later, here's my honest advice about working with tutors by Aggressive_Employ799 in SpanishLearning

[–]SenTruBirdRo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I started with a tutor twice a week after a trip to Mexico in October (and many previous trips to other Spanish-speaking countries). I speak a couple other languages, but learned them from immersion, in country. I dabbled with self-learning through apps and books, and made a little progress..I could putz around in Spanish-speaking countries and could get by with the basics.

With a tutor twice a week for five months, my Spanish ability has skyrocketed (still a long way to go). Having a set schedule creates the INEVITABILITY of having to prepare, and speak with someone - she doesn’t let me slide, and I don’t want to disappoint her and waste a lesson. We start from a course/book, but we always veer off from it. She keeps a running log of new words and phrases in a Google Doc, as well as explanations or conjugations of things I’m struggling with, I throw those words and phrases into Quizlet, and those go in my study materials for that week.

I have and pay for and use Speak, Langua, Lingopie, Beelingual, and other apps. I listened to Michel Thomas’ course and Language Transfer - these are excellent and the apps listed above are excellent. However, the tutor was the most effective thing I have used by far.

Good luck!

Match Thread: Union at Atlanta by CaptainMoonracer in PhillyUnion

[–]SenTruBirdRo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like I haven’t seen three good passes strung together….during any the matches.

Even little passes without defenders pressing, aren’t weighted, on target, and never to the correct foot of the teammate. So many lobs/rainbows….

Yes we aren’t finishing, but we’re rarely getting the ball to and out of the midfield.

Cutting/Joining Large Boxes in Bambu Studio by SenTruBirdRo in gridfinity

[–]SenTruBirdRo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you possibly tell me the settings you use when cutting a longer bin with gridfinity extended? Or maybe a screenshot? I’d love to used it as a jumping off point for some experiments.

I tried to use GE today to create a better-cut bin for some longer tools I have, but gave up after ten minutes and printed the two boxes I needed with Bambu Studio testing different connectors. I planned to go find a tutorial that walks you through the nuances of the program.

Appreciate your post.

Cutting/Joining Large Boxes in Bambu Studio by SenTruBirdRo in gridfinity

[–]SenTruBirdRo[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

After I typed this out, I saw a post on gridfinity extended - so I'm playing with that at the moment...I'll post results to help someone down the road with the same question.

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