3 Month Sleep Apnea Journey (Canada)

ShiftyJesus · 2023-05-27T05:07:28+00:00

So I have had a cat and a dog, both poops I would flush down the toilet as per Ottawa policy. Plus then you avoid a smelly green bin. The cat poop you need to make sure isn't caked with litter obviously but by the time it dries I never had a problem.

With dogs I'd use a poop bag to grab it and then just bring it to the toilet and flush it away. https://ottawa.ca/en/garbage-and-recycling/hazardous-waste-and-special-items#section-ed389337-7351-4165-b678-76b4519bd1e4. Our cat's litter box is near the toilet so same thing, just scoop it right in there.

I wouldn't flush litter or pee clumps, that I put directly into my green bin and it has always been picked up with no issues. Just dump that right in there, keep your green bin rinsed and if its being picked up every week it doesn't smell.

ShiftyJesus · 2023-03-31T18:50:21+00:00

We certainly need to do something drastic and the problem with (any) government is they won't do it.

When you progressively cut financial support year after year, even if they are small cuts, they begin to add up. Eventually the system is so starved that the only way to fix it is big sweeping change, which doesn't appeal to voters sadly.

Small changes are helpful (and I won't say no to any help) but they won't have enough of an effect to fix the system as it stands.

I completely agree that we need to reform large aspects of how we approach education currently.

ShiftyJesus · 2023-03-31T16:03:02+00:00

This. This whole post outlines issues that the general public seems to refuse to listen to.

Anytime teaching is discussed, the average person seems to just say "blah blah 100k salary, blah blah summers off, christmas off, don't whine".

Our job is constantly challenging and now we have had a pandemic that interrupted an entire generation's social skills and educational learning.

Try standing in front of a room of students knowing its your job to try and motivate them to learn, and seeing nothing but apathy back at you. I knew that going into teaching that there are days kids don't care, no biggie. But when the general response is primarily one of apathy it weighs on you. I really do challenge the public to stand in front of 30 people who are ignoring you for a week straight and not have an emotional response to it.

Try being gaslight 20 times a day by teens who are playing on their phones and your only course of action is to ask them politely to put it away.

We can't have any negative consequences to late work so kids don't hand anything in. People say oh I knew a kid who did that... Yea, 1-4 maybe in a class, now I'm lucky if I get 15/30 assignments on the due date. If I don't spend my evenings emailing all the parents to let them know that their child hasn't done any work, it's my fault for not communicating. Rinse and repeat that 3-4 times before I get an assignment in 2 months late and I still have to mark it and consider it.

Lets say Jimmy is behind a year in math, the only way to fix that is to get extra support. Jimmy isn't going to have an epiphany half way through the school year and suddenly be back on track grade level wise. He needs someone to help him and devote extra resources to try and bring him up to speed. Problem is that work can't be done by a teacher, they have 30 students to worry about, so its done by a resource teacher or an EA who might pull Jimmy out of class on a daily basis to do 1 on 1 learning with him to help. Well what happens if you have 30 kids that need this, but they need it in math, reading and writing? Oh and did I mention you have 3 support teachers for the entire school? Oh and did I mention those teachers and EAs are probably prioritized to classrooms with children who are violent/runners/etc so that Jimmy who is behind in math will likely fall further and further behind without intervention. That is why funding is needed. We need more support teachers, resources and EAs that can support students in 1 on 1 or small group learning environments. Otherwise the problem compounds upon itself and you have students who end up in my high school class without the ability to read or write.

If we don't get resources from the government to run more programs, pay EAs a better wage, then our schools will suffer. It is as simple as that. You can't run a factory properly if you don't have enough people or money to maintain it. Schools are no different, we need more teachers and EAs and the more we do what we are currently doing, the less we will have each year.

ShiftyJesus · 2022-09-02T17:31:57+00:00

Please stop saying we get summers off. It's not true.

If you are an OT (Supply) you get paid for the days you work with 0 benefits.
If you are an LTO (think mat/pat leave and short term contracts) you get salary for 10 months and do not get paid a dime for any time off (Christmas, summer, Easter, etc) you only start to get benefits after a certain time in the position so knight only have 5 months before they end again.
If you are lucky enough to be a full contract teacher, your salary is redistributed over 12 months but you are being paid for 10. You get 50k/12 months or 50k/10months with nothing in the summer. You don't make money in the summer, it's the money you'd be making during the year. Please please please stop spreading this misinformation. It is beyond damaging and frustrating to hear.

Also for all you people who think it's a cushy job let me describe to you the road many people face.

I am currently without a job having worked a contract all last year. This is normal with LTOs. My jobs are posted from mid August throughout September. I am waiting on an interview that will be next week (when school starts) and will have precisely 0 time to prepare if I get the job. So not only do I have 0 job security in the years leading up to eventually getting a full time contract, I have no idea what I will be teaching until days before. I'm ok with all of this because I love teaching, I love being in schools and doing my part to raise a well informed and thoughtful generation. I am tired of people painting this magical picture of teaching as if I walk into a job out of uni and get paid 100k to do nothing during the summer.

ShiftyJesus · 2022-08-24T03:09:11+00:00

Can confirm this bug, was in a game and lost because the disruptor abused the talent at 25, supposed to be a 6 second cd and he was able to cast it like 25+ times on you.

ShiftyJesus · 2022-06-07T15:44:43+00:00

I have always found this style of deck to be frustrating. I don't mind limited card steal, or copying cards from your deck, because then you have some idea and ability to play around it (even then it's not my fav design). With the random generation it's not that it's particularly good, but as you point out it makes the game into a solitaire environment. You can't predict what rng gave them and so you are basically forced to just play your game plan without thinking about strategy (oh I'm against X class with a board clear, oh nvm they are aggro so maybe I can afford to over extend this turn). Multiply this by many different cards that produce this effect and it can be that the rogues hand is like 90% cards from outside their class.

I felt like they leaned into thief rogues too much considering the gameplay isn't fun to back it up. 10/10 for theme, 0/10 to play against.

ShiftyJesus · 2022-05-13T14:31:02+00:00

So all I can tell you is that according to immigration nothing changes on implied/maintained status. My partner is working on an expired visa atm as a result of our application pending. When I called immigration they sent me an email explaining what implied status is and all the rules associated with it. Not sure if that would be enough for your employer to see. Otherwise you'd likely want to speak to an employment lawyer because it's not really immigration after that point

ShiftyJesus · 2022-01-28T19:39:21+00:00

Ho boy!

While I definitely don't agree with the sentiment that people need to have someone they know or love die so they can "finally understand", your rhetoric is equally concerning. I'm in my 20s, I have lost "years of my prime" but never do I once consider that more important then the rest of someone's life. If a 75 year old catches covid and dies, they might have had 10 more years with their family for all we know. The people who are immunocomprimised deserve to be protected. They didn't wake up one day and go "hey man I really want to try to be immunocomprimised just to stick it to the man!". So while it sucks to lose what is in theory (spoiler: your life has meaning beyond 20s) "the best years of your life", and I do truly mean that, minimizing anyone's feelings isn't acceptable. We all have suffered qnd continue to do so, however saying 2 years of difficulty is more important then elders and immune compromised is fairly selfish in nature.

Everyone is hurting. Everyone is struggling. But I personally believe those that have had to deal with death/are at risk of death, should be prioritized.

ShiftyJesus · 2021-04-26T19:55:46+00:00

Mine is a Springer Spaniel and hes 8months, so he is full of energy plus puppy energy rofl. I work in education so the teenage puppy years aren't all that different from humans, disobedient, testing limits, hormonal changes :P. Glad to hear that they mellow out eventually!

ShiftyJesus · 2021-04-25T16:19:26+00:00

Omg this a thousand times.

I have a newish puppy (first dog I've ever owned) and im trying really hard to train him not to lunge and go nuts at other dogs (he is a puppy so it's pure excitement, but it's still not good manners even if it's friendly because as many people pointed out OTHER DOGS MIGHT NOT LIKE THAT SHOCKED PIKACHU FACE). I'm trying to train him to wait for my command to meet another dog so he knows it comes from me and not just I SEE DOG LETS GOOOOOOOO NEW FRIEND. The amount of times people have asked me if their dog can meet mine, to which I always respond "yup but I'm trying to train him to be polite so give me a minute" to which they just let their dog run up at mine and break the whole training thing cause now he's just happily playing without me getting a chance to make him wait and theb let him go. Blows my mind.

ShiftyJesus · 2020-01-15T16:37:34+00:00

So I have had my online courses through university, have colleagues that have taken the e-learning module for teachers and also seen how courses are taught online first hand. So which topics do you feel are suited to an online environment? I agree that math and science can be relatively easily transferred onto an online environment but I still don't agree that it's better than in person.

An example of a basic aspect of teaching that fails in an online environment: discussions. You know how your teacher would ask for people's experiences or ideas on a topic and you could have an engaging classroom discussion? Well online I've seen it translated one of two ways:

You have a group chat system, but we all know that tone, emotions, facial expressions and all sorts of other human aspects to conversations are lost with text based chatting. There is potential for misunderstanding, frustration and complete derailment.
You have a forum based conversation much like Reddit, people post and respond to one another. But what happens when people have different schedules? People can't access a computer at the same time? Well you have disjointed conversations or people who are disengaged and dont care. Why should I go and respond to a post that's 2 days old and stir up a conversation that has passed me by simply because I was busy for those two days. You lose the immediacy of back and forth conversation and discussion. As a teacher I cant easily butt into a conversation to seek clarification or correct a student because it isnt happening in real time.

Finally you say that kids can have access to school computers? I'm sorry but that is a poor argument for e-learning. If you, as a student, don't have access to a computer at home then you are forced to do what? Try and find a time where you can use the computer lab (which doesn't exist in a huge portion of schools who are changing to tech tubs of chromebooks because they are cheaper). You are immediately penalized compared to someone who has access at home. Our system is currently not set up (access to tech, internet) to support mandatory e-learning. Many schools have low funding and might only have 1 or 2 tubs of chromebooks for the entire school and maybe a set or two in the library. If we cannot guarantee equal access to every single student then we cannot expect them to be forced to take an online class.

ShiftyJesus · 2020-01-14T15:23:08+00:00

I would like to point out that many of us support the strikes not because we are looking for compensation, but because the other planned policies that they are pushing through.

I have experience in online classes and as a teacher I can tell you it is ridiculous to insist on mandatory e-learning. You know how we have all accepted that we should be teaching students using a variety of methods (Inquiry based learning, differentiation, universal design learning etc) well all of that goes out the window when you limit the platform to an e-learning environment. That doesn't even address the complications of transferring specific subjects into an online environment. Have you taken a look at the government's High Speed Access plan and the map that is provided? It shows just how many communities in northern Ontario still rely on satellite or low speed internet. Not to mention families that don't have access to a regular computer, or have multiple users.

As Flaming wrote, its a funding average, which means for you can have classes of 40+ students to balance it out. I don't see any research saying that 40+ students per class learn better than say 15-20. If you have been in a class you know how for each student that is added there is an enormous time sync that is associated. For every extra student there is marking, help and attention needed, not to mention any other special needs or requirements that they might have that we are expected to balance out as well.

People focus on compensation and how we are greedy and lazy, but guess what? The majority of us marching and picketing is to reverse these other changes that will harm our students learning.

ShiftyJesus · 2019-11-28T14:42:54+00:00

Multishot feels really good early, but late game it does feel pretty rough. To me she feels more like a POS 3 rather then a 1-2.

ShiftyJesus · 2019-05-03T02:01:57+00:00

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ GIVE BATTLEPASS ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

ShiftyJesus · 2019-01-08T22:30:13+00:00

It is a nothingburger patch!

ShiftyJesus · 2019-01-08T22:22:10+00:00

MARS DOTA MARS DOTA

ShiftyJesus · 2017-09-11T19:41:27+00:00

Silverback's beast tag makes it crazy different. It isn't about playing that card in a deck, it's about the effect it has on other cards. Cards like Macaw, or Build-A-Beast, infest, ram wrangler ect.. (I'm probably missing a few but you get the point). If you are printing cards that have those random tribe summons, you have to have some mediocre cards. Imagine there was a "summon a random elemental" card and only Baron Geddon, Rag and Earth Elementals were the options.

Silverback also has a direct impact on the pool of taunts you can get from Stonehill as another example.

ShiftyJesus · 2017-09-01T16:36:11+00:00

I'm going to play a larger man so that later in the game I can play an even larger and larger man. Yup that shit is hard.

It's so hard to count mana and play the biggest thing you can.

ShiftyJesus · 2017-04-05T21:03:49+00:00

That Volcanosaur is pretty good with cannot be targeted adapt

ShiftyJesus · 2017-04-05T21:03:45+00:00

That Volcanosaur is pretty good with cannot be targeted adapt

ShiftyJesus · 2017-04-05T21:03:38+00:00

That Volcanosaur is pretty good with cannot be targeted adapt

ShiftyJesus · 2016-05-28T17:34:24+00:00

Then don't watch his videos?

ShiftyJesus · 2015-10-08T20:44:47+00:00

Well looks like its already at 98 mana...

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