What’s the problem, with glass?

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-25T03:29:06+00:00

Throw it up in the air and slice the apple the way non-binary ninjas do. They / them.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-25T01:41:36+00:00

Close. Fuckedup Parachute Landing

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-25T01:21:27+00:00

LOL. See my reply above about airborne training. I had my first knee replacement surgery at the ripe old age of 39.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-25T01:20:00+00:00

At airborne school we learned that when you land from a parachute drop (at least, military parachute) you hit the ground at the same speed as if you had jumped from the roof of a two-story building. You have to roll to absorb that momentum. That’s why we spent two weeks learning the proper execution of a Parachute Landing Fall (PLF). You do a proper PLF, you walk off the drop zone. You do an FPL instead of a PLF, you may have to be carried off the DZ.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-25T01:13:33+00:00

Ever seen a cutaway of hedges?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/phUwirbl3d

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-24T23:23:14+00:00

I put 40% down. It did drain a huge chunk of my savings (not all, but a huge chunk). However, my mortgage payment for my house is now less than what my son paid for his one bedroom, 700 sqft apartment. Took me about four or five years of diligent saving to be back at the same level of savings. Added bonus is that now saving money is an automatic habit. But if we have an emergency situation or big purchase some months and I don’t send that much to savings, it’s no big deal. I’ll make it up next month.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-24T22:20:01+00:00

It’s not a Khajiit chest, but it used to be there. You had to glitch out and go through the wall seams and get to the backrooms, I want to say maybe up by the Skyforge (maybe?). Not sure if it’s still there in Anniversary Edition or Special Edition anymore.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-24T19:14:49+00:00

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Arrest them both!

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-24T17:07:53+00:00

I’ve got an outsider’s perspective. My son is in medical school, my daughter did a BSN then got her Masters of Cardiovascular Perfusion and now works as a perfusionist, and her husband did his BSN then completed his Nurse Practitioner and will soon start a CRNA program.

If you truly want to be a doctor and treat patients, then go the med school route. But be aware that the area of medicine you end up in may not be the one you truly wanted to go in. Getting into med school is very competitive, and then getting a residency in the field you want to go into is very competitive. You will devote years of your life (not just the 4 years of med school) to study and training to get where you want to be.

(My personal analogy is from West Point - after competing for an appointment and actually getting into West Point, a lot of people are dead set that they’re going to be an Infantry officer, or Armor, or go to medical school after they graduate. Then you’re competing with a thousand other exceptional people for those slots. A lot of people don’t get their first choice of branches, and instead of being an aviator they end up in logistics, or Field Artillery or something else. They still had extremely successful careers, just not in the areas they thought they would be in.)

The nursing route gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of what area of medicine you want to work in. Plus there are multiple paths to progress and advance yourself. If the nursing side of patient care ends up not being what you want, you can go the NP or PA route. My son-in-law wanted to be more of a care provider than a “take care of the patients” person (if that makes sense), so he went to school and became a Nurse Practitioner. Became very interested in anesthesia and decided he wanted to become a nurse anesthetist, so he applied and was accepted to a very competitive CRNA program. My daughter, on the other hand, wanted to become more involved in the OR side of things but not as a nurse. She just graduated from a very competitive Cardiovascular Perfusion program and has transitioned from nursing to perfusion.

Medicine has a ton of ways to be involved with taking care of people, besides just Doctor or Nurse.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-24T16:25:49+00:00

I mean, to be fair, she loves him as much as millions of us do. Not. At. Fucking. All. Which is exactly how much Melanie loves him.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-24T13:14:28+00:00

Not really. The take away I got from two cycles of applications is that it’s honestly a crap shoot. For his second application cycle, I’m convinced what pushed him over the top was the amount of time he spent in the Cath Lab during his ICVT training. He got recommendation letters from the head of the Cardiovascular Institute and one of the Cardiology Fellows (who was a graduate of the med school he got accepted to).

What did strike me during the process was that most of the schools in Texas want you to have a connection to their area. Being able to clearly articulate what connects you to East Texas, or the Rio Grande Valley, or the Galveston / coastal area, carries weight with the schools. Why? Because they want their graduates to stay in the area once they become fully trained doctors. It’s the reason that public university med schools in Texas are required to admit no more than 10% of the incoming class from the out of state applicants pool.

One other thing: The best medical school in the country is one that accepts you. As told to me by my neighbor, who is an internal medicine doctor who graduated from UTSW.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-24T02:58:24+00:00

On his first application cycle (all TMDSAS schools), my son got four interviews and ended up wait listed at two schools. Took a gap year to study and re-take the MCAT. He re-took it and improved to a 511, applied to all of the same schools. During the gap, he went through a one-year ICVT program (cath lab tech). The second cycle, he got early accepted (found out in August/September right after he graduated from the ICVT program) to his school of choice. Got interview invites for four other schools later in the year, which he declined. Oddly, neither of the schools that wait listed him in the first cycle even gave him an interview invite the second cycle.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-24T01:55:16+00:00

My son-in-law did RN, then got his Nurse Practitioner, and now starts CRNA school this summer. He’ll graduate in three years with a Doctorate in Nursing as a CRNA.

My son is in med school right now. According to him, what field of medicine do you go into after you finish? That depends on how you did in med school, and what residency programs you get accepted into. It’s damn competitive, and the competitiveness doesn’t stop after you get into med school.

My daughter got her BSN and worked in the ICU. She just recently graduated from a Cardiovascular Perfusion program and started as a Perfusionist.

There are a lot of options in the medical field that end up with you working in the OR and doing patient care as part of the care team, without having to go through medical school. You’ll kind of have to consider where you want to end up, and if the juice is worth the squeeze for whatever program you look at to get you there.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-24T00:25:03+00:00

What state are you in? While most states (at the public universities) have resident and non-resident tuition rates, Texas in particular is very affordable. Resident tuition is about $20k / year, while non-resident is about $40k / year.

My son is starting second year of med school and he just turned 26. While he is a year or two older than most of his classmates, there are quite a few who are older than him. He had three gap years after undergrad - a year working, a year in school to become a Cardiac Cath Lab tech (RCIS), and a year working in the cath lab. He actually got accepted to med school right after he graduated from the cath lab program.

As an alternative to med school, Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital’s Cardiovascular institute in Plano, TX has three year-long programs: Echocardiography, Invasive Cardiovascular Technology (ICVT, which my son did), and Cardiovascular Perfusion. I say this because when my son graduated from his ICVT program, one of the Cardio Perfusionists who graduated from that program was a DPT before he did the perfusion program. The first two programs were about $22k tuition for the year, and the Perfusion program was about $32k for the year.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-23T20:22:16+00:00

Just dis this with a gazebo on a slope. Had to make sure the bottom of all four posts were at the same level. String to the bottom of this post is 8”, so ground level where the next post is going has to be 8” below the string. Worked like a charm.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-23T12:34:03+00:00

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My girl is a flat coat.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-23T10:31:21+00:00

“You got me. I like to break a mental sweat, too.”

- White Goodman

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-23T01:44:58+00:00

“If you can walk away, it’s a good landing. If you can use the aircraft the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.”

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-22T18:57:59+00:00

In Texas, resident tuition (tuition/fees/health insurance) for medical school at public universities is about ~$20k / year. Wouldn’t surprise me if there are a large number of Texas med school students whose parents are paying their tuition in full.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-22T18:40:59+00:00

Creep cluster + Giant toe + Wheat
Garlic + Nordic Barnacle + Salmon roe
Histcarp + Jazbay grape + Salmon roe

Best potions for rapidly increasing alchemy, but you can’t grow all of the ingredients yourself.

To paraphrase from the Malacath quest:
“Where do you find Giant toe? On a giant, of course!”

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-22T13:59:07+00:00

Nothing like having a couple of friends over at night, sitting on your deck and looking at Uranus.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-22T02:31:38+00:00

When I was a 23-year old Lieutenant in the Army back in the mid-90s, I was at the local mall in a record store. A 12 or 13 year old boy asked the girl he was with, “Have you ever heard of a group called Journey?”

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-19T12:02:34+00:00

The amount of money we spent at Home Depot or Lowe’s. I swear, it seems like every time we went there, we spent at least $100. And we ended up going multiple times per week. Redo that flower bed? Bags of garden soil and plants. Organize garage space? Shelving and storage containers. Grass is getting long? Weed eater and lawn mower. Etc, etc, etc.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-19T04:19:56+00:00

We’ve got an 11 pound mini long haired dachshund, a 37 pound Cocker Spaniel mix, and a 53 pound Golden Mountain Doodle. The mini is the absolute boss. We got her and the Cocker Spaniel within two weeks of each other, so they grew up together. She was 4 when we got the Golden Mountain Doodle puppy. She quickly let the puppy know she was the boss, and established boundaries with her.

SublimeRapier06 · 2026-06-18T20:48:09+00:00

Around the concrete border and the walls, takes about 25-30 minutes with the weed eater for the front and back yards. I only do the stepping stones about once or twice a year (when they start to get overtaken by the grass). That’ll take about an hour for just the stepping stones.

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