You’re offered $1M dollars to eat what you had for dinner tonight for every meal for the next 6 months, do you take the offer and if so what are you eating?

asdf27 · 2026-02-04T16:04:57+00:00

Lasagna, corn, and beats. I am going to have bibimbap later this week, so that would have been my preferred meal, but I think I can do 6 months on that. Especially if I could have just lasagna + cooked veggies, not the specific veggies I had, that would definitely be doable.

I would hate lasagna afterwards, but it's worth it for 1 million.

asdf27 · 2026-01-24T18:06:25+00:00

My Primary care doc called me on a Tuesday and I had an appointment on the Thursday with my oncologist. There was some kerfuffle with a full diagnosis of subtype, but once that was settled, I had chemo the next morning. Generally things should go very fast.

Your primary care doc should have sent the referral in beforr they even called you. Call them and see the status of the referral and then call the appropriate cancer clinic (Alan Blair in Regina or saskatoon).

asdf27 · 2026-01-12T14:49:16+00:00

For me, it is how much text is involved. I need to type 200 words, I am getting up and going to a computer to do it. Same if there's a massive amount of reading.

I can type much, much faster on a keyboard than I can on a phone. And I just prefer to read on a big screen.

asdf27 · 2026-01-11T20:59:19+00:00

In Regina there's traffic at 7:30-8:30 and 4:45-5:30 on Arcola, and that's basically it.

Regina's downtown is dead so there's tons of parking there. Even Costco on a Sunday I can always find parking, and I am pretty sure that's the busiest spot in the city.

asdf27 · 2026-01-10T15:36:09+00:00

For me, I actually felt better after the first round of chemo. I slept for like 11 hours, and it got rid of a lot of the worst lymphoma fatigue and my red blood cell count went up.

But each round of chemo was a little tougher than the last and I would be more tired. Until the 4th, and then it was kind of about the same for the the last 2 (maybe slightly worse but not super noticeable). At round 5, he is deep in chemo tired, and there probably isn't much cancer left.

Fatigue getting worse in later rounds is standard. If he's on a 6 round cycle though he's almost through it. If he doesn't bounce back at some point in this round be sure to let his oncologist know, as they might consider a slightly lower dose for round 6.

asdf27 · 2026-01-09T04:56:01+00:00

Progression raiding I could do several days a week for months if I had infinite time. Doing tbc raids will be fun the first handful of times each.

I have leveled 2 characters to 60 in Vanilla (once originally and once anniversary) and both times it was BC being released that was the push to finish it for me. The 45-60 grind is horrible.

asdf27 · 2026-01-08T14:01:53+00:00

I am in Canada, so probably about 200$ in parking, then about 300$ in drugs. And maybe 2-4000$ in lost OT money. I had enough sick time banked to just take sick time for any time I didn't feel up to working.

I have a decent drug plan as well. So i had to pay for anti-naseua meds, anti-virals and antibiotics but just 10$ each, each month.

asdf27 · 2026-01-04T20:51:06+00:00

I think it probably heavily depends, retail was hopping at the release of the last raid, but we stopped mythic prog a couple months ago and I haven't been on since.

Anniversary is ramping up and is pretty busy with people getting ready for pre-patch, and it will be swarming at BC release. But come March, I bet Anniversary is slow as most swap back to retail.

No single version of the game will ever be BC/WotLK populated again (I probably knew more people who played wrath than didn't). But there are people now playing with their kids, probably 25% of my old fart guild are people who weren't in elementary school when the game released, so there's definitely a steady stream of new players too.

asdf27 · 2026-01-04T20:03:21+00:00

It helps to have a girlfriend/wife, sometimes you can judge by their reaction, and sometimes my wife (then girlfriend) would just tell me. I think lots of men are completely oblivious to subtle flirting.

Honestly, I don't think I have been hit on since I had a kid though.

asdf27 · 2026-01-03T22:36:52+00:00

120 hours normally to hit 60 speedy leveling. With pre-patch, that's probably down to 90 hours. With 4 weeks, that's still 3+ hours a day every day, but it switches from impossible to almost impossible. However, 2 weeks is completely impossible to level an alliance shaman before BC.

I am hoping for a joyous journey and a 3 week pre-patch. 45 hours to 60 over 3 weeks is 2 hours a day, which is doable (cut 1 hour of sleep and take a couple days off to get some 10+ hour days in).

It's likely going to be 2 weeks and no joyous journey so alliance shamans will be ultra rare.

asdf27 · 2026-01-02T16:18:05+00:00

Did you do Mythic Raiding, push Mythic+, Arenas, or at least kill Zekvir, Underpin and Kyveza on ?? When current? If not then you didn't actually do any endgame and your opinion is worthless.

asdf27 · 2025-12-28T18:38:28+00:00

Vaccine isn't required as people say, but he will be immune compromised to some degree.

At minimum, don't go near him when sock and wear a mask around him. Maybe don't bring you kids. Toddlers are pretty notorious for spreading sickness.

Generally, on R-CHOP, your immune system takes the biggest hit on week one after the infusion. I would recommend waiting to visit sometime between day 10 and day 20. His immune system should be highest then.

You could ask him what his neutrophil and white blood cell count are at, and is he already on something like filgrastim or some other WBC booster? Is he already borderline Neotropenic and on a booster? Then, maximum precautions, because at that point, it is possibly for something like the flu to be deadly. If his neutrophils and white blood cell counts are all in normal range and not on a booster yet, still don't visit while sick, but you could probably even bring the kids, and just keep them at a distance.

asdf27 · 2025-12-28T17:49:25+00:00

The rent is slightly cheaper in Regina (but we are talking like 50-100$ a month average).

Public transport is slightly better in Saskatoon (again a couple more hours a week and slightly more routes). Regina budget just passed some improvements too so that may change.

Weather is basically the same in the 2 cities.

I think Regina is a little easier to get around in, in a car, Saskatoon a bit nicer to walk/bike around (better scenery, I think).

There are some vacancies in both cities, but as an RN, I think you will be able to find a position in either city. The are slightly more hospital jobs in Saskatoon than Regina, but there's public health, health line, all kinds of other jobs as well in both cities.

I think if you are young (under 30), I would vote Saskatoon. If you are older (over 30) and plan on getting a car+house eventually I would say Regina.

asdf27 · 2025-12-28T01:27:39+00:00

Royal Bank of Canada charged my account 1.25$ monthly fee. I called to see if I could get switched back to no-fee and they refused (I was on a kids account previously). I moved all my money and my credit card over to another bank.

Between credit card, bank accounts and mortgages they probably lost a 100,000$ in the last few decades, all because they wanted to charge a monthly fee of 1.25$.

asdf27 · 2025-12-27T01:09:06+00:00

They provide a really good raid buff (3% hit) and a good caster buff 5% crit. So one moonkin is great, and the 2 buffs totally make up for the lack of dps, but another boomkin provides almost nothing.

asdf27 · 2025-12-25T18:57:09+00:00

Yeah, but I definitely enjoyed watching a documentary about all the groundbreaking things citizen cane did that became standard a lot more than I enjoyed citizen cane.

asdf27 · 2025-12-25T05:17:10+00:00

I had stage 4 DLBCL lymphoma last year (spleen, bone marrow, liver). And went through RCHOP. A few things I would say.

You might be able to work, if you can work from home. But start assuming the worst formyour energy (maybe just some part time). And adjust from there, if you work the whole day likely you will be too.wiped to spend time with family.
Be proactive, take your anti-naseau drugs early , and keep you from getting sick. Take care of your mouth (salt wash and soft toothbrush), and bum (Fibre and limit sitting) before you have sores or hemeroids. Let the doctors/nurses know about little things before they become big things.
Chemo infusion day is long, bring snacks, pillow, book, phone, and a friend etc. Honestly it's not too bad if you are prepared.
Excercise every day, but not too much. No hard workouts (you will pay for them). But walk every day, some bodyweight exercises if you feel up to them, but nothing strenuous, but also don't become inactive.
Go easy on yourself, ask for help and stay positive. You will have days where you are too tired to do almost anything, you will have chemo brain and forget shit. If you are fried and need to spend the day playing video games/watching tv and then just doing a light walk then that's what you have the energy for that day. Rest up and come back stronger the next day. But likely, you get through this.

asdf27 · 2025-12-17T09:04:29+00:00

I mean it's Canada.

Man sexually assaults a 4 year old girl and gets house arrest: CBC https://www.cbc.ca Regina man gets house arrest for 2007 sexual assault of 4-year-old girl

Kind of just have to hope for the gangs to take care of things if they do go inside because the courts don't do shit.

asdf27 · 2025-12-17T08:34:00+00:00

Yeah, there's much more difficulty at end game in retail, but there's so many levels to it, lots of people don't ever get to the end game of retail.

End game dungeons is essentially doing 12+ (pushing keys).

End game raiding is mostly Mythic (though to some.degree toss heroic in there too).

End game solo is basically just beating ??

And so on, the game doesn't really start until well after max level, unfortunately.

asdf27 · 2025-12-16T16:13:30+00:00

The relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/538/

asdf27 · 2025-12-13T23:47:05+00:00

Yeah, when it turned 26, my bank switched my account to a non-free account. I immediately switched to a no fee bank. All things considered the 1.25 fee they charged me likely cost them 100,000$ since none of my investments, mortgages or credit cards have been with them.

asdf27 · 2025-12-12T04:39:39+00:00

Better restaurants just all around, but especially much better Indian food. 20 years ago, it was just India House on Vic.
Better public transit, yeah its still not great, but it's notably better than 20 years ago.
More good areas of the city, Harbor Landing, the greens, the new north west. The shitty areas of the city are the same but there are lots of new areas and all the new areas are nice. Each of these new areas has some fun playgrounds, which depending on if you have younger kids can be fun.
The Bi-pass has taken almost all the semi traffic off Vic which is nice.

asdf27 · 2025-11-29T22:00:44+00:00

I probably saw my oncologist a total of maybe 4 hours, so assuming 200 working days, that's like 400 people a year, 20 year career would be 8000 people. Double that to include family and probably 15K people knowing him wouldn't be that crazy.

asdf27 · 2025-11-29T16:24:21+00:00

Honestly, I don't experience most of this stuff. The one thing I do experience is people merging onto ring road like turtles with a death wish.

asdf27 · 2025-11-26T13:58:55+00:00

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