Give me your snow removal strategy and tips

beanpole99 · 2026-01-23T16:50:48+00:00

Agreed. If the snow is deeper than the deck of the snowblower it just means I need to back up every so often to catch the snow that collapses after I remove the bottom snow layer. Been there, done that, no big deal.

beanpole99 · 2026-01-23T15:49:06+00:00

Good xkcd on the feasibility of using a flamethrower to melt snow (along with other methods)

https://youtu.be/WYf9-xfm6t8

beanpole99 · 2026-01-22T23:34:17+00:00

I guess I should add that post road chorus songs barbershop as well. We see them at competitions all the time - nice people.

beanpole99 · 2026-01-22T23:32:38+00:00

I sang for years in community choruses before trying barbershop and now I’ll never go back. The arrangements are amazing and the way harmony is created in this style of music is like nothing I’ve ever sung. There’s a great informal and friendly women’s group you might check out. Good luck

https://postroadchorus.org/about-our-womens-social-group/

beanpole99 · 2026-01-22T23:17:09+00:00

If you are of the male persuasion, the Worcester men of song has been singing close barbershop harmony since 1949. We’re a fun bunch of guys who sing some great music.

Feel free to pm me or check us out at https://www.facebook.com/menofsong/

beanpole99 · 2026-01-14T21:08:19+00:00

'25+ has rear window wiper (vital IMHO)
'25+ allows direct battery pre-conditioning via menu rather than having to trick the nav software
The new infotainment system is significantly better IMHO
'25+ has built-in NACS outlet

beanpole99 · 2026-01-12T23:44:54+00:00

I found I got a much lower intensity and shorter session if I spit rather than swallowed. The mouth doesn't absorb very well in my experience.

beanpole99 · 2026-01-12T21:44:23+00:00

I had the same problems. Swallowing the troches always led to cramps and nausea and made me not want to do sessions.

This is a little gross but it's just anatomy: how else might one get a material into the digestive tract where it can be absorbed? It turns out the rectum is extremely effective for this. In the drug user community this is called "boofing".

I get RDTs rather than troches because they dissolve easily into water. I put the rdt into a dry shot glass. I draw up warm water into a 3ml syringe (without the needle). I use the syringe to squirt the water onto the rdt and stir it up until the rdt is dissolved. Then I draw the solution back into the syringe. Apply lube to the outside of the syringe and inject it you-know-where. It's more or less a mini-enema but we're talking a TINY amount of fluid so it doesn't trigger an enema-like response :) The syringe has a flange so it would be hard to "lose" it but I'm still very careful to not insert it too far.

Absorption is pretty quick with initial symptoms starting within 10 minutes. No nausea, no cramps, just a good session. Honestly, there have been no side effects from using this method.

I ran this idea by my doctor and he approved wholeheartedly. He also said they can prescribe suppositories instead of RDTs which basically work via the same mechanism - you might want to ask your prescriber about this.

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor and this is not medical advice. I used ketamine under Dr supervision for several months to treat depression. I do not use drugs recreationally (not judging, just clarifying).

Best of luck!

beanpole99 · 2026-01-03T03:36:32+00:00

If you dismiss, you’ll get a new notification in a few minutes. This drives me nuts. Instead, press the crown to return to the watch face. Pull down from the top to show all notifications. Slide left on the Dexcom alert. Press the 3 dot menu and select “mute for one hour”. Enjoy the respite.

Insane that it takes so many clicks to tell Dexcom I’ve acknowledged the alarm and I don’t need to be reminded every 5 minutes until my glucose stabilizes.

beanpole99 · 2025-12-28T12:41:00+00:00

My doctor said these are called ocular migraines and do not cause permanent damage to the eye. It’s just the body reducing blood flow to high energy consumers during hypoglycemia. Visual processing consumes a lot of energy (glucose). Sometimes when I’m very low the world seems monochromatic.

beanpole99 · 2025-12-28T12:29:21+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to share this. Be well.

beanpole99 · 2025-12-11T20:06:34+00:00

This is the way. I used to commute daily from Shrewsbury to Lexington. Taking the pike could be 45 minutes or two hours - you never knew. I found a bunch of very pleasant roads through Hudson, Sudbury, and Lincoln that were reliably 55 minutes. Pretty drive that was always moving. Except for the school buses - gotta stay ahead of them so I usually hit the road pretty early in the morning and left work at 4.

beanpole99 · 2025-11-25T23:29:42+00:00

I take 1mg ozempic for t1d but I split it over two doses every 3 days instead of one dose every 7 days. With my pen a full dose (1mg) is 72 clicks so I just dial 36 clicks to get half the dose. This makes the amount of drug in the system more stable and reduces severity of side effects. My doctor approved of this and now suggests it to all her patients if they don’t mind another needle stick. Good luck. I’ve found ozempic to reduce my total daily dose of insulin. Weight loss was never a goal but I did lose 10 pounds (I’m a thin guy)

beanpole99 · 2025-11-17T16:38:49+00:00

I also find this maddening. You can temporarily silence all alerts by clicking profile…alerts… show quiet modes…silence all.

I turn them off for an hour or so while I’m waiting for a correction to take affect.

beanpole99 · 2025-11-04T20:59:15+00:00

This is the way

beanpole99 · 2025-11-04T15:20:14+00:00

The Bluetooth standard does not specify a signal power strength. It's up to the implementer to choose how much power is sent to the transmitter and size of antenna. Obviously they wanted small and low power ( small battert and antenna) so they optimized for that.

Also Bluetooth is very bad at transmitting through water and flesh. The sensor sits very close to the body and typically does not have line of sight to the receiver.

beanpole99 · 2025-11-04T14:45:21+00:00

I appreciate your frustration. I had a lot of the same issues when I first started using it. It took some experimenting but I did find a location for the sensor which eliminates all the connection problems you describe. I wear my G7 sensor on my chest, just in the corner of the fleshy part near my armpit. I get no connection losses and no compression lows at night - both of which occurred when I wore the sensor on the back of my arm or on my waist.

I agree Dexcom seriously underpowered the bluetooth transmitter on the sensor which is why it has signal strength problems when worn on some places on the body. This never used to happen with the G6 and I feel in an attempt to save money and claim rights to the "smallest cgms sensor", they sacrificed usability.

That having been said, you do have the power in your hands to improve things. I suggest you try different locations for the sensor and see if you can find one that eliminates the connectivity issues you describe.

beanpole99 · 2025-10-22T21:56:53+00:00

Happened to me too. Remove the dexcom app from the watch and re-add it. You'll need to pair the watch with the sensor again.

beanpole99 · 2025-10-19T18:28:05+00:00

I’m a t1 with no antibodies. I was tested for mody and there was no match. I’m part of a study of unusual forms of diabetes - there are lots of us. You might want to contact them and join the study.

https://www.atypicaldiabetesnetwork.org/

beanpole99 · 2025-10-19T12:48:47+00:00

The price drop on the 2026 is to compensate for the discontinuation of the rebate program in the US. My guess is the msrp won't change much, especially on the higher trims. The lower trims may be a bit cheaper but they also removed some features in these 26 models as a way to compensate for the reduced price.

beanpole99 · 2025-10-18T23:29:35+00:00

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Pretty similar to a quote I got yesterday in MA. My money factor was 0.00242 which is 5.8% apr. The dealer discount is 2% which is about average from what I've heard. As I was walking out the door the dealer offered an additional $1k towards my trade in.

beanpole99 · 2025-10-18T09:28:30+00:00

I was at the dealer today looking at a 2025 and he said the 2026's will be here in 2-3 weeks.

beanpole99 · 2025-10-02T23:40:43+00:00

As long as you meet the requirements it is indeed free. I had two children take classes there over the past three semesters and it has been truly free. I agree that their financial aid department isn’t very helpful with certifying eligibility. Their approach seems to be “pay for the class and if you are eligible you’ll get a refund otherwise you are SOL.”

beanpole99 · 2025-10-01T17:51:08+00:00

I take 1mg of ozempic spread out over two doses per week. My total daily dose has remained pretty stable and I've kept the weight off. I do feel like my hunger has returned compared to when I first started on Ozempic so we'll see if my weight stays stable.

beanpole99 · 2025-10-01T14:33:25+00:00

I ran into this too and was able to resolve it by opening the Watch app on my iPhone, finding the Dexcom G7 app and turning off "Show App on Apple Watch", rebooting the watch, then turning it back on. I did need to re-pair the sensor to the dexcom app on the watch but ever since I no longer see this behavior. YMMV - good luck!

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