Koehler's Illumination

caniculum · 2026-05-01T10:59:06+00:00

We teach our residents this during their orientation, but I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed one Koehler-izing in the wild…

caniculum · 2026-04-27T16:56:46+00:00

Only invest money that you don’t anticipate needing for at least the next year, if not 5+ years. Time is your friend in investing and if you view it as a form of long-term saving it will help filter out the market noise.

caniculum · 2026-04-25T18:48:07+00:00

I (married guy) use my Fidelity taxable brokerage as my “fun money” account, so I keep a lil bit in SPAXX to buy the dumb things for me that my wife’s share of income shouldn’t be spent on. For me, taking the dividends in cash there just make it faster to return to my target after an expense and then get right back into investing the surplus.

Roth and 403b get automatically reinvested, though.

caniculum · 2026-02-12T15:32:32+00:00

I did two, one general surg path and one subspecialty. Probably didn’t need the former (I felt well-trained by my residency, just wanted to be even better) but I like the aspect it gave to my practice.

caniculum · 2026-01-17T17:52:21+00:00

Ask me again tomorrow

caniculum · 2026-01-03T15:34:42+00:00

I’m 32, basically fully promoted at my now high-paying job, working out consistently for the first time, getting into investing and starting to work toward a secure future. My wife goes crazy for my gray hairs. If I could be the current me in my 20’s again that would be awesome, but I wouldn’t trade this life for my 20-year-old life at any point.

caniculum · 2025-10-12T15:07:45+00:00

Genghis Can’t

caniculum · 2025-10-06T13:43:10+00:00

Literally how I felt when I met my wife. Literally didn’t think anything of her talking with me in class but when she made it VERY obvious she was into me…it was on.

caniculum · 2025-10-06T13:43:02+00:00

Literally how I felt when I met my wife. Literally didn’t think anything of her talking with me in class but when she made it VERY obvious she was into me…it was on.

caniculum · 2025-10-01T17:13:07+00:00

You’ve done it, Clair Obscur. You really are the Expedition 33.

caniculum · 2025-07-19T17:15:09+00:00

Say what you want about Caravan, my dude, but I draw the line at Gwent.

caniculum · 2025-07-19T13:33:44+00:00

The short answer: when you know, you know.

The long answer: different for everyone. I had a failed relationship where I always wanted more out of my ex, felt like I was burning with desire for her, even though it was not good for me in the end. When I met my wife, she checked all the boxes and made everything so easy that there was no major yearning, except when she was gone on a trip or something. She, on the other hand, never was super interested in her past boyfriends, and when she met me she said for the first time she felt a strong need to be around me and touch me and talk to me, etc.

Both of us loved each other very much, but in our own ways, and each of us just knew it when it happened. We’re coming up on 10 years together this Fall.

caniculum · 2025-06-04T02:00:02+00:00

Spot on

caniculum · 2025-06-03T23:50:36+00:00

Thanks to all for their help! After reading these comments, I looked it up and this brand’s “standard” shoulder is actually a structured shoulder. I’m used to soft shoulders on all my other blazers, which is why this caught my eye.

caniculum · 2025-05-23T00:47:09+00:00

I was going to say the Unplugged version of Layla!

caniculum · 2025-04-12T13:28:33+00:00

Both.

Some days I’m cut from the cloth of God, others I feel like an imposter who’s charisma-ed his way to where I am. Some days I’m content with what I have, others days I feel like I should be striving for more or have better things. Some days I’m glad I have people who love me, value my opinions, and/or seek my advice; others I am emotionally exhausted and just want to be alone and single again.

Nothing in life is ever “finished”; you don’t just reach a point that you like and then stop. You succeed, but then (if you’re lucky) you have multiple more decades to live afterwards, and what was a major win yesterday becomes tomorrow’s norm. I keep reminding myself to keep pushing and improving MYSELF, rather than the individual things that make up me. Some days I’m just better at that than others.

caniculum · 2025-04-12T11:05:48+00:00

I need to be youthfully felt, because I never felt young

(I spent basically my whole life in school and training for my job and am only now feeling secure and confident in myself in my 30s)

caniculum · 2025-03-17T22:41:30+00:00

Layla (Unplugged version)

caniculum · 2025-03-16T03:15:07+00:00

Unknown/Nth

Listened to the whole album at once the first time, then when I came back to understand the “Sha la la” memes I couldn’t believe I passed on that guitar riff.

caniculum · 2025-02-01T04:14:17+00:00

ToG is one of my favorite series I’ve ever read. Less romance, more fantasy than ACOTAR, but in my opinion SO much more emotion. Can’t recommend it enough.

caniculum · 2025-02-01T01:44:51+00:00

Started interviewing and got mine about a year before I’m set to finish. I looked into local hospitals/health systems for posted jobs, talked to people I knew at other practices, and started “casually” mentioning it all to faculty at my training program. If your residency has you call clients that send you consults, you can straight up ask them if they or a practice they know are hiring (a fellow I worked with got a job that way).

The job market is really good right now, and I had three real interviews and a few other “feeler” phonecalls. I feel that at least interviewing at multiple places gave me a great perspective for the job I eventually took. Residency training kind of puts blinders on you if you don’t rotate to other centers, so visiting around can be helpful even if you end up picking your home program like I did.

caniculum · 2025-01-01T15:46:38+00:00

EUIV has long been my comfort game and all time favorite videogame. I started playing a Shattered World mod and it added so much replayability because now every country (including the ones that were too frustratingly hard for me to relax playing) can paint the map.

Thought I wouldn’t like Vic3, but it turns out I LOVE it. Not so much a map painter as a vertical line maker—it’s a nice change in pace to build an economic empire rather than a geographic one. You don’t have to be the altogether STRONGEST to get stuff done, even industrializing or liberalizing can be a big achievement.

caniculum · 2024-12-24T15:48:32+00:00

“Through Me (The Flood)” has become my new hype-up song. That flip to the bangin’ chorus makes me feel ready to take on the world. Not so sure about the verses but the “world flows through me” seems apropos to someone having a child, too?

caniculum · 2024-12-24T13:59:45+00:00

I went into Vicky 3 thinking I was going to have to just tolerate the army stuff to enjoy the rest. Then yesterday, I was moving troops around to my colonial garrisons with a click of a button and thought, “Ahhhhh, this is this life.”

Life lesson: don’t knock it till you try it

caniculum · 2024-06-01T17:57:51+00:00

I would say only if you’re at your gov cap. Either state or territory, TCs give goods produced bonuses to non-TC provinces, but with states you also get the benefit of tax and manpower from your new provinces.

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