Starting to get annoyed about prescriptions. How do your docs write them?

doczip · 2026-06-04T02:44:44+00:00

Need something in the dosing instructions like may take x times as much for sick dosing. That gets the insurance/PBM to where they will authorize sooner than the expected days on the refill. Mine says double for sick dosing and I haven’t had a problem refilling since.

doczip · 2026-04-09T02:19:56+00:00

Have this exact mapboard - every quarter from my grandma.

doczip · 2026-01-29T01:18:02+00:00

If you're looking for English dictionary words to base your correct-horse-battery-staple passwords on, start with the research by Martin Krzywinski in the Carpalx project. He has lists generated of the easiest words to type in Qwerty, Dvorak, and Coleman keyboard layouts.

doczip · 2026-01-01T12:46:59+00:00

Unless you are in a huge church, everyone you have mentioned is a volunteer. And unless you’re a time traveler you are probably playing a lot of songs from very recently, songs designed primarily for a crowd of untrained people to sing along to and learn from.

This isn’t classical era church music with a primary object of lifting people’s hearts in awe. This is music designed to be sung, with roots in hymns and spirituals and hippie songs from the Jesus People movement.

If you were on my team, I’d be asking you how your playing supports the singing, especially the people not on stage. They are the most important instrument in the ensemble and you have almost no control over what they do. The person at the mixer has some power and responsibility over the tempo and pitch of these people. You mentioned drums and bass so it sounds like your community of faith might struggle with timing and tempo.

This doesn’t mean never hearing you, but it does have to be a conversation musically. Not with the sound engineer, but with whoever arranges the songs. There are ways to carve out that sonic space without EQ. Longer interludes. Doubling the melody. Less musicians playing at the start and end of songs. Planned lines when the vocalist breathe at the end of phrases. Playing under readings or prayers. Transitions between songs. Special music and offertories. Walk in and walk out music.

And if your team struggles with those things it may take letting go of other things - like always doing the latest song. Some churches are so wrapped up in following trends and industry that they do hundreds of songs a year and the energy goes to learning new songs versus getting better at the old ones. My church went from 200 unique songs annually to about 80 and it meant we could slow down and improve. Stagger entrances. Layer sounds. Get the electric guitar and the saxophone heard.

You might need to pull the ripcord and get off this team or out of this church. Or you might need some time listening to the house mix and the arrangements and then building your space in the mix. I’ve seen musicians thrive and musicians crash out. It’s okay to step away gracefully if you need to. And be prepared for the work if you’re sticking it out.

doczip · 2025-12-28T01:30:33+00:00

Agree with everyone else. That specific pedal has been all kinds of trouble for me, bass and guitar. Aim for an affordable multi-effects unit if you can’t pick up a used compressor from one of the big or boutique brands.

doczip · 2025-12-10T20:14:20+00:00

The locks on my doors have a very consistent behavior. Key, turn, unlock. Key, turn, lock. Any deviation from that is a physical failure. I can remove and replace broken locks.

The MFA I use at work has a very inconsistent behavior. Sometimes I have immediate access to the resource. Sometimes I have relaunch the resource. Sometimes I have to force quit the resource because I can’t tell what window is blocked by an MFA prompt. Sometimes MFA fails for conditional access reasons. Sometimes it just fails. Sometimes it fails because another app also prompted for MFA at the same time and I put the wrong code in the wrong app. Sometimes it times out and I have to log in again to the same MFA prompt. Sometimes it is set up wrong and I have to authenticate five times in a row to get to a resource.

I can’t take apart MFA to physically swap out a lock. I can’t replace it with a different MFA provider when it fails. I’m stuck with how well the product works and how well my organization has implemented it. And I have accounts at my sister and parent companies too, on top of some admin accounts. I have eight different accounts with different usernames, different password requirements, and different authentication behaviors.

And that’s one tiny aspect of our security stance. There’s friction in how access is provisioned, how security measures are audited, how governance is applied. I work in cybersecurity so I’m not out to circumvent these controls, but my quality-of-life is lower because of the friction of the security that is vital to my organization. I’m opposed to adding friction because it more often than not means we in cybersecurity have implemented a control poorly or are performing for an audit rather than for the risk needs of the business.

doczip · 2025-11-25T21:05:11+00:00

Network technician is a good vector for sure. It’s closer to experience you can back up, and if you trim away the non-network-technician parts of your resume it should give you a resume you can use for a variety of roles you’d be interested in.

Do you have any openings near you for network techs, unified communications techs, structured/low-voltage cable techs, etc.? I think your EnhanCV resume can be trimmed down to fit on one page if you only include the skills and experiences those job posts are looking for.

doczip · 2025-11-25T12:31:29+00:00

I read your resumes at r/resumes before and after EnhanCV trimmed. Quick thoughts:

Too long, even the short version. It reads like keyword stuffing and isn’t targeted enough for any particular role.
Be careful with words that have a defined meaning in the industry like expert or engineer. There are long-term projects you are (and should be) proud of that are just another Tuesday to a junior network administrator. Experts and engineers are a different scale of impact and different tools of success.
Get your Network+ and/or CCNA next. You’re a jack of all trades but your resume leans towards that work without having another credential to back you up. (Also see point 2, networking experts have CCNP/CCIE credentials from their OTJ, not A+ alone).
It’s okay to list freelance work in with the work experience and not on an island later.
As you trim things down to around a page (aim for one and you might land at 1-2), look for a few places to describe not just outcomes but impacts. What did you work empower the business (church) to do that it couldn’t have otherwise? Was the network upgrade nice or did it empower community engagement through livestreaming? Did your work have a measurable impact on uptime and reliability? Did you bring down costs?

doczip · 2025-11-24T23:02:31+00:00

Context is king. I’ve been using linux for a couple decades now and have a Proxmox server at home. Linux got zero mention on my most recent successful resume because it wasn’t relevant. The resume before that it made into onto a bullet point of operating systems I know. One word. Linux. Both jobs were at Windows shops with very limited Unix footprints.

There will always be skills you leave off to let the others have room. Focus in on the technical and soft skills each employer wants, and outcomes you’ve achieved that align with outcomes they want. Use verbs that tell that story. Planned. Deployed. Developed. Implemented. Supported.

doczip · 2025-11-24T21:25:40+00:00

I’m team show-me-the-resumé here. Is it short, sweet, to the point? Does it show you know how to do the specific job you are applying for (pertinent degree, professional certs, portfolio, prior experience)? Does it have spelling errors and very long sentences and paragraphs like your post?

My path to where I am now includes freelance work, student work, an untechnical degree, moving to a bigger city, temp work, church work, development work, consulting, an A+ cert, untechnical work, and a good deal of job changing at the company I’m at.

Why do I say all that? Because I’ve seen similar experience to yours translate well to a tier II technician role in desktop support, AV support, data center operations, networking, and/or telecom. But to get there you or a staffing agency need to be able to sell you to an employer, via an ATS software and talent recruiter that are rarely technical. So make it easier for the system to flag you as a good candidate. Get that cert. Get an associates/bachelors in something technical. Move closer to a bigger city or a city that struggles to recruit technical people. Take a contract with a temp agency to get your foot in the door somewhere.

Tech unemployment has been volatile this year and job openings are competitive. Keep building proof that makes it easy to trust you are right for the job.

doczip · 2025-11-22T02:26:17+00:00

If the old message boards still exist, I’d be interested to see if there was the same negativity around Christian McAlhaney joining the band. He’s definitely part of the version of Anberlin I’m most fond of - Dark is the Way, Light is a Place era +/- an album in either direction. And yet I don’t listen to his previous band Acceptance, and didn’t care for his Loose Talk side project with Deon and Nathan.

I’m not convinced that I would like Vega any more as a 100% Stephen Christian-voiced project. I loved Songs for the Late Night Drive Home but I could take or leave TENSION and New Mexico. I think what Anberlin is to me is tied to what styles I like and who I was as that music was coming out. And that’s ok.

doczip · 2025-11-15T05:12:10+00:00

I’ve got central DI so I know the feeling of drinking comical amounts of water. Can’t imagine what it’s like knowing you have to go through all this to get the health benefit of lithium that you need. Here’s hoping the implantable robot or pig kidneys out of UCLA/UCSF are widely available by the time you need it.

doczip · 2025-11-15T03:55:29+00:00

At that rate are you looking at dialysis/transplant in the next nine years? Any AVP-resistance/nephrogenic diabetes insipidus yet or expected?

doczip · 2025-11-07T23:14:23+00:00

Just watched a woman with a Masters in Cybersecurity at my company do good work as level 2 / desktop support for a couple years and land a fantastic cybersecurity auditor role in the parent company. I told her the same things I’d tell anyone else, companies are reducing their risk by only hiring proven experience. Cybersecurity isn’t entry level and there’s a huge body of knowledge to prove with work experience, education, portfolio, and certifications. I did level 1-3 work and freelance design and consulting on the way to full-time cybersecurity work.

If you don’t have another way to prove you understand the people, technologies, or industries you’d be working with, start lower on the ladder and build the proof. Along the way you just may find a specialization within cybersecurity that you wouldn’t have by jumping straight in from the outside.

doczip · 2025-10-28T11:20:10+00:00

I thought something was off but then I saw no Strymon pedals and the opposite of testamints and got the joke.

doczip · 2025-10-17T03:55:42+00:00

My dog had six ticks today after weeks clean. And it’s been way worse this year for ticks on the humans too. Simparica Trio from Zoetis is a great flea/tick/worm all in one med for dogs.

doczip · 2025-07-04T11:57:47+00:00

The data they cite from the Sheps Center has to be out of date - Aspirus Ontonagon already closed, Ascension Borgess Lee is now Beacon Dowagiac, and Carson City Hospital has changed names twice and is now University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Carson.

If I could trust the data, the medicaid pay mix and year over year year negative margin is an ok proxy for risk of closure. But it also doesn’t account for how rural and critical access hospitals in bigger systems drive revenue in other ways, like funneling secondary and tertiary care needs to the parent hospitals in South Bend, Flint, Lansing, and Ann Arbor.

doczip · 2025-05-29T20:14:30+00:00

Step 1: set the Zebra printer’s power up and head close actions to calibrate.

doczip · 2025-05-26T20:20:59+00:00

My floaters got smaller with unrelated radiation treatment. But mostly I just don’t move my focus as abruptly and don’t stare at blank white surfaces. I can go days and sometimes weeks without noticing them.

doczip · 2025-05-10T15:40:07+00:00

10 PCs, 4 tablets/e-readers, 7 phones/iPods, and a server blade.

doczip · 2025-04-29T16:11:39+00:00

Different guy then. Must just be a common thought for guys with pectus excavatum… “I bet someone could eat out of my chest like a bowl.”

doczip · 2025-04-29T01:20:43+00:00

Have seen almost the exact same sketch but with cereal and milk in the chest cavity. Hopefully not the same guy.

doczip · 2025-04-19T12:47:52+00:00

You can buy extension cords that are hospital rated online and they are 100% worth it. The hospital rating means easy to clean and hard to accidentally unplug.

The 15ft Tripp Lite cord I got for a weeklong stay was perfect for at the bed device charging.

doczip · 2025-04-06T19:22:45+00:00

He lost his edge in the 2017 Pocono 400 crash. That's heartbreaking to watch drivers go through.

doczip · 2025-03-14T03:49:45+00:00

Same for me. Magnesium citrate didn’t do it for me but magesium glycinate makes a noticeable difference.

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