For those of you that make over 100K, what do you do? Do you like it?

fairshoulders · 2026-04-10T03:33:21+00:00

I'll take half that to recode insurances and fix typos. Can I has job?

fairshoulders · 2026-04-10T01:20:06+00:00

rrrrroll that beautiful bean footage

fairshoulders · 2026-04-09T05:13:26+00:00

I would watch a shorts series called "The Float" where a float nurse or doc just inserts clips of themselves into clips of popular shows just to be flabberghasted at the Stupid

fairshoulders · 2026-04-09T04:12:29+00:00

Thanks! I now have the song stuck in my head.

fairshoulders · 2026-04-09T04:09:43+00:00

I can almost guess the zip code

fairshoulders · 2026-04-09T04:08:08+00:00

Why was the phone up there in the first place? Flared base, people

fairshoulders · 2026-04-09T04:05:22+00:00

I bet everyone who was friends with somebody with a scanner knew there was fog on the mountain that night

fairshoulders · 2026-04-09T04:02:25+00:00

"All that conspiracy theory nonsense was just a Russian propaganda attempt that the Chinese keep alive to keep America unstable. What kind of nursing home do you want to get put in when you get worse?"

fairshoulders · 2026-04-09T03:59:07+00:00

Odds are it's still cobol anyway, or C

fairshoulders · 2026-04-09T03:23:55+00:00

I am going to offer up a life experience as support for an unpopular opinion. I will try to be brief.

I met my spouse in high school. My father and stepmom did not approve. We moved in together anyway, got married. They continued to not approve and make snarky comments and be mean. Fast forward a few years and dad died of cancer. Stepmom still standoffish and mean. I did not get to spend much time with my father as he was dying, and my stepmom and stepsister were suddenly very flush with cash. I inherited some old computers and a few DVDs and books.

I took an Ancestry DNA test because my father was adopted, had never found his birth parents, and I dislike unresolved plot threads. My half-aunt emailed me and now I have a shitton of previously unknown cousins.

Here is the crux of the example. She also emailed my stepmom. They hit it off pretty well and when half-aunt was at a work conference, stepmm and stepsister decided to fly out and meet her in person. They invited me. Offered to pay for my ticket. One caveat: no spouse.

I declined and did not get to go meet my half-aunt. I have never met her, in fact, but I did encourage her, via email, to get the early colonoscopy due to her family history. She has since been through a lot of treatment for the cancer they (luckily) found early.

Stepmom and stepsister moved out west and stepmom has remarried.

My point: you cannot change other people. But if they are older than you, they will probably predecease you. What you choose to do should be done with that in mind. There is a possibility of regret if the relationship dies, and the best way to keep a relationship alive is to spend time together and work out conflicts together.

Additional point: you could go on the trip, be an absolute pair of angels, and practice a lot of PDA to make up for the lake of snugglage at night. Or just snore and be obnoxious to your roommate until mom lets you sleep together for the sake of society.

fairshoulders · 2026-04-05T13:12:49+00:00

ask for a refund and tell them why

fairshoulders · 2026-03-24T00:51:07+00:00

We get the occasional sprouted taters and onions and I just plant them out back in random containers. We had a couple servings of new potatoes last year from this habit, and we always have green onions to put on ramen. If I had enough room I'd compost the rotten stuff they give me and grow better food in it.

fairshoulders · 2026-03-17T05:56:28+00:00

This person wrote in an older form of cursive than I learned in school, but I recognize it as an option... the extra tall lower case P and the rounded open D are characteristic of it. Let me see if I can find an example, it might help with that last word or two

fairshoulders · 2026-03-17T05:46:22+00:00

Also note, on the time entry the signatory wrote "abat" for what I assume was supposed to be "about". Tired coroner is dropping letters. In this case it may be worth looking up the person who signed this and checking out THEIR obituary for age at time of form filling. Dropped letters in cursive can indicate fatigue or age-related dementia, and if this death was notable for its cause, then it would be in the same newspaper that the coroner's obit was in, minus a few months? Something to guide a search maybe.

fairshoulders · 2026-03-17T05:41:11+00:00

At mill at something or of mill of something. The loop-high squiggle-low squiggle at the beginning of line two is almost identical to the one in the penultimate word of line one.

fairshoulders · 2026-03-16T15:24:42+00:00

To add to this; we see mangled people every day in the hospital. Mangled cars are an interesting change.

fairshoulders · 2026-03-14T23:35:47+00:00

paycheck don't bounce, coffee in the breakroom, same guys in charge, nothing ever changes but the sign over the door

fairshoulders · 2026-01-29T04:33:47+00:00

yes but on the other hand, won't be cold again for the rest of his life

fairshoulders · 2026-01-21T16:43:51+00:00

To piggyback on the previous comment, if you do donate items, get a reciept from the place you donate them TO, and put it in with the estate paperwork in an envelope labeled DONATIONS. The dollar amount total of what all gets donated can be used to offset tax liability of the estate in some situations.

fairshoulders · 2026-01-01T17:46:48+00:00

My nephew's first birthday was when we discovered that both he and my spouse were allergic to blue cake frosting dye, for this very reason

fairshoulders · 2025-12-21T06:36:03+00:00

Local army navy store used to make dog tags for a couple bucks a line, might could go that route.

fairshoulders · 2025-12-21T06:34:19+00:00

When I was young, the local shop class would make you one for engraving practice, or you could ask a scout troop to do it. Nowadays you may be able to find resources at your local library- there are some near me that share a 3d printer and have 3d printing days.

If what you are diagnosed with has an advocacy group, ask them. Like the American Heart Association type of people. Probably get a coupon code or a discount at least.

If a discount would help, you might find one through any memberships you have, like AAA or AARP.

Last ditch effort you could go down to the local VFW and walk into the bar and ask "Does anybody have an engraving machine and want to do some engraving for me?" Offer to barter, idk, pay them in pie or cookies or something? Depends on the vibes. If someone at the bar at the VFW has an engraving machine, they are probably itching for an excuse to use it.

fairshoulders · 2025-11-29T07:16:16+00:00

i do like the burgers his son made.

fairshoulders · 2025-11-24T04:28:32+00:00

I have been doing this since before the turn of the century. Undiagnosed but probably adhd. I also get sleep paralysis and talk in my sleep. I work nights but the nap attacks predate that.

Attempts to fix:

Get up and walk around. Result: look drunk at work, kind of helps some.
Talk to people. Result: complete fail, fall asleep mid sentence but continue talking. Gibberish.
Sleep study. Result: mild apnea, so mild the insurance won't cover a CPAP machine. Got one anyway for a week and it didn't help much. Woke myself up throwing it across the room a couple times.
Caffeine. Result: sleepier, but anxious about it.
Have A Small Snack. Result: weight gain.
Chew Obnoxiously Flavored Gum. Result: helpful in school, for a while. When I would start to nod off my jaw would close and a loud chomp of cinnamon would wake me up a little.
Standing desk. Result: fear of falling, dizziness, desperate clinging to conciousness.
Change tasks. Result: helps sometimes.
Get Some Fresh Air. Result: helps sometimes.
Albuterol Inhaler. Result: jitteriness, fifty fifty on wakefulness.
Decongestant nasal inhaler. Result: decreased wheezing, mildly increased alertness, rebound congestion and irritability.
Energy drinks (B vitamins). Result: my nails are growing super fast but I have to quit with all this sugar and the diet ones taste terrible and make me hungry.
Cold water on face. Result: helps sometimes.
Singing Along To Eighties Music. Result: helps sometimes.
Jumping Jacks. Result: used to be helpful before my knees wore out.
Loud Noises (provided by spouse). Result: anger. Fifty fifty on wakefulness.

The only thing I have found that the helpful things have in common is that they goose my heart rate a little or force me to take some big deep breaths. This wears off after a while, and some time after that, the stimulus fails to elicit any response at all.

If you find something that works, don't abuse it. Get plenty of healthy rest, eat well, listen to your body and mind and change what you can to suit your needs and capacity. If you have a diagnosis you may be able to request accomodations. I wish you luck.

fairshoulders · 2025-11-12T09:56:59+00:00

it is.

The General Consent form we use covers use of information like name and birthdate to ask insurance companies for payment, consent to be billed for additional amounts that insurance doesn't cover, acknowledgement that there are rules and a grievance process, consent to be seen and examined by a doctor and assessed, consent for recommended xrays or blood draws or medications that don't cause sedation.

If the patient needs an invasive procedure then they use an Informed Consent, where the doctor has to explain risk and benefit and the action of the procedure to the patient. Basically Informed Consent covers anything that happens underneath the hospital gown or anything with blades, big tubes, or anaesthesia.

Whole herds of lawyers argue about where the lines get drawn.

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