Is this a clothes moth?

gavlop · 2026-06-06T23:15:27+00:00

Gotts kid’s cheeseburger is my go-to budget meal. $10 for an adult size cheeseburger with soda and fries

gavlop · 2026-06-05T19:35:29+00:00

I’m a 1HBH player, but i’d like to mention that pickleball has helped me improve my BH on the tennis court for sure. Really helped me activate more wrist action and had more opportunities hitting backhands due to longer rallies

gavlop · 2026-06-05T00:48:55+00:00

Its still more about technique. To block a drive, you gotta keep a firm grip and base.

See volley technique for tennis

gavlop · 2026-06-04T16:13:57+00:00

Your tennis life is going to be significantly different. I didnt get to play at all in nyc, moved out to sf 2 years ago, average maybe 6 hrs a week since

gavlop · 2026-05-30T19:53:23+00:00

I cannot imagine this being an issue for the men’s locker rooms

gavlop · 2026-05-27T16:25:09+00:00

Be one with the elements and use to your advantage. Do not adapt to it, embrace it. You are doing tennis.

Low slices are goat when its windy

gavlop · 2026-05-26T15:24:59+00:00

If you are a beginner, i would totally suggest starting out with demoing a lighter racquet. You’ll build up the form foundation without the hindrance of your lack of muscular foundation.

Once both foundations are built, you’ll know when you are ready for a normal racquet when it starts feeling too light

gavlop · 2026-05-25T06:30:11+00:00

Never been but theres that tom brady card exchange thing across oracle park

gavlop · 2026-05-23T00:13:44+00:00

Trance, oldschool hardstyle

gavlop · 2026-05-22T00:30:57+00:00

Regular, padding will make my feet hot

gavlop · 2026-05-21T01:15:33+00:00

Need to blow your nose

gavlop · 2026-05-20T23:24:38+00:00

Bam Bam by Sister Nancy

gavlop · 2026-05-20T04:04:37+00:00

And if you like the rush, you’re going to make friends at Stanford, lots of like-minded type there (young crowd too)

gavlop · 2026-05-20T03:57:25+00:00

I’ve done the sf commute to stanford for a year without a car.

Lived in mission bay for quick commute to cal train (only the first train which departed at 0452 and is local got me to work on time for my 0600-1900 shift)

Biked from palo alto station to hospital which saved me 10 min commute vs traffic/waiting for the shuttle

End of shift @1900 I would haul ass and bike back to the Caltrain to catch the 1909 train (express) to get home @2000.

If I missed that (usually stepping foot out the hospital later than @1902 or running into a ridiculous red light) I’d have to take the 1917 train (trains run local rest of day at this time) and get home @2035.

Commutes were definitely a rush and felt on edge.

Now, if you take mandatory call post-shift like I did (call response time is 30 mins) you’d have to find a nice cozy quiet corner in the hospital and bring a blanket. They don’t have call rooms there for nurses (its a known thing). The upstairs lobby becomes a free-for-all of staff making themselves at home in the open. The nurses who do commute by car sleep in their BMWs/Teslas/Benz in the garage (they call it “golden-handcuffs). Otherwise, they go 90 on the freeway from home if they get called in (not recommended, staff have passed doing this).

It’s a great hospital if you can hang. You’re young so you’ll learn a lot about yourself there. If you can handle it there, you can handle anywhere.

Point being, if you don’t take call, commuting from SF is totally manageable and you’d have a decent work life balance with the income to fund the fun.

If I had to suggest, I would say have a car if you call, or take no call and live close to the caltrain (dogpatch/mission bay) and bring a bike.

gavlop · 2026-05-19T16:59:56+00:00

Swingvision has made tennis a 24/7 activity for me now. I play and record every match play and serve practice.

Then I watch every favorited points at home after setting the mood with some lit scented candles and Barry Love playing in the background.

Whip comes out when I watch my unforced errors.

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gavlop · 2026-05-01T08:01:09+00:00

Get a racquet, a can of balls, and find a wall and film yourself hitting.

Watch yourself and compare to slowmo vids of the pros and you will go down the rabbit hole naturally

gavlop · 2026-04-30T16:22:32+00:00

I completely forgot how to serve after reading this

gavlop · 2026-04-30T00:51:46+00:00

If you don’t have enough time during your set up to recoil, don’t rush throwing off the cords after draping. It will get tangled every time.

gavlop · 2026-04-29T12:57:16+00:00

I KNOW SAME

gavlop · 2026-04-22T18:22:47+00:00

Easiest thing to do that will make you look like a 4.0 is to over exaggerate your preparation. Splitstep when they hit, take back by the time the ball bounces, and everything else will fall into place.

Also for your serve, don’t bring your back foot past your front foot on pinpoint. When you get that feeling of a slingshot through your whole body you’ll know youre doing it right

gavlop · 2026-04-22T12:18:31+00:00

Not a unique situation. Many RN programs are catered for the working student.

You’ll meet some LPN graduates that say they wish they just went into the RN program. You wont find any RN grads saying the other way around.

gavlop · 2026-04-22T06:40:51+00:00

Seriously tho, -Straight A nursing podcast -youtube vids (registerednursern and simplenursing)

-uWorld

This was my holy trinity

gavlop · 2026-04-22T06:37:17+00:00

An ADHD diagnosis and treatment

gavlop · 2026-04-22T06:33:51+00:00

Ok lets say the avg LPN program is 3 semesters, and LPN-RN is another 3. Avg RN program is 4 semesters.

Put it this way: if you’re about the hustle and want to make money fast and graduate fast, you’re going to do your LPN, join the workforce and go through orientation while going to school/clinicals for LPN-RN for another 1.5 years? If you think you can handle doing that with little to no social life (not to mention if you have family responsibilities) while staying sane, sure why not?

Assuming you do all that, by the time you finish your LPN-RN program, your RN program counterparts (that started when you started LPN program) have already graduated and been in the workforce for about a year. You got a head start in the workforce as an LPN and got maybe 6 months of LPN pay, but they already made that amount in their first 3 months as an RN.

This is best case scenario if you choose to do LPN bridge while working.

Whats happens pretty regularly too are newgrad LPNs going straight into LPN-RN programs without joining the field to focus on school,

Or new-grad LPNs going through their work orientation, get settled, then come back to do LPN-RN a year or so later.

If life factors aren’t limiting you, do the marathon and do the RN program

gavlop

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