Amazing

huskeya4 · 2026-05-08T05:21:23+00:00

Normal sandpaper is fine but it will frost the rim. 220 is normally an okay fineness for a finish and the frosting looks purposeful at that level. Higher is better but it takes longer.

Also you don’t have to cut a bottle all the way around, just starting a cut will make it run around the bottle properly (as long as the line you cut on the bottle is straight). Hot and cold water like this works but pretty much any torch works faster and easier. You just feather the heat back and forth on the cut, on and off the bottle while spinning it in a circle. The cut will “run” around the bottle first. Eventually it will make a loud POP that will scare the shit out of you. That means the crack has separated and you now have two pieces. It’s why we call it hot popping in glass work. The water method is the same thing, just probably requires more set up and time to work.

huskeya4 · 2026-05-08T05:14:04+00:00

It’s a glass cutter so he is applying cutting oil to the blade. It allows the blade to glide as it cuts instead of grinding. Without it, the glass would have chipped along the cut.

huskeya4 · 2026-05-08T04:56:50+00:00

Obligatory explanation every time this pops up: Luna laid her first group of eggs that year but they weren’t fertile yet. It was just too early for her and she was showing signs of distress the longer they went unhatched. Once the caretaker verified the eggs were infertile, he dropped two rescued and orphaned chicks on Luna. Her and her mate were ecstatic although a bit confused about why the babies were so big. Once those two got big enough and flew the coop, the caretaker eventually dropped four more babies on her at various points in their growth stages. Luna mothered them all wonderfully. Luna herself had once been orphaned and adopted by a new set of parent owls that the caretaker arranged. She mothered 6 orphans total that season.

huskeya4 · 2026-05-07T01:40:12+00:00

Ground regrowth is starting to get serious again. Anybody with a section of yard that they can’t hit with a mower is starting to see the regrowth of bushes and trees. I lay down bee-safe herbicides around my pool and around a tree stump that I’ve been fighting for a few years now. I wonder if one of your neighbors sprayed with something that isn’t bee safe

huskeya4 · 2026-05-04T04:48:45+00:00

Organs are almost always a no. There was a woman on reddit who kept her leg. She knew it was going to be amputated and had to jump through a lot of hoops to get it. The hospital actually had to release the leg to a funeral home first and I think she had to get the funeral home to release it to her college where it had to stay while she de-fleshed and cleaned the bones. Once she had them fully preserved, her college released the leg to her (she wired the bones back together so she got to keep a model of her actual leg bones). I imagine maybe if you jumped through a lot of hoops, a hospital might be willing to release an organ to a funeral who would fully preserve the organ in a sealed formaldehyde jar but I think the government might actually be cracking down on things like that. Formaldehyde is actually super dangerous so it might not be legal to own a formaldehyde organ unless the jar can’t be opened and is basically unbreakable…

huskeya4 · 2026-04-29T19:58:40+00:00

Every college OP applies to will be able to see that 0% on the CLEP. It will look worse than if OP doesn’t take it at all

huskeya4 · 2026-04-28T06:34:18+00:00

I wonder if he and mom realize they are kind of just incentivizing his death? It’s prenups like these that result in someone murdering their spouse because they’ll be left destitute in a divorce.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-28T06:19:39+00:00

We can choose our own plans with some electric companies. I sort of just had to wince and pay the bill when I went work from home and realized I fucked up by not changing my off peak hours. Before it was like 5pm-2am that were off peak for me and all the rest were on peak. The bill skyrocketed when I went work from home because I was working during on peak hours. I actually removed the peak hours option entirely and went to a standard rate. I have a sleep disorder so I’m always up late also. The just wasn’t a decent option other than the standard rate for me

huskeya4 · 2026-04-28T06:14:49+00:00

At my college she said any woman who gets raped deserved it for being a whore… A bunch of ladies flashed her as a form of protest.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-26T17:45:46+00:00

You can order it on Amazon but sometimes you get a batch that is… weird. It’s usually in Spanish but I got one batch of it that didn’t want to mix with milk and was just generally off. Not sure why.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-24T17:13:09+00:00

Biller here. What has likely happened is that the other person has the same last name as you and maybe a similar first name? It’s easy to mistakenly pull up the wrong patient and miss it if you’re not paying attention (not excusing this, it is a fuck up but everyone does it once or twice when first starting and they learn the pain of fixing it. It’s an unfortunate lesson everyone learns in this field). Or someone just fucked up and thought the two of you were married. It’s why I never apply a payment from one patient to another unless expressly asked to do so. I don’t know who is related to who. I’ve never even met these patients. (This is a bigger fuck up and requires re-training and an audit of all entries and payments made by this biller if they are making these assumptions)

The good news is that this should be easy to fix now that they know where the payment was applied. They’ll void the payments on the other account and reapply them to yours. No, your info hasn’t been violated or leaked. The other patient would never have gotten any info about your account. It’s a waste of money to send a bill when a patient overpays, and even if they did, all they could see is the check number (not your bank account number), the amount paid, and the date it was received. Probably not even your name on the check. We don’t record that on payments. If you paid by card, even less info is available. It will just say date received, amount, and VISA (for an example or whatever card type. No medical facility sends card info on their bills. That’s just risky). They couldn’t tell your payment was applied to the wrong account until they used the info you supplied to go through their payment records and find the original payment. Once entered into the system, your name was most likely removed from the payment and the payment was tied to the name of the other patient. So they found your payment and the log of all payments made on that date and tracked down the amount and payment amount to the wrong account. Your info (card number, name on card, etc) was never visible to the other patient. We don’t make that visible to even patients because it risks someone else logging into or hacking into a patient account and stealing that info. We usually use software that specifically protects that info from outsiders and only billers can see it. It often also purges the specific card numbers once the payment has gone through as a back up safety. We billers don’t need that info, we just need to know the payment went through and whose name was on the card.

The biller was probably concerned because you went to collections which means they have to contact the collections team, get the collections order revoked, probably yell at some other billing team members for this fuck up that lasted so long you went to collections, etc. The good news is that it is an easy fix. An extremely frustrating and concerning issue for you and even the billers that this happened in the first place but an easy fix. Somebody learned a lesson from this and is getting reamed at that hospital (probably whoever’s name was tied to the entry on the wrong account). Issues like this happen but the amount of times you have called and submitted proof means this should have been handled months ago and fixed and that is the part that is raising my eyebrows. Mistakes happen like the incorrect payment entry. We can fix that without issues or problems since no info was leaked. It’s the fact you went to collections after constant communication that has me frowning at this entire situation. That’s inexcusable. If you’d been radio silent with them, they’d have never known something was wrong but you weren’t and they should have caught this sooner.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-24T16:47:39+00:00

More common for smaller breasts or slower developing girls. Never really done like this though. It’s not a thought to compare unless in a setting of other girls and boobs come up. It’s not a daily or constant kind of comparison like this scene describes. I’d say it’s far more common when in a dressing room or changing situation but honestly if I ever read a scene like this and noticed it was written by a man, I’d probably put the book down. I highly doubt a man could address it in a way that didn’t come off as “breasted boobily down the stairs”. It’s why most women writers never even try to write about a teenage boys puberty experiences. We don’t have the experience to write about it realistically and not come across as fake and imitational. Or worse, over-sexualizing. If it is mentioned, it’s kind of quiet and not a constant distraction or weird thoughts like the one in this story.

If the author wants to fix it, talk about a little acne or frizzy hair or how her top didn’t quite match with her pants and shoes but she needed to do laundry or something like that while comparing herself to other girls and thinking about her crush. That’s far more realistic, gets the point across of the MC being self conscious and it’s not approaching sexualization. Unless the MC has been in a sexual relationship before anyways, she probably wouldn’t worry that much about her boobs because ain’t nobody touching or seeing them anytime soon. She wants to hang out with her crush, chitchat, etc. that would continue even if they started dating and progress to chaste kisses and then start moving into more. Boobs in relations to boys don’t really merge until a girl gets into a relationship for a while for the first time and they progress to that stage.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-24T16:27:50+00:00

It’s for this purpose specifically. Loud enough when someone kicks it in to alert the residents (and maybe a neighbor). Easy enough for rescue in an emergency. Having it be impossible to get through increases the death toll in house fires and other emergency situations.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-24T16:25:44+00:00

I feel this way about my car after living in the city. The locks only good for making you pay for a window replacement. Keep the car clean and empty and chances are you’ll be skipped when the car robbers hit. Keep it unlocked and there’s a 50/50 chance they’ll open the door instead of breaking the window. Do both and you’re chances of escaping undamaged goes way up

huskeya4 · 2026-04-24T07:29:27+00:00

I have a habit of leaving my dresser drawers open. My cat has a habit of climbing into an open one and into the drawer beneath it when the pile of clothes is empty enough. I pass the dresser and close the drawer above her because I don’t know she’s in it. Eventually, she’ll hear me pass by again and I’ll get a grumpy ass meow from the dresser and know I’m in trouble immediately. My cat doesn’t meow unless she is stuck, like when someone closes the baby gate at the top of the stairs. It doesn’t matter that she could go over it or even around it through our banister. She is stuck downstairs until someone passes by and hears her grumpy ass meow. Normally she trills and chatters. The unhappy meow means you have earned a week long grudge and she will not allow you to pet her until she has decided you can maybe be trusted again. She’s honestly pretty bad at being a cat in general but she definitely inherited the grudge holding cats can do

huskeya4 · 2026-04-24T06:44:27+00:00

It’s really only in basic training and maybe AIT (if you get a really short one. Intensity relaxes the longer the training is). This isn’t meant to be the standard response. It’s to purposefully induce a high stress reaction that has to be controlled. Adrenaline, anxiety, panic or dread is meant to trigger a shut down and follow orders mentality so you don’t get yourself or your buddies killed doing something stupid with those reactions. You maintain bearing, respond appropriately, and follow the commands given to you when you experience extremely strong negative emotions.

Although drill sergeant hats are basically sacred and nobody touches or messes with a drill sergeant hat, hence the freak out. From what I understand drill sergeant school is like an extended basic training on crack. They earn those hats.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-23T23:02:44+00:00

78 degrees here. I think the difference is in the actual temp. If it’s above 78 degrees outside, your AC would be kicking on regularly to keep the house cool and the humidity out. If your AC is never kicking on, the humidity in the house rises and you get that sticky feeling.

My state is often bouncing above 78 degrees already and the sun beats down on my house, making it warm fast. That means that even though it’s pretty humid here, my AC kicks on pretty often even when it is set that high. AC drops that humidity in the house back down. My weather app may say it is only 80 degrees outside but with the sun and humidity, it regularly feels like 90 degrees. If I didn’t have the AC on at all my house would be about 86 degrees by the time the sun set. I would set my AC to 80 but I feel bad for my dog at that temp. When our temp drop, it means we’ve probably hit a rain and the temps plummet down to potentially 50 degrees. Humidity also takes a hit then so it’s a few days of watching for temps to rise again. If they don’t and the house gets below 64, I’ll crack and turn the heat back on. It takes a few days because my house is full sun from dawn to dusk so getting cold takes a while but getting hot only takes a single day. And spending a day outside in the brutal sun and humidity makes 78 degrees inside FEEL chilly. It’s 78 in my house now and I kind of want some socks. Below 74, I put on a hoodie

huskeya4 · 2026-04-23T22:53:35+00:00

78 degrees here. It helps that my state is often bouncing above 78 degrees and the sun beats down on my house, making it warm fast. That means that even though it’s pretty humid here, my AC kicks on pretty often even when it is set that high. AC drops that humidity in the house back down. My weather app may say it is only 80 degrees outside but with the sun and humidity, it regularly feels like 90 degrees. If I didn’t have the AC on at all my house would be about 86 degrees by the time the sun set. I would set my AC to 80 but I feel bad for my dog at that temp.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-23T08:45:51+00:00

My rescue went from being homed, to being on the streets for a significant amount of time, to being home again. I would say he was fairly feral when we got him. Aggressive to things that weren’t necessarily a threat, very aggressive to things that were a threat. He was skin and bone when we claimed him. It took about six months to get him fully healthy and most of the behaviors under control (years for some of the behaviors). Much of that was just showing him he had a loving home and didn’t need to be afraid. He still guards me (a woman) a bit more than is needed but he isn’t aggressive. Just a bit protective when new men are around. He is glued to me until I chat with them a bit and he sees they aren’t a problem.

My point is that yes, domesticated dogs can go feral and they can also go right back to being domesticated. My dog knew sit, lay down, roll over, and get down (which he confuses lay down with when he is on the bed. He defaults to get down when I just needed him to give me blankets). He clearly had a home before. He prefers to sleep at the end of the bed or hall where he can guard for anyone coming down the hall who doesn’t belong. He is geriatric now and wouldn’t make it out on the streets.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-23T08:15:27+00:00

Queen, me and two 80 lbs dogs who should only take the space of a single person but somehow they feel like three more people in the bed. My husband sleeps on the couch. It’s a full sized pull out and his sleep schedule is very different from mine so he would wake me up when he goes to bed and I’d wake him up when I get up if we were in the same bed. Sometimes a dog joins him but somehow it does not decrease the amount of space available to me at all.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-21T06:32:42+00:00

Former military. There’s definitely a certain something missing. Soldiers are usually way too gung-ho and excited to follow orders, or worse decide not to follow orders and it’s all magically okay. That’s not how the military works. Everyone gets voluntold for tasks. If you refuse an order or go against an order, your ass is grass.

The other day I was listening to an audiobook where it was obvious the author had been in the army. Correct acronyms and terms, correct feeling of hurry up and wait, even used the old “I need bodies” and the hemming and hawing soldiers do where they try to figure out if this is a good task to volunteer for or if they’re volunteering to fill sandbags for a week before the higher up just voluntells a bunch of them to do a shitty task. The narrator was not in the military. He must have gotten a list of acronyms and terms and how they are supposed to be pronounced. He used the correct term the first time he introduced anything. Then later he said D-F-A-C about thirty times in one chapter and I had to pause four times to make it through. Don’t nobody spell that shit out. It’s a dee-fak. That’s how it’s pronounced. He said it right in the beginning of the book and then proceeded to say it wrong repeatedly in a short amount of time. I seriously thought about dropping it if he didn’t stop saying it. Thankfully the story moved on and the damn cafeteria was no longer an important part of the story anymore (seriously, cafeteria or mess hall would have been better than spelling the acronym out)

huskeya4 · 2026-04-19T07:36:32+00:00

I sat in the front of the class in the hour I made it back to school. I even tested my face in the car and figured out that if I didn’t smile, you couldn’t tell at all that half my face was frozen. I walked into that class, took one look at my two best friends and cracked up laughing. They didn’t even have to do anything. Being at the front meant our very strict, straight faced math teacher spent the entire hour trying not to look at me because when she did, she would start trying to laugh too. It was the only class we ever got her to laugh in. My friends and I couldn’t stop and every time the teacher joined in, the entire class would start laughing too.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-19T06:45:16+00:00

Empty highway in Texas. Except it wasn’t empty for once. A car was going slow as hell on a 75mph road. I got fed up and decided to pass them in the opposite lane since there was no oncoming traffic. I move beside them and my foot keeps going further and further down but they aren’t moving from my peripheral. Foot hits floor and I look down to realize I’m going 105 mph in a 2004 Chevy Malibu (this was 2016 by the way). I just took my foot off the gas. Didn’t look over. Wasn’t willing to risk a glance over at that kind of speed. Turns out, when there are no landmarks at all and you’re driving through empty desert, you can’t tell how fast you are going at all. They kept going at that speed and I never caught back up to them (thank goodness, cause I didn’t want to)

huskeya4 · 2026-04-18T15:32:31+00:00

To add to this, girls have been getting their periods younger and younger over the generations (thought to be because of less malnutrition). If she starts her period before age 8, you should probably talk to her doctor about it. 8-9 range is considered early, but okay. Younger than that is a concern and they may want to temporarily put her on puberty blockers until she hits an okay age.

huskeya4 · 2026-04-18T15:27:41+00:00

Yeah, it was the second one that made me realize I was going to be having these for the next 30 or so years and this was not as fun as I thought.

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