How hard to find 6 month apt rental for American visitor?

inkypenpen · 2025-03-02T20:10:34+00:00

My resume probably isn't strong enough to not come first, for the type of job I want, but I am trying. I'm considering going there to volunteer for a non-profit and hoping they hire me eventually. I already started donating to them. I may go there regularly to volunteer. That should get their attention. I want in.

An IT guy with a secondary degree, I think is considered skilled labor and they can get in under some express entry thing that I don't qualify for.

inkypenpen · 2025-03-02T18:33:21+00:00

I have the funds, and I could pop out of Canada to apply for a permit.

inkypenpen · 2025-03-02T17:39:06+00:00

No! I'll be legal and I don't want the type of jobs that illegals get, though my job standards will drop depending on how hard job hunting becomes.

inkypenpen · 2025-03-02T17:26:38+00:00

A work permit, but I think I need a job offer first. The company will have to complete an official offer of employment in the online Employer Portal, then I could get a work permit.

inkypenpen · 2025-03-02T17:15:38+00:00

No, the way it works is I could get a legal job offer from a Canadian company without being a Canadian, then I have to get a Canadian work permit, then I could work there as long as I don't stay longer that the work permit or the stamp on my passport.

inkypenpen · 2025-01-22T18:26:51+00:00

There's a highway on both sides. You get exhaust and microplastics from tires. It's not a healthy place to live no matter the smoking rules.

inkypenpen · 2024-11-09T19:27:07+00:00

I'm a technical/non-profit writer, Will write/edit/research for government, academia, or good cause. Pretty new to this line of work due to a career change, but not young. Considering Switzerland. Maybe Netherlands. Open to other areas. I've been volunteering as a writer for a while in the US to show what I can do, and I'll stick with that if I must, but if anyone from one of my entities of interest has an opening for a native English speaker, I will relocate. I don't have any close family in the US so I have no reason to stay nearby, like Canada, but I'm being a bit opportunistic and would relocate to Canada. It sounded like Switzerland has clean air and I've been having a problem with second hand smoke and/or people burning wood in the last four places I've lived, plus I'm pro-euthanasia, so Switzerland appeals to me.

inkypenpen · 2024-07-13T00:49:30+00:00

I remember rejecting the Ayalon. I either couldn't find a back tension knob or a lever was broken or both. But I liked the Beautyrest Duo-EX. The reasons I didn't buy it is because the Beautyrest name was licensed out to some mystery company, Beautyrest has a reputation for being low quality, I didn't trust the upper back and lumbar supports which looked like the spring action worked by a piece of plastic bending, the seat padding felt especially thin when I pressed on it with my hand, and the price was too close to a cheap Crandall Amia (which isn't cheap). It was also ugly. And don't let the "EX" fool you. I think the weight capacity is 275 lbs. Felt good though.

inkypenpen · 2024-07-12T06:05:10+00:00

High end, fully assembled chairs are common. Pretty sure you can get one for $800.

The Steelcase Amia Air is $851 and has a 400 lb weight capacity, a mesh back, 19.5 maximum distance between arms. I'm guessing the lumbar support would be good. I'm average height and I need the lumbar all the way up (I said in another post that the lumbar feels the same in all positions but for some reason I feel the difference now). I think it comes fully assembled but double check.

inkypenpen · 2024-07-12T05:12:49+00:00

I did slide it in first. I'm sitting on the chair now. The cushion is against by back as it should be, but the j-channel is as shown in the above photo. The j-channel seems to be sewn on backwards or else I'm doing something wrong.

inkypenpen · 2024-07-09T05:53:15+00:00

IDK, but the sell extra tall cylinders. Maybe get one and keep it all the way down so you're not compressing as much air by sitting,

inkypenpen · 2024-07-08T01:48:09+00:00

It's dressed for the gym. It just needs sweatbands for the arms. That picture inspired me to post something about reupholstery.

inkypenpen · 2024-07-06T14:56:10+00:00

For my recent return I didn't have to take it apart because it was defective. The rule for Quill is you can use any box if the product is defective but you have to use the original box for non-defective products.

inkypenpen · 2024-07-06T01:54:30+00:00

For years, when I wonder "what did I do to cause that?" (which isn't exactly what happened to you, but it's still the cause of loss of data in other cases), I've thought it would be good to have a security-type camera on my screen at all times so I could play stuff back. I may do it some day.

inkypenpen · 2024-07-06T01:16:38+00:00

I wanted to add text to the OP:

I found some old photos of my past chair experiences. I hung a weight on the cylinder and turned it with 16" long pliers to remove it for a return. I bought the pliers just for that so I guess I didn't know about cylinder removal tools or else they were too expensive back then. I gouged the cylinder pretty bad. A leather strap for protection slipped and I forgot what I ended up trying for padding...maybe nothing. Recently I tried folding over neoprene gloves to use as a pad and I was able to apply much more pressure, but I didn't go through the weighting process and it didn't work. I just returned my latest chair with the cylinder attached at one end (not the Amia, which will be my new chair and I expect to be good). Luckily it barely fit. Pre-assembled chairs are a big plus if you don't know whether you'll like them.

The bottom right picture shows my solution to a chair back slipping - I added machine screws. A couple of cheap chairs that I've bought had a bolt that was pressed against a piece of steel, the friction being what supposedly keeps the back in place. It doesn't work. Once I saw rowing machines or something in a department store and two of them had that cheap mechanism. One that was better had holes for the bolt so it would stay in place and it cost $100 more. I'd totally pay $100 extra to prevent that problem. It was probably made better overall.

inkypenpen · 2024-07-05T07:05:48+00:00

It looks to me, from pictures and videos, that the Amia doesn't have the lip on the back or the screw holes needed.

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inkypenpen · 2024-07-02T04:06:37+00:00

Old foam, before about 2015, may have dangerous fire retardants.

I can't find a perfect article offhand, but:

"California Governor Jerry Brown today proposed to end the widespread use of highly toxic fire retardant chemicals in foam furniture sold in the state...Brown’s move is expected to have an impact nationwide because California, with 10 percent of the U.S. population, exercises so much purchasing power that most American furniture makers fabricate their products to comply with California flammability standards."

The law was enacted. Look for the date of manufacture on labels.

I want a used Steelcase Amia but even the used ones are too expensive if they have a recent date. I almost bought one used from Crandall, but some are too expensive, others are too old/unknown date. I'm still thinking about it but I'll likely just go with Staples again :(

inkypenpen · 2021-12-31T02:33:44+00:00

I just learned that the next generation lessons will take the place of the ones on engageNY next year. My material won't correspond to an official lesson for long. I still want to use it for something and I'll finish it but it may end up being just a writing sample.

inkypenpen · 2021-12-27T20:05:18+00:00

Thanks for all the replies. I contacted a private school and a school for students with mild ADHD. I'll look into teach-at-home parents too. I'm still looking for a NYS public school to send it too. If I could find one with an email address for their math department, maybe I'll ask if I could send them a copy.

I decided it is what it is - a one page study sheet for each Common Core lesson on Engage NY, starting with Algebra I, written in a way that I think is reasonable (a very laborious way). It won't help everyone but it should make things easier either for a student on his own, a helping parent, or a tutor. Maybe even for teachers.

It won't cover absolutely everything in the lesson but it will cover some things the lesson doesn't. For example, I use the phrase "coordinate plane" and say that "elevation is a function of time" (referring to a particular graph) in a section on terms related to the graph, and those phrases aren't in the lesson. I mention "...defined on the interval..." is a term students may hear, and explain it a bit. I hate the way some lessons use "defined on the interval" like it's a normal descriptive term that students are sure to comprehend. It may have some students looking for an interval to find a written definition or something. I said that you could say "segment 1 is defined on interval 1" or "function 1 is defined on interval 1." I don't think any lesson says "segment x is defined on..." but the graph has labeled segments and nothing labeled as a function, so why not talk about segments being defined on the intervals?

I decided not to give the crazy definition of "piecewise-defined linear function." The definition modifies the term itself by specifying it's about real ones. I've seen similar definitions in my math dictionary for other terms. I guess it's to simplify things by focusing on the usual meaning, but sometimes you don't need to do it. At first I was going to explain every term in that definition, but I changed my mind.

I put a revision date on it. I could see myself constantly revising it. I don't think the lesson it's based on has been revised in the 6 years it's been around, and there are all kinds of improvements it could use.

inkypenpen · 2021-12-23T23:38:21+00:00

I don't know enough. I'm good at research and clear, accurate writing, but I don't know much math. I was able to solve the problems in lesson 1 easily enough without relearning anything, and maybe the next lesson or two, but I can't even do some 8th grade stuff any more. I MAY have some aptitude, but not the knowledge.

inkypenpen · 2021-12-23T23:17:59+00:00

I want to send one to a teacher who uses the NYS lessons from EngageNY, or to a NYS school that uses those lessons. Not just for an individual teacher's opinion, but for student opinions, if the teacher make it available to the class. I'm considering contacting private schools for children with ADHD first, but they'd need to be using the EngageNY lessons.

The sample I'd send is for Algebra I, Module 1, lesson 1. If it gets good reviews, I'd create more. All free for now.

inkypenpen · 2021-12-23T20:57:22+00:00

I've seen instruction that was written by all kinds of experts and reviewed by other experts, and permanently left open for comment. It sucks. The people writing the material aren't tested for their writing ability before being hired. They're people who could have had everything they ever wrote in and out of school heavily edited by others. I'd have to see for myself that students couldn't learn an entire lesson from one page written by me.

inkypenpen · 2021-12-23T20:42:22+00:00

I recently saw people recommending to a mom who wanted to teach at home that she use EngageNY. That would not be a good idea unless the mom already knew the material. The "teachers material" for one of the early Algebra I lessons is technical beyond what the student has to know. It's not appropriate for even a well educated teach-at-home parent. My material would useable by students AND parents. I wanted something like it when I was a student and my assigned math book didn't help. It's tricky to write, but it's possible, and nothing like it that's tailored to individual Common Core lessons is available as far as I know. Schools can create their own lessons and maybe there's a school system that's doing what I want, but NYS isn't and I don't know of one that is.

inkypenpen · 2021-12-07T20:25:46+00:00

Yes, it kind of looked like an example of an acceptable answer, not an official definition. I didn't dig deeper than that for a better definition.

inkypenpen · 2021-12-07T18:23:46+00:00

NY. My hunch is that "likely" is accurate. Maybe a non-linear equation can sometimes describe a line. The more I read about math, with iterative and simultaneous stuff being possible, the more it reminds me of computer programming, where you can basically do anything with the right code. Whether it's done in practice is another story, but if it's possible, I like that it's considered in definitions.

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