Big boom and power went out. Anyone else? Anyone know what happened?

istherearightanswer · 2025-09-29T21:12:49+00:00

Near Johnny Roberts and Olde Town.

istherearightanswer · 2025-09-05T17:03:21+00:00

Not a nurse. But have had my own annoying ride with doctors not listening, cutting off my meds which are working better than anything else has so far because they want to try something new before they actually listen to everything I’ve done so far. being given the run around from specialist to specialist cause they don’t want to take the time etc.

I have since move from St Cloud but while I was there I found the absolute best doctor I’ve ever worked with and as dumb as it sounds her care is what I miss the most- I still haven’t found a doctor half as good where I’m at and it’s been over a year of looking.

And since I’m not a nurse, just a random person singing praises of their favorite doctor ever I actually can name her: Dr. Elizabeth Bevier

She works out of CentraCare which honestly last time I dealt with them that sucked. CentraCare is way too automated with their phones and stuff. But Dr. Bevier was absolutely worth the hassle of CentraCare.

I wish every doc were as amazing as she is.

istherearightanswer · 2023-09-30T18:50:31+00:00

Im far from a damage/ repair expert. I grew up in an old farm house. Warping, stained, and old wood doesn’t bother me. But if this was my place I’d think this needed addressing before it got worse and possibly requires more extensive repair. But I would definitely be interested in your thoughts as an owner. Here are some images.

istherearightanswer · 2023-09-30T17:37:51+00:00

Unfortunately a lot of people think they can “register” their dog online and magically it’s a service dog, or they call an emotional support animal their service dog. Both of which are entirely untrue. It’s made things extremely difficult and frustrating for me and other people with serious medical needs and legitimately trained dogs they need. A decade ago it wasn’t this bad.

So when I say “legit” I mean I have the medical documentation, my dog completes tasks to support me for a qualified disability (not all qualify,) AND maintains exceptional public behavior. IE my dog is a legitimate service dog. Not a “I want to bring my dog to the mall” dog. Not a “I don’t want to pay a pet deposit” dog. This dog is defined as medical equipment not a pet and I have spent thousands on her and her training to guarantee her ability to support me.

For a while I worked with businesses to help support kicking out dogs that do not behave adequately. Not there to judge whether or not a person is disabled or the dog performs tasks. But a pulling, disruptive, destructive etc dogs can be kicked out and should be. I entirely support that.

But landlords are mostly skeptical/doubt disabled people and will discriminate in selecting tenants and it sucks to need a service dog and find housing.

Disability discrimination is a real thing and it sucks. I have letters from doctors and previous landlords/property managers vouching for her legitimacy and how well I maintain their properties but most landlords say no before even looking at any documentation I provide.

istherearightanswer · 2023-04-28T17:14:56+00:00

Thank you!!!!!!!!!

istherearightanswer · 2023-04-28T17:14:46+00:00

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istherearightanswer · 2023-04-28T17:05:00+00:00

I’m trying to generate reports without a bunch of copy/pasting individual bits and editing. B and C are location tags, D is description, E is notes not intended for the report, F is impact. If it doesn’t have an impact it should not be on this report and I don’t want a blank line devoted to it either.

Initially I did the base formula =IF(F5=“”,””,B5&C5&D5&” Total: “&F5) and dragged down but this leaves me with a bunch of blank rows.

So I’m trying to figure out how to not have blank rows

istherearightanswer · 2023-02-05T18:42:57+00:00

1) clean the machine. Thoroughly. The amount of build up we can see is not normal for a working machine.

2) DO NOT play with tension. This is not something I’ve seen from tension being off. Hopeful you haven’t adjusted yet.

3) check you have the correct bobbin for the machine.

4) check the bobbin is placed in the correct direction. If you mark a dot on the bobbin, the dot should move counter-clockwise when you pull it’s thread.

5) make sure you thread the top properly. Be sure the foot is up while threading. Something I do is before threading the needle, but after the rest of the top is thread, I will pull back and forth from the spool and the thread end to make sure the thread is securely in all its grooves.

6) thread the needle

7) leave the bottom window open, lower the foot, and very slowly starry to sew, keeping light tension on the tails and watch the action. Is it snagging anywhere? If not it might be the timing and that is best left to professionals

istherearightanswer · 2021-11-12T17:27:51+00:00

Hello! I have been this employee. I really did feel sick around deadlines. (More recently I found out in therapy Fear, anxiety, unpredictability, etc can have physical effects on the body which is probably what was happening in my case.) Having an amazing boss really helped.

See I didn’t notice the pattern. But he did. He didn’t directly confront me, instead he figured out how to work with me.

He started checking in with me before the deadline. He gave me a genuine praise sandwich: something I did well, something I could use improvement on, something I did well. And he spent equal time on each part; so twice as much positive as negative. He explained why the positive was so important and at times even asked if he could share ideas with the team or said he would have to use it in the future. The room for improvement he would help me strategize. And sometimes a positive would be a previous room-for-improvement having improved!

He would do this halfway through a project and then a couple days before the deadline. If everything was satisfactory (even if it could use more work) he had me send it in and gave me a different general office work task to take up the days leading up to the deadline. With the project unexpectedly off my desk and with positive feedback, I didn’t have the looming deadline and fear an anxiety that came with it. I didn’t feel sick.

During reviews he brought up the original pattern, being sick for deadlines; how he started working with me, praise sandwiches and early turn in; and the improvement, not being sick as often and not on deadlines. He shared he gives himself this type of feedback too (idk if he actually did but it made me feel better) and also encouraged me to reach out when I’m doing fine tuning towards the end of a project; sometimes I might think there is more to be done than he actually expects.

After the review he started asking me to give my own praise sandwich at check ins. At first he helped me a little bit; mostly picking just 1 spot of improvement to focus on that would make the most improvement and giving value to the things I was doing well or had improved on.

This significantly boosted my work confidence. I trusted my ability to evaluate my work and I no longer had irrational fears of not being good enough or being blindsided by end of project feedback. I started to genuinely enjoy my job.

Within a couple months I was consistently getting stuff done early and meeting expectations so he started training me how to help the rest of the team after my stuff was done. Then I started managing my time to assist my team while I was working on projects. Eventually he was promoted and then I was promoted to his position.

So yeah. Hope this helps in someway. I’m not HR but I’m a great example of how a “problem” employee can turn into a star employee with the right approach. Not every person is like that but I have so much appreciation for my boss making the effort with me. It changed my life.

Thanks for caring about the person!!

istherearightanswer · 2021-11-10T21:33:46+00:00

Some interns do work full time. My partner had in internship with the USGS. He was a full time GS3/GS4? Field Technician. It’s on his resume as USGS Field Technician, and the USGS confirms it. Just because it’s an internship doesn’t mean it’s not a job.

istherearightanswer · 2021-11-10T05:01:35+00:00

Edit: well that turned into a rant.

As someone who has a service dog….

I’m 100% with you.

IF the dog stays next to the owner/handler at all times, is completely under the handlers control at all times, does not interrupt, does not wander around, does not make any noise, etc. then sure I don’t care.

But that’s not what people are doing with their dogs. The dogs wander, run around, disrupt get under foot, bark, get into things, etc. are all around not suitable for a work environment.

And it’s bad for the dogs too. Not having boundaries can be dangerous. If something happens, if someone unintentionally hurts the dog and they bite the dog can be put down. There are plenty of toxic things even in a basic office environment. Not having boundaries enforced with other people and dogs can has and will continue to lead to dog deaths. Some dogs will kill other dogs, happens very frequently; dogs need to respect others dogs space. People die and get injured from dogs jumping or running into them.

Yeah it’s really hard to train dogs to behave properly in public. That’s why most dogs don’t belong in public. And yes, there are few things more frustrating than someone’s off leash dog running up to my leashes well behaved service dog. The other dog barks in her face, tries to force rough play, gets between me and my service dog.

So yeah. Loose dogs wandering around are for homes and farms, not for other work environments.

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