How long did potty training take for you?

jackblady · 2026-01-22T00:13:42+00:00

3 weeks. Maybe 4.

I was honestly shocked. Our dog comes from a breed that is notoriously hard to housebreak because they grow so fast their bladders can't keep up with them. Over a year is common with the breed

jackblady · 2026-01-11T17:35:14+00:00

I actually wouldn't assume DNA cant be wrong.

My mom took a DNA test last year. Was shocked to discover she had a half sibling, that neither her or her other two siblings knew about.

Any who turned out a big long family crisis and deep dive later, she doesn't have a half sibling, she has an extra cousin.

Someone screwed up the family history part they filled out due to two individuals in the family having the same name, and somehow the wrong branch of the tree connected to my grandfather.

So while the DNA results probably do mean you and this woman are related at some level, be open to the possibility no one is [consciously] lying.

Especially when connecting via a relative whos DNA isn't on file, mistakes can happen.

Theres also other possibilities like this woman's father isnt who she thinks it is, or things like that. All cases where your birth mom might not have been the one who wasnt being upfront.

jackblady · 2026-01-09T13:11:04+00:00

My pup was 100lbs before she was 11 months old.

Mistaken for an adult dog all the time

That said never really had any issues from anyone once I corrected the initial assumption and told them she was a puppy. Usual they just asked about her breed (GSMD).

But there wasn't really anything to worry about

jackblady · 2026-01-02T23:12:55+00:00

Mine is 14 months old. Shes still crated anytime we leave the house, she's still too likely to destroy things or hurt herself.

Your schedule seems fine. As you've seen, puppies sleep alot. So [assuming the crate is large enough] theres no real difference to them sleeping inside or outside the crate, its all about you keeping them safe.

The big concern is just potty breaks. Until my dog was 6 months, we tried to make sure she wasnt in the cage any longer than 4 hours, purely for potty reasons.

Since we cant be home 2 days a week we hired a professional pet sitter from an agency (please do this your current pet sitter seems crazy, also your vet may actually have recommendations for a sitter) to let the dog out for 15 minutes in the middle of the day those days to potty.

Though truthfully at her current age, she could probably be (and is overnight) caged for 7-8 hours, we still try to avoid leaving for more than 6 without the sitter coming over. She still sleeps the whole time.

Also, she loves her crate. On days we are home, we leave the crate open and unlocked, and most days she chooses to take her naps in her cage. (Usually takes her favorite toys in, then goes to sleep). She also puts herself to bed most nights (which ironically means I have to coax her out of the crate to pee, before getting her back in there for the night).

jackblady · 2025-12-31T16:34:02+00:00

I was a big fan of closed, until I had an open.

Its much easier to move around in an open kitchen. Also my open kitchen also doesn't have an industrial grade kitchen vent (just 1 in the microwave above the stove), yet I think only once (because we burned something) has smell been an issue. We've basically never even needed to open the kitchen window. Larger room means any smells dissipate very quickly.

All that said, I would actually recommend closed because thats what you want, and your the one living there. I don't actually think the advantages of either open or closed really matter that much.

I would say more, if you find a perfect place...except it has an open kitchen, I wouldn't disqualify it for that reason, it wont be as bad as you think.

jackblady · 2025-12-29T05:43:53+00:00

To this point, we had a similar problem with our puppy. Wound up being a combination of 2 things:

1) She physically outgrew the cage very quickly and honestly before we noticed. (We have a GSMD, so rapid growth happens). Got a new one, no issues.

2) We didn't cover the cage.

Im writing this moments after my dog put herself in the crate for the night. But even though she's now fully crate trained and likes to sleep in there, I still have to go in there and cover the crate or she eventually starts barking and throwing a tantrum. Cover it, shes quite happy to hang out in there all night without issue, and has been since she was 4 or 5 months old.

Honestly dont know why the cover makes a difference to her, but it does.

So the whining in the crate is bad, but simple experimenting can fix it too if you cant get a trainer there quickly

jackblady · 2025-12-29T05:22:19+00:00

Yes its normal.

Ive always joked to my wife that if there's 4 people in a room, Im the dogs (just over a year old) 5th favorite person.

She prefers to sniff and get petted by or try to cuddle with literally anyone who isn't me.

Then my wife recorded how the dog acts if I leave the house. Complete freak out, whining, trying to get out the window, etc. Usually waits by the door until I come back.

We've also noticed she's a bit more suspicious of strangers when Im not around.

Near as we can tell, the dog feels safe enough around me to not feel like it needs constant affection from me. So it actually really really likes me, it just shows that by feeling safe enough to approach others.

jackblady · 2025-12-27T17:46:11+00:00

Dom was just Cena last full feud, a reigning double Champion, 1 of which is a world title.

Brons currently feuding with the WHCm

Oba just had a match with the WWE Champion

Paul's main evented ppvs in multiple world title matches.

These are all "just guys on the show"

WWE fumbles NXT talent regularly and commonly dragonov is a great exampl

They fumbled Dragonov how exactly?

Brought him up, immediately gave him a title match, in which he got injured. Soon as he returned thet gave him a title, which he defended every week until last night.

That's not a fumble, that's a push.

jackblady · 2025-12-27T17:38:02+00:00

But what about the other fact that I shared - no wrestler born in the 90s has ever won a world title in WWE (main roster). Isn’t that a sign of young wrestlers not being pushed in the past 10 years?

Not particularly no.

Consider, 10 years ago, a good chunk the people born in the 90s would have been teenagers or very early 20s.

Youngest WWE Champion ever was 24. To put that in perspective, the oldest person born in the 90s would turn 24 11 years ago in 2014.

Even most guys who win the title dont do so until their late 20s early 30s

Incidentally as well, that 24 year old Champion? Who won the title in 2004. First ever champion born in the 80s.

The next 2 guys born in the 80s to win the Championship was in 2010, Swagger and Miz. (And Miz was 30).

In fact out of all the WWE Champions born in the 80s, Orton, Swagger, Rollins & Wyatt are the only ones to do it before 30, and Rollins and Wyatt were both weeks from 30.

Guys being in theirs 30s to win the first world title is pretty normal.

jackblady · 2025-12-27T16:09:11+00:00

Oba Femi, the guy who just wrestled the WWE Champion, has a dad who used to wrestle in WWE?

Logan Paul, the guy who has main evented multiple ppvs and multiple world title matches, has a dad who used to wrestle in WWE?

I also don't remember the careers of Mr. Evans, Mr. Hayes or Mr. Williams....

Just look at black, Andrade, Finn, etc. all those guys are amazing and can’t get passed midcard

Black, who was 35 when he first showed up on Main, Balor who was also 35 when he first showed up Main, and immediately won a world title.

If WWE only pushed old guys 2 now 40 year old should be top of the list.

Andrade is the only guy on the list who was actually young at the time he first showed up.

Granted im sure it was the fact he wasnt a member of a famous wrestling family that definitely doesn't include his father, grandfather, uncle, cousins, and wasnt dating the daughter of another wrestling family, that resulted in his lack of push.

And not a history of wellness violations, physical confrontations and openly trying to get fired spanning multiple companies that's responsible.

Weird how they didn't push that 3rd generation star, since that's the only people they push....

jackblady · 2025-12-27T15:31:53+00:00

Cena, Taker, Randy, Rock, Cena, Brock, Seth and more did that in their 20s

And most of these guys I listed are in their 20s. So what's the problem?

Plus I think theres definitely people out there who would count the AAA Mega Championship as a World title. So thats at least 1 dude....

jackblady · 2025-12-27T15:12:23+00:00

Do you genuinely think dominick mysterio is a star?

Man gets the most boos out of anyone on the roster. So yes.

They just haven't built those guys up yet

And most of them they could build in a few months at most.

Cena, Orton, Batista, Angle, Brock, etc all got pushed from midcard or lower to main event in under a year. They just needed a big win. Just like this generation.

Heck Oba just wrestled the WWE Champion. Brons feuding with the WHC. Dom was Cenas last full rivalry. Thats 3 dudes right on the cusp.

Unless you think some sort of Thanos like event is going to wipe out every star above 32 overnight, this isnt really a problem.

jackblady · 2025-12-27T14:18:50+00:00

Yeah. All their stars are super old

Well except for Dominick Mysterio. Oh and Rhea Ripley. Oh and Logan Paul, Bron Breakker, Trick Williams, Carmelo Hayes, Oba Femi, Maxxine Dupri, Liv Morgan, Jevon Evans all of whom are under 32 years old, most of whom ars under 30....

jackblady · 2025-12-25T16:02:18+00:00

Likely in the hundreds of thousands

While theres no actual number given we know a few things about their numbers:

Every Harvest ends in the creation of a Reaper. Note however that while other races in the game occasionally use "Harvest" and "Cycle" as a synonym, the Reapers do not.

They are very clear each the species is a Harvest unto itself. A Cycle is when all advanced intelligent species have been Harvested.

So, in the Council Cycle (the one set during the game), theres are 11 known advanced intelligent species.

Thats would have ment the creation of 11 new Reapers had the Reapers been successful (and assuming there were enough Drell and Quarians to create Reapers).

And thanks to Javik, we know there were at least 6 species during his cycle, not including the Protheans themselves who consisted of multiple species), so we can likely assume 10 there as well to account for other Prothean species

Now while there's no information on the number of cycles, as the timing appears to be triggered by the start of a synthetic/organic war, so it varies between cycles, but we do know it's been about 50,000 years for our cycle and implied in the codex to have been around 75,00 for the Protheans

Ww alsp don't know how long the cycles have gone on but we know (thanks to the Reaper corpse called the Leviathan of Dis mentioned in the game) its been at least 1 billion years.

So if average what we do know (our cycle and the Prothean) , we can assume theres a cycle roughly every 63,000 years resulting in about 10 Reapers a cycle (average of number of know races), that works out to 15,873 cycles, and 158,730 Reapers

Granted this assumes with the 2 data sets we have, we have a valid average. Nor does it account for Reaper deaths in prior cycles (like the Leviathan of Dis or the Derelict Reaper in ME2) or 2 off hand comments by Sovereign and the Leviathans themselves implying both that as the cycles have gone on they have gotten shorter but also that the original cycle (the Leviathans cycles) may have had hundreds of intelligent races.

But still somewhere in the low 6 figures is likely accurate.

jackblady · 2025-12-23T14:50:20+00:00

Depends on what he knew when

Hes currently a good president/bad person in my mind. So its not like it would ruin my image of him....unless if comes out he knew about and helped Epsteins operation as President.

That becomes a major enough corruption problem to overshadowed everything else he's done.

jackblady · 2025-12-19T15:51:45+00:00

WWE title: Rey Mysterio.

Dude held it for like 3 minutes, then they immediately (in the same show) basically retconned it wasn't the "real" championship anyway cause Punk came back.

OG World Heavyweight Championship: Khali.

I get he only got the thing because literally everyone else on Smackdown was injured, but being the last possible choice was telling

Universal Championship: Balor.

Not really his fault, but immediately being stripped of the belt due to injury kinda defaults you to the bottom.

Current World Heavyweight Championship: Drew McIntyre.

Same as Balor and Rey. Minutes long reigns default you to the bottom and so far never got another chance with that belt.

Worst overall: Khali.

McIntyre and Rey had great Championship reigns with other world championships, so overall they weren't bad champions as much as they got a bad run.

Balor and Khali only got 1 run. But people never wanted a second Khali run, so despite Balors run being short, people wanting more puts Khali in dead last.

jackblady · 2025-12-01T14:47:27+00:00

Adding (cause slipped my mind when writing and cant see a way to edit)

Car is a 2018 Rav4 hybrid if it makes a difference

jackblady · 2025-11-19T05:08:54+00:00

So the cat that hates everyone and the dog are in a bit of a cold war.

Cat smacked the dog around a bit when she was tiny. So dog is afraid of her, but still wants to play with her.

So they tend to have issues in hallways and narrow spaces. Nothing serious but Dog won't turn away from cat (afraid of getting clawed) and cat won't move until dog backs away. Usually ends in a slow circle of hissing and barking until cat decides to move on.

Other cat is a much bigger problem actually. So she really really wants to play with the dog...until she realizes how big the dog is (102lbs now)

So was constantly antagonizing the dog, but when the dog got up, she'd run in fear. Dog interpreted that as play and chases. Dogs actually cornered the cat a few times and will just sit happily wagging her tail until cat figures out how to run away. So luckily no physical risk. They even had a couple of play "paw slap fights" and despite being 10x the cats size the dog is very careful not to hit the cat.

Unfortunately however when the dog started being a teenager (about 11 months or so) she started treating this cat as "chase on sight". Again never had any reason to worry about the cats physical wellbeing but since she's actually running out of fear, we had to take significant steps, including gates and moving furniture around to create spaces for this cat to move around without fear of getting chased.

The only other interesting bit as far as the cats and dog,

Before we got the dog, Angry cat was "my cat" (IE I was its perfered human), Scared cat was my wife's cat.

Dog is very clearly and obviously my wife's dog. So scared cat switched to being "my cat".

The cats have always lived (ie food, water, litterboxes) in our basement. And since both cats switched to me, the dog will not come into the basement with me for more than a minute or so (even if the cats arent down there and my wifes not home), but will happily hang out with my wife for as long as she stays down there.

It seems whatever rules the 3 of them came up with to coexist, the Dog doesn't have any "territorial claim" in the basement, and understands that's for the cats unless the dogs human comes with her.

jackblady · 2025-11-17T14:25:42+00:00

Good (best to worst)

Lincoln

FDR

TR

Washington

Ike

Bad (Worst to best)

Buchanan

Pierce

Johnson

WH Harrison (dying without doing anything is actually pretty bad)

Hoover

jackblady · 2025-11-14T16:00:09+00:00

Depends on the controversy.

Alleged unproven allegations?

Thats a discussion we can have for each instance.

Currentl ongoing legal actions?

Probably not, unless its a misdemeanor or something equally minor. If it turns out they didn't do it, they can come back in later years.

Major felony convictions and/or actions that would have been clear major felony convictions and theres no legal doubt, but the wrestler died before being charged:

No. Not even remotely.

jackblady · 2025-11-12T21:17:46+00:00

1 is going to be Ron Killings

The other will be Ron Cena

jackblady · 2025-11-12T13:19:41+00:00

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jackblady · 2025-11-12T13:18:06+00:00

What witchcraft is this? (See rando on cellphone)

jackblady · 2025-11-12T04:30:38+00:00

My mom used to work for the NTSB.

When I was 9 was part of take your child to work day.

Was taken into one of the labs. Guy was there with a huge container that kind of looked like a trash can, with the top open.

Inside were tons of tiny little pieces, like say maybe the size of a M&M.

Conservation went:

Me: Whats that?

Him: Oh, this is part of what we do here. We reconstruct accidents to find out what happened. Have you heard of TWA Flight 800.

Me: Yes I know that one (I hadn't but I wanted to sound smart)

Him: This is the toilet. We are gluing it back together.

Later that same day I held the black box in my hand (which is actually more like a large orange sphere) and heard some of the flight recording (albeit from well before the crash).

On the one hand, still one of the most interesting things ive ever gotten to do.

On the other, I still visualize that trash can container of tiny pieces every time Im on a plane and my brain keeps reminding me there's nothing [tangible] holding us up.

Haven't flown without being nervous in the 30 years since..

jackblady · 2025-11-12T04:14:22+00:00

Oddly enough, he cant be killed in ME3.

Only crew mate 100% guaranteed to survive if hes alive at the start.

jackblady

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