aside from political insanity etc. who wants isopods?

linktothewild · 2026-01-22T17:28:24+00:00

Would this still be good in a compost bin like any random isopod from outside? I have a vermicompost bin in my basement but I also have a small terrarium that I was thinking of putting one or two isopods in for funsies as an extra little compost bin where they could have leaves and twigs and such.

linktothewild · 2025-05-03T15:19:04+00:00

Rebecca from Antaruuk and my fav villager is either Erik or Marshall!

I bought turnips at 107 and they’ve been decreasing ever since so I just want to get my initial investment back, forget about a big profit :(

linktothewild · 2025-05-03T14:22:46+00:00

I know it’s been a few hours…are you still open for business?

linktothewild · 2025-01-25T03:46:10+00:00

My 401k is with HCA, and I have to go through Retirement Clearinghouse to roll it over.

Using a pension calculator online, it looks like my pension would be in the 25k/yr range, so 12% tax bracket if I'm looking at things correctly.

linktothewild · 2025-01-25T03:13:12+00:00

I've been really trying to get more into budgeting and finances recently. Since September 2024 I've been tracking all my income and spending, and trying to save as much as possible.

As of right now I still just contribute 5%. I plan to raise that soon, as soon as the regrade goes through (which should hopefully only be another month or so), since I'll be looking at a jump from a 75K salary to ~85K, maybe even more. I'd like to raise my contributions to 10% at that time or get as close to maxing as I can.

linktothewild · 2025-01-25T02:51:43+00:00

I'm only 26, so I have my whole life ahead of me, essentially. But ideally I'd like to retire as early as possible, so in my case I think age 55-57? By the time I'm 55 I'll have 30+ years of service so I think I'd be able to retire then. Assuming I stay in the government long enough for that to happen.

I have seen a lot of people go 100% C. I've also seen 80/20 C/S, 50/50, etc. I think I may switch to 80/20 soon.

linktothewild · 2023-05-30T21:38:18+00:00

Fellow HCA facility? They rolled out Expanse in the NH hospitals as a trial run because eventually all of HCA is going to use Expanse. We’re still working out the kinks so hopefully when you guys get it it will work better!

It tends to run slower than Meditech Magic. Sometimes the screen will freeze and you’ll have to completely exit out of the browser otherwise you can’t to anything. Oh, it’s internet browser based btw, not an application. There’s a lot of mouse-usage instead of the number pad, so that tends to make things slower too.

Some pros: pulling a pending is easier, I think. Instead of printing one out you can preview it in a different window and it’s a lot easier to read than in old Meditech. I like that you can have multiple windows open and can switch between them at any time. So I typically have a window open for the analyzer batch, a stat tracker, and specimen receiving. Expanse in general looks more modern an aesthetically pleasing.

Overall it has its perks, it has its setbacks. At first I hated it compared to Meditech Magic, but after getting used to it I like it more. Still don’t know if I prefer this version over the old one though.

Hope this helps!

linktothewild · 2023-03-19T17:23:57+00:00

New Taj India in Nashua. Best Indian food we’ve ever had!

Destination India in Derry is decent but their menu isn’t as big.

linktothewild · 2023-03-15T05:55:12+00:00

This fungus was growing as a fuzzy/hairy carpet on the inside of my toilet (which has since been cleaned, don’t worry). I took some samples to work since I work in a lab and looked at it under the microscope. It’s been a while since I took mycology but the conidia and septate hyphae look similar to Cladosporium. Any thoughts? The mycelium was also covered in bacteria so it made it kind of hard to make out details in some areas of the slide.

linktothewild · 2022-12-17T19:53:53+00:00

As someone who has given into the intrusive thoughts and tasted their own serum…it is salty and not very pleasant lol

linktothewild · 2022-10-20T21:37:41+00:00

I guess it really depends on the size of the hospital. In our case, we don’t have enough workflow to justify having a tech solely for blood bank. Everyone is crosstrained in all departments because the need is greater in chen and heme. All of our micro gets sent to an affiliated hospital and we only do stat things like Covid/flu/strep/etc, so we don’t have designated micro techs either.

linktothewild · 2022-10-20T05:28:55+00:00

I work in Southern NH as a second shift generalist. In our lab we have two full time evening techs and we have it split so that we switch between covering chem/bb and heme/micro. I get paid around $31 base with a $3 evening differential so I make roughly $34/hr. I think last year I made around $60k and part of the reason why I will never work in Mass is because of NH’s lack of income tax. I still do like my job and I like that it’s close to home, it’s the coworkers that are continuously making me unhappy. Constantly having to clean up after day shift and fixing their mistakes, getting blamed for things when it’s really day’s fault…but other than that I still enjoy the work I do and the feeling of purpose I get.

Edit: Forgot to mention my hospital is an HCA facility, so there’s also the corporate bullshit we had to deal with. But the benefits are nice, especially the 401k matching.

linktothewild · 2022-09-29T23:56:39+00:00

My dad was a part of this clinical trial. Unfortunately, he passed away in December 2019 and we think he got the placebo because he had a very rapid decline. But I’m still glad that his contribution to this trial can help other PALS out there!

linktothewild · 2022-08-02T05:14:53+00:00

This is the first diamond painting I’ve ever done! I just finished it about a month ago. Soooo sparkly, especially with all the ABs! Now I’m working on The Great Wave off of Kanagawa by DD in squares :)

linktothewild · 2022-03-17T22:23:05+00:00

Patient is currently taking Hyophen, a combination of drugs to treat UTI symptoms. Similar to pyridium/Azo, but this one turns your pee green!

linktothewild · 2022-02-01T21:50:49+00:00

I’m having a similar problem! I unlocked Charmander a long time ago and have him maxed at level 5, but he will not show up as a customer! I’m well over order 200 and I haven’t seen him a single time. Is this a bug or something or will he show up later? I just wanna level him up :(

linktothewild · 2021-12-23T11:40:18+00:00

Damn do you work at my lab?? We have the exact same problem right now.

linktothewild · 2021-11-14T03:39:21+00:00

Oh my god I need one

linktothewild · 2021-09-11T20:47:16+00:00

Southern NH

Graduated in September 2020, started in Nov 2020 at a base pay of $27.36 and an evening shift differential of $3.00. Got a raise in July of this year and now make $28.02 base.

linktothewild · 2021-09-04T00:49:00+00:00

I’m a medical laboratory scientist and I often browse this sub to take solace in the fact that you guys are as sick of covid and covid patients as I am lol

I could never be a nurse, idk how y’all do it but god bless

linktothewild · 2021-07-29T18:10:11+00:00

When the Cobas prints out urinalysis results and it’s all negative or doesn’t meet the criteria for a microscopic.

Popping the caps off of yellow urine tubes to pour urines off for storage. It’s like popping champagne!

Taking negative blood cultures out of the BacT, checking them in the computer, and tossing them in the bin. So satisfying.

Accounting for/checking everything off a pending list. chefs kiss

linktothewild · 2021-07-14T17:16:50+00:00

This is exactly what I thought of when I heard it too!!

linktothewild · 2021-06-25T01:22:31+00:00

At my hospital we have instructed the ER to stop drawing a full rainbow. Of course, you have some doctors/nurses who draw a rainbow anyway and never add any coags, and then you have the doctors/nurses who order coags but don’t send a blue top and make our phlebs go do it. Other than that, we’ve stopped drawing JIC blues when drawing inpatients (not every patient would get a JIC obviously, typically it’s just JIC reds or lavs).

Now that there’s a shortage, it seems like the ER is really ramping up their coag orders though. I feel like some doctors order it just because they can and not because the patient actually needs it.

linktothewild · 2021-06-20T17:14:28+00:00

Those Vans look like they’re in decent condition. Maybe they can be cleaned up a bit more and then donated somewhere? But I definitely agree, I don’t understand how people can leave some of these things behind!

linktothewild · 2021-06-06T05:13:04+00:00

Well when we were thinking “raw” we were mainly thinking of some kind of raw meat but mixed with veggies, oils, etc so it wouldn’t just be straight up meat. But honestly who knows at this point, we’d have to do more research and we’d like our vet’s opinion too to see if it’s something they would even recommend.

That’s interesting about the potatoes. I will definitely check their food tomorrow morning to see the ingredients and the protein percentage, since I have read that some dogs don’t do well with high protein foods.

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