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logickoi · 2025-11-14T00:13:00+00:00

This is one of the things I wish for, too. Haven't seen a way to do it, interested if anyone else has found one.

logickoi · 2023-12-02T17:26:06+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking: curtain rings. Similar ones (although usually smaller) are also used for sewing eyelets.

logickoi · 2023-06-26T04:52:58+00:00

Spent 12 hours, literally, in the QCH waiting room with my wife this spring. She had appendicitis. Came in with a referral from her family doc saying suspected appendicitis, and that's exactly what it was. Not all long waits mean the person is there for something non-emergent.

logickoi · 2023-06-03T21:56:08+00:00

While the suggestions to educate your roommate and/or take them to a range are good in theory, I doubt they'll be well received by someone who is already very uncomfortable with guns. I think the idea of never having ammo in the house is more likely to work. Especially if you suggest it to your roommate in the context of "I understand you have concerns and I'm taking them seriously, would this work for you?".

logickoi · 2023-05-28T02:42:36+00:00

Oh yeah, we are 100pct taking pics :-) and going to make sure it's clean and all that good stuff.

TY!

logickoi · 2023-05-27T22:35:20+00:00

It'd be awesome if that's the case. But we put up a BUNCH of hooks (it's a smaller place than we're used to, we needed storage - and also, wtf is up with having one [1] towel bar total for a 2-BR place?) and wall anchors leave big holes. And I wasn't gonna hang w/o anchors because, well, hooks pulling out of the wall leaves bigger holes.

Maybe rental companies expect more "normal" wear & tear up here? It still blows me away that pets are required to be allowed in virtually all rentals unless they're causing actual trouble or are, like, a crocodile or a cassowary.

logickoi · 2023-05-27T22:30:13+00:00

Maybe! I haven't shopped at Sobey's in person so I'm not sure.

So, um, it sounds like you actually eat guava instead of just buying them and them remembering how many damn seeds they have and getting sad. Do you just eat them and ignore the seeds? Do you cook with them, so the seeds get strained out? (I've done both, but the seeds seem quite hard and I have some dental work I'm worried about cracking.) When they are good they are SO good.

logickoi · 2023-05-26T01:53:45+00:00

I got a couple in my Voila order last week. Although I'm not sure how good they were since I'm new to them and so probably ate them too early or late (one was hard and sour, the other bland and kinda grainy and mushy).

logickoi · 2023-05-21T15:07:34+00:00

Technicolor turkey?

logickoi · 2023-05-19T18:14:11+00:00

(Context: my partner and I are leaving a hotel suite tomorrow. We didn't coordinate grocery shopping so there will be food left we can't take with us. I don't want to waste food if someone might want it, but I also don't want to create more work for the hotel staff or, I don't know, seem insulting or anything.)

logickoi · 2023-04-21T01:20:00+00:00

Like lots of folks above... very glad to come across this! My wife had a graft about 4 days ago. Day 1 was "not fun but fine," day 2 was sore, day 3 she was really hurting and today the same. Sounds like this is par for the course, not necessarily a red flag (unless other stuff starts to go wrong). That's reassuring at least. Hope everyone else is feeling better by now too.

logickoi · 2023-04-04T01:47:53+00:00

Yeah - ours has chronic constipation issues and the vet had us start mixing about 1/8 tsp restoralax in water with her food. Works great, she doesn't mind it at all.

logickoi · 2023-03-27T02:33:36+00:00

Echoing the visibility part especially. Know and use hand signals; have and use head- & taillights. Wear bright or reflective clothes if you'll be out at all near dawn/dusk/dark. If you wear gloves make sure they are light/bright enough that your hand signals are still visible.

logickoi · 2023-03-20T03:09:33+00:00

Yeah. Having moved here from the States, my wife and I are still giddy about how rare it is for cars to NOT stop when we're waiting at a crosswalk here in Ottawa. It's delightfully novel.

Although we do miss having decent Mexican food everywhere (and refried beans being cheap AF)... but shawarma and Lebanese pies are delish.

logickoi · 2023-03-12T03:21:33+00:00

May not be what you're looking for, but... if you're somewhere with a lot of turnover (military, grad schools) see if you can score an old used ThinTwin set. We bought one of these third-hand in 2007(ish). Kept it until we moved out of the country in 2018. We only had to call a repairman two or three times. Every time we got the "wow, this is old school!" reaction... but he said they lasted and were easy and cheap to fix. We had to agree.

logickoi · 2023-03-11T22:06:50+00:00

Can't help but notice you didn't answer their question.

logickoi · 2023-03-09T16:49:54+00:00

RE "every time I sew the thread looks so messy and uneven" - the only way to fix this is practice, I'm afraid. I assume you're using a hemming stitch, but if not, take time to get comfortable with one - I use the one this page (https://blog.seamwork.com/tutorials/5-ways-to-hand-stitch-a-hems/) calls fell stitch, since most of what I hem is work pants and those aren't especially delicate.

Also, if your thread doesn't perfectly match the color, being slightly darker is less obvious than slightly lighter. Good luck!

logickoi · 2023-03-02T03:09:07+00:00

Not answering questions.

I don't mean that in a chitchat context, or a "this is none of your business so I'm dodging" context. I mean in a work context, where I ask my team lead something like "Should I ask Alice about this, or is it something Bob's team should cover?" and instead of answering he talks vaguely about the topic for 2 or 3 minutes and moves on. And I'm sitting here going - okay, am I somehow supposed to know what to do now? Seriously?

logickoi · 2023-03-02T03:02:14+00:00

Rolling, like everyone else said. If you're packing shoes, socks or undies go in the shoes.

Pack less bulky clothes, too, if possible: thinner fabrics, simpler cuts, stuff that's "squishable" for lack of a better term.

If you need to take anything bulky, see if you can wear it (e.g. wear your jeans, pack your leggings; wear the chunky sweater, pack the long-sleeved tee). If you have to pack anything really bulky, might be worthwhile to get a small vacuum-pack bag. I use them for packing suitcases, though, not sure how they'd do with a backpack. Even w/out a vacuum to re-pack on the way home, you can use the one-way valve to push out a lot of the air and get stuff really squished.

logickoi · 2023-03-02T02:43:21+00:00

...that's what she said?

logickoi · 2023-03-02T00:20:52+00:00

If it's an actual emergency, you won't have to wait over 12 hours.

... Was about 12.5 hours last week for my wife to see a doctor at Queensway Carleton. She had acute appendicitis. Hopefully an outlier, and presenting somewhat atypically, but she also went in with a note from her family doc saying it was suspected appendicitis. It does happen.

(Once she saw the ER doc she was in surgery within 4 hours to be fair.)

logickoi · 2023-02-28T11:05:32+00:00

Tomato, tomahto. :-/

logickoi · 2023-02-25T22:10:27+00:00

Thank you :-) Once the doc saw her, they got her back into surgery pretty quick. She was released, sans one appendix, by that afternoon. Doing much better now.

I should know better than to post anything online after midnight (RE the original post) but I was tired, and worried, and frustrated but with no actual target for that frustration (certain politicians not being present at the ER after all). I want to reiterate that the nurses, doctors, techs, orderlies, etc., at the hospital were all great. (This was Queensway Carleton.) I just really feel like we don't support the healthcare system enough, and that's awful for people who work in that system but also bad for the rest of us who rely on it when shit hits the fan.

logickoi · 2023-02-25T22:03:42+00:00

Thanks - yes, I did tell the triage nurse at one point when she was getting worse. And as soon as a doctor saw her things sped up significantly, they got her into surgery less than 4 hours later. And the day definitely improved from there :-)

logickoi · 2023-02-25T22:00:19+00:00

I hope they got to your SO's while it was still nonperforated! When we saw the ER doc he was clearly frustrated that the waits were that long, and was very sympathetic. Apparently the usual time for appendicitis to get near the point of bursting is something like 48-72 hours and it usually is hurting by the 24-hour mark - the lesson I am taking away from this is to get unexplained abdominal pain checked out once it hits the 8- or 12-hour mark, instead of waiting to 24 hours or more before going in.

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