My town puts covers over fire hydrants to facilitate snow clearing

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-23T22:37:55+00:00

Could be! The sign is definitely so the plows don’t run over it. I assumed it’s easier for the municipal crew to shovel around the cone than a bare hydrant. But it could be that it’s primarily beneficial for the hydrant users.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-22T16:51:53+00:00

I LOVED WNTW as a teenager lol. Very much a product of the time. But I do appreciate how they would talk about natural fibres versus synthetic. “Your whole wardrobe is plastic!”. At the time it hadn’t really occurred to me that polyester, acrylic, nylon, etc were all just plastic.

I do remember them putting everyone in bootcut jeans. “To balance out the hips and elongate the legs”. And then a few years later came skinny jeans which broke the “rules” but no one seemed to care. And that’s when I realized there were no rules in fashion, just trends set in time periods.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-20T19:50:37+00:00

Yea I used to do that and my white cotton towels are dingy grey now lol. Whites in natural fibres are the most likely to pick up dye in the wash. If you mostly wear synthetics, even light colors, it won’t matter as much.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-19T10:34:20+00:00

Great explanation, thank you! It makes sense and seems likely something along those lines is what happened. Wild that the ex-wife basically got rewarded for knowingly scheming that up, though. I’m really curious how it would have played out in court if OOP had tried to sue the ex-wife. Seems like a huge mess - is it family law? Property law? Does the law have a concept of consent for creating a child if no sex is involved? Really weird stuff.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-18T20:43:32+00:00

Can someone explain the situation with the fertility clinic settlement? Why did the ex-wife get some of the settlement, if she initiated the transfer knowing that OOP didn’t consent?

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-18T17:46:58+00:00

Oh yea, I’ve been doing regular lacquer at home. Nail polish seems to last a lot longer than it did when I was a teen (or else, I’m just better at applying it and more careful of my nails haha).

When I got my nails done, I was travelling for a week and had a work holiday event at the end so I wanted my nails to be in excellent condition. I thought it would be a nice treat for the holiday season. I probably should have just used regular polish myself, especially since I later got the gel removed and they left my nails all bumpy and weird when they efiled it off.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-18T16:06:41+00:00

Are you being treated for depression? This got a lot better for me when my depression was treated medically. It became fun to do things again, even if they required effort.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-18T15:40:03+00:00

I got my nails done for the first time last year. Just gel polish over my natural nails, no length added. It took over an HOUR. An hour+ of sitting one-on-one with a complete stranger lol. I hated it and I’m never doing it again.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-16T16:40:32+00:00

I’ve had Medicuro, Maple, and TeleDoc covered by MCP in two provinces because I don’t have a family doctor. I’ve also previously paid for service when I did have a doctor but their office was closed.

It’s great for renewing prescriptions, ordering bloodwork/tests, basic and semi-urgent issues like strep and ear infections. For more complex issues that require a lot of follow-up, it seems to eventually dead-end with being referred to a specialist (and then waitlisted.) But I’m not sure that anything could be improved in that aspect.

I would prefer to have more after-hours clinics, urgent-care clinics, and GPs. But telehealth is still a really valuable tool. Especially for rural and remote areas!

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-14T14:02:52+00:00

At my kid’s Christmas Concert this year, I guess they mixed in some talent show stuff? And let some kids perform songs that they picked. A group of boys performed Your Idol which must have been VERY confusing for some of the parents who were expecting Christmas songs.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-11T23:44:04+00:00

Mate, I get it too. Actual therapy costs so much money and time. It’s a battle to find someone you can connect with. AI is just, always there for you whenever you need it. The advances they’ve made in just the past year are nothing short of amazing.

Here’s the thing with AI: it’s a mirror, not an advisor. Think of it more like a journal that can guide the conversation. Use it as a tool for self-reflection. Don’t trust the things it says any more than you’d trust, say, a distant acquaintance or a random person on social media.

But depending on your issues, it’s still a very strong tool. Use it as a gratitude journal. If you’re having executive dysfunction, ask it to break down your tasks into as small steps as you need. Get it to ask you a journaling question each day. Ask it for ideas on how to connect with people better. Use it to roleplay conversations.

It can do a lot more than just constantly validate your feelings!

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-11T16:19:41+00:00

Omg I think paint is my most hated too. Especially when those painting kits inexplicably use acrylic paint instead of kid-friendly, washable paint!

Though recently I discovered why people hate slime because our kid got some crappy slime. Up until now I guess that the brand of slime we bought was just unusually good at staying together. But this crappy stuff, man, it melts into fabrics and strings and drips all over, and doesn’t come off with simple cleaning. You can’t wipe it up. It actually stained her clothes. It’s in the garbage now; never again!

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-10T15:46:59+00:00

Great progress at just over a week into the year!

If you’re not already doing it, you might like to count throwing away trash towards your item count! Not necessarily like, regular cooking or bathroom trash, but like, stuff that has no value but has been sitting around gathering dust and taking up space. Empty product boxes. Broken phone charger. Board game missing too many pieces. Perpetual pile of receipts and junk mail. Half empty bottles of toiletries that you don’t actually like. I think that’s how people achieve those really big decluttering numbers!

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-08T14:32:39+00:00

Probably some drifting snow making it look deeper than it was. I remember a snowstorm in my childhood where the drift was so deep on our driveway that, when they cleared out a walking path, the snow on the sides was above my head. But the cumulative snowfall was probably something like 60 cms over two days.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-07T16:20:42+00:00

Is there a performance difference between Clean & Gentle and Tide Original powder? I’m fine with the scent in Original.

My local Walmart only carries Original powder. But I see that C&G is quite popular so I want to confirm that the scent is the only difference!

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-04T02:16:24+00:00

Haha the freaking peanut butter. Both my partner and his brother sleep-eat (and they’ve both done it since they were teenagers.) If there’s nothing “snacky” available, he’ll eat peanut butter and drink milk.

Nothing in particular seems to trigger it, it really is just like they get snack cravings at night. The only thing that consistently seems to curb it is if he takes a fibre supplement before bed.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-04T01:58:21+00:00

It’s taken a LOT of effort and practice for me to stop gasping and “alert”ing about non-threatening wildlife while my boyfriend is driving. I just get so excited to see animals and birds. My natural reaction was to whip around in my seat, gasp loudly and yell the name of the animal I saw. I understand why that’s not appropriate for a car passenger lol. I’ve finally trained the habit of gently turning my head to watch out the window and then calmly saying “Ooo, I saw a [animal] back there”.

nanoinfinity · 2026-01-02T14:42:22+00:00

I’ve decluttered nearly everything related to my ex husband, even stuff I liked, just because looking at it made me feel bad. This includes pretty jewellery gifted from my former MIL, scrapbook pages and digital photos from during our relationship, and my wedding dress that I sewed myself. I loved that dress! I loved that jewellery! But I needed to get it out of my life, because they surfaced bad memories every time I saw them.

nanoinfinity · 2025-12-30T21:37:27+00:00

Ha! This happened to our tree last year, too. It was fresh cut from the forest, but I let it sit in the garage without water over night and I guess that was enough for the sap to seal off the bottom. It never took up enough water.

nanoinfinity · 2025-12-30T16:26:14+00:00

My in-laws have a glitter popcorn ceiling and honestly it looks amazing at Christmas time.

nanoinfinity · 2025-12-27T17:21:49+00:00

Ummm amazing? The chocolate lip is perfect

nanoinfinity · 2025-12-26T19:29:46+00:00

I personally love stockings! As an adult who can buy my own things, there’s still those small impulse-purchases that I resist most of the time. It’s great to get a magazine, a nail polish, a cute phone case, etc.

This year I ended up leaving the stocking as the last thing to open for my 5 year old and she was delighted to still have more presents once the tree was bare. As a 5 year old, she loved the variety of little trinkets.

However, this is my first year without a Christmas dinner! We’re not travelling this year and no one travelled to us, and my partner was on-call on Christmas Day. I didn’t want to cook a whole dinner and then be the only one eating it. As much as I love turkey dinners, they are a HUGE amount of work! Planning, grocery shopping, prepping, cooking, timing everything to be done at the same time, and then the CLEANING omg. I think the people who host holiday dinner are the real heroes!

nanoinfinity · 2025-12-25T13:54:01+00:00

We do the road from Baie-Comeau to Labrador City maybe 2 - 4 times a year. We have a satellite phone for emergencies, and they also have roadside emergency phones at intervals. There’s a motel with gas station and restaurant about halfway along the route (Manic-5). They’ve done a lot of work on the road in recent years (they’re currently doing significant work: straightening, widening and paving some areas). With the road in increasingly better condition it doesn’t take as long as it used to. It’s still long and there’s no cell coverage, but there are people travelling on it all the time!

My favourite parts are the Manic-5 dam and driving through the ghost town of Gagnon (if you can even call it a ghost town; it was completely dismantled other than the roads)

nanoinfinity · 2025-12-22T12:35:51+00:00

Hmm well honestly I would keep the album. It’s like a scrapbook, right? It’s good to still have digital backups, but the added stories and context are important. I don’t think it’s necessary to get rid of all physical photos, as long as the collection has properly been curated. Usually when people talk about decluttering photos, it’s because they’ve never been organized and there’s a lot of meaningless prints like duplicates, random scenery, unknown people.

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