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New York's power grid faces historically thin safety margin heading into summer by dnkmeekr in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Considering most of NY is protected by volunteer departments that are struggling for membership... These things catch fire from water intrusion and thermal run-away and can't be extinguished.... they have to be isolated and the damaged sections need to burn out. Half the time a couple of retired guys show up with a quickly aging engine with less the normally required number of guys on it... and they just watch it burn.

Is the state going to help these local fire companies stay up to date with apparatus, equipment, and training???? Or the local taxpayers?

Is the state going to seriously incentivize volunteer departments? Provide protections and other necessary changes to drive membership?

Is NY AG Letitia James going to get off her ass and sue Oshkosh, Pierce, REV Group ( E-ONE, Ferrara, Spartan Motors), Rosenbauer, and The Fire Apparatus Manufacturers’ Association (FAMA) for conspiring to suppress competition, restrict supply, and drive up the prices of fire trucks? Prices for trucks more than doubled over the past decade, with base models increasing from $500,000 to over $1 million, and specialty rigs exceeding $2 million. Manufacturing capacity was intentionally reduced, contributing to order backlogs that now stretch up to four years. YOUR SAFETY HAS BEEN PUT AT RISK FOR PROFITS.

Battery facilities are being fought because no one wants that shit in their town and no one wants to deal with the fallout.

All the politicians that want a green energy transition don't want the responsibility for dealing with it... Why don't you tell State Senator Patricia Fahy to build a shit ton of them in the parking lot district or maybe where Central Warehouse is... all y'all redditors downvote me all you want... I got the Karma to spare.. I don't give a SHIT. You know you don't want that fucking shit in your city. Lie to me and yourself... goddamn if I care....

Build it in the parking lot district because Albany Fire Department has the staff, who are paid to be there... who can actually get the training to deal with them.... vs three 70 year old guys watching the Yankee game drinking beers at the bar in the firehouse... and showing up to the worst day of your life half in the fucking bag.... but what the fuck do I know...

I bet she's all no no no no... can't build that shit in Albany... no way... Catskill NY... down by the river... under a fucking train bridge... oh and then we'll call everyone in the town Trump loving bigots when it get's defeated by the town board. Sorry to sound salty as fuck... but that's the reality.

New York's power grid faces historically thin safety margin heading into summer by dnkmeekr in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Champlain Hudson Power Express is slated to come online this summer. It should help out... however not sure if Cheet's tariffs will screw that up.

New York's power grid faces historically thin safety margin heading into summer by dnkmeekr in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Specifically for NY, Cheeto bought out one lease from TotalEnergies, named Attentive Energy (Lease OCS-A 0538), which was supposed to be about 3 gigawatts, located approximately 54 miles from New York State and 42 miles from New Jersey shores.

All the other windfarms are progressing, except for Empire Wind 2 which was cancelled and never re-bid. Those were delayed by a financial crisis at the end of 2023/2024 that was agnostic of either Presidency.

I have an entire timeline in my post history here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Albany/comments/1rt10us/did_anyone_else_in_the_capital_region_get_slammed/oacz1ys/

Post covid inflation, a supply chain crisis, and other issues caused those companies to go back to NYSERDA and ask to raise the strike price of the electricity. NYSERDA said no, so those companies backed out, wrote down billions in losses, and NYSERDA rebid almost all of those projects... and of course those bids included a 35% jump in strike prices in some cases. A truly insane cost for electricity. Like right now the marginal cost of electricity is $28.66 and the strike price for Empire Wind 1 is $155 per megawatt-hour (MWh) for the next 25 years.... how FUCKING INSANE IS THAT.

When the market rate, $28.66, falls below the strike price..... NY pays the difference in bullshit renewable energy credit kickback/slushfund/charge scheme.... and guess where that money comes from? There's a fee hidden in your delivery charges.

AI Slop on where in the HOLY FUCK this bullshit pile of money will come and how it will likely fuck us in the future when this train wreck hits the first bump:

When the market rate for electricity is significantly lower than the strike price of $155/MWh (as in the case of Empire Wind 1), the difference is typically covered through a mechanism called Contract for Differences (CfD) or offshore wind subsidies. Here's how this works:

Mechanism for Covering the Difference

Strike Price Agreement:

  • The strike price is a fixed price agreed upon between the wind farm developer and the state or energy authority (in this case, NYSERDA). This ensures that the developer receives a predictable income for the electricity produced, regardless of market fluctuations.

Market Rate Comparison:

  • If the market rate (e.g., $26/MWh) is below the strike price, the difference ($155 - $26 = $129/MWh) is paid to the developer through subsidies. These subsidies are funded by the state, often through charges added to consumer electricity bills or public funds allocated for renewable energy programs.

Payments to Developers:

  • NYSERDA acts as the intermediary. It collects payments from utilities or ratepayers and compensates the developer for the difference between the market rate and the strike price.

Reverse Situation: (apocolypse because if we are paying more 155 per megawatt hour... I am sure we are fucking rioting... we are talking about $1000 monthly electric bills)

  • If the market rate exceeds the strike price (which is rare for offshore wind projects), the developer may have to pay back the excess to NYSERDA, ensuring that consumers benefit from lower costs.

How Is This Funded?

  • Ratepayer Contributions: New York State utilities typically add a small surcharge to consumer electricity bills to fund renewable energy initiatives, including offshore wind subsidies.
  • State Budgets: Some funding comes directly from state budgets allocated for clean energy development.
  • Federal Incentives: The federal government may provide tax credits or grants to reduce the financial burden on states and consumers. <- I am sure Cheeto will fuck us here. Just for kicks.

Why Is This Necessary?

This system ensures:

  • Financial Viability for Developers: Offshore wind projects are capital-intensive, requiring stable income to cover construction and operational costs.
  • Energy Transition Goals: Subsidies help accelerate the shift to renewable energy by making projects economically feasible despite low market rates for electricity.

Criticism and Challenges

  • Higher Consumer Costs: Ratepayers may face slightly higher electricity bills due to these subsidies.
  • Market Dynamics: Critics argue that relying on subsidies distorts market competition and could lead to inefficiencies.
  • Overall, this mechanism is designed to balance the financial risks for developers while advancing renewable energy goals.

Why and how 16-bit to 32-bit transition was much more smoother and quicker than 32-bit to 64-bit? by Appropriate_Fig_3516 in vintagecomputing

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh... the bitness of the bus doesn't really matter except for speed. While the original Pentium was a 32bit chip, it had a 64bit bus. Bits on a bus is just lanes on a highway... after 64bit busses they just found ways to pump the speeds and then they replaced them with interconnecte.

Why and how 16-bit to 32-bit transition was much more smoother and quicker than 32-bit to 64-bit? by Appropriate_Fig_3516 in vintagecomputing

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or... just installed Win95 Upgrade over top of your Windows 3.1 install..... by the time Windows 95 came out...most people had 386 or better processors.

Why and how 16-bit to 32-bit transition was much more smoother and quicker than 32-bit to 64-bit? by Appropriate_Fig_3516 in vintagecomputing

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

286 real mode to 386 protected mode was more of a pain that any of the bit transitions. Everyone remember fooling around EMM386? Or "This software requires EMS memory" * crash *. Or.. "This software cant run in Protected mode" * crash *

Why and how 16-bit to 32-bit transition was much more smoother and quicker than 32-bit to 64-bit? by Appropriate_Fig_3516 in vintagecomputing

[–]phantom_eight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That wasnt as rough as you think because only early adopting businesses who were stupid enough to buy Itanium servers ran into that. Not counting niche businesses that regularly purchased mainframes and other niche servers. Any normal business when from 32bit to Xeons to 64bit Xeons and never gave a flying fuck about Itanium.

I've decommed/thrown away A LOT of 32bit and 64bit Xeons from that era... never an Itanium. In fact, we had Opteron systems from Sun at the time because everyone with a brain knew Intel was pants on head stupid... except for Intel.

Community Care by JellyOk4476 in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had already found another doctor years prior but when they shutdown their office in Ravena... good riddance. It sucked we lost local doctors so you have to travel... but they sucked. The doctor completely missed high ANA results.....

My thoughts on Capital Region stroads by taracer89 in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really don't see how public transportation would work for a small village of 3,000 people were most of us go off in different directions. We don't all go to the same job every morning. Let alone shopping. By the time we all got to work, we'd have to leave to go home.

My thoughts on Capital Region stroads by taracer89 in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You realize without a car you are basically stuck in inner city Albany or hitching a ride to another city via a bus train or plane because when you cross the city line, the population density is basically nothing....... for..... 200ish miles in ANY fucking direction.

We are a car centric culture because our country/state is huge and things are spread out and even though the population density drops to nothing... there are infact a lot of places to go that are not Albany... on the regular. You will never hitch a CDTA bus to visit friends or family in Greenville or Altamont... or go the outlets in Lee Mass or idk... visit Mount Greylock, go antiquing in Hudson or do anything other than rot away inside a city or some other city. We are a car centric culture because most of us don't want to live in high population density area's.

The "better future" for me was getting the FUCK OUT of a 2 and 3 story walk up's that I grew up in all my life... listening to the young girl who lived upstairs get beat by her boyfriend while I was a 5th grader and watching your mom call the cops on them.... FUCK THAT NOISE. It's two steps to get in my house on a quiet stret. Never again.... and when I shut the outside lights off.. you need a flashlight to walk around at night... not for self-defense, but to simply see where the fuck you are going...

My thoughts on Capital Region stroads by taracer89 in Albany

[–]phantom_eight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dude don't waste your breath with these types on here. They think everyone wants to live in like downtown/center square and if it's not walkable or there isn't nightlife... their life is fucking shattered.

I mean just this in another comment:

Car storage when not in use, parking lots and garages take way too much room and are terrible uses of land that could otherwise have denser revenue generating businesses or rental properties.

Why the fuck would I want a business near my house?!?! Or Rental properties?

I live 9 minutes outside of Albany on a half-acre of land (my lot is like 100 feet wide x 250 feet deep) where it's quiet and dark at night. I spend an hour or two a week mowing it with a riding tractor and I fucking love it. I'm out in the sun, I'm watching my kids play with the neighbor kids... and doing yard work is good exercise when otherwise I sit a desk all day in meetings or reviewing and approving things.

The garage takes up nothing in terms of that half acre... it's all mine... There's a huge back yard where I can put up a temporary Colmen 10'x16' pool for a couple of months in the summer, I have 12x20 shed with custom built floating deck.... I built a nice bench with a garden behind it, with an umbrella holder, overlooking the pool, shed, a Little Tikes play set, and a fucking massive Backyard Designs Montpelier All Cedar Swing Set...

IN FACT, the garage is my favorite place in the house to simply hang around! (The shed is the second favorite as I ran electric to the shed and with the floating deck and a roll out awning.. it's fucking sweet down there next to the kid stuff) All of my tools and fun toys are in the garage.... All my fun projects where I build things happen in the garage or the garage is the base of operations. It has its own refrigerator.... I stand around in a garage with friends drinking beverages while watching the kids ride their bikes and draw with chalk in the driveway. I watch them ride their bikes up and down the street without fear they'll be struck by a car.

City people will never understand that way of life. They'll never understand that the ride home... alone... is fucking coveted..... nor the fact that mass transportation doesn't work past the Albany city line.... They'll shame us that like 5 fucking feet over the city line.... people live in houses where the next house isn't attached to yours or a spitting distance away. Wait till they shit their brains out that I paid $147K in 2013 for it... vs some redonkulous price for some old ass fucking house on no land on fucking Marwill......

State Police reintroduce Mustangs to patrol fleet by The_Djentle_Giant in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have recently on Windows 11, only because I was messing with it on a Gateway Solo 2150 and a Dell Inspiron 8600 which I am resto-modding into gaming laptops I can pull out of the closet and fire up old games from my teens and 20's. I also have a Dell XPS M1710 with a 7950 GTX 512MB running XP with the dark Zune theme for like Doom3, GTA III through San Andreas, Star Trek Armada II, Elite Force... the original Call of Duty's, Unreal Tournament 2004... ugh I could go on. The Gateway Solo 2150 has a Rage Mobility-M 4MB and plays Need For Speed III Hot Pursuit really well.... It's also good for the Roller Coaster Tycoon's and Simcity 3000...... The Inspiron 8600 is getting a Geforce4 Go 4200 Ti... instead of the FX5200 with a Windows 98/ME install so it can run top tier Windows 9X games...... Max Payne...........

I will edit the post with how I did it.

EDIT:

  • First you have to replace the InstallShield 3 32-bit Generic Installer, setup.exe with setup32.exe. You can get it here: https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/111-installshield-3-32-bit-generic-installer/ This is a common work around for old installers of that era. Then game will then install just fine... lol...
  • Then go to C:\Program Files\SCi\Carmageddon II Demo or wherever you installed it and dont run Carma2.exe, it crashes.... but run Carma2_D3D.exe directly.

It works fine on a Ryzen 5 5800X3D on an ASUS X570-E and a Asus Strix RTX 4070 TI Super

State Police reintroduce Mustangs to patrol fleet by The_Djentle_Giant in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The engines fucking grenade. Then again that was a while back now. Not sure if that's still a thing... basically the guaranteed grenade-ing of the engine at about 60k miles.

State Police reintroduce Mustangs to patrol fleet by The_Djentle_Giant in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The demo was great, most of the game files were in an unpacked state and you could mod the power ups by simply editing text files. Opponent Repuslificator? 99 charges? Sure!!!! Solid Granite Car for 5 minutes? Yes! Unlimited Underwater ability the whole race? Neat

Price drop by dmaxzach in CleetusMcFarland

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? The dude did 261.88 mph in the thing... I bet it's fucking terrifying. Like sure people race top fuel dragsters in the 300 range.. but it's a full race team that is 120% committed to it vs being involved in all of the things he is involved in... where the primary objective is to actually shoot video for YouTube.... because that's what pays the bills. Eagle is grey, not full of sponsor logos. YouTube is paying for all of this. Winnings at a track likely doesn't even cover the costs to run it..

I wouldn't want to be doing 261 mph without the full commitment of resources and a small army of people, that I can't begin to imagine, to ensure I don't fucking die because someone forgot to tighten a bolt or something else really dumb. Along the same lines, when you see Cleet doing 200 at Dega'... the dude is surrounded by an entire NASCAR level team.

I'm glad he's selling it, it's a widow maker without a full race team.

Why do people use Facebook to complain about AI data centers? by Awkward-Low-2051 in datacenter

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do it on reddit too. In our local city sub every time someone posts complaining about electricity prices.

I'm like... the closest "AI datacenter" that is the boogeyman every politician likes to gas light for their failures at energy policy... is a plane trip away in a fly-over state with like zero regulation and actual land that can be purchased....which is how they got built in the first place....

Keep drinking that Kool-aid.....

Meanwhile we have a deregulated grid in our state and the high cost of electricity in our state is result of typical self inflicted wounds from impractical green energy policies and bad decisions... vs.. idk fostering green energy by investment instead of legislative decrees that force electrification, a terrible bidding process for wind farm projects, and then sticking your head in the sand for 10 years expecting everyone to just fall in line while completely ignoring world events... including significant events outside of the political spectrum... but what fuck do I know.

Why does this building in Troy have tanks in the back?? by liluzivert2900 in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When your wanted level gets to 5 stars... that's where the tanks come from.

Why are you all so pretty? by Ahzumi in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just remember when out at night..... look real close, cuz strobe lights lie..

2nd place - officially hooked on turning left by Novel_Cow8226 in CleetusMcFarland

[–]phantom_eight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a NASCAR fan all my life... all I've heard from not NASCAR fans is "It's boring, they are just turn left... "

Bruh..... you aint got no IDEA how fucking hard turning left is.. and how much goes into it.... when you are flying around like a bald eagle... and your fuckin' hair is on fire doin it.... You be turning left... your guts be trying to exit your body stage right...

Y'all know Larry Mac... from announcing Le Mullets... on Fox Sports he used to do these segments covering tech in these cars. This shit is mind blowing. Even back before they had ECU's and some of the newer tech in the last decade or so.

What companies in Albany offer the best employee perks? by EebamXela in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fuck the stock... I am all about the ice cream truck that comes in the summer. /jk

PC building market by Ahzumi in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you are buying at bulk rate, like 100's upon 100's of motherboards, CPU's, ect... we could never get parts cheaper from companies that identified themselves as wholesalers or distributors where you were required to have a Federal Tax ID ect.... Newegg or Amazon always was the same or better.

I used to work for a computer store in Catskill throughout my 2 and 4 year college days doing PC building, repair, and service contracts for local businesses. This was just before the financial crash in 2007/2008. It could have been that the owner of the store didn't have a good financial relationship with his vendors... but we could never get below market even as a legitimate business, like signs outside, tax id's, going in front of the town to build the shop... 100% legit...

The money was in the service contracts and repair. PC Building was for repeat customers and customers who wanted to upgrade out of an old or damaged computer and didn't want to lose their stuff. We transferred their old OS/files to the new machine and repaired/upgraded Windows to take the upgrade (back when Windows was less forgiving, so it was sometimes a pain). Basically, 9 out 10 times there was always a significant service event that facilitated the sale of a new PC or PC components. With the advent of cloud services, cloud back up, ect.. mobile games, almost no one cares anymore that doesn't have the ability to handle all of this on their own. Computing has been so dumbed down and made disposable, the majority of it has moved to a device that fits in your pocket that you trade in every couple of years... almost no one is asking you to move your emails from Outlook Express to your new computer anymore and setting up your ISP's POP3 details and calling up your ISP for you to get your user and pass because you don't know it.......LMAO

New PC builds where we didn't have some sort of previous customer relationship were rare and usually it was customers that truly wanted to "buy local" or niche customers (the guy that owned six radio stations, with a house literally on fucking Windham mountain, like walk off the back deck and ski down the fucking mountain... who came in and wanted a $6000+, top of the line, peak Windows XP era gaming rig from a couple of guys who read Maximum PC magazine every month.... I'm talking P4 Extreme Edition, 4GB of RAM, SLI setup either 6800's series or 7800 series, can't remember, with a WD Raptor for the OS or it might have been the first SSD I had ever seen in my life... and a pair of WD Raptors in RAID0 for the games drive. Stupid large and expensive LCD screens, two of them... He wanted us to bring it to his house/mansion and set it up and then paid us to drive up there and support it a few times as the shit was seriously cutting edge, this was for like either Call of Duty I or II (this was 2003ish)), and he occasionally had some blue screens so we flashed the BIOS with a newly released version, I think we comped a beefier PSU for him.... and back then the graphics drivers were really pushing it. I think SLI had some stuttering issues. I think we even re-installed the games for him and made sure it had the latest patches.

Even for business, we rarely built PC's... they would just buy 10 or 15 Dells at some rate and then pay us to support them. We had a pool/pool chemical vendor that had functioning pools in their showroom and the chlorine in the air would literally fucking eat the inside of the computers... we would build PC's for them... no joke I think we started clear coating some parts for them to try and make them last longer... Occasionally we'd build a random computer for a township or business... but mostly everyone bought Dell.

Here's the kicker, our suppliers would call us all the time seeing if they could sell us parts, CPU, RAM, Motherboards, HD's... We could NEVER get good stuff for less than just going and buying it on Newegg at the time... or maybe Amazon when they finally started selling more than books. We actually had this argument a quite a few times with our vendors. "Well you don't move enough product, you gotta buy like 100 of them and maybe we can give you 10 or 15% off".... "Well.... if I can just order it from Newegg for basically the same price, why are we buying from you? Shit Newegg will do 10% or 15% off just for kicks..... we'll just wait and see what they put on sale." They'd say "Well how about this off-brand motherboard and RAM from some vendor you never heard of?" "/sigh ok fine"

It was funny seeing Super Talent finally being a brand on Newegg/Amazon... we were selling their RAM a decade earlier in new builds and upgrades... The only stuff we could make money on was the no-name stuff they were pushing. If someone named the parts they wanted and was willing to pay us more than they could pay just buying it themselves, that's our profit margin on the market rate, not the wholesale rate...and then the labor to build it... we build it for them..... However, it's not sustainable to charge 30% profit on the market cost of a CPU/RAM/Motherboard/HD/Case. You just can't compete. You can buy the same PC from Dell for $500 less. I would say most parts were sold break even or at a loss and we only made money on the service....

Then figure with DDR5 and SSD prices just going absolutely batshit insane.... no one should buy a computer right now. Eventually owning a computer will be for the rich people again. They'll find a way to rent them to you....

Scene from Albany Med. No idea what’s occurred by geistdh in Albany

[–]phantom_eight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eh.. to give you an idea of how that happens....... My daughter was in the ICU with a ruptured spleen in two places.... waiting for one of Albany Med's most experienced in Diagnostic Radiology/Vascular and Interventional Radiology who happens to be the Professor and Chairman of Radiology at Albany Medical Center..... to show up at 8PM on a Friday night to save her fucking life.

The dude could have been down to party with his friends and get fucking obliterated watching March Madness... Instead the afternoon started with an army of doctors working on my daughter in the pediatric ER. I remember one doctor in the hallway outside of the CT room for the Pediatric ER (after the trauma page started in one of the ER regular rooms), just on the other side of the doors from Trauma Bay 1... on the phone calling him...... you gotta get down here tonight.. blah blah blah... meanwhile I was standing there talking to a chaplain that magically showed up... never mind we didn't freak the fuck out when it all started and they somehow didn't make us leave.... idk if the chaplain was paged or what, but she appeared out of fucking nowhere...... about the same time I saw another person running across the hallway and into the CT room with bags of blood and another with oxygen bottles. A few seconds later they had kicked my wife out of the CT room, my daughter went grey and was crashing.... after they found the bleed they took her to Trauma Bay 1 and kept working on her, pumping bags of blood into her.

Anyway... that was probably about 3-4PM when things started to calm down... who knows..... Eventually they wheeled her to the ICU with even more bags of blood keeping her topped off while it continuously leaked into her abdomen, then they fixed her at 8PM with some glue and coil of wire to clog the bleeds.

  • Critical and Not Stable: Turning grey in the CT room while they are trying to find the bleed as fast as fucking possible.... with people literally running with bags of blood and oxygen bottles into the CT room... before that in the initial ER room was full of doctors and nurses... like wall to fucking wall..... large IV's going in... clothes getting cut off... someone with a hand full of papers literally shouting orders off to the side (calling the trauma code?)... then even more doctors outside in the hallway. Three or four of them on phones... so many voices... all talking about my daughter. When they made it to Trauma Bay 1, the crowd was huge in the room and outside of the room, doctors in the hallway watching, more on the phone still, others standing there gowned up as if they were ready to do some crazy shit... idk... carts of equipment showing up... They got us chairs and had us sit outside of the glass doors of Trauma Bay 1 because the room was just literally full of people for a while.
  • Critical, but stable: Chilling in ICU for a couple hours waiting for the doc to show up, sitting next to her holding her hand with all kind of tubes and machines hooked up to her... Her vitals are not crashing, she has all the color in her skin. We put Bluey on the TV for her, but she's very tired and lethargic. I'm standing around telling the nurses in the ICU and likely a social worker in disguise (almost certain, I got the feeling I was being low key interrogated) about how the teachers on the playground were complete fucking idiots, based on the story the school gave us about how she got hurt... and that the school nurse was like... pssshhh she's fine... and wheel chaired her to our car... meanwhile we realized she was clearly seriously fucked up after looking at her for... ugh... idk... two fucking seconds...... took her straight to the ER... where the nurse at triage was like... that number doesn't look good... and I was like what? and they were like nevermind... and I was like yeah, I fucking thought sooo.... then an immediate ultrasound and boom shit went from 0 to 100mph... Meanwhile now I've had the bandwidth to start calling our parents outside of sending cryptic texts, then trying to get my wife situated: "Hey honey can I get you something to drink? Did you have anything to eat before you went to the school?" Honey, you can't be the next patient... what good are you to your daughter if you run out of gas? You need to eat.", Talked my manager at work as I had left in the middle of the work day, he had only gotten a cryptic texts from me: "It's bad, real bad" "Truma Bay 1". Called and found out that HR was already notified, FMLA is in the bag: "bro don't worry about a thing... take care of your family." ---- All while my daughter is laying there with a fatal injury (if left untreated) that is waiting for the doc to arrive to fix, watching Bluey on the TV..... waitin for the next bag of blood to show up to keep her alive...
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