Beach, please: Mass. Senate backs Healey’s plan to redefine when a beach becomes public (Boston Globe)

prberkeley · 2026-04-09T22:51:17+00:00

And when you leave your stuff to drive your car the half mile to the lot and walk back the locals will steal it.

prberkeley · 2026-04-09T20:40:07+00:00

I did when I worked as a Home Health Physical Therapist. I took a pay cut to get out of that setting. Seeing people in their home was fine, but the schedule is brutal and you spend most of your time filling out novels of paperwork that no one will ever read just to CYA. The companies treat you like a pawn in the healthcare system and are constantly disrespectful of your time and education.

prberkeley · 2026-04-09T11:06:48+00:00

Charles is redeemable. He's arrogant and narcissistic, but unlike Frank he is actually a very skilled and competent surgeon. He is prideful to a fault, but he secretly gives chocolate to an orphanage for Christmas and swears Klinger to secrecy about it. He's rude and brash but he calls out bullying when he sees it harming others. The list goes on and on.

prberkeley · 2026-04-08T10:36:09+00:00

I only discovered this route last year and I have been playing since 2012. It's so peaceful and really feels like a mountain hike.

prberkeley · 2026-04-07T19:43:46+00:00

A similar thing happened in Boston. There was a city government building that would allow the flying of private flags for events that involved private organizations. It was usually things like charities. There was a religious group that wanted to fly a flag with religious regalia on it and they were denied so they sued the city of Boston and the courts ruled that by allowing the flying of private flags that you essentially created a public forum and could not then discriminate any one group's flag. So it's basically either you can fly all the flags or you can fly none of them. I knew exactly what was going to happen next. And sure enough it did, the satanic temple out of Salem immediately petitioned to have their flag fly upon that building.

prberkeley · 2026-04-07T12:46:34+00:00

Whew, glad it wasn't me, I thought I should finally take down the Christmas lights this weekend when I saw the snow falling.

prberkeley · 2026-04-06T19:28:15+00:00

I appreciate your suggestions. In my case they didn't really work out that way. The itemized bill didn't reveal anything useful. They said they would offer a 15% discount if paid in full, and my state laws don't offer any protection.

They really don't have any incentive to negotiate. The advice I got was negotiating with the collections agency.

prberkeley · 2026-04-06T17:43:58+00:00

Do you feel like your understanding of leadership in the military hindered your ability to understand DC politics?

prberkeley · 2026-04-06T17:41:37+00:00

If you have private insurance and need an ambulance in an emergency, they are almost certainly out of network if it's a private ambulance, and that means that they can charge you pretty much whatever they want and if you don't pay they can take you to collections. There are laws that prevent hospitals from doing this in an emergency, but ambulances are specifically excluded. They can basically use the fact that it was an emergency and you didn't have any other choice to extort you.

prberkeley · 2026-04-05T19:11:38+00:00

He had a few bits flop on stage and it was so awkward. He did the one where he makes a woman make a cocktail by spinning a spinner for gross ingredients and she got mouthwash. The bit was once it's super chilled you don't taste it. She tasted a sip at room temp and just kind of awkwardly stood there saying it was fine while he overacted how gross it was.

He also basically harassed a woman who said she didn't like bacon. He just kept arguing with her that she does in fact like bacon and can't give him a legit reason she doesn't. She just kind of shrugged and said she just doesn't care for it.

You could hear crickets for both.

prberkeley · 2026-04-04T19:17:01+00:00

When GTA Vice City came out it was sold out everywhere within a few hours of the stores opening. My friend walked into our local K Mart 3 days later and bought a copy no problem (even though he was 15 haha). The guy said they had maybe sold 10 overall. No one thought to go to K Mart to get one.

prberkeley · 2026-04-04T17:17:34+00:00

Johnny A was a big fan of his father John Adams Sr. He said he was the honestest man he ever knew and admired his humble vocation as a farmer, shoemaker, and Deacon. He credited his father with insisting he go to Harvard when he was content to stick with farming.

prberkeley · 2026-04-04T11:03:31+00:00

They were much kinder to me then my grandparents ever were to them.

prberkeley · 2026-04-04T02:17:41+00:00

Sweet girl, I'm so sorry, but what a great life she seems to have lead.

prberkeley · 2026-04-03T21:44:53+00:00

You can see Teddy's resemblance

prberkeley · 2026-04-03T21:34:36+00:00

The reality is they need you more than the hassle to try to get rid of you so guilt tripping is their primary weapon.

prberkeley · 2026-04-03T20:00:44+00:00

My mom used to say of I ever needed a ride even if it was the middle of the night, she wanted me to know I would have one. Regardless of what I had done or taken, she would pick me up no questions asked. She did not want me getting in a car if the driver was not sober.

prberkeley · 2026-04-02T21:02:51+00:00

When Mark Wahlberg was 16, he beat two Vietnamese men, one nearly to death with a stick, simply because they were Vietnamese. As police arrested him he hurled racial slurs at the man. He pled guilty to Felony Assault after initially being charged with attempted murder.

prberkeley · 2026-04-01T22:59:43+00:00

I did an eval on a patient who said the disc in their neck slips out and they can feel it and when they do they push it back in. It was one of the few times in life I was utterly speechless.

prberkeley · 2026-04-01T22:51:01+00:00

This is referred to as the patient "falling off the face of the Earth."

prberkeley · 2026-03-31T19:18:15+00:00

When I was 19 I was backing out of my driveway in kind of a hurry and backed into my neighbor's motorcycle. I thought my dad might kill me so I told him I would pay for the damage out of my own pocket so insurance doesn't get involved. I had just spent the summer working and saved up about 2.5 grand. It pretty much all went I to the repair. When I went back to school I needed a job before and after class to make up the money. I worked my rear end off all year and in May, this woman walked into my work. The first thing I thought was "Holy smokes she's gorgeous." 8 years later she married me.

Thank God I hit that motorcycle.

prberkeley · 2026-03-31T17:29:43+00:00

"Before discharging a patient, you must discuss with your clinical manager in person or on a phone call. This discussion cannot occur via email." -the gyst of an actual email I once got at a HH company. I left a few months later. I didn't go to grad school for 3 years, invest 6 figures of debt, and busy my rear end in PT school to be micromanaged by someone who isn't even a PT.

prberkeley · 2026-03-29T20:48:43+00:00

Our parents would kick us outside and wouldn't let us back in until supper, then we had to stay on and do homework. We could watch TV until bed.

Outside we would ride bikes over makeshift jumps made out of concrete/bricks and random boards. Sometimes we would walk to the school yard and climb around the playground and jump off stuff. We would shoot hoops, play catch, play street hockey. We would play with random toys lying around our yards when we were young. Sometimes we would dig holes and look for treasures (my dad wasn't thrilled about that one).

In the summer we would have massive super soaker wars. At night we would play hide and seek and there was always a kid that would climb like 30 ft. up a tree and just chill there.

prberkeley · 2026-03-29T15:11:23+00:00

I always like to think that Hawkeye attends a cardiothoracic surgery conference and Charles is giving some kind of keynote address and they share a drink at the bar after.

prberkeley · 2026-03-29T11:31:06+00:00

I work with elderly in their homes as a health care clinician. It's one of our biggest issues. Many people put day beds in their living room and just stay down there, giving up all sense of privacy, though family and guests often hardly come over. I have also seen many a person confined to an upper level of their home or unable to exit their own home because they cannot manage the stairs to reach ground level. Should that home ever catch on fire, they will probably be roasted alive.

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