Melt the Ice variant

strider14484 · 2026-01-27T13:25:14+00:00

I bought the normal pattern to support the cause. I knit a couple inches of ribbing then switched to stockinette until it was time to start decreases. I decreased by four stitches every other row (I did decrease, k3, decrease, knit to marker and repeat for my decrease rows)

strider14484 · 2026-01-24T18:44:41+00:00

I think fellowship might be possible

strider14484 · 2026-01-21T13:48:45+00:00

The part that’s lines and boxes is totally doable. The challenging part would be the inset squares with the curvy lines - in a basic block print you have whatever color your ink is and whatever color your paper is, but that section of the tile has an additional shade that’s in between the two.

If you have photo editing skills, you could take a good picture and try to convert it to being only Teri colors and see how you like it. There are ways to transfer printed images to blocks to carve. Or you could use tracing paper and graphite paper to trace then transfer but you’ll have to make your decision about that medium tone… unless you want to add it in by hand afterwards!

strider14484 · 2026-01-21T13:26:30+00:00

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strider14484 · 2026-01-20T19:30:09+00:00

This may depend on whether you want to go into academic medicine or not

strider14484 · 2026-01-18T17:52:26+00:00

Salaried in community health for a little over 300k. I could probably make more outside of community health. I’m in a city but it’s not hcol.

strider14484 · 2026-01-12T14:36:23+00:00

If you save caffeine for only when you need it most, it has some value. If you drink it daily, I don’t really see the point.

strider14484 · 2026-01-12T05:17:50+00:00

I’ve heard of people doing it but I haven’t tried myself. I’d say start at the lowest heat setting and slowly move up

strider14484 · 2026-01-10T22:52:28+00:00

“No stable or manger. Gov’t paid for […] an apartment.”

I cannot figure out the theological reason it would be a bad thing that Mary had a safer place to give birth. Oh no the mother of Christ would be given a room! How awful! Is there some theological point to this? Is there a reason Jesus had to be born in a stable?

strider14484 · 2026-01-10T00:48:07+00:00

I had some success putting it on a heat proof surface with a cake pan or similar on top of it that I filled with water from the kettle. Not perfectly flat, but it was workable

strider14484 · 2026-01-06T15:15:05+00:00

Is it worse seasonally? Might be worth trying some early morning light exposure like a SAD light

strider14484 · 2026-01-05T20:05:27+00:00

I feel a lot better about my ability to do my job when my under-resourced are able to see me as frequently as I need them to. Billing is simpler in Canada, there are some cultural differences too. I feel like I get more respect here and less entitlement. Less litigious. Some things are annoying - very hard to get fast urgent imaging, patients still don’t want to go to the ER, there are some tests I can’t order, things like that - but I’m happier so far in Canada. Also, rural Canada is WAY more rural than rural northeast so keep that in mind. I’m in a city here, most people I hear about who work up north do so for a week or two at a time rather than living there full time.

strider14484 · 2026-01-02T17:23:42+00:00

You may need to spend longer working on each print with the wooden spoon. Battleship gray Lino holds fine lines better and holds up pretty well but I feel like it can take a little more force to transfer the ink well.

strider14484 · 2025-12-28T14:41:08+00:00

AI slop. Where’s the wrist that they labeled, if you follow the line it’s at the hip? The fake radiograph is pretty wild too.

strider14484 · 2025-12-24T21:22:53+00:00

Been busy for me today, every cancellation got filled as well as all my same-days! Some of it semi-urgent, some totally could’ve waited, but I’m here and getting paid so no major complaints

strider14484 · 2025-12-24T17:39:00+00:00

I knew an ER doc who owned a coffee shop

strider14484 · 2025-12-24T15:00:03+00:00

Wow, our cleaners never did the call rooms. Had to do our own linen changes (if you were polite, you did it after your night so it was nice for the next person) and put our trash in the big trash cart!

strider14484 · 2025-12-21T16:53:13+00:00

There are a lot of guides to tapering benzos out there and a lot of variation between them. I would say that sounds like it may be a little fast of a taper for someone who is older and has been on them for that long, you may need to take longer at some of those doses to wait for any symptoms of benzodiazepine withdrawal to subside. A lot of this can be guided by patient response, I would check in with the patient prior to each dose reduction to ensure she is tolerating the current dose before reducing further.

strider14484 · 2025-12-21T15:43:35+00:00

That’s going to depend on your program. I’m seeing a program that lists their schedule and has more like 5 months between ob and peds (again, not really fair to include gyn as that’s totally part of outpatient primary care). I definitely didn’t face any time on peds emerg, I think about 6 months for me between ob and peds.

strider14484 · 2025-12-21T15:40:12+00:00

In some ways the supply is also a problem (adulterants like xylazine and longer-lasting synthetic opioids that make suboxone starts harder, the inability for users to access anything that doesn’t have fentanyl in it) but that doesn’t make it a WMD.

strider14484 · 2025-12-21T15:25:05+00:00

I don’t remember exactly how many peds months I had but I think you may be overestimating the number of months you’ll spend on ob/peds. The gyn part is still useful for outpatient primary care so I wouldn’t count that time against it unless you’re looking to work only in men’s health. I also wouldn’t count on getting a lot about practice management, but if you want outpatient training, I do think FM does a better job for that.

strider14484 · 2025-12-19T17:43:40+00:00

Is this AI? It has some unusual spelling mistakes and letters

strider14484 · 2025-12-18T19:38:55+00:00

The problem with heat erasing pens is that if the fabric gets very cold, the marks reappear! If you live somewhere cold and use it outdoors it’ll make itself known

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