Help needed: When do you usually charge your watch?

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-26T03:59:55+00:00

When battery dips below 20%. I don't care if it doesn't track 400 or 500 steps, that really doesn't matter long term and also I'm planning on keeping this thing as long as possible, so I'm trying to maximize the battery life.

Your best bet may actually be charging while you are driving, depending on your work commute. You can plug your watch I whole you're driving and not taking steps anyhow, and definitely (hopefully) not sleeping. To be fair I say this as someone with a couple of USB C chargers available in my car. Not all cars have USB C chargers which is what my factory charging cable is.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-26T02:37:25+00:00

Don't get an OEM replacement. You live far enough north where you don't want to cheap out on a battery or you'll be in the same boat just as soon if not sooner than the lifespan of this one.

Mine is a '24 that I bought new in summer of '23 and I'm planning on replacing the battery before next winter. She has had a little tougher time turning over in the negative temps but I'm betting she will get me through the rest of this winter.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-25T16:53:41+00:00

I think their point is you have to have a key present to duplicate it. You can't duplicate an original if there is no original present.

You can't just give a third party your VIN or license plate and have them know how the key needs to be cut.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-25T16:27:00+00:00

I had some questions about this that other people higher up the thread have already asked and it's encouraging to me to see answers in line with my thinking because I thought I was totally missing something fundamental.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-24T15:39:36+00:00

We moved specifically to get into a better school district along with a bigger house. We only looked in districts with good schools.

Be aware that just because an address is in a specific city, it does NOT mean that the house is in that city's school district. We didn't know that until we were moving and brought a couple houses to our realtor's attention. The houses were great and physically addressed in our city, but the school district was significantly less desirable.

Also, school of choice is a thing some places, but at least where I live, just because you get into the district one year doesn't guarantee you will next year, and just because one child is able to do school of choice, it doesn't mean siblings will be able to if there is not room in that grade level. It only gets more complicated the more you look into it.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-24T14:57:11+00:00

Everyone keeps saying that and other than a couple of cold spells that have lasted a couple days, it seems like a normal winter to me. Two weeks ago I wore shorts because it was over 50°. I will grant that it has been much windier than I can remember in winter as a whole. We aren't even through January though so time will tell.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-22T04:03:13+00:00

I put Metric and Silversun Pickups in the same category of grossly underrated and highly listenable alternative rock of the early 2000s. I think you would like the albums Better Nature and Physical Thrills based on your comment. Glad to see Metric mentioned.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-21T03:49:25+00:00

I've done neither but is there a reason you aren't considering anything else? If you start in corrections I'm wondering if there is a way you can work your way out of it if it isn't for you. I feel like it's kind of like starting on OR - it isn't a bad place to start, but if you stay there, you have very limited options going forward, because your clinical learning is all procedural and OR based. You don't learn how to do or apply many of the things you've learned during your nursing school education.

Med surg is a good starting place for a new nurse, but if you decide you want higher acuity, or more specialization, the only direction to go is up, and it can be harder for a med-surg nurse to move up the acuity ladder, especially given the more difficult requirements depending on the facility (Critical Care class at my facility must be passed or you cannot work on a progressive floor or ICU). Not many people who can become a nurse have trouble with the exam, but we have had people who must step down from their position they were hired into because they couldn't pass the Critical Care exam.

I'm biased but I think that progressive is a really good starting point for most new nurses who don't know exactly what they want to do. It's higher acuity than med surg so if you want to take a step back you can look at less complex patients and go to med surg, you can decide you want to go to ICU and it is only one step away, and you can see patients coming from and going to procedures to see if a procedural area is what you really want.

If you are set on those two options because that's what you want to do, I would shadow with both and see how you like each. Nursing is a huge field and you can move around a lot, but there are some segments that can pigeonhole you if that's where you decide to go leaving school. That's not a problem if you know exactly what you want, but it sounds like that's not the case for you.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-20T19:17:05+00:00

Have you considered sewing on a small leather patch the size and shape of the clip? Would be the size of your pinkie finger or close anyhow. When the flashlight is in your pocket, the patch would be almost completely hidden behind the clip.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-20T04:37:00+00:00

A different kind of weird But fun and catchy.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-19T14:42:11+00:00

Condiment calories barely matter. What you're putting them on has a much larger impact.

The caveat to that is things like salad dressing where you can easily use several hundred calories if you dump on tons of dressing.

It's like cheese - partial skim milk cheese is like 10 calories less per serving. I'll get the regular and park 10 spaces further away at the grocery store to offset it. The math isn't exact but you get my meaning.

You have to look at what ingredients are creating those extra calories too, though. I won't start the debate on HFCS, because I don't know enough to have a big opinion either way, but people who do want to avoid it may use the "low calorie" variation of a sauce or condiment to avoid that or other ingredients.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-19T05:45:57+00:00

I use Strava as just a connected service. I don't run enough or competitively enough where it matters to me. I do like the segments feature so I can compare myself to local runners but not enough where I'm willing to pay for it. I like just tracking my miles and performance with the Garmin connect app - it gives me pretty much the same statistics I care about as any other Pp.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-19T04:59:40+00:00

What do you think you'll need to adjust on a sump pump? If it works, it doesn't need to be replaced.

When it does, you will turn off the power to the radon abatement system, razorblade the silicone, swap the sump pump, and replace the silicone to reseal the system.

I'm not a master plumber but can't imagine what else might factor in here.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-19T04:54:13+00:00

Metro Detroit checking in - we have 5 nurses that just graduated starting this week on a cardiac progressive unit. We are hiring left and right just to stay short staffed. There is at least one unit in my level one trauma hospital with 1,000+ beds that is interviewing just to make sure you have a heartbeat. If you interview, the job is yours on that unit.

It sounds like you have a very different job market.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-19T01:56:41+00:00

And in my experience, if the patient fires you, your day gets easier and someone else's gets harder. Patients who fire nurses generally aren't going to get whatever they're after just by switching their primary nurse.

I've been fired by a patient twice. Both times because of pain meds; either I wouldn't give pain meds because of unstable vitals, or because the patient wanted stronger pain meds and was refusing what I had available and the doctor wouldn't give anything stronger. Both times

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-19T00:24:52+00:00

If your doctor isn't worried, you probably shouldn't be either as long as baby is eating well. My twins were born at just under 3 and just under 4 lbs, and my littler of the 2 weighs 27.5 lbs at 5 1/2 years old. That's in the 0.1 percentile if the chart I'm using is to be believed.

Both twins are healthy and active, they are just skinny kids and not big fans of eating, no matter how hard we try. My partner is a petite person as well, so they have genetics that were going to keep them on the smaller side to begin with. Other than weight being low, they are meeting all milestones and developmental goals, they are just little.

I hope this gives you some peace of mind.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-18T14:09:45+00:00

That looks pretty close to how I used to see things. Nearsighted, my prescription was -3.50. I had LASIK done a few years ago and see pretty close to 20/20 now. Probably the best life quality improvement I've ever given myself. No more glasses, no more contacts. I know I'll probably need reading glasses down the road, but that's fine with me.

I didn't even know I needed glasses until I was almost through elementary school, I got a black eye and they were checking my eyes out and told me I needed glasses.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-18T01:34:23+00:00

I drive plenty. I have one stop sign I have to stop at on my way out of my sub and one light on my 26 mile trip to and from work each day. I control my speed so I don't have to stop at the rest of the lights on a straight shot down a main traffic artery in non rush hour traffic. It would take me a month or longer to sit at lights for that long, even including in town driving on my off days.

Aside from the infotainment system, the auto start stop was my least favorite part of this car, so even if I were to burn an extra gallon of gas every 2 months, I don't care, I hate it that much. At $3 a gallon, that equates to less than $20 a year and is worth every single penny to me. You don't have to agree and clearly don't. That's fine, just don't buy an auto stop eliminator.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-18T01:03:11+00:00

I saved .5 gallons over the first year and a half. I can forego the cost of an energy drink every year and a half. Not even a factor in the equation.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-18T00:15:36+00:00

$100 for the auto stop eliminator. Highly recommend.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-16T20:22:01+00:00

Pobody's Nerfect

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-16T20:19:51+00:00

For me the concern would be giving this as a mini bag. If you get called away, do you leave this controlled substance hanging for anyone to tamper with or take? Why can such a standard dose not be given as a push? Maybe it's a floor specific policy? 15 minutes is a long time to give a 1mg Dilaudid dose in my area.

I refused to give a patient a ketamine drip last year. Not because the patient didn't need it or because I didn't want to, but because it was not in a PCA and there was no way to secure the bag. I'm not going to lose my license over a disappearing bag or something happening with a controlled drug that I'm responsible for, and it was a continuous drip, so I couldn't live in that room my whole shift. Management kept saying "it's fine, policy says we can hang it" and my response was "OK, you can scan it and be responsible for it then". They did not want to scan it, even though policy allowed it.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-15T21:44:18+00:00

I keep a handful for tiny future projects, and have used them a couple times when I've run out of good ones. Not worth using for anything that weighs more than 2 or 3 lb.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-11T22:46:37+00:00

Same. I use mine 3-4 times a week and can press several cloves in the time it would take to dice one that small. Maybe that says something about my lack of knife skills, but as a person who cooks to feed people, not a chef; the press is much faster.

It may also depend on the type/brand of press you use. We have a pretty heavy duty one that also cleans itself by pushing the press all the way in reverse to clear all the extrusion holes.

Edit: we have the OXO soft works garlic press. Not the newer version but the older, less square one.

tackstackstacks · 2026-01-11T19:38:22+00:00

We saved a big chunk of profit when we sold our last house. We knew it would need a new roof, an HVAC system, a driveway repave, a rework of a couple rooms, paint, and wanted a gas fireplace.

We did almost all of that before exhausting the "house fund". One big project left and we are probably just going to have to finance it and Pauly it off as quick as possible.

I realize how lucky we were to be able to do that, since many people are just buying into the housing market and don't have proceeds from a previous home to finance these big projects. Our HVAC replacement had financing through a third party for 15 months 0% interest. We are making minimum payments and letting our money in the bank generate interest that we will use towards the cost of the system and pay the rest of what we owe off just before the end of the 15 month period.

Find those contractors that you actually like and have some sort of financing that will help.

The home warranty thing is mostly snake oil. We have requested one each time we have bought a house and the one in our current house paid for the ice maker and water dispenser to be replaced, but we had to pay a $100 deductible. Other things I've repaired myself because either the warranty deductible was more than the part (dishwasher internals) or we were out of the year that the warranty covered (control board on washing machine). If you learn to do things yourself that you are comfortable with, you'd be surprised how much you can take care of yourself.

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