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antigonewinchester · 2 years ago

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sorry to bother and do not feel pressure to answer if you don't feel like it this is just something i’ve been thinking about, and i didn’t feel like going through all of post-s5 to try and satisfy my curiosity, but are there any instances where sam actually talks about how long he spent in the cage with lucifer? because i see people throwing around numbers a lot, from 200 years to thousands of years, and idk are there any moments where the amount of time sam spent getting tortured is actuallly talked about? or are people just extrapolating from what we've been told about hell+time in s4? what do you think🤔

Not a bother at all! :)

From what I can remember & from checking the Supernatural Wiki, Sam never got a specific number for his time in Hell like Dean did, so people have taken to guessing and extrapolating out how long he was trapped there.

Since we know the Cage was in Hell, I tend to use Dean’s time in Hell as a way of approximating how much time Sam spent there, too. In 4x10, Dean says his 4-ish months in Hell felt "like 40 years”, meaning 1 month on Earth is approximately 10 years in Hell. I actually did some calculations once to see if I could get a specific Time on Earth vs. Time in Hell ratio, and came up with this: If approximately 4 months (120 days) = 40 years (365 X 10 = 14,600 days) > 1 month (30 days/month) = 10 years (3,650 days/year) > then 1 day on Earth = approx 121.6 days in Hell. Based on when Dean died and was resurrected (May 2nd and Sept 18th, respectively), this accounting would technically mean he was there for more than 40 years, as if he’d been in Hell for 138 days, then 138 X 121.6 = 16,780.8 days / 365 days/year = 45.9 years.

Taking the 1 day = 121.66 days and looking at Sam’s time, he went to Hell (also!) on May 2nd, 2010, and then his soul was pulled out of Hell in early December, 2011. (I’m not sure on these exact years within the show, but it is implied that Dean spent a year with Lisa, met up with soulless!Sam after that year, and then timing of the plot approximately followed the timing of the show’s airing.) Let’s say December 2nd, 2011, is when Death pulled Sam’s soul out of Hell, just to keep it simple. That would makes Sam’s time in Hell 365 days + 215 days = 580 days. 580 X 121.6 = 70,528 days / 365 days/year = 193.2 years.

I suspect where people are getting the ‘Sam spent thousands of years in Hell’ idea is from 6x14, where Sam remembers his time in the Cage when he’s unconscious for 2 – 3 minutes and then tells Dean that this time felt like “about a week.” If 3 minutes = 1 week (or 10,080 minutes) > 1 min on Earth = 3,360 minutes in the Cage. 60 mins X 24 hrs = 1,440 mins / day on Earth > 1,440 X 3,360 = 4,838,400 mins per day in the Cage as 1 day on Earth. 580 days X 4,838,400 mins = 2,806,272,000 minutes / 60 mins/hr = 46,771,200 hrs / 24hrs/day = 1,948,800 days / 365 days/yr = 5,339.17 years in the Cage.

Now, I don’t think the writers were likely thinking of Sam or Dean’s times in Hell is this specific detail. Dean’s “40 years” in particular feels like it’s meant to evoke Biblical stories, like God telling Noah it would rain for 40 days & 40 nights during the flood, Moses being on Mount Sinai for 40 days & nights, or Jesus wandering the wilderness and rejecting Satan’s temptations over 40 days. Dean’s “40” being years is a way of further emphasizing the horror of Hell & his experiences there, as well as more metaphorically evoking the time dilation of trauma & traumatic events.

Imo, this kind of metaphorical read also applies to Sam's 3 minutes = 1 week in the Cage flashback. I do not think this was intended to line up with Sam's actual time in the Cage, as Sam isn’t physically going back to the Cage but only remembering his time there. This kind of time disparity again evokes traumatic events and how someone’s experience of time can be affected by both trauma and their remembering of it. It’s also another way the narrative can emphasize why getting rid of Sam’s wall would be a really really bad idea… which then makes Cas breaking Sam’s wall at the end of the season such an Oh Shit!! moment.

#asks #sam #dean #dean & hell #sam & hell #thank you for the ask!#also i really really hope i did my math right here lol #personally while it's fun to try to get specific numbers i don't think there's a 'real' answer here #and it's enough for me to know that sam spent A Long time in Hell and it was Bad; that's its importance w/in the story #also tbh 5000+ years just feel. kind of absurd. hard to take seriously as compared to 193 yrs you know?

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mrgan · 4 years ago

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The Fastest Pan Pizza

When you proof your dough low and slow (a few days in the fridge, say) you develop both its flavor—from various bacteria having time to develop—and its structure, as the yeast process builds the gluten network further. And that's rad. But sometimes, you just want pizza this afternoon. Here's how to get an impressive pie on the table in 3 hours or so. Ready, set… dough!

Neven’s Fastest Pan Pizza

Servings: one 9 × 13" pizza. 4-6 people? Time: 10 min mix + 2-3 hr proof + 15 min bake

INGREDIENTS:

315 g all-purpose flour (you can do 100 g high-gluten flour)

5 g yeast

5 g salt

5 g sugar

255 g water

20 g olive oil

DIRECTIONS:

In the bowl of your chosen appliance (see below) combine the flour and yeast and stir well. Add the salt and sugar and stir again. Add the water and oil.

If using a stand mixer: mix 2 minutes on low; stop, scrape down, then mix another 2 minutes on medium-low; scrape down again and mix another 2 minutes at a medium speed; this is quite an aggressive speed for dough.

If using a food processor, process for 30-60 seconds until a cohesive ball is riding around the blade.

When the dough looks smooth and integrated—it will still be very wet and sticky—move it to a large, oiled bowl and cover it.

On a warm day, this bulk proof will take only about 1 hour; keep an eye on it for the last 15 minutes of that, as it may threaten to jump out of the bowl. On a cold day, you might have to go as long as 2 hours. (You can always find a warm spot, or make your oven into one by heating it for a brief minute, then turning it off.)

Oil your 9 × 13 pan thoroughly, brushing to cover every spot; a nonstick aluminum pan will work well. Once the dough is more than doubled, puffy and light, gently scrape it into the middle of the oiled pan. Oil the top of the dough a little and spread the dough to the corners a bit; you still want to use gentle movements, but make sure you're covering at least 70% of your pan with dough, and get it even-ish in thickness. With a wet, airy dough like this, you don't want to beat it up. That said, the time to stretch it is now and not later after it's even more gassy.

Cover the whole pan with something tall (as the dough will rise up a lot). Use a bigger, taller pan turned upside down, or a huge bowl maybe? Even a clean plastic box will work, really—it won't touch the food anyway. Proof for another 30-90 minutes. The dough should fill the pan aaaalmost fully, and it should look extremely alive and inflated.

In the meantime, preheat your oven at 550ºF with a rack in the middle.

When the dough looks great, drizzle a little more olive oil on top. Pop into the oven for 5 minutes, rotating it halfway through the bake. Remove from the oven when it looks "dry"; it needn't look golden brown or anything. This par-bake will make sure your crust gets a good vertical rise before it's weighed down by toppings.

Let it rest for 5 minutes in the pan, then top. My preferred approach goes like this, from the bottom to the top:

Sliced cheese (aged mozzarella, provolone, muenster…)

Light sauce

Dry cheese (Romano, parmesan…)

Fresh cheese chunks (fresh mozzarella, ricotta…)

Toppings

Move that middle oven rack to the top third of the oven. Bake the pizza for 5-10 minutes, until the whole thing makes delicious frying sounds and the top looks done.

Wait 5 minutes, or eat hours later at room temp.

Tips, tricks, and tomato sauce

With quick-working yeast recipes, it is very important that your yeast is super healthy and alive. A packet of Fleischmann that's been in the pantry for months is a risky proposition. Buy the really good stuff and store it in the freezer; use straight from the freezer.

Having published several pizza recipes, I've never explained what tomato sauce I use. So here's my general-purpose tomato sauce recipe!

Neven's Simple Tomato-Butter Sauce

INGREDIENTS

14 oz can good canned, crushed tomatoes (Bianco di Napoli, Carmelina's, Sclafani, Pomi…)

1/2 tsp salt

1 tbsp butter

DIRECTIONS

Put all the ingredients in a skillet at the same time. Heat at medium-low for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally; you want to see a steady simmer, but without the sauce popping out of the pan. When the sauce is thickened, it's done.

For a punchier variation, sauté diced garlic in the pan at very low heat until fragrant; add dried herbs (thyme, oregano, marjoram) and red pepper flakes; then add the ingredients as above and proceed.

That's it for fast pizza!

P.S. More baking recipes are available at https://mrgan.com

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bearificationtransformations · 4 years ago

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Pavel had always been skinny, maybe even scrawny. He was sick of it, but he never had the appetite to really pack on any more weight, nor the dedication. He went to the gym on occasion , but never stuck with it.

He was turning 28 next month and he hated that he was still a twink. Sure, some guys liked him skinny and smooth, but he was tired of how skinny he was. 60 kgs on his 1.75m height was just not enough.

It was on a porn site where he heard about a new formula “bulk up instantly- massive weight gainer”. Pavel had seen adverts for similar “instant “ formulas come up in the past on that porn site before, but he didn’t buy into it. They were sometimes posted in the comments but always disappeared quickly, scrubbed from the site.

This time, however, it seemed different. Sure maybe it wasnt anything, but he clicked on it. It launched his email immediately with a subject line already filled out “request- massive weight gainer”

No way, this was suspicious as hell.

He thought he closed the tab, and his email, and didn’t think anything more of it.

Not even 5 minutes later he got an email from a strange email address with the like “Re: request- massive weight gainer”

“50€ for the full dose, 35€ for a half dose. Take with exercise.”

Pavel was pissed, the bastards had grabbed his email address and now he was getting spam.

Pavel ignored it.

An hour later another email popped in, from the same spam-ish looking sender:

“Pavel, spécial discount for you! 35€- full dose. Get huge “

How did they get his name?

He wrote back “take me off the email list”

And just moments later “Pavel, this weight gainer can make you enormous like you’ve always wanted. We will send it to you for free, just promise to take photos of your progress and it’s yours.”

Pavels dick stirred a bit. The idea of getting enormous did turn him on. He looked at his scrawny build and before he even finished typing his mailing address in the response another email came in.

“Your free dose of massive weight gainer is in the mail. It will be sent to

34 Rue de Sans Souci

1040, Ixelles, Belgique

Please use in conjunction with rigorous exercise”

Now Pavel was spooked. How had they known his full address? He turned off his computer and went to bed.

A small box came the next day from “Énorme, a division of Mass. Inc.”

He was too freaked out to try it. For days the unopened package sat on his desk. About a week after the mysterious package arrived he recieved another unsolicited email:

“Thank you for choosing Énorme, a division of Mass inc. Please go ahead and try the formula you have been sent. You will enjoy the huge bulk it will add to your frame. You will enjoy growing enormous. You will love your new size. Please respond to this email with your progress pictures.

Best,

The Énorme team.”

Pavel couldn’t believe it. What were they even talking about? As he read and re read the words in the email he felt himself getting turned on. He had to try it, he had to get enormous. Fuck he was getting hard as hell thinking about what that formula would do to him. He was all in on it. Suddenly, instead of uneasy, Pavel wanted to go all in. He wanted to get huge. He stroked his dick at the thought of it.

He opened up the package, found the vial and downed it without hesitation. He started jerking off imagining his thin frame blowing up.

Within the hour Pavel saw changes to his body. His thin frame was getting ever so slightly bigger. He was starting to fill out. He stepped on the scale. 63 kgs.

He was growing, the formula was working. Pavel jerked off a second time thinking about it. As the minutes passed he could feel himself getting heavier, adding more and more chunk to his frame, his ass filling out. Three hours after drinking the entire formula, he was up to 70 kilos and gaining fast. A small little belly was starting to form on his formerly flat stomach. He was ballooning up. By 14 hr he was 80 kilos and his belly was starting to really make itself known. His frame was widening, but he was growing chubbier without adding much muscle.

That evening as he jerked off the 6th time to his growing belly and fattening form, he realized he needed to workout, per the instructions. Fuck! No wonder he was just getting fat.

Pavel headed to the gym and began a half hearted workout in the biggest clothes he could find. His now nearly 100 kg frame was dominated by a new belly. Pavel was never one for working out, but he gave it a shot. He took the selfie requested by the Énorme team. His arms looked bigger and his shoulders had some suggestion of muscle- but mostly it was his belly. A big growing belly that was taking up more and more space in front of him.

Fuck! He really was getting huge. He couldn’t believe how thick he was getting. His belly was getting so round and heavy. He could feel his new weight slowing down his steps. He could feel his new body still expanding as he lifted weights.

115 kgs was what the scale said at the gym. He was huge! There weren’t any men as chunky and thick as him anywhere in the gym. He looked at himself, turned on by his much fatter, rounder form. He looked like one of those fat American gainers he liked.

Wait, what? He liked gainers? Fuck. He was so turned on by his transformation. He did like gainers. He loved gainers.

Back at home he couldn’t do anything but explore his new growing form and jerk off. He could more muscle mass being added to his build- his shoulders were growing wider and his arms were getting much thicker. He liked what he saw. A fat man with muscle as his foundation. Fuck, this was him now. A thick, strong looking fat man. Huge belly, thick arms. He obsessed over his new body. Feeling himself growing... gaining.

He didn’t sleep that night, so was too worked up. After around 3 am, he could feel the growth was coming to an end. He knew it was wearing off. The only thing that still fit him were his elastic gym shorts, and even they were incredibly tight.

Pavel tried to weigh himself on his scale, but got an error message. He now exceeded the 150 kilo weight limit. Fuck, he was so blown up. He felt like a blimp and he loved every second of it. Pavel snapped the second pic to get a sense of his new size.

He sent off the pics to Énorme that morning.

They were right, Pavel did love being enormous. Now the question was, what was he going to wear?

#gainer fiction

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freckledacademic · 4 years ago

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hello everyone!

i had someone request a breakdown of what my medical school/MSTP application looked like, so here we go!

FIRST - a disclaimer! this is my application, and it worked for me. it doesn’t look like the application of my classmates and other medical school friends who also got in. one of my friends got a below average MCAT, but her clinical experience and extracurriculars meant she got into (and is going to!) a highly-ranked medical school. on the other hand, my application was weighted fairly heavily in the direction of academics, since that’s my strength!

also, keep in mind i was applying to medical scientist training programs with the goal of getting an MD/PhD -- my app is also pretty research heavy

onto the specifics!

general

i went to a small liberal arts college with a focus on research. nearly every student does a senior thesis, and science senior theses usually involve lots of lab work/data generation done by the student.

i double-majored in mathematics and biochemistry & molecular biology, and between those classes, gen eds, and music, i was generally over full-time but just under the credit limit per semester.

i took the MCAT in May of 2018, and applied that summer. my AMCAS was in July 9th, and I got approved ~August 10th. this was between my junior (17-18) and senior (18-19) years. i matriculated at my med school in july of 2019.

numbers

GPA - 3.97 (ish? i got two A-s, and everything else was As)

MCAT - 519 (130 on three sections, 129 on one. i don’t remember which one though whoops)

clinical experience

shadowing - shadowed with two different doctors - an oncologist over the course of a semester, and a clinical pathologist for a day. total # of hours - relatively low, maybe 15-25.

clinical volunteering - i volunteered at a free clinic near my college for one afternoon every week or so during most of junior spring and senior year. total # of hours - ~60 hrs

medical ethics program - related to the longitudinal oncology shadowing. once a month, throughout the spring semester of my junior year, we would meet to discuss articles we’d been assigned to read on a topic eg: end of life care, malpractice, etc. total # of hours - ~10 hrs

research experience

research assistant, yeast genetics lab - i worked in this lab during the spring of my first year and during the summer after. it was my first lab/research experience, and it taught me a lot regarding lab techniques and lab mentality. garnered me my one and (still) only publication! total # of hours - 400+ hrs

research assistant, computational biology lab - i worked (and went on to do my senior thesis) in this lab during my junior year. it was partially an excuse to get started with my thesis coding early, because it was going to take a lot of time, but it also helped me get acquainted with my thesis advisor! total # of hours - ?

research intern, cancer research center - this was an internship i applied for that was specifically for students with a year left in college that occurred the summer between my junior and senior year. i worked with a biostatistician on developing a machine-learning model to predict disease risk based off of demographic data. i learned a lot about R, statistics, and regression models. i also learned that i don’t like R, statistics, and machine learning models lmao. note: this didn’t technically go in my AMCAS iirc, because i applied while i was *at* the internship. i did talk about it at interviews!

senior thesis - this was another thing that wasn’t in my app itself, because at the time it hadn’t been written lmao. it was something i was able to talk about at interviews, but it being ~still in progress~ did complicate it

on-campus jobs

peer tutor - got recommended by a professor my first year for a different tutoring program, but my schedule was a mess so i ended up as a one-on-one peer tutor! i really enjoyed it, but i had to drop it with how busy i got junior year, so i only did it for two years (freshman spring --> junior fall). total # of hours - 210 hrs

laboratory course TA, cell biology - again, got asked by a professor to do this. specifically TA’d 2/3 sections junior fall, and then 1/2 or 1/3 sections every semester after that. also held office hours, maintained longitudinal lab experiments, and supervised students performing experiments. total # of hours - 800 hrs (TAing this class was absurd and i did it for four semesters)

extracurriculars

collegiate choir member - i adore singing, and part of the reason i went to the college i did was so i could still partake in music while pursuing a science degree. i was a part of my school’s auditioned choir for all four years at my school, and it involved 1h15m practices 4 days a week, regular concerts, and an annual spring tour. total # of hours - 500 hrs

chorus manager - i was a manager of the chorus as well for three years (sophomore through senior). i was very much in charge of the organization - making sure everyone had uniforms, that those uniforms were on for concerts and that everyone was wearing shoes. shepherding people on trips, solving problems, taking attendance, etc. etc. total # of hours - 250 hrs

i also took voice lessons, though i don’t think i put that down on my app? iirc there’s a limit to how many activities you can add?

other

honor societies

Phi Beta Kappa - general undergrad honor society, inducted junior year

Mu Alpha Theta - mathematics honor society, inducted sophomore year

Beta Beta Beta - biology honor society, inducted sophomore (?) year

awards

Barry Goldman scholarship - honorable mention

Dean’s List - all 8 semesters

various prizes specific to my undergrad

academic merit scholarship, minor voice scholarship

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to sum it all up....

i think the pros of my application include a strong academic presence, proof of my interest in research, and the existence of significant interests outside the STEM pathway - namely, music!

i think the major con of my application was a really weak clinical experience section, tbh. i also feel like some schools on the other side of the country from my undergrad like. hadn’t heard of it lmaooo.

everyone’s application will be different!! and that’s good, and okay, and you’ll be fine. you want to think about the things that make you you, and potentially the things that reflect on the kind of doctor that you’d like to be.

#medical school #med school #med school advice #medblr #freckled talks #studyblr #academics unite #academicsunite #medical school applications #whooooop this took me like an hour to write up. what a thrilling tour of my college resume lmao

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infinitysisters · 5 years ago

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College is characterized in two contradictory ways: it is the only firm path to the upper-middle class, and it is a time of Animal House antics. This is so familiar that we often forget it doesn’t make sense. Want to be a respectable member of the upper class? Quick, bong this beer. Campus decadence is a sorting mechanism that elevates people who pay lip service to permissiveness, but don’t fully participate—a preparatory performance of the fake counterculture. “Decadence” sounds incorrect since the word elicits extravagant and glamorous vices…All our decadence becomes boring, cringe-inducing, and filled with HR-approved jargon. “For my Fulbright, I studied conflict resolution in nonmonogamous throuples.” Campus dynamics may partially explain this phenomenon. Camille Paglia has argued that many of the brightest left-wing thinkers in the 1960s fried their brains with too much LSD, and this created an opportunity for the rise of corporate academics who never participated in the ’60s but used its values to signal status. What if this dropout process repeats every generation? A key benefit of any prestige university is the social network. In order to take full advantage of this, students must participate in party culture without losing control of their appetites. Fiction often confronts open secrets, and The Secret History by Donna Tartt follows a group of eccentric college students who destroy their lives after taking their professors’ Dionysian stories too seriously. This might point to obvious truths about moderation: self-control accompanies success. Yet vices and virtues are not doled out equally, and when leadership training is done in a hyper-permissive atmosphere, we narrow the type of character who emerges. A Harvard Business Review study (https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-fastest-path-to-the-ceo-job-according-to-a-10-year-study) of common traits among CEOs found that the leaders who rose to that position fastest were those who had a “catapult experience”—a bold and potentially risky career move. Perhaps the same traits that lead to this type of bold action might also lead to very poor outcomes on a college campus. Perhaps hyper-permissiveness actually ends up promoting a form of timidity. We’re left with Silicon Valley dorks who microdose LSD in order to create hookup apps where users exchange sex puns on the toilet. It seems misguided to criticize college antics when woke scolds and corporate ascetics are draining the life out of everything. College is fun, and mostly harmless. As a society, however, it’s worth asking how the story of college as a time of extended adolescence can coexist with the story of college as the path to success. Solo cup culture flourishes because college is simply a pay-to-play credentialing service.

James McElroy

#college #essays #americanlife #academia #leadership #universities #solocup #business #jamesmcelroy #collegelife #camillepaglia #society #culture #americanculture #universityculture #education #donnatart

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prorevenge · 6 years ago

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Bad renting situation.

Set the scene for you guys: The place we were renting is a duplex that is split down the middle here in Upstate NY. My little 2 bedroom side of the house was next to the garages and driveway. It had a small side of the yard which was 15 ft x 5 ft. We have a Chocolate Lab named Benny that uses that back yard for his bathroom etc. The shitty neighbor in my duplex who I’ll call Rick had the bigger side of the yard and a staircase that lead up to the back field where there was a nice walking path and horse farm. The back of our duplex was kind of built right into the side of the hill leading up to the horse farm/corn farm. Rick was subletting one of his rooms to a Russian chain smoker that we’ll call Olga and she was the same age as him (60 ish). Rick is an asshole 90% of the time and demands we never use his staircase to go up to the walking trail. His Russian friend and he also chain smoke in front of our living room window making our house smell like an 80’s era bowling alley. Over the course of our renting this place we got in numerous fights with these asshats over where they could smoke so that our side of the house didn’t stink. The landlord lives in FL and uses the property as his retirement cash cow. The LL we’ll call Dwayne and he’s about 70 years old. The house itself was built in 1940 or earlier and we lived on an old farm road with a pumpkin farm across the street. Just want you to have an image of the location because it’ll come into play.

The first week we’re in the house unpacking and my wife asked me to plug in the vacuum and run it around the downstairs to get up the Styrofoam from the packing materials. I notice that the plug sparks when you plug it in or unplug anything. I call Dwayne and tell him and he says “Ok…..call around and get a price from an electrician and let me know what it’ll cost.” This was a red flag for me. I’m paying $1300 a month for this duplex and now this guy wants me to do all his leg work since he is out of state. I figure whatever and find an electrician that’ll charge $200 for the house call plus the outlets he’ll end up replacing. I call Dwayne and he says “no, that’s too much, I’ll send one of my guys over to do it.” This pissed me off because I just spent 20 minutes calling around getting ballpark quotes but I figure fine as long as the work gets done. Fast forward 1 month and his electrician finally shows up one day to do the work. He replaces 12 of the 14 outlets because he didn’t think he’d find so many bad ones. I figure that’s fine since the ones he didn’t replace are up in the room we never use.

2 months goes by and its early spring and raining a ton. One night we get a HUGE downpour that lasts for about 35 minutes. My wife says she hears water in the basement. I run down in the basement and we have 2 waterfalls coming through the windows that look into the backyard and 4 inches of water on the floor and rising. I call Dwayne the next morning and tell him about the windows in the basement and the flooding and he says I need to find a cleaning service to clean up the mess. I tell him I can’t because I’m going to work. He says “ok, do it after work then.” I say “listen, I don’t own this house, you do, so find someone today that can clean this up and repair the windows or I’m going to do it myself and take it out of the rent (which is NY state law.)” He gets pissed and hangs up. Later in the evening he calls and says a cleaning service will be there in two days to clean the basement from all the mud and water. I tell him that’s fine but he might want to repair the windows since it’s still raining pretty regularly. He says no that won’t be necessary since he’s still getting quotes about a French drain for the back of the house. The cleaning crew shows up and they clean the whole basement out. It takes them 6 hrs with power washers and scrubbing machines etc. They leave at 5pm that day and we’re thinking ok great now we have the basement cleaned up, but the windows aren’t holding anything out since they are so old and have no sealant around the outside edges. 2 days goes by and it downpours again and fills the basement back up with water and mud. I call Dwayne and he sounds defeated. He tells me that he’ll send the cleaning crew back out the same day the contractors are going to show up with the backhoe for digging the French drain around the backside of the house. Fast forward 2 weeks and everybody shows up. The work is completed and we’re happy to have a normal basement again even though I’m pissed that we have had a swamp down there for so long.

2 more months goes by and my wife one night screams while in the kitchen. She swears she saw a mouse in the kitchen run from under the sink to the under the oven. I ask her what it looked like and she says big, grey, and had pink ears. I know right away this isn’t a field mouse but a full grown rat. I open the drawer below the oven and all our cupcake pans are full of little rat turds and its fucking nasty. Thankfully we never bake so they weren’t a big loss. I call Dwayne and he says he has an exterminator friend that lives nearby and he’ll call him and get back to me. Dwayne calls back the next morning and says “I spoke to my friend and he claims that your dog going to the bathroom in the backyard is probably attracting the rats.” I tell him “rats don’t eat shit, so that makes no sense. We’ll need to have an exterminator sent out to deal with this.” Dwayne goes on a tirade about how we’re the worst renters and that we constantly complain about little things. I tell him “for $1300 a month I expect a rat free, spark free, living space that doesn’t flood or smell like a bowling alley.” At this point Dwayne says he’ll look into it and hangs up. I’m super pissed at this point. We’ve had nothing but problems with this place from the first week and now we’ve got rats in our kitchen. I do a little digging online and find out that you can have health department investigate rat infestations and if they see that the landlord isn’t doing anything about it, they’ll put a lien on the house until the work is complete. So obviously I decided to go that route. I call the health inspector and he tells me that he’ll come out in a few days and do an inspection and get back to me. Dwayne calls me back and says the rat problem is my fault because I have a dog and that I need to deal with the problem myself. I told him no problem I just set up an appointment with the health inspector. Dwayne get really upset and cusses me out. I call my lawyer and tell him to call Dwayne and arrange for us to break the lease since I don’t want to deal with him anymore.

Fast forward two months. The health inspector had found a bunch of rats and holes in the foundation and evidence that the colony had been living in the house for “years and years from the looks of it.” He contacts Dwayne and tells him about the lien if he doesn’t address it. Dwayne calls me and says he’s sending an exterminator. Now at this point I had put the place up on Craigslist to find new renters since Dwayne had decided to sublet our lease instead of let us out of it. I found some college kids that were desperate for a place and they seemed like typical, rich college kids. I tell them that the place doesn’t have A/C and they’ll need window units etc. But I also tell them that the next door neighbor is pot friendly and loves smoking. I tell them that he is super chill and that they can totally use the staircase in the backyard to use the hiking trails. One of the kids brought his mom that showed up in a new Jag and so I knew that Dwayne wasn’t going to be able to shit all over these people since I knew they’d lawyer up. I never mentioned the rat infestation or that this place was a nightmare because I knew that these kids’ rich parents would go nuclear with a lawyer if they had to deal with this stuff.

Dwayne accepted the new tenants and let us out of the lease. All it took was a few threats from my lawyer before I got my security deposit back.

Fast forward 3 months. I drive by the old place to see what’s happening. It looks like the college kids and Rick are off to a rough start. There is a plastic divider down the driveway to separate who gets what. There are beer cans all over the front yard and Rick’s truck is parked on the side lawn. He never did that when we lived there, so I’m sure these kids were driving him crazy with parking. Olga is nowhere to be seen since she probably jumped ship when the parties started. I don’t know what became of the rats but 2 months later I did another drive by and there was no furniture on our side of the house which tells me everybody had left and Dwayne wasn’t making any money….which made me happy since he was a fucking prick.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that after we moved out, the cleaning service called me to see about payment for the basement cleaning. Apparently, Dwayne never paid them and they couldn't reach him. I gave them his cell number and his FL address. That felt really good to do as well.

TLDR: rented a duplex that needed tons of repairs and ended up leaving the asshole neighbors and landlord with college bro’s that loved 4/20 and parties.

(source) (story by LedZeppelinRiff)

#prorevenge #by LedZeppelinRiff #pro revenge stories #revenge stories #pro #revenge #revenge story #last10

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stevensaus · 3 years ago

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Personally Witnessing Medical Injustice

This post was written by a friend of mine, Erik Pilgrim, and shared with his permission. One detail that he omitted that may be relevant to some: The hospital system that he’s referring to is an explicitly Christian one, where the HR department explicitly asked me if I had a problem with there being a prayer before every meeting. You tell me if the behavior Erik witnessed truly “conveyed God’s love in a caring environment”. *** I had a referral to see an orthopedist this past Tuesday (for my hip, because apparently, I’m officially old) at a facility in Middletown that I hadn’t been to previously. The location is owned by a large local health care provider (rhymes with ‘lettering’). My personal experience wasn’t truly negative (prescribed stretches and exercises), but in less than 20 minutes, I saw the experiences of two other care seekers firmly encapsulate the current state of our healthcare system in the supposed richest country in the world. I arrived at the building and went to the suite of my specialist. There, the receptionist sent me back to the main entrance’s front desk to get checked in for a tech to take some X-rays. I signed on the check-in sheet, sat down in the small lobby, and waited to hear my name. While waiting, other patients were called up to register. In this small space, I got to overhear a man checked in for some tests and get asked to pay his co-pay of $288—at least $200 more than I’ve ever heard for a co-pay. By his tone, he was somewhat distraught and confused by the high dollar amount, and because he believed that he had already met his health deductible for the year. As he came to grips with his situation, the nurse did offer that he didn’t necessarily have to pay the full amount now. He must have paid enough because the nurse finished checking him in. The nurse also explained to him that he had not met his deductible before this testing, but that he could rest easier because after the day’s billing, it had been met for any future procedures. He hadn’t even gotten the test or any results/diagnosis, but he probably wasn’t able to think about his health as he walked away, wondering how to pay his balance. That being sad enough, a few moments later I watched a 60-ish homeless man enter. He left his trash bag of possessions in a lobby chair and walked with obvious physical difficulty over to the emergency desk. He told the security guard he needed to see a social worker. His cautiously optimistic tone suggested he felt he had a real solution to his situation. The emergency nurse then came out and started asking him the standard questions. He told the nurse that he was ‘done’ and needed to see a social worker. He also explained that he had been turned away somewhere else (a shelter, I assumed) because it was full. The nurse told him that there weren’t any social workers on staff at this facility and that seeing a social worker isn’t considered an emergency. Undeterred, he paused for a few seconds, and then said that he was suicidal. From his tone, I don’t think he actually was, but I don’t blame him in the least for making the claim, even if it might be false. The somewhat jaded nurse didn’t seem concerned with his claim and her tone conveyed zero compassion for this man. She tried a few questions to trip him up, and then resorted to point blank asking, “Are you just saying that you’re suicidal, so we’ll take you back to the exam area?” The homeless man remained steadfast in his assertion for self-harm. Though frustrated, she did check him in and took him back to the exam area. While this is happening, I look over at the opulent wall display in the lobby. It’s about 15 feet long and describes the bible’s creation mythos, complete with quotes from Genesis and Revelations for each day of that first week. Each day has a brightly lit blue translucent glass with large bronze panels. I have no idea of the cost, but I’ve seen it at other facilities from this health care provider. Maybe they get them at a bulk discount. Maybe that money could be better spent elsewhere. I don’t have a happy ending for either of these humans. I got called back for my x-rays and then went on to my scheduled appointment. I wish I could say the man with the ridiculous co-pay got some real financial relief beyond an installment plan. Once it’s January 1, he gets to start paying toward that deductible all over again. I wish I could say that I saw the homeless man get the help he needed, both for the immediate problem and for some long-term solution. I hope he at least got some medical attention, but reality isn’t a network medical melodrama, so I have my doubts. All of this together made me immensely sad. I knew on a certain level that this is how things go these days, but it’s sobering to have it happen so plainly right before me in such a short span of time. I could be insensitive and talk about how I’m fine and I’m just so lucky (read ‘blessed’) to not be in either of their situations. But that kind of thinking just perpetuates these problems. I shouldn’t be having a better medical experience simply because I can afford better insurance. I’m not special and those two people didn’t deserve their ‘treatment’. All I could think was that it doesn’t have to be this way. Somebody make it make sense. Featured Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash Read the full article

#healthcare #religion #uspol

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martinlawless · 4 years ago

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Velo-Schils BMCR Double Circuit Races

2 x Cat ABCD races 9 May 2021 Northern Gateway Sports Park, Colchester

The Northern Gateway Sports Park is a rubbish name for a really good brand new facility on the edge of Colchester. It features a one-mile cycle circuit loop. The Velo-Schils BMCR races there caught my eye as it was a chance to check it out.

This would be my first BMCR race and partly a plan to focus more and more on veteran’s racing, with a view to having a good go at some of the Vet 50+ races next year. The 30 spaces filled up pretty fast and I scanned the start list beforehand and did a crude calculation of who I might be able to get the best of, and who was better than me. My slide rule suggested I would be 14th.

I packed well in advance. It’s nice to feel prepared. However, with 48 hrs to go, my rear wheel decided to fail. It is on its last legs. Or maybe even finished. Luckily, a word out through Strava and I had several offers of a spare wheel. I also found time to see Richard in Ashwell for some TLC on the wheel to patch it up as best as could be done.

The drive over is quite long, but it’s very easy and I’m there without fuss. The facility is really new. It reminds me of Lee Valley Velodrome in some ways: layout and general buzz. The circuit has a similar vibe too.

The loop is really quite straightforward, making it fast. The bends are mostly gentle, it’s as good as flat, so every corner is attacked at speed. It is a flatter version of the Lee Valley circuit, without the dead-ish corner at the far end. An MK Bowl-Lee Valley lovechild. It does have an oddly sketchy chicane - near the finish line too. In itself not a bad challenge, but the run off is into chunky gravel and pretty certain disaster if you need to ride into it. I would recommend they fringe it with some safer rideable edges. Like they have at Lee Valley.

I arrive in good time, register and pin up and get a good 20 minutes easy rollering in. Mostly to wake the driving legs up. It’s warm with a light breeze for the first race. This would be a double race event. Each half-hour race, half an hour apart. I have brief chats with CC Luton’s Matt who I met at the Ashwell chaingang a few weeks ago. And I get to congratulate Valentino on his great 6th place at last weekend’s Hog Hill race. I twiddle away in the car park whilst watching the 60+ age category race and hope I’ll be as fit and fast as those guys one day in the future.

We set off on a neutralised lap. We’re going clockwise. I hear later that British Cycling won’t approve the course to go anti-clockwise. But can’t work out why. Going clockwise means hitting the chicane hard near the finish line and adds considerable drama.

We glide over the start line, the flag goes and we’re off and full gas. As I’ve literally never raced a millimetre of the nice tarmac, I choose to tuck inside the bunch for the first few laps to try and figure out the best lines. It’s a northerly wind and I get into a gliding rhythm of drifting from one side of the bunch line to the other in search of shade from the breeze. At times, the bunch seem indifferent to the optimal protection from the wind, which is good news to me. I find out that the first left bend is too tricky to try and jump on the inside. It’s too tight and you lose all your speed. The far bend that brings on the return leg is gentle and swooping and quite easy to find the right line except for when you get over the rise where you need to be careful not to clip off the left edge of the track. There’s a significant drop in height to the left. If you come off the track here, it would be interesting to see if you could claw back on OK.

The return leg of the lap is gentle in curve. This will most often be a headwind and possibly where a break would most commonly be made or consolidated.

Then, turning to the lap start/finish, there’s a chicane. If you’re not being observant, it will catch you out and you’re off into the heavy gravel stuff. Past here and it’s a dash to the line. Really short.

After a short while I’m conscious of the burn I’m making being at the back. Too much braking and surging. Wasted watts. I try and climb higher into the bunch and have an easier time. I notice many riders are not carrying a bottle but I do - to keep the airways clear and cool and to swig and signal when you want to communicate you’re not going to push hard on the front.

There are some great riders in the mix and I am aware my chances of any success lies in keeping it a bunch and going long at the end. There are some brave moves at a breakaway. But everyone is too fresh to let anything go. Having said that, in to the last lap and one rider has a certain gap while we others chase down the rest of the places. I have a good go at things with half a lap to go and find myself in a decent position where there’s good momentum. It seems it won’t be a slow - then manic surging - finish. My least favourite race finish. We swoop the final corner and everyone is pretty locked into their position. I have a clean run in and am happy to come in 10th, 4th in Age Category (B, 45-49).

We clear the course, there’s a bit of banter and I make my way back to the rollers for 10 minutes to keep the legs turning ahead of race 2. It’s now hotter. The bike computer is saying 26 degrees, with heat bouncing off the tarmac. It’s also significantly windier.

Fresh energy drink. Another gel. A little chewy bar. An apple. We’re off into race 2. I can feel the lack of freshness this time but also know that others will feel it too. It’s a relaxed start and one guy goes rogue over the chicane and cuts across the course, to prove his cyclo-cross skills and maybe to make a point on this pokey-out bit. Laughter over, it dials up. Soon, it’s hot wattage again. I feel like I’m in the Ashwell chaingang, “lap 3”, where it’s biting but doable. I can feel we’re dropping riders here and soon start to see some on the opposing part of the track. But I’m doing OK and enjoying learning the curves. At one point I see Valentino and a few others consolidate a break and think that looks good. I breathe in a make a burst over to them. I’m pleased to have made the leap. Unfortunately, my effort wasn’t quite a clean break and I pull the bunch with me too much. But, I’m pleased to have been able to apply this effort without too much trouble.

Fresh legs. My strategy to get to today with fresh legs looked like this:

Sunday, hard short Zwift crit, full beans for 22 mins.

Monday, easy 2.5hrs road ride

Tuesday, hard Ashwell chaingang, 1 hr 15 mins

Wednesday, hard Ashwell 10m TT, 23 mins 40 secs.

Thursday, nothing really. Home-made 40 mins HIT gym session, + 5k light run.

Friday, 20 miles easy morning tailwind ride. Was thinking about a Zwift crit too, but exhausted by a stressful day at work.

Saturday, nothing. Sports physio in the afternoon.

Sunday, racin’. 48hrs of fresh legs.

I enjoy the level-headedness of my co-riders. No stoopid moves. Though one rider does lurch to the left and I have to be evasive to avoid getting chopped. A Rapha CC rider observes this and raises his eyebrows at me and laughs, while I roll my eyes invisibly from behind my fancy new shades. Drama - but no drama - sort of thing. Grown ups.

OK. Last few laps. I don’t quite know how, but I read the lap counter wrong. On reflection, I may have read “3 laps to go” as the sign was being put out - not to announce it was actually “3 laps to go”. Anyway, for whatever reason, when I see the Colourtech rider, followed by the nippy Stow CC rider ping off the front with what I think is the final lap, I go with. I cross the line and hear the bell and don’t see the chequered flag. Oops. Racing is planning and opportunism. What to do now? Without much thought, I figure, I may as well give it full beans and see what happens. There are no points to score this season. Colourtech chap is significantly ahead and not interested in teaming up. Stow CC fella is burning up fast and I’m catching him. But I’m frazzling quickly too. The bunch are around 8-10 bike lengths behind. Into the headwind and I can see and feel this is a desperate attempt to beat the bunch. They are not relenting and I am dipping below 25mph. This is hopeless.

Stow elbows me to take the front but my help is feeble. Into the final big bend and I can hear the wheels of the bunch. I’m pedalling squares in the final short sprint and swamped. 11th, 4th in Age Category again (B, 45-49). Ah well. I had a go. This might have worked if I had been allowed to escape with half a lap to go. Something to think about for another time. It was good to pressure the bunch and I will think about such a move again in the future. I need to use my TT more in races.

Race over. We’re all done. I say bye to Mark, Valentino and several other of my competitors for the day and get home without fuss. I think about a celebratory McDonalds from the one opposite the park, but the 40 car queue puts me right off an it’s a bobbins Wild Bean Cafe BP garage americano and a banana and clementine from my food bag instead.

I look forward to more adventures here and more BMCR racing too.

Strava links: https://www.strava.com/activities/5266417763 https://www.strava.com/activities/5266971821

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samknitchester · 5 years ago

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6.5 ish hrs without power after 30 ish minutes of wild storm.

when the power cut out, i flipped the switch on my ceiling fan because i run it 24/7 and i didn't want dust flung at me when it came back on.

power finally comes back 11:20. one of the things i do is the pillowcase method for the blades followed by a swiffer duster to make sure i got it all. i flip the switch back and -

the motor pops. it's dead. motherfucker.

it's already hot in the house. even my mother, in her 60s, on blood thinners, says it's hot. i run hot. i crack windows in the winter.

thing is, they keep replacing it with the same brand, same model. why? every time we have an outage, this happens.

any recs on brands with good out put/power/i don't have to run on high to feel the breeze? preferably sold in or to america. thanks

#ceiling fan #yours truly

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stevestonbike · 5 years ago

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Yes I ride in rain....

It is still too dark after work and probably wont be riding conditions until April.

I ride in the dark sometimes, but at night in the rain is dangerous around here. Even with flashing bike lights in rain with wipers going it is hard to see bikes through car windshields. I drive more than ride (about double) so I know this first hand, and I look out for cyclists when I drive. It is not fun to get hit by a one ton death machine.

So yet again more spinning on a dark and stormy night.

January is done. I am behind last year, but I am way ahead of the three previous years. It is weather dependent as spinning inside in the week does not come close to the distance of the real world.

Summary I am on track.

So far my averages are good. 40% of the days of the week I am on the bike. I am at 2.92 hours per per week of hard work. (I will be over 8 hours in summer) My wrist demon is telling me my resting heart rate is dropping. I think it is a bit weird as I will look at the display saying RHR is 60 while my current HR is 58 sitting at work. My fitness numbers are good.

I avoid weighing myself very much. A workout that pushes your limits can cause temporary swelling and water retention. THAT IS NOT A BAD THING. It is your body cleaning up the muscles and stuff. That sweat party leaves a lot of trash on the dance floor and it must be flushed away. So maybe once a week when I feel “right”. I am just at 200 lbs right now. My usual summer weight is 190 ish. It would be nice to weigh less as hills would be easier, but there is that thing called chocolate. (and beer and wine and...)

Fitness is work. I just looked up the recommended exercise per week from the heart association. 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous is what they say. 30 minutes 5 times a week. That would be tough. I suppose if you hit a gym or do a 30 minute spin before breakfast every work day that would add up. If it is a habit then good for you. I do not think I could do that. My 2.9 hours is over double the vigorous number and I am vigorous. 3 times a week is what I can maintain.

Years ago I went nuts and did 5 times a week. 2 road rides and 3 evening spins over two months. Yes I did kick ass, but I had to neglect my teenage kids. Of course teenagers like when you leave them alone. I could not keep that up as I was being crazy. And now grand kids must be played with.

Another side of those arbitrary numbers is does that just get one foot out of the grave, or is it more than that? A serious and legitimate study found two or three times a week of 3 minutes spinning which included one push as hard as you can made significant health improvements. That is a lot less. The heart association does not make clear what one can reasonable expect from those minutes. Hey any moving around is good compared to the human potato. But what is the goal?

You need goals, but not goals as arbitrary things like pounds or inches or centimeters. I could lose gobs of weight and in the process lose all my fitness. Those muscles are really heavy. I set goals like doing eight minute hill in under 7 minutes or just getting to the top of Mount Seymour or Cypress. Of course my annual goal is finishing the WGF. I have no hope of winning, but that beer in the finishing plaza tastes real good.

To do those things takes all the things that we call fitness.

So it is raining and Spring is a long time away. When the season starts I will be fit I will be ready.

#spinning #spin bikes #spin sessions #fitness #fitness goals #fitblr #bikeblr #vancouver cycling #old man on a bike

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shinee35 · 7 years ago

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Thank you @sopeshighnotes for tagging me in the selfie+bias tag (yes, I’m ot7 biased. yes, it’s hard otl) and the statements thing... this is so ridiculously late I’m so sorry ><

Tagging @mirrerover, @vppax, @hexmen, @ksjknj (you can do 1, both or neither if you don’t want to).

“Answer these statements” game below:

(i’m putting these under a cut cause its long af)

Rules: Answer these 92 statements and tag 20 people. (lol this is not happening i don’t think i even know 20 people on this site) THE LAST: 1. Drink: apple juice, cranberry juice, water, tea (not together that’s gross. it was thanksgiving dinner and i was thirsty) 2. Phone call: uncle, calling cause we were ~2 hrs late to above mentioned thanksgiving dinner (we still weren’t the last ones to arrive so... :P) 3. Text message: cousins group chat 4. Song you listened to: BTS’ DNA 5. Time you cried: 5 days?ago?...? (when i finally watched the k-drama Goblin) HAVE YOU: 6. Dated someone twice: nope (haven’t dated someone once either) 7. Kissed someone and regretted it: no (have been kissed by someone and regretted it tho... on the cheek but still. it was gross and not consensual ew) 8. Been cheated on: no 9. Lost someone special: yes...? (like loss of a loved one or...?) 10. Been depressed: yes (for 7 years. for the past 3 years it’s just been anxiety though, yay!) 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: gotten drunk yes, thrown up because of alcohol no LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS: 12. blue 13. red 14. black, white, orange (last one is only because i’m a shinhwa changjo) IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU: 15. Made new friends: Yes 16. Fallen out of love: no 17. Laughed until you cried: yes 18. Found out someone was talking about you: no 19. Met someone who changed you: no 20. Found out who your friends are: is this like a “went-through-something-and-based-on-who-was-there-to-support-you-during-said-time-found-out-who-your-real-friends-are” type of question? if yes then no. i’ve been very fortunate when it comes to making friends they’re all great 21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: no GENERAL: 22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: 95% -ish 23. Do you have any pets: no 24. Do you want to change your name: no 25. What did you do for your last Birthday: I worked 26. What time did you wake up: 9am 27. What were you doing at midnight last night: streaming BTS’ DNA mv 28. Name something you can’t wait for: de*th 29. When was the last time you saw your mom: today

30. What is one thing you wish you could change in your life: nothing in particular. i try to live without regrets

31. What are you listening to right now: BTS’ DNA 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: i think so...? it’s a pretty common name 33. Something that is getting on your nerves: me 34. Most visited website: youtube/tumblr LOST QUESTIONS. I JUST PUT IN RANDOM INFO ABOUT ME 35. Mole/s: a lot 36. Mark/s: elevated scar on my knee and ankle, thin scar running vertically from the lateral end of an eyebrow to the side of my eye, small scar on the inner corner of my lip and below my lip towards the side (not really visible) 37. Childhood dream: to make others happy 38. Hair color: brown/black. it lightens in the summer 39. Long or short hair: i like both. currently medium length 40. Do you have a crush on someone: no i wish 41. What do you like about yourself: nothing 42. Piercings: 2 (one in each ear lobe) 43. Blood type: A 44. Nickname: Probee, D, lenerz 45. Relationship status: single 46. Zodiac: cancer 47. Pronouns: she/her 48. Favorite TV show: atm... Guardian and Sense8 (does netflix count?) 49. Tattoos: no 50. Right or left hand: right 51. Surgery: dental; for wisdom teeth removal 52. Hair dyed in different colors: would be cool but i’ve never dyed my hair cause it’d probably irritate my scalp psoriasis 53. Sport: basketball 54. There’s no question here so fun fact: my older cousin first got me into k-pop with Shinhwa back in the early 2000s. When they went on hiatus for military service SHINee debuted and saved me from withdrawal. BTS is the 3rd group that I have ever really gotten into and probably the last cause they’re so active it makes keeping up with all 3 groups really difficult TT 55. Vacation: Korea and Japan for the food 56. Pair of trainers: any comfortable ones that fit my feet 57. Eating: 24/7 58. Drinking: water 59. I’m about to: go to sleep 60. No question here either so another fun fact: I was a doctor-in-training for 2 years and flunked out of medical school after failing a course by 0.03% 61. Waiting for: what i can’t wait for 62. Want: to learn how to love myself (hopefully this will happen soon with BTS’ Love Yourself album series) 63. Get married: sometimes its like yes right now right at this instant to get my family off my back and other times its like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 64. Career: currently studying respiratory therapy to become a respiratory therapist. yay breathing. its kind of important i guess. just a little

WHICH IS BETTER 65. Hugs or kisses: hugs 66. Lips or eyes: eyes 67. Shorter or taller: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 68. Older or younger: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 69. No question here: ok 70. Nice arms or nice stomach: nice healthy stomach for all of the food i eat (wait are these questions about our own attributes or traits we’d like in an ideal partner cause i’ve been answering based on myself lol) 71. Sensitive or loud: sensitive 72. Hook up or relationship: relationship 73. Troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant HAVE YOU EVER: 74. Kissed a stranger: No 75. Drank hard liquour: yes 76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: yes 77. Turned someone down: i turn my friends and family down all the time when they try to get me to leave the house 78. Sex on the first date: No 79. Broken someone’s heart: not that i know of? 80. Had your heart broken: no...? 81. Been arrested: No 82. Cried when someone died: yes 83. Fallen for a friend: no but ideally i’d like to DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 84. Yourself: no 85. Miracles: yes 86. Love at first sight: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 87. Santa Claus: no 88. Kiss on the first date: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 89. Angels: yes OTHER: 90. Current best friend’s name: many good friends but i wouldn’t be able to single one out as a “best” friend 91. Eyecolor: Brown 92. Favorite movie: all the marvel movies, miracle in cell no.7, 200 pound beauty

#thank you for tagging me #sorry it took me so long #TT #tagged in

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thedivinefish · 5 years ago

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TGIWednesday with an order of Creepy Halloween and a shot of Mercury Retrograde

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Ugh, my least favorite day of the year. Lol. Oh and throw in Mercury Retrograde starting ON Halloween and you have yourself a straight up S-show. Although Friday will be All Saint’s Day so we’ll patch it all back up together to keep moving forward. My attorney friend and I go to the movies weekly and sometimes the trailers for Halloween movies are so bloody and bad he says, “Are you gonna clear us after the movie?” and I always reply, “Nope, I’m doing it right now!” If you watch 'Singing in the Rain' and happy-happy-joy-joy movies it changes your mood for the better... guess what happens when you watch hours of Halloween scary/gory ugh movies? Yep that’s right, you may feel paranoid or road rage-ish all the way home. People often find being Scared equals Excitement… even dress up parties and events are like movies in your mind…….So be careful what you dress up as while taking on that creepy persona can be fun/ exciting/scary, you’ll want to clear yourself as soon as you change out of it! Click below to watch the latest video with me and my friend Marla Martenson with new energetic clearings for all who watch, and spooky good vibes for Halloween & the full moon energy. Watch it here.

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~ RELEASING THE DARK SIDE OF HALLOWEEN ~ (Press play to watch and listen as I fish this for you) Let’s get clear to Yes, unclear to No, running forward to Yes as I say it now. Let’s release ourselves from dark side of Halloween and from the calamities that can come from Mercury Retrograde. Let’s have fun instead, promote peace, calm and grounding. Believe, think, know and feel that I am incorporating the feeling of smooth in my life now. That I am ready, willing and able to stabilize my life and to steadily ascend from here. I will now know when, where, how and why to invite in the spirit of only that which is good. I am asking in all languages and throughout all time lines and so it is now.

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I've been invited to return to Darius' show on TODAY October 30th at 4PM EDT for a Special LIVE Q&A call and we'll focus on Clearing Dark Energies including a new special process for clearing Halloween, political turmoil, climate unrest, and many other blocks and negativity. This brief process will take you out of the state of fear and into one of grounding and courage. I've enjoyed connecting with hundreds of new people that have found me from the summit and look forward to being with everyone again next week! If you haven't signed up yet or gotten the free welcome gifts - Register here now. EVERY TUESDAY at 9pm EDT - JIMMY MACK HEALING SHOW

Listen Here to Yesterday's replay – Rev Debbie Dienstbier Our resident Trans Medium communicating with your loved ones in spirit. UPCOMING GUEST FOR NOVEMBER: November 5th - Psychic Joanne Leo: Angel Cards, Numerology, Astrology and readings from the heart https://psychicjoanneleo.com/ November 12th - Melissa Parks: Psychic intuitive and radio show host Love Light and Miracles, Iammelissaparks.com November 19th - JoAnn Kisler: Masters Degree in Metaphysics and she believes that its important for all of us to heal from those things that no longer serve us in our life’s journey. an Empath, Intuitive, Spiritual Life Coach, Sound Energy Healer, Breath Work, Workshop Facilitator, Meditation/ Yoga Teacher, and Yhandi Inner Child Healing. www.breathofenergiahealing.com November 26th - Rev Debbie Dienstbier our resident trans medium specializing in communications with your loved ones in spirit. Visit Facebook page.

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The Jimmy Mack Healing Show will have a BRAND NEW call in number & online listening link starting on November 5th. We are moving from BlogTalkRadio to FreeConferenceCall.com. Shows will still be LIVE on Tuesday Nights at 9pm EDT w/replays If you want to Listen in only, go to this website: https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/goldylocksproductions OR If you want to call in & ask a question CALL (206) 806-9965 No need to press #1, just dial in and you'll be in the queue. Visit the TheJimmyMackHealingShow.com for a full archived listing & all replays!

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MONDAY NOV. 4th SWANN HOLISTIC HEALTH CENTER TAMPA I'll be doing in-person sessions on Monday November 4th from 10am-4pm at Dr. Charla Tempone’s new office in Tampa. 15 min/$38 and 30min/$68 sessions. **NEW ADDRESS** Swann Holistic Health Center Suite 200 1000 West Kennedy Blvd Tampa Florida 33606 Please call them directly to book if it's not already sold out (813)-873-7773 EVERY FRIDAY at KODAWARI YOGA STUDIOS TAMPA

Tampa folks come see me on FRIDAYs - I'm scheduling 15 and 30 minute appointments at Kodawari Yoga Studios from 10am-2pm.

Call Kodawari's front desk directly to schedule (813) 773-4017 and pay at the concierge desk... 15 minutes 33$ or 30 minutes 65$. 3965 Henderson Blvd Suite C Tampa (813) 773-4017 http://www.kodawariyoga.com/ Book on Friday November 1st November 8th November 15th November 22nd

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divinefishingtips · 5 years ago

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TGIWednesday with an order of Creepy Halloween and a shot of Mercury Retrograde

TGIWednesday News

TGIWednesday Download

From the Fish Box

FREE Weekly LIVE Healings and Messages

JOIN ME TODAY at 4pm EDT - YOU WEALTH REVOLUTION

** STARTING NEXT TUESDAY - NEW CALL NUMBER, NEW LINK **

Live In-Person Appearances

Tampa folks come see me on FRIDAYs - I'm scheduling 15 and 30 minute appointments at Kodawari Yoga Studios from 10am-2pm.

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! All Mastery Students: Check your email & Login to view all the newly upgraded content including new books and audios!

LEARN MORE HERE

Receive 24/7 Daily Prayers From Jimmy

I will dial into you daily in the wee hours and make certain that you are a CLEAR YES, UNCLEAR to NO and RUNNING FORWARD before you start your day.

Choose 7 days @$33 Choose 14 days @$66 Choose 30 days @$99

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

Fish Food

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell The Fish: 365 Daily Inspirations & Affirmations

For those who aren't familiar, here's the list of the MyBeliefWorks™ audio library.

Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better.

Increasing Intuition IRS & Tax Time Love & Romance Money Mindset Moving Forward Pain Relief Pet Healing Sales & Success Sex Sleep Traveling w/Ease Work & Career Weight Loss Youth & Vitality

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365dailyaffirmations · 5 years ago

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TGIWednesday with an order of Creepy Halloween and a shot of Mercury Retrograde

TGIWednesday News

TGIWednesday Download

From the Fish Box

FREE Weekly LIVE Healings and Messages

JOIN ME TODAY at 4pm EDT - YOU WEALTH REVOLUTION

** STARTING NEXT TUESDAY - NEW CALL NUMBER, NEW LINK **

Live In-Person Appearances

Tampa folks come see me on FRIDAYs - I'm scheduling 15 and 30 minute appointments at Kodawari Yoga Studios from 10am-2pm.

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! All Mastery Students: Check your email & Login to view all the newly upgraded content including new books and audios!

LEARN MORE HERE

Receive 24/7 Daily Prayers From Jimmy

I will dial into you daily in the wee hours and make certain that you are a CLEAR YES, UNCLEAR to NO and RUNNING FORWARD before you start your day.

Choose 7 days @$33 Choose 14 days @$66 Choose 30 days @$99

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

Fish Food

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell The Fish: 365 Daily Inspirations & Affirmations

For those who aren't familiar, here's the list of the MyBeliefWorks™ audio library.

Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better.

Increasing Intuition IRS & Tax Time Love & Romance Money Mindset Moving Forward Pain Relief Pet Healing Sales & Success Sex Sleep Traveling w/Ease Work & Career Weight Loss Youth & Vitality

TGIFunny

Forward

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advancedthetapractitioner · 5 years ago

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TGIWednesday with an order of Creepy Halloween and a shot of Mercury Retrograde

TGIWednesday News

TGIWednesday Download

From the Fish Box

FREE Weekly LIVE Healings and Messages

JOIN ME TODAY at 4pm EDT - YOU WEALTH REVOLUTION

** STARTING NEXT TUESDAY - NEW CALL NUMBER, NEW LINK **

Live In-Person Appearances

Tampa folks come see me on FRIDAYs - I'm scheduling 15 and 30 minute appointments at Kodawari Yoga Studios from 10am-2pm.

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! All Mastery Students: Check your email & Login to view all the newly upgraded content including new books and audios!

LEARN MORE HERE

Receive 24/7 Daily Prayers From Jimmy

I will dial into you daily in the wee hours and make certain that you are a CLEAR YES, UNCLEAR to NO and RUNNING FORWARD before you start your day.

Choose 7 days @$33 Choose 14 days @$66 Choose 30 days @$99

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

Fish Food

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell The Fish: 365 Daily Inspirations & Affirmations

For those who aren't familiar, here's the list of the MyBeliefWorks™ audio library.

Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better.

Increasing Intuition IRS & Tax Time Love & Romance Money Mindset Moving Forward Pain Relief Pet Healing Sales & Success Sex Sleep Traveling w/Ease Work & Career Weight Loss Youth & Vitality

TGIFunny

Forward

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