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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I got COVID for the first time a couple months ago. I was symptomatic 2 days before testing positive (worst fucking sore throat of my life) but on the third day I was able to start Paxlovid. I’m 51, asthma, and 10lbs over the line that qualifies me as obese.

    I don’t have the words to describe the nightmare that medicine created in my mouth, BUT I would take it again under those circumstances. It seriously stopped the progression of my sickness. I ended up with a mildly sore throat for almost 3 weeks and it took about 5-6 weeks to recover from the fatigue.

    For companies to do things like this should be a crime. The insane amounts of money they spend on advertising should also be held against them.


  • I can fit a baking dish in it so I can use it for many of the things I might want to bake in my oven (lasagna, casserole, small batch of cookies/muffins) but don’t want to heat the entire oven for. It fits a standard frozen pizza, I’ve occasionally baked bread or rolls in it. One of my most frequent uses would be the broiler setting where I just want to quickly brown the top or melt cheese onto something.

    One of the drawbacks of my current air fryer is that the fan blows so hard I have to make sure that what I put in there is heavy and secure enough not to get blown around. My son was heating something and put a piece of cheese on it to melt. The cheese was definitely NOT where it was supposed to be when it melted.





  • I’ll take the time to look at these after work, but I wanted to briefly chime in.

    Co-morbidities or not, we have been aware since the beginning (well before the vaccines were available) that some people continued to have lingering symptoms and suffered other types of damage due to having contracted the virus. For example - an athletic coworker in her early 40s contracted it August 2020, and to this day continues to have heart problems. I work in hospice, and while the numbers are lower than they were over the last few years, we still regularly get patients entering hospice due to damage from COVID.

    I have yet to come across a patient who needed hospice services due to a vaccine.

    If I’m going to take a “risk” on anything, it’ll be the vaccine.











  • I work in hospice and see a variety of conditions. Some people in their 60’s with significant mobility issues that are chronically exhausted, but then there’s the patients in their 90’s who just recently started cutting back on social events and activities due to injury/illness.

    Seeing these differences was why I started roller skating (again) at 49 and increased other activities to keep my ass moving and challenge my coordination and balance. I want to get everything I can out of this life.



  • I like me some Ashley Flowers/Crime Junkie (from Audiochuck.)

    There’s another podcast that probably falls under the above category that I’ve been listening to out of habit, but I think I’m ready to cut ties. It seems some podcasts just like to read other people’s work and gossip, and some actually put in work themselves and aim to be respectful.


  • Serious question.

    Following the assumption that it’s not food safe plastic, what is the actual risk that we’re talking about here? I get that there’s many variables (length of time/temp of contact, porousness and moisture content of food, etc) but let’s say that the variety of foods were stored in a cooler for 4 hours prior to consumption. To do this 3x a year, what are the risks? Obviously this set up left in the car during the summer for 8hrs before eating would be a REALLY bad idea, but wondering where it starts crossing the line from insignificant risk to “you should really think twice.”

    I remember years ago Mythbusters tested the “5 second rule” and contamination really had much more to do with what was making contact vs how long.