Should freebeard pursue radiation oncology therapy?

[Xist]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

a. keep trying
b. give up

If you get paid to keep trying, maybe keep trying.

You should do radiation therapy, because if the client doesn't do exactly as you say, they die.

I am afraid that still isn't enough motivation for some humans.

If I see the client, I bill. If they refuse to cooperate I mention that.
I have had clients who consistently refused to cooperate and their moms dropped me before I could recommend discontinuing, but I will not repeatedly report that a client refused to cooperate, I will request to discontinue.

Back when we were able to bill for no-shows the policy was that as long as we hadn't stepped out of our vehicle it was a cancelation.
We could drive an hour and they could call us when we are on their street, but as long as we are still in our vehicle it is a cancelation.

However, since then, if I knock on the door and they cancel, I just get frustration, although if they do that three times in a row I can request probation.

Originally Posted by freebeard

Wait a minute! It doesn't say pursue [an education and career in] that.

Are you calling me a malignant neoplasm?

Is that the nicest thing you have been called all day?

[freebeard]

Thanks for asking.

I decided to walk to the Post Office to mail a USAA bill. A few blocks away, down the street came a small frail woman dressed in black, shouting "I'll k#ll them. I'll k@ll them. I'll k*ll everybody."

But she crossed over to the other side before she passed by me.

I thought #7 was the better post.

[jakobnev]

But she crossed over to the other side before she passed by me.

You know you're crazy when...

[Xist]

I browse Imgur for work.

No, really!

Of course, you shouldn't be surprised, I have a thread about watching "Big Bang Theory" for work.

I find interesting things to discuss with my clients.

I talked about current events with one client and comic books with another.

The second was much more fun and we had significantly more fun during that activity than I did going over the news.

We discuss expected and unexpected behavior, problem-solving, and other topics that meet her goals, plus the videos are fun, I just need to spend a while on Imgur each week to find clips to share.

I had 10-20 GIFs open and I finally went through all of my windows, gathered the URLs, and saved the files to my laptop.

I always have too many tabs open in too many windows.

Apparently I am doing the same thing with YouTube, except I rarely use it for work.

I have 115 YouTube tabs open.

I closed several videos that interested me--after watching them when I needed to do paperwork and go to bed because I need to be up at 0745 to see one client an hour away, but I keep encountering YouTube tabs where, like imgur, I was browsing and just left off where I was.

With Imgur there is always a point where it either stops showing me more posts or it starts showing me posts that I have already seen, so if I actually have the time, it is annoying to not be able to see more posts.

With YouTube I am having increasing difficulty finding interesting videos that I haven't already watched.

A hundred and fifteen videos?


Anyway, at 0130 I found some stopping place with both YouTube and Imgur and was about to get off the computer for real this time when Windows came back to haunt me about a popup that had said they were going to reboot my computer no matter what, they were just giving me the courtesy of choosing whether it rebooted then or within hours.

I hit Esc and it went away, but returned to haunt me at 0130, when I should have been asleep.

All according to plan!

At 0131 my 09 Saturday mom canceled, so I am going to turn off that alarm, and all of this time wasting kind of worked out.

I asked on Imgur how to once and for all defeat Windows' rebooting functions.

One person told me it won't download updates without permission if I set my connection to metered.

Can I still watch tons of videos?

Someone else wrote to tell Windows "shutdown -a" and Google confirmed this will tell Windows to not reboot.

The random imgurian said I could even set up Task Scheduler to schedule the task to shutdown -a.

I am going to close 115 YouTube videos and finally go to bed!

[Cd]

Glad you are OK Freebeard.
I read the title as if you needed to HAVE radiation therapy.

Without changing the topic for long, I'd like to ask you Freebeard about the origin of the name.

( I'm guessing you probably don't even have a beard. )

[freebeard]

I slipped this into a thread and no one noticed:

Portland Roadster Show March 19th, a random stranger surveils the squirreliest VW ever.

As to the qustion: Allman Bros., audience waving lighters in the air. Ring any bells?

That and an old association with White Bird.

https://whitebirdclinic.org › healing-house-the-colorful-history-of-white-bird-clinic
Healing House: The Colorful History of White Bird Clinic
Twenty-some years ago, White Bird Clinic was known as a glorified crash pad for teenagers who were hallucinating on psychedelic drugs. The clinic, which was founded as a counterculture collective in 1970, was viewed with suspicion and concern by the Eugene establishment. People criticized its perceived. "overly permissive attitude" toward drug use.

What once was the Bummer Squad is now Cahoots. Those people screaming 'DEFUND THE POLICE' need to understand that Eugene/Springfield have had a police/NGO nexus up and running since the 1970s.

[I did the building maintenance]

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by myself

I decided to walk to the Post Office to mail a USAA bill.

So now Youtube is offering '10 was to fixed blade EDC'.

[redpoint5]

I read the title as freebeard had malignant neoplasm too. It would be unsurprising, as 1 in 4 people will receive radiation therapy from a machine built by the company I work for.

Treatment is typically 5 days a week, for 30 days. A treatment session is typically 15min, including positioning and all the setup.

Very surprising to see the hot rod photo, as I thought it was verboten to see hot rods, lest the government catch on to all the hot rodding.

I'm just ending my day of being on call 5am-5pm PST for the whole nation, serving sous vide pulled pork to family and friends after a neighborhood easter egg hunt, then running up to my rental property because 3 bedrooms and a bathroom had no electrical power.

Was hard to diagnose initially, but eventually I isolated an outlet where the top one had power, but not the bottom one. Pulled it out and the wires were fried. It was a crappy 'stab' outlet where you just insert the wire into the hole, with no side posts to attach the wire. Everything on that circuit feeds in through that one point. Bought a side post outlet to replace the junk, and the rental is back in business. $4, and too many hours of time.

I have to admit, I almost gave up, because in my mind it was a breaker or GFCI, and nothing else. Only reason I stuck with it was I was crawling around in the attic with a voltage detector, detected voltage going into bedroom that was 'dead', and decided to investigate every outlet in the room.

My EDC is a Pointman Blackhawk courtesy of my brother in law, who has been sending me a ton of knives every since informing him that I had destroyed my cheapo S&W.


My every other day carry is a Kizer Sheepdog, also a BIL gift.

[freebeard]

My EDC is an Opinel that I purchased in IIRC 1972. 50 years. Haven't lost it yet.

[redpoint5]

I had a S&W stolen from a checked back once, and I replaced it with an identical knife. That one I bent the liner lock accidentally, I think by batoning the knife splitting logs for kindling. EDC not a hatchet, apparently.

BIL replaced it with many knives since then. He's probably given me 6 knives or so. I never lose a knife... except there was one time I was getting thrashed around at the bottom of a waterfall upside down in my kayak, and when I popped back up my knife was no longer attached to my PFD. A coworker felt bad about my loss and bought me a replacement.