Are you hinting that I’m virtue signaling?
Haha no, just thought of that gif. Actually respect your action.
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I’ve lost people with health issues, plus schools are closed, so kids are home. I’m working on putting a tele-health plan together, but then I’ll have to set up an area at home, which ugh. It feels like such a breach of my privacy. I’ll have to find a way to get plain wall behind me, which isn’t easy at my house. Lotta windows, which will cause glare. (Please ignore me while I complain over nothing while people are dying around me.)
I was a bartender for 4 years. I guarantee you made her day, man. Kudos to you. Have an internet hug.
My wife (NP) is waiting for instructions from the system she works for - they’re dragging their feet getting that set up. But you’re private practice(??) so it’s all in your hands and communicating with your clients…
It sounds like you’re getting it from all sides. That’s not easy.
We did discuss video conference appointments at mine this afternoon. It does seem like a viable option if things come to that.
And bedbugs. And Legionnaires. Probably Covid too.
My SO is looking at the same option however she is finding that state licensing requirements pertain to the patient not the practitioner. In other words, if she’s in State X and someone from State Y visits her for an appointment the laws of State X apply to her. However, if she’s having a remote consult and sitting in State X while the patient is in State Y then the laws of State Y apply.
I don’t know if this is unique to her field of medicine or if others experience this as well. The cost associated with registering in each state as well as the jurisprudence exams are daunting.
The fact that the world is so full of misinformation that I don’t trust anything I read anymore.
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My father always used to say “don’t believe anything you read and half of what you see.”
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I really can’t decide if I want to put this in this thread or the chuckle thread…
A dude here in town beat up his girlfriend. She called the police. They went to the guy’s house, and a rumor spread that he had a gun. The girlfriend didn’t say that he had one, but everyone (the cops) pretty quickly thought it was true.
They bring in the SWAT team, and literally all 49 of our town’s officers, plus a few others, surrounded the house with their guns out, they brought in a garbage truck and several were hiding behind it, and the SWAT team brought in their armored car (for the many shootings and bombings we have in S.D.) and had a machine gun pointed at the house.
They put a radio or phone or whatever on his front porch, and yelled at him to come out or at least talk to them through their megaphones for EIGHT HOURS. They then shot tens rounds (is that the proper term?) of tear gas into the house, and after two more hours believed he must be dead, since no one stays in a house with that much tear gas for that long.
Then, I’m not sure how they eventually found out, but THE HOUSE WAS EMPTY. After TEN HOURS, 50+ officers, tear gas, guns, an armored car, etc., they’d been yelling at and attacking an empty house. The dude had gone and played basketball, then gotten drunk at his buddy’s house 3 blocks away and passed out for the night. He then, without knowing anything about what had happened, left town and has yet to be located.
Since then, the local dept. has been quite aggressive (yelling and pulling guns on people jaywalking, etc.) presumably to recover from their embarrassment.
This is not a dig on cops, but it is a dig on my town’s cops. I laughed my ass off when I heard, but the pointless ordeal and the following attitude annoys me.
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Wow. Just wow. 
Here we would’ve knocked and asked him to step outside with his hands visible.
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I didn’t “know” that that’s what other people may have done in the situation, but it seemed like it’d make a lot more sense. If I was a higher up officer, I feel like the last thing I’d want to do is cause an unnecessary commotion and bring in ALL of my other men when they could be doing other things.
Making a bowl of cereal.
Opening the fridge, and then realizing the milk is emty.
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That sounds like something straight out of a movie. Did you sit and watch?
Shoulda just called themselves paranormal investigators and congratulated themselves on a job well done.
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My dad’s roommate was out walking his dog, and stopped to watch. My dad joined him. It was late at night though, so no, I didn’t get to see it. Probably would’ve been entertaining though.
Cops and authority figures in general tend to piss me off
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I understand that I’ve chosen to live where I do, and I understand that there are bigger problems than a dusting of snow, but for the love of God, will it never end??
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I lost power for almost two days last week. We got 8 inches in a few hours, half the state lost power. Up north got about 18 inches. Lots of accidents too. Super heavy, chunky and wet kind of snow, almost like lake-effect.
That’s what I get for living on a tree-covered rock around 45 degrees latitude.
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