Community Thread LXI: The President We Deserve

tugs · Post #461 » by **tugs** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:58 pm

Slava wrote:
Gek wrote:
Slava wrote:I've only had to interview people who were taking my old job when I left. It wasn't too hard.

That seems like it'd be fun in a weird sense.

Its kind of hard to find the perfect balance between finding someone competent enough that your boss won't be e-mailing you before every deadline asking for help and not finding someone who's so good that you might not stop yourself from asking why they are applying for this job.

In relation to this, I live by the saying, "Work so hard that your boss can't live without you" but I'm finding the line where I can't just say, "No that **** doesn't make sense" but actually make him do what I want because sometimes it's just killing productivity multitasking (deadlines on reports, then wants you to go on trips for field visits, then there's data to process). I'm too good, man.

I can't even look at the new clouds l, I'm too busy.

hermes · Post #462 » by **hermes** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:34 pm

the new clouds look pretty cool

Watch on YouTube

thank goodness i have you guys, otherwise i wouldn't know that we're even at a place where we can have new clouds

karkinos · Post #463 » by **karkinos** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 12:43 pm

Slava wrote:
Danny Darko wrote:
Slava wrote:I'm getting an endoscopy today, haven't eaten anything since last night and no drink since morning coffee, I feel like there's a nuclear war going on in my stomach with all the rumbling. FML.

How'd it go. They want to do one on me after tearing my stomach. I'm hesitant.

It wasn't bad. The gastroenterologist I went to was super experienced so that kind of helped. I had to fast and **** my guts out with a laxative before the procedure but otherwise it was painless. Apparently there is an increased incidence of colon cancer in men in their late 20s to early 30s so anyone complaining with symptoms of food intolerance is being given butt probe.

it depends but if that's the explanation he gave you it's a **** one.
unless you have a strong family history of colon cancer (ie. immediate family, diagnosis before age 50), then probably. otherwise it's less likely you have something like FAP or ulcerative colitis

since you already had it, at least you know what it's like and you shouldn't need one until you're 50 as long as you don't have a diagnosis that is more severe than IBS

Post #464 » by **Slava** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 12:58 pm

cancer wrote:
Slava wrote:
Danny Darko wrote:
How'd it go. They want to do one on me after tearing my stomach. I'm hesitant.

It wasn't bad. The gastroenterologist I went to was super experienced so that kind of helped. I had to fast and **** my guts out with a laxative before the procedure but otherwise it was painless. Apparently there is an increased incidence of colon cancer in men in their late 20s to early 30s so anyone complaining with symptoms of food intolerance is being given butt probe.

it depends but if that's the explanation he gave you it's a **** one.
unless you have a strong family history of colon cancer (ie. immediate family, diagnosis before age 50), then probably. otherwise it's less likely you have something like FAP or ulcerative colitis

since you already had it, at least you know what it's like and you shouldn't need one until you're 50 as long as you don't have a diagnosis that isn't more severe than IBS

That's the thing though, you cannot bring past precedence into this case as the reason they are taking it seriously is because a lot of previous cases went undiagnosed. The only significantly different symptom of colon cancer from Chrons or UC is rectal bleeding but if you are going to insert a probe to find any inflammation, you might as well check for cancer while you are at it.

karkinos · Post #465 » by **karkinos** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:02 pm

Its one thing to do a Colo to eval for ibd (crohns vs uc), which is absolutely reasonable for that age group. But if u are evaluating specifically for colon cancer at that age then u better have a high suspicion. Otherwise that decision to do a Colo is suspect.

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Post #466 » by **Slava** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:57 pm

How much oatmeal is too much oatmeal? Asking for a friend.

Post #467 » by **Kilroy** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:18 pm

Breakfast or enema?

Post #468 » by **Slava** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:43 pm

Kilroy wrote:Breakfast or enema?

I eat around 5 small meals a day and 2-3 of those are oatmeal and fruit or oatmeal and brown cane sugar. Its easy and good carbs for the workouts though.

Post #469 » by **Kilroy** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:07 pm

Depending on the oatmeal, it might be a little much from a glycemic-index perspective... Might want to swap the cane sugar for coconut sugar or maybe even agave extract...
Just a thought... Not bad, but maybe a bit much 3 times a day, every day.

Post #470 » by **Slava** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:08 pm

I might replace my evening meal for a peanut butter sandwich but getting anything but organic peanut butter is hard in Denmark and organic PB tastes like crap.

Post #471 » by **Kilroy** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:53 pm

Hmm... Never noticed... We only eat organic PB and I think it tastes fine. Maybe they have different peanuts in Denmark.

Sofa King · Post #472 » by **Sofa King** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:28 am

Slava wrote:I might replace my evening meal for a peanut butter sandwich but getting anything but organic peanut butter is hard in Denmark and organic PB tastes like crap.

If it tasted good then everyone would eat it.