I made 64 granny squares, 32 white and 32 dark gray. I got some lighter gray yarn to stitch them all together to make a chessboard blanket. I looked up tutorials on how to slip stitch the squares together.
What did I not do? Pay attention to which hook I used to make the gray squares. It clearly was not the same one I used to make the white ones because there is a slight but noticeable size difference. These aren’t going to stitch together neatly.
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Now I get to spend the next few days unravelling all my squares so I can remake them with the same hook.
Bah, thinking about it wrong: you are now halfway to two chessboard blankets. I mean, let’s be honest: you were going to knit something else anyway after this one was done.
Nah, I decided I wanted to make them all with five rounds instead of six so I’ll have to undo them all. Fortunately it’s much easier to find the ends than I thought so it won’t take long.
Yeah, beekeepers generally tend to at least attempt do what the name implies- keep bees, not kill 'em.
In fact, swarms have a much better chance of survival if collected by a beekeeper than wild (I’m in the UK, but the figure here is about 15% survival for the first year of swarms in the wild, and 50%+ if collected). That’s a national average, if depends on location, but they are a native species here, which they are not in the US.
I’m sure he would have tried not to, but it’s an imperfect science. When I thought the bees were making themselves at home in the tree, I wasn’t sure how big the hive was or if it could be removed safely. It looked like that scene in Independence Day when the enormous mothership opened and all the little bees came swarming out in their bee attack jets. Only the mothership was also made of bees. And the whole top of the tree was more bees.
It was a lot of fucking bees.
I didn’t want them killed but I didn’t see how the thing could be done safely. Hopefully, they’ve found a better spot. Somewhere nice, with a shrubbery and good schools. Vaya con dios, bees!
I don’t actually believe he’ll ever finish the books, which is what I was referring to, given that I’ve heard that the TV series has diverged quite a bit from them at this point (I’ve never watched). I was warned before I picked up the books that he was notoriously slow about cranking them out (he’d released four at the time). I have lived to regret my hubris.
I know about as much about bees as bees know about the internal combustion engine, but I thought bees were dedicated to their communal beehives and the Queen who dwelt within. I thought they flitted about individually collecting nectar and stuff and bringing it back to the hive. Bees traveling in gangs is exactly the kind of suspicious activity that should have been reported to the authorities. You appear to have spotted a traveling swarm of undocumented migrant worker bees. They are now undoubtedly off somewhere collecting American nectar and sending it back to their Mexican Queen*. This is not how you Make America Great Again!
FD was dispatched @ 6:20 this evening for “Stand-by at helicopter landing” Given I was driving by & had various still & video cameras on the seat next to me (I was coming from an event that I was shooting) I figured I’d stop & see what I could get.
It was an interfacility transfer of a medical (cardiac) patient from local/community Hospital A to major/big-city Hospital B; the two hospitals are < 12 miles apart & both within the limits of a major city (IOW, it’s much faster to fly from one side of the Grand Canyon to the other than it would be to drive the hundreds of miles necessary to get from one side to the other in a car - that was not the case here). Google maps lists the drive time, at that time of day, the end of rush hour, as between 24-40 mins, but of course, that’s for a car that’s sitting in traffic & stopped at red lights, not an ambulance with the whoop-de-whoops going.
Hospital A does not have a heliport so they put the patient in an ambulance & drive him approx 1 mile away from Hospital B to the backyard of the fire company that does have a heliport. Ambulance arrives & waits for medical helo to arrive, circle around, land, wind down & the flight crew to get out. Flight crew pulls out their litter, goes over to the back of the ambulance & transfers patient from the ambulance litter, then wheels patient over to the helo, loads him & straps everyone in & then does what’s necessary & takes off. Helo left the ground at 18:46. Helo now needs to fly ≈ 10-11 miles (flight is less distance than driving because they don’t need to follow roads) to Hospital B.
The helicopter flight saved minimal time, possibly even lengthening the trip while necessitating the patient (&/or insurance company) to pay for both an ambulance & a (very expensive) helicopter flight. Even if helo medical team was able to administer meds that paramedics on the ambulance couldn’t, the ambulance might very well have been at Hospital B before flight medics would have been able to do such. :smack:
The April issue of Consumer Reports had a story on how often helicopter ambulances were used when not needed, and how overpriced they often are. Many of them are for-profit companies, that have made arrangements with EMT’s or hospitals to do transportation. The bill is often not covered by insurance, and the patient or family is left owing thousands – for an unneeded ride.
There’s a real problem with helicopters being overused (edit: see the post above this one), but whatever traffic problems are slowing cars will probably effect an ambulance nearly as much. IIRC studies have shown that sirens and lights don’t actually make a huge difference in travel time.
I am very confused. My doctor called in a refill for me in August for a months supply of a drug I take. I take 18 milligrams each day and the months supply comes in two three milliliter pens. So in theory in a 30 day month I would need 540 milligrams so I should have more than enough. I don’t. 5 days before I can get a refill, I am out. (seven days since my last refill) The doses are measured and 18 mg is the largest dose so I can’t have taken too much in a dose. And I am relatively sure I didn’t inject myself twice a day seven times. This stuff costs me $11.00 a day out of pocket so I am quite concerned. I have left a message for the doctors office to see if they can adjust my prescription so I can get more. I live alone so no one would have access to this.
I have applied for 9 jobs, either promotions or transfers (I work for the state of CA). Of those, I have interviewed on 4, gotten a “Thank you for applying but we have not chosen you for an interview” on 2, heard through scuttlebut that 1 was filled, and heard nothing at all about the other 2. When I interviewed, 2 of those jobs they said they were hoping for the person to start on or about 10/3. I have heard nothing at all, and at this point I’m pretty sure that Friday afternoon I’ll get 4 copies of the standard “Thank you for interviewing but we went with someone else” reply. I am pretty sure I’ve been blacklisted from any jobs at my current office. I hate my life right now.
A very dear friend has been making increasingly stronger anti-BLM and antifeminist posts on Facebook. This is someone I love like a son, but I’m starting to think I need to drop him until he pulls his head out of his ass. This makes me really sad.
Oh - Husband applied for and interviewed for most of the same jobs I did. He hasn’t heard anything either. We really, really need him working. Fuck.
Husband had a temp job in late august/early sept. It ended on the 4th. They were supposed to mail his check on Thursday the 14th. We checked the mail friday, saturday, monday - nothing. He called the person who had been his boss on the gig, and he said that they had for some reason not cut the checks, but they would be doing so on the 22nd. What. The. Fuck.
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