I locked the car keys in the car as a kid when my dad and I were exploring a bush block. The keys were on the passenger seat so he manually fabricated a forgery by eye from some scrap he found.
Pretty sure he’s a legit super hero.
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6 wowsThe pool construction is DONE!! basically
https://imgur.com/a/RO50iaV
https://streamable.com/fh2191
Chemical balancing, gas meter upgrade, and minor stone work are all that's left. I'll stop posting about it now :) -
6 wowsIf I can boast a bit more in a subthread (I've always kept this quiet before) he's always been ridiculously smart.
- He could count to 10 at 18 months (before he could talk ... he'd arrange blocks in patterns).
- He taught himself to read and write when he was two.
- At three he could write out a complete times table up to 10 x 10, and not from memory, he'd calculate all the numbers in his head.
- Just after his fourth birthday he entered nursery school. The teacher took me aside a week later and said she'd measured him at a reading age of 9.
- He's got the top mark in every public exam he's ever taken, so 13 GCSEs at grade 9, four AS levels at grade A, four A levels at A*, all without apparently applying himself.
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6 wowsNuclear-test monitor calls Tonga volcano blast "biggest thing that we've ever seen"
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074438703/nuclear-test-monitor-calls-tonga-volcano-blast-biggest-thing-that-weve-ever-seen
Even now, days after the eruption, Le Bras says the network can continue to detect the faint echo of the shockwave as it circles the Earth's atmosphere again and again.
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6 wowsLet's see how 95 is doing from yesterday's snow
https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/I95trapped.jpg
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/343581472193642526/927913528394907648/unknown.png?width=830&height=963
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6 wowsOK, go. The context may or may not add to the story but it is worth knowing that the wife works as a critical care nurse in a hospital ICU. Staffing was already behind before COVID hit and it’s obviously been a tough row for all healthcare since the hospitals started filling. Even getting the manager position filled was hard.
Just warming up: For the first couple of weeks the new manager wouldn’t engage or commit to action. But it was usually delivered with the reasoning that he needed to get up to speed on how things ‘go’ around the hospital. While this meant continued burden on all the staff and was a mild annoyance, all the staff was understanding and willing to work with it.
This has since graduated to a ‘common in manager complaint threads’ habit of dropping in from nowhere to give ‘helpful pointers’ to staff in middle of their work without knowing the details of a situation. Remember, however, that this is an ICU and time is often the enemy. Imagine trying to address a patient with say, crashing oxygen levels, and your manager walks by and starts lobbing suggestions to fix the issue that have no relevance to, or worse, negative relevance to, the patient’s critical issues.
And so, aggravation levels begin to elevate, providing the canvas for some mouth dropping cringe.
- In healthcare settings like this, eating lunch is never guaranteed, so when a hot lunch is brought in it really helps everyone to get some real food. As such, the new manager has set out to build, or at least recover, some goodwill let the people know several times that lunch will be provided next week. The day comes and 1:30PM, after a couple of hours staff asking one another if the food has arrived, the charge nurse tracks down the manager and asks when to expect food. The guy fumbles a couple of words as his brain seems to be processing that food was never ordered and says so. The charge nurse reminds him that no one brought in lunch today, it’s late (the shift started at 7AM), and the whole crew is really hungry - and tells him figure something out.
So, he disappears for a bit before returning and walks over to food safe room and then leaves. I am still dumbfounded but what I’m about to type, but he had left to go back to the conference room where he had attended a catered lunch meeting earlier, found two, yes TWO, leftover sandwiches, and brought them to the ICU as lunch. And that was it.
- Not giving up on the hope of mortifyingly awkward lunch failure, the manager scheduled another day to bring in lunch. The staff of 12-15 people was happily surprised to hear that yes, lunch had been ordered and arrived on-site! Too bad only 8 lunch sandwiches were ordered. Fortunately for the manager, he was notified the moment of delivery and was able to emerge from his office long enough to grab one of the few sandwiches before retreating back behind closed door, leaving a whole 7 sammies for the staff to do…something about.
- Our final story takes a darker tone when the manager is notified in the early afternoon that one of the nurses had left for the rest of the day. No problem the manager helpfully says, she can come back during the night shift to make it up. This by itself would be par-for-the-course crappy manager talk but news had also been delivered with the reason for the nurse’s departure. A week or so prior the nurse’s brother had been hospitalized by COVID and had just died. You may see where this is going, but the brother had been admitted to the very ICU that his sister, the nurse, also my wife’s coworker, worked. Her brother had just died literally a few rooms down from where this woman was caring for her own critically ill patients. But hey, maybe she wanted to return to the site to work some nightshift.
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6 wowsMy gf’s company gave every one of their nearly 8,000 employees $10,000 as a salve because they canceled the Christmas Office Party.
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