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My understanding is that is commuter distance to affordable living up there in Canada

Did you do an H.Pylori test? Might be hard since it's a fecal matter culture, but that's treatable now.

I ended up hating the books by the end. It felt like no one was keeping Weber's need to info dump in check. He also let his tendency to write bad guys with no redeeming qualities get out of hand. It felt like a complete drag at the end as when the political situation escalated the tech gap meant that there wasn't as much risk for Manticore.

My county in MD has had this for years. We have a psychologist with a specialty in PTSD and first responder treatment on staff with multiple therapists in a separate section within the department. That's been around long enough that our first psychiatrist retired from the position.

Unfortunately I'm certain that there are very few places as progressive as we are.

Of course. I also take almost a month's worth of vacation every year. The way my shift schedule rotates I can often take a single day off and go away for more than a week, making it easy to accrue leave if I'm only slightly picky with my schedule. The last few years I've started to pick up skiing.

I was sick for several weeks last year, which sucked but my sick leave covered it easily. That will get me 5% on my pension per year accrued at retirement and I'm still on pace to get a year. Partial years are counted but that's the easy number to remember

During the entirety of the pandemic we obtained free leave for a positive COVID test for the duration of the illness.

Non Union people are so abused you think this is unethical.

One of our leave types pays out in March any hours over 96 if we don't ask to carry it over to the next year. We can take our overtime pay as leave (at 1.5 hours leave to 1 hour worked), and bonus holiday pay as leave.

This year the local negotiated a cost of living increase and eliminating the bottom two step increases, resulting in an approximate 14 percent pay bump for most employees. I also received a promotion this year.

I banked hundreds of hours of leave earlier this year from overtime and holidays that will payout in March next year 26 percent higher than when I worked it. I've done this every year I have promoted, and we are expected to do this since it is one of the ways we can burn our leave totals without taking off. If I had been really smart I would have carried over my leave from 2022 so it pays out next year, and I would have seen a single paycheck next year that was equal to half my years base pay last year.

When that pays out I will still have nearly 6 months of leave banked.

Your employer can afford to pay you. Make them pay you.

Much of the extra cost for equipment is the maintenance and training contracts that come with it and the options the government selected to purchase along those lines. It might come with refurbishment of the existing aircraft. I am not an expert or familiar with the details on this purchase.

Working a second overtime 24 hour shift for my second 48 on 24 off in a row. I'm fairly tired and going to take a nap. I don't get home until 6pm tomorrow since I go right to class from work, then have to turn around immediately to go back to work at 4 am.

That's probably the price for land with sewer and water connections. There will be a new build there soon.

Lithobreaking maneuver.

This one is fun thanks

I am very happy with my boox note 2. Use it to read books, manga, and take notes in OneNote for classes.