FrenchMilquetoast

the late 20s is when you start noticing the pain of people around you. reality starts to set in while the dread of mediocrity becomes apparent. things are changing and certain people are progressing while others are getting stuck doing things they hate for the rest of their lives

💉 1ml v 3ml syringe barrels for injecting. 💉 There’s a significant pressure difference between syringe sizes. Push a 1mL syringe and you’re moving fluid at somewhere around 360 psi. Push a 3mL syringe with the same effort and you’re around 175 psi, less than half. That mechanical advantage means you need far less effort from your thumb to move the same dose, and less effort means less strain pulling at your hand while the needle is seated in the muscle. Steadiness and ease is the point. Movement at the injection site, even small movement, is friction with the scalpel sharp needle against the tissue while you’re injecting. Friction repeated over months and years is how scar tissue builds and injection sites become fibrous and difficult to inject. A smaller syringe gets you there with less wear and tear on the muscle. Pressure generated by syringe size, for reference: 1mL syringes average around 360 psi, 3mL around 175 psi, 5mL around 75 psi, 10mL around 55 psi, 20mL around 30 psi, and 60mL around 20 psi.

i'm sorry to annouce this but i will be pursuing psychiatric treatment

Uh so this is fucking insane

I moved from 25 yrs in the pest control biz to construction 5 yrs ago. Major life pivot. The amount of scumbags on both the customer side of things and the sub contractor side of things is mind blowing in this biz. I bought a TON of CAT equipment (mainly to clear my own lots/land). I decided to pick up some side work to offset the cost of buying the CAT stuff (grading, clearing, site prep). I bet I got screwed out of at least $25K - $50K from customers saying “You guys finished up way too fast, I can’t pay you that much for 3 days of work”. Granted I’d have 3 big CAT machines running day light to dark with 3 employees going full bore. After about 6-8 months of customer non sense from a few customers, I just decided I’d go back to the original plan: Use my CAT machines for my crap only. And another thing I learned in the construction biz: NEVER EVER fully pay a sub contractor before they’ve completed the work. Common sense I suppose, but I’d get a sob story that would tug on my heart strings. Made that mistake once or twice early on. Never again. Nearly every subcontractor in construction has a sob story…you can take that to the bank.

one of my best friends is a tattoo artist and she gifts me a free tattoo every year for my birthday. the condition being that she gets to choose what it is and where it goes, and i dont get to find out until i walk in. the most recent ones being my womb tattoo and tramp stamp 🤪