Where should I live?

Another one of these, I know I know.

-I'll be working in Seaport so I'd like a reasonable commute.

-I will off myself before I ever have roommates ever again. I need my own space to sit and grumble

-I'm 32F, single, and on the prowl. Functionally, this means:

  • I'm currently working on getting my butt as big as possible. I need a gym within 10 min walking distance and that gym must have bountiful deadlift racks, a smith machine, barbells and trap bars galore, and a seated leg press. The clientele of this gym ideally includes nerdy funny men in their late 20s and 30s. They work, they lift, and then they go home, play dungeons and dragons, scroll reddit, and fall asleep.
  • I'd also like the place that I live in to contain the aforementioned men, roaming about - not just in the gym, but literally everywhere - swarming - ready for me to accidentally bump into and drop all of my papers and say "Wow thank you soooo much for helping me pick these up!"
  • I do also want friends, so gals and gays of the aforementioned type would be stellar too. 2 of my best friends died in the last three years (fuck drunk drivers, fuck cancer!), I'm traumatized, and I need to replace them.

-my budget its 5k per month. I've saved like a squirrel hoarding acorns for the last 5 years to be able to ball out, and now we're balling out.

Things I don't care about:

-noise level, budget

Things I don't want

-frat vibes, geriatric vibes

About me:

early to mid career-ish

nerdo

painter (love an arts and crafts night)

love a vodka shot but maybe like once every three months

have a 16-year-old hairless chinese crested dog, but willing to yeet her to a shelter for the right place. Jk, but I do have family in the area and she can go roost with them if needed

i like lifting

i love mcdonalds coffee.

looking for community and a young-ish place, but where it's normal to have had your first grey hair already and everyone has owned skinny jeans at some point

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u/Effective-Garage-315 — 9 days ago

Teach me how to make my bracelet vision come to life!

Hi!

I have these gorgeous beads. I know nothing about jewelry making, and I was wondering if I could have some tips on how to make my vision come to life!

I'd like to make a bracelet that has 6 big beads in a formation like this (with smaller beads in between):

https://preview.redd.it/f05xa3ffrkoh1.png?width=1340&format=png&auto=webp&s=13ae2a3b125dfd3bb54f0e4504004a0fb178e5b9

Except I want it to be stiff and not floopy, sort of like this:

https://preview.redd.it/dvdl8cgqrkoh1.png?width=1078&format=png&auto=webp&s=de7af956b336c2dda5899bb7eea3346bfe4891f9

And then I want some string to come out from each side of the structure, and tie together to make a bracelet.

https://preview.redd.it/yrtyaliiskoh1.png?width=1956&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe9d682c95b7bf7a83d387a9bd3512c293969f1d

Where do I begin? Are there any types of pliers, string, wire, or techniques I would need? How would you go about this?

Thank you!!

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u/Effective-Garage-315 — 1 month ago

[US - Boston] 24in × 7 in × 6.5in, 112.471 in³

Hi!
My paralyzed dad uses a wheelchair and can't bend forward without excruciating pain. I have an STL file for a sink extender so that he doesn't have to bend forward to spit. The dimensions are approx 24in × 7 in × 6.5in.

Color: not important (white, grey, blue...anything relatively neutral is great)

Usage: Indoors, needs to be water resistant

Thank you so much!

https://preview.redd.it/5r8d5lanqkoh1.png?width=1632&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a29b06b864921f8537d476e1a135d229cb4e830

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u/Effective-Garage-315 — 1 month ago

ASD or POTS?

Hi everyone,

Have been struggling with extreme shortness of breath and fatigue. I've had the shortness of breath for years, but it's been worsening over the last year to the point where I'm panting if I go for a short walk. My heat rate jumps from 65 bpm to 100 bpm if I go from sitting to standing, and I get short of breath just standing up, sometimes even at rest now. My echo was clean, some minor regurgitation but nothing crazy. My EKG/ECG was clean, my stress test was clean. PFT showed mild obstruction, but nothing that would explain this level of shortness of breath.

Does this sound like an ASD? Did anyone have similar symptoms but clean echo/ECG before they got diagnosed?

I've got a bubble test coming up next week.

Thank you!

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u/Effective-Garage-315 — 2 months ago
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COPD or something else? (PFT results attached)

Hi all,

Here are my PFT results: https://imgur.com/a/LzUt73z I see my pulmonologist in December, so I'm hoping I can get some insight from the community while I wait for my appointment.

I'm a 32F with severe shortness of breath - it feels like I can't get enough air in, and walking from room to room, or doing very light exercise makes me gasp for air. I can't keep up with my friends if we're all out on a short stroll to a coffee shop, and it's super frustrating. I'm fit and I lift 4x a week, I'm muscular and lean, and the only other health issues I have are an autoimmune thyroid condition (which is well managed with medication), and high risk of heart attack (my Lipo A, a genetic marker of heart disease risk, is 300 - wayyy high).

I've done a stress test, echo, and all the basic cardio testing. While my cardiologist was shocked at how out of breath I was on the stress test, there was nothing to explain the shortness of breath on the results themselves. So he sent me to pulmonology, where I got this PFT done.

Unfortunately, they didn't test me with an inhaler. However, they did give me an albuterol inhaler to take home, and told me to try and see whether it helps. I've given it a good shot, and even used a spacer, but it doesn't help at all.

I'm super sad and frustrated :( I want to be able to keep up with my friends when we're going for walks without feeling like I'm actually dying. And I would love to be able to do cardio. Right now, I can last about 2 mins at 4 mph before I need to stop.

Does anyone have ideas as to what's going on?

History of smoking: none

u/Effective-Garage-315 — 3 months ago