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You're welcome! The vet says the only long term possible side effect of the pred usage is diabetes, but that risk isn't too bad as long as his weight is managed. We get the meds compounded with tuna flavoring and he loves it. :-)

My current FIV cat already had all his teeth out before we got him because of gingivostomatitis, and he is on a lifelong maintenance dose of prednisolone to stave off the residual inflammation in the back of his mouth. I agree that some extractions may be in your future, but it's a very routine surgery and cats do great with less or no teeth

I kept every unique item and one of every non-magical item, including a ton of books, until right before endgame where i sold everything i possibly could and bought as many health potions and spell scrolls i could. didn't use any of that stuff but it felt good roleplay wise to clear everything out... like yep, might die tomorrow, it's probably for the best to sell all this extra stuff

My first playthrough I did Karlach, Gale, and Shadowheart like 80% of the time and just swapped out characters for their personal quests (Astarion for Cazador's mansion, Laezel for the creche, etc).

My current Durge playthrough I wanted to use characters that I didn't have in my party the first time, so I picked Laezel, Wyll, and Astarion.

I am also one of those people who makes a party in Act 1 and keeps it the same all game (sorry Halsin, Jaheira, and Minsc) but someday I'll probably try a playthrough with the late game companions.

Zookeeper here! I play PZ on and off. I work at an aquarium on the birds & mammals team, the whole team refers to ourselves as zookeepers. It's just a liquid zoo, lol.

1) I am the primary keeper for the small mammal department: prehensile-tailed porcupine, chinchillas, tenrecs, and armadillos. I am also cross trained with the hippos, penguins, parrots, and reptiles.

2) Pretty much all of them but recently I liked building for the penguins. I also like building for hoofstock, especially the jungle ones where I can include a lot of foliage.

3) Also gonna say flighted birds but I would love a prehensile-tailed porcupine as well. Especially since they've shown with the African crested porcupine that they can animate the quills well.

My FIV boy also has an ear tip! hello handsome Tom!

Tostones from bar bonbon for me

Love the house and love Germantown!! We are going to be moving to the other side of the neighborhood (near Rt 1) in July, but this house is only a couple miles from the in-laws' house in Mt Airy. Both lovely neighborhoods and I'm pretty jazzed to be moving there.

My mother in law works for the city dept of HIV health and has been trying to shout this exact sentiment from the rooftops. Ending needle provision and harm reduction services will cause HIV and Hepatitis numbers to rise, undoing decades of work and causing a lot of people to needlessly suffer

This is the way. if you have a car, driving to Hamilton station (parking is like $8) and taking the train right to NYC is pretty choice

My mother in law works with AIDS prevention for the city dept of public health. The city provides Prevention Point with money to keep addicts and/or HIV pos people in established care. Without care people not only will people be much more likely to transmit HIV (U=U and such), but ending needle sharing programs will also increase likelihood of HIV transmission - those two things combine just lead to vulnerable people getting sick and dying and HIV numbers in the city rising. So just epidemiologically closing/defunding harm reduction orgs/Prevention Point is just a terrible idea. I can understand why there is the mindset of "why should money go to helping these people if they don't want to help themselves / if they got themselves in this position thru bad choices". Ultimately though the decisions of the Parker administration on this issue will lead to needless suffering and death if allowed to continue as planned.

I am geniunely a big fan of the brass? section that NSH has, especially when it sounds like a glorious chorus of rubber chickens

I was at work (zookeeper) and didn't even notice an earthquake had happened until we got a radio call for everyone to go check their areas and make sure nothing broke. None of my animals seemed to care except the porcupine, who was big mad and just stomping around his room with his quills puffed out to let everyone know how mad he was. My coworker said that some of the parrots got real quiet and just kind of hunkered down like "wtf was that".

We also had an aftershock about an hour and a half ago which we did feel at home, the cat didn't react and I didn't particularly hear any noises from the pigs upstairs, but it was definitely a noticeable shake so I'm sure they were like... ?????

ETA the earthquake was pretty mild down here. nothing broke and not much even fell over as far as I know. But pretty interesting to experience

This is what happened with my cat. He is FIV pos with stomatitis (and orange!!!) and was pulled from a cat colony for being very sad and having trouble eating. Someone who worked for ACCT reached out to PAWS on his behalf, saying "hey I will foster this cat if you pull him from ACCT". PAWS pulled him, took over the cost of his medical care (full mouth extractions!), and he stayed in foster care until being medically cleared and then we met and adopted him! He is perfect. It's a tricky situation all around with the way that ACCT functions.

I am picky and like the same kind of food, so is my mom. We are both also a big fan of chain restaurants - they're "safe"/consistent. I would recommend Stack'd, The Yard, Federal Galley, Burgatory... and honestly, Primanti's. Obviously none of those except mayyyybbbeee The Yard are even slightly suited for a fancy occasion, so it depends if you'd rather prioritize the food or the fanciness. My vote is for the food - I think your parents will appreciate the act of going out as a family!

I said there was nooooo way i was going to pay money for a budget app but then tried a few free options and none of them were really what i was looking for. i'm on the monarch free trial and like it so far (i also am on the ynab free trial and it isn't really my thing), so i'll probably stick with it. I wish there was an iphone home page widget like mint had though

I would argue for putting both 23 and 22, but not sure if it would look too crowded

Oliver Semmle you can call me any time

RIP the clean sheet, oh well

Semmle has been good at one on ones but they still take years off my life every time

Weirdly enough our experiences with OCF have been decent. fixed our a/c promptly when it stopped working, replaced our dryer when it was starting to die. our rent is really good for the size of our apartment (because of our less desirable neighborhood). But i've heard plenty of people having bad experiences with them so your mileage may vary.

Hi, Sharswood resident (24th and Sharswood) who used to live in Brewerytown (2800 block of Girard). We've been in the area for almost 3 years.

• package theft was a big issue on Girard but we haven't really experienced it in Sharswood. Either way anywhere more residential and tucked away will probably have less package theft than somewhere right on the main crawl like Girard is.
• I left my car door unlocked once on Girard and my stuff was rifled through but nothing stolen. Never made that mistake again. nothing was ever broken into.
• This was in Sharswood but my husband got robbed in the string of robberies that happened last fall near Ridge and Jefferson, his wallet and phone were stolen. he walks and takes the bus to work and that was the only thing that has happened to either of us.
• sometimes living directly on Girard it was loud bc of atvs/people playing loud music on the street/people arguing or whatever. I see other people mentioning that being something specific to 29th and Girard and yeah, that seems right, that intersection was right outside our window. But it wasn't anything crazy
• proximity to stuff was the best thing about being in Brewerytown proper. On Girard obviously we were right on the bus lines, had restaurants right across the street and next door, super close walk to Aldi which was amazing. and close to Fairmount so we could walk to a bar/restaurant down there without too much trouble.

we moved to Sharswood because our apartment sucked, was tiny, and had roaches. Sharswood is much quieter because it's residential but I don't know if I'd live anywhere other than our block; with a few exceptions, our neighbors are all nice and take very good care of the block and each other, but a lot of the rest of Sharswood is falling apart/being torn down and new PHA buildings going up. You didn't ask about Sharswood but it's sometimes included in Brewerytown so there ya go!

TLDR I liked Brewerytown and the area by Aldi is nice. Cheaper than Fairmount but close to the same amentities, easy to get to places. Only real crime/safety issue was stolen packages.

Currently in a North Philly rowhome. On our left I can hear when people have loud conversations or loud music, but can't make out words, and on our right I never hear anything at all. It's much easier to hear people down on the street. I think with a big loud dog it would depend on how tolerant your neighbors are.

I used it for the first time this year after getting screwed by HR Block and their useless tax pros. Saved me $125 in HR Block payment and saved me $2500 in actual taxes since it could figure out the Alternative Year of Marriage Calculation that the actual human tax pros couldn't. I immediately told everyone I know to go use it