I just applied for a state job that closed last Friday. I went to check the status of it and it says "under consideration" but no email or anything, is this a good or bad sign? or it doesn't mean anything? I'm really interested in this job so hoping for an interview.
What was your hiring process like?

Not sure what I hope to gain from this but maybe there will be some clarity to gain from an objective opinion. That being said I will prob delete this later- but while I’m here I will try to be as detailed and neutral to the facts as I can be, but there is a lot of history in a 15 year relationship so get ready to read a small book. I M33, grew up in an abusive and poverty stricken home, naturally I escaped that situation as soon as I could (after high school in 2008) my parents would explode over the littlest thing- like the first time I recall thinking I could not rely on my dad was after witnessing him beat my sister to a pulp, and then threaten me about telling (I never did) over her bedroom being filthy. Now, between high school and meeting my now wife F34 I was in a committed long distance relationship. Not to dwell here as it has little to do with the story, that relationship ended Dec 1 2009, I made my way to a small college town and found a place to stay with a few friends I knew from high school. This could only be described as a party house that a few poor and brave folks lived. The rent was cheap and the people were good. Not to mention, it was easy to drowned my feeling with drugs and alcohol here and not be judged. This was right after the 2008 financial crisis and I had found employment delivering for a local restaurant, and was not interested in starting a new relationship. Well mid way through December one roommate decided he was moving out, which left a room open for rent. This is where I met who, at least at one point was the love of my life. Jen F34 was a recent college graduate, who comes from, what I would consider a well off family. Jen was part of some drama with her old roommates and decided she would move in. She had been accepted into a work training program that would send her to a new state 15 hours away, so she was also not interested in a serious relationship. Jen was seeing someone we will call Mark. Mark and Jen we in a non-serious sexual relationship. The moment I saw Jen something inside me said i want to be with her, but I was still fighting demons from my failed relationship. So I hung around her and was content just being a friend..well this goes on for about a month..before it happened. One drunk night and I am waking up, naked next to her..she was still seeing Mark at that point, and I had no idea what I had done. She broke it off with mark a few days later and I took his spot. As a non-serious sexual partner, well the months flew by then all of a sudden we both had caught feelings. We had finally agreed we would only see each other. Well one day I come home from work and she is cuddled up next to a guy we will call Adam. I was devastated. I confronted her and she played it off as nothing. Just passed out and woke up and he was next to her, I had my doubts but in the end believed her and forgot about it. As things got more and more serious the dread of her moving day was inching closer. We both were bothered by this. She wanted to stay, I said no. I eventually agreed I’d move to her after her training program. (She had to stay on a company campus for 3 months for training) during this time we were long distance- I worked my ass off to get ready for a cross country move and she was getting a place ready for us to live. During this time she went out with “friends” and said she would call me after. 2 am nothing, 3 nothing 4 I’m worried sick and finally fell asleep around 4:15am. My phone goes off at 5am. She calls me incoherent and making 0 sense. I thought again she may have cheated on me but again no evidence- said she got a bit to drunk and stayed out too late. I again believed her. I was able to forgive and get over it- I’m not the type to stress over anything that’s not life changing so moving day arrives. I get all my stuff in order jump on the greyhound and start my journey. Dying inside to finally see my women again, well 22 hours later I arrived. She was supposed to be there to pick me up but she was no where to be found. I text and called, she finally answered and was very short with me, and pulled up a short while later. As soon as I got in the car she was mad. Telling me I should not have come, it was a mistake etc. we get to the apartment and I’m feeling like a sucker for being there, we have some food and she apologized for her actions in the car and we moved forward. Well the next almost two years of our relationship was amazing- epic sex life, passionate about each other the whole 9. Some minor drunk arguments here and there but nothing crazy. I consider this the best time of my life. Around 3 years in our relationship we got pregnant. Over those 9 months we were closer than ever. Excited to bring a beautiful baby into to this world, scared beyond words but happy. Then one day she was in pain and pretty sure she was in labor. We get to the hospital and thus starts one of the most traumatizing experiences for her. Extended labor time, breach baby, intense pain and anxiety followed by a c-section, and a multi-night stay in the hospital. Then a long recovery process. Needless to say being young, broke, new parents is probably the hardest thing I have ever experienced and can admit that experience must have been even worse for her and while life as new parents took hold she grew into a nurturing mother while I regressed. I was over worked, underpaid, stressed out and took what was a minor drinking habit to an excessive drinking habit. This was the start of a long line of huge fights, financial problems, and ultimately leads us to know. chewing on the idea of divorce. But before I get to now, let’s do a quick life recap. My wife and I are living together with our newborn, isolated from friends and family, I’m quickly drinking more and more. I worked an over night labor job, and Jen was still working for the same company. But more of an 8 - 5 we only saw each other in passing most days. Our blessing was colic and cried constantly. We both began to feel like we needed to be close to friends so we packed up and move back after her contacted ended a year later. Back to the small sleepy college town we met. We moved back, our kiddo was 1, things were looking up, I had gotten a day job- our kiddo was finally sleeping better, really it seemed good. But since her c-section a year prior, we had only managed to have sex a few times. I thought this would be the change we could to finally revive our bedroom life. But it hardly changed, add a few more times to the few mentioned before. We went from daily to basically none, not to mention we would constantly fight about things that need to be done, money, etc. I’ll admit I did not do my part of house work. So things are starting to fall apart- I’m still drinking heavily, our bedroom was on life support and I fucked up and started watching porn, browsing sites akin to tinder. I have to say I never actually hooked up with anyone but I did get some photos sent to me. Not my proudest moment. Well I arrived home from work and Jen had found said communications and browsing history and was rightfully mad. After a week or so staying with a friend and she allows me to apologize , I assured her it was nothing more than digital and explained how I felt about our sex life, or lack of one specifically. Things kind of improved for a bit, I stopped drinking, we were being intimate, we got married, she quit working and went for a graduate degree, I had found more gainful employment. until one day Jen noticed something new on my body.. a wart to be specific. At some point I contacted HPV. Which then made me look like a liar. (I since found out it was a girl i had a one night stand with shortly before my prior relationship. (Common friend told me years later))but I had no explanation or evidence to prove my infidelity was not physical. Well after this happened things got bad, really bad. I started drinking heavily again, right into financial ruin. We were broke, rent due, hungry baby, relationship just about dead. 0 bedroom life. I never said I was the good guy here. Just trying to be honest about our past. So we need cash quick so we don’t fall behind on bills, it is eventually decided she will strip for cash until we can get out of the hole I dug us. I’m pretty insecure but we had no other choice. I was handling it pretty well, until I noticed something in her attitude. She would get home and try to initiate sex with me. It was welcome but odd- till this point we had a half dead bedroom for years. I pried it out of her that stripping turned her on and instantly felt disgust. I lost it on her, how could she- come home and fuck me smelling like alcohol and bathroom cologne. Can’t fuck them at the club easily so come home and pretend I’m someone that turns you on. Had we not had issues overall in the bedroom I would not have felt this way but this made me feel gross, betrayed, guilty, angry. She obviously is mad at me since it’s my fault she was there. We had a fight and somewhat made up. Bedroom life was slow, life went on, things are pretty crappy and one night she goes out with a friend and shows up back at our place, hammered, with a guy from the bar. Our child was asleep in the room and that man is lucky I did not shoot him. She claims he was her friends stray but she let a stranger come to OUR HOUSE. Well at this point, i was mad but eventually just got over it. Life moved on we came out of the financial hole moved to a nicer place and began work towards saving for a home. She was still stripping on and off to help save. Well then she actually cheated on me, with another girl I front of a group of guys for money. I’m died inside at this point. I fell back to drinking heavily, again sexually all but dead. I basically repressed it and allowed her to get off easy (when she found my digital infidelity years prior I had to stay with a friend for a week) over this time, things are quite- status quo- saving for our first home. After some time like this I got a new job- and we could finally purchase. So we did- just before the pandemic. Our bedroom was basically dead- only initiated by me, was pretty one sided and seemed like she was just doing it to appease me. Constantly fighting of little things like chores (if I did not do them exactly the way or time she wanted it done WW3 would break out) but we managed. The the pandemic happened. We decided we would move closer to her family so we could have some support and hopefully work on us. We were able to live with her family for the next 1.5ish years. I only recall having sex twice during this time. (Could have been more but like I said I’m still drinking at this point) we bicker constantly during this time. Mind you all I am slowly at this dying on the inside this whole time. We had a major blow up in front of everyone a few days prior to closing. Stemming from myself feeling generally put out. Stick in a sexless marriage and the fact that I had a work thing in Vegas for a week. We sign - I leave for Vegas- she organizes the movers and get everything in. We have our own space again. Now we are almost to the present day. I again found new employment and have a high stress, high 6 figure salary career we have had many of fights due to chores, and household duties etc. she was convinced it was due to alcohol so I finally quit drinking for good. The goal was to hopefully fix this relationship, have a more intimate bedroom. In fact this was agreed upon when I quit. Some of the other things that have been said in these arguments was that she is working and trying to find better work so she can financially afford to leave me. She currently works on a “less than part time” contract work type stuff but is basically is a SAHM. I pay 100% of everything. This is now 6 months after I stopped drinking and there has been no change in our bedroom life. 3.5 weeks ago: I calm Loy state that I thought we agreed on the spicing up the bedroom with more frequently maybe some lingerie. I am getting a bit frustrated with this. Her: I just started my period but I hear you. A week goes by period done still nothing. 2 weeks ago Friday: we are sitting on the couch. I am feeling very much frustrated sexually. We are watching tv together, and I make a comment about one of the people. Here is what happened : Person on TV while crying “I recently found out my body produces excess estrogen” me: must be why you’re so emotional. Her: you’re a sexist pig, a misogynist, thats a misnomer and actually testosterone does that and so many other things I forget them all but that was the gist. Just offended. I apologized and said it was just a dumb comment. Somewhat calmed down but the energy was thick. Then I made my second mistake: a morbidly obese person came on screen wearing a sold color onesie. I muttered : dude looks like a bowling ball. And that was it- I’m a disgusting pig and she is going to bed. I sleep on the couch that night seething that again no sex, again random attacks against my character, again using something like a comment about a person on screen to go to bed. Saturday: my kiddo sees me on the couch, asks “dad can you make me an omelet.” Me still upset with how the night ended with my wife- complained about not wanting to make it- and eventually agreed. While cooking breakfast - wife comes downstairs and immediately starts in on me, ignoring my advances for a hug, telling me i need to walk the dog because she doesn’t have time. I also needed to run an errand before the kiddos sports ball game. I told her kind of angrily I had shit to do as well and what is preventing her from doing it. Well she does, things are quiet, we get to the game and we are sitting there. She brings up the comments of the night before and started this whole thing in public. Trying to get me to lose my temper in public. I was able to ignore it and just finish the game. Pushed all that down and was ready to move on. We get home from the day’s activities and she does what she always does says good night to the kiddo and gets ready for bed. Again I sleep on the couch. Sunday: she wakes up and starts cleaning, I try to be nice again- making advances to hug her, kiss her etc. I walked the doggo, not asked to do so- kiddo asks me to cook some food again so I do. No complaint, but while I’m cooking she makes another comment about my character. And brings up Friday again. I lost it: I was screaming at her like I never have before. Told her I wanted a divorce, that she clearly doesn’t want this it’s why she can’t even pretend to want me sexually and that I am nothing more than an ATM for her at this point. The rest of Sunday and Monday was silent. This is when I started this novel of a post. Finally she apologized and admitted to being cold to me, promised to work on this. Tuesday, best sex we have had in a decade, Wednesday, repeat action, Thursday a 3rd time. This past Friday- I was spent this was more sex than I had in a row in years. I was happy. Saturday, family members bday and another sports game. All day gone- everything good. We get home late- she is tired no problems. Sunday Mothers Day. We had plans with her family to do some hiking the first part of the day then have lunch and play a game. Everything is going fine. It starts to get around 3:00 pm and I tell her I am ready to go home. She said we have not played the game and that she wanted to. So I agree- we play a few rounds and during the game she could see that I was getting annoyed that we had to play another round I was not being rude but just not enthusiastic about ti. She looked at me and said I need to check myself. The way she said it, the fact she said it at the table so everyone could hear. I felt disrespected, we left and argued a little but I ended up saying sorry because ok I get it my fault. So we get home and she comes into my office space (which was dirty) glasses, and tons of boxes /other recycling that had not be taken care of. She told me to do it I agreed it was gross and started picking up. She kept on about how I’m disgusting for leaving it in the first place- etc I calmly asked her to just leave it alone and drop it, I’d take care of it but she didnt after 10 mins of her spewing on me I finally lost it and told her to get the fuck out of my office if she doesn’t like it. That I’m tired of the hostility and it’s clear she didn’t actually want to fix this. She kept asking me to lower my volume while telling me why she is right, brining up everything from the prior week. I did not lower my volume I got louder and more upset till she goes to bed and I sleep on the couch again. Monday: we argue more. The general mood is “how could I blow up on her on Mother’s Day.” That she is done etc. as soon as she can financially leave she will. I said why wait and asked her to stay with her mother for a few days- she refused to, so I left to a hotel room. Today was more of the same: not accepting that she had a part in the argument. That I just freaked out over her asking me to clean up. We have eventually agreed to give therapy a shot but here I sit, in my hotel room. Contemplating life I can’t help but feel we gave it our best but we were doomed to fail. I really don’t want to lose my family. but neither of us can take the current state anymore. What does the world of Reddit think?

I 29M am married to a 26F, for a few years now but have been together for over 10 years. In the last year she started having panic attacks and got a prescription that seemed to be working. What I failed to realize is that when our marriage started fading. I have been in my own funk for quite some time. I felt lost, not good enough at being a father or husband and not providing. My drinking started to get out of hand. It took a few weeks but I significantly cut back. I have had a few outbursts when the children weren't listening and started working on that too. Two weeks ago she told me she was checked out of the marriage and I'm scheduled to deploy in three months. I tried asking her if she would be willing to start dating me again. She said she doesn't feel the same about me anymore and that she does not know if she could. I've been panicking and probably trying to hard to show her that I don't want it to end here. I tried asking again after we gave each other space and she said she's sorry she thinks it's over. I scheduled marriage counseling and she agreed to go. I asked her if she wanted to go to the gym with me and she said that sounds good. I told her I'd request off the deployment to stay and work on our family if she also thinks it is a good idea. What worries me is she used to always leave her phone everywhere. Now it's always on her, she stopped all location sharing and activity status on social. She's been staying later at work (works 12 hour shifts sat and sun) and is going out with her coworkers. I love the idea that she's getting out and hanging out with friends but never asks and now starts doing it after she tells me she's check out. I've been super helpful around the house with cleaning taking care of the pets, fixing any issues that arise immediately, leaving little cute post it notes before I go to work. Am I doing too much and coming off as desperate, am I doing enough?
TL;DR
My wife told me she's checked out. We both have not been communicating enough and being there for each other. She's been going out more with friends and staying late at work but agreed to marriage counseling. Am I doing enough to earn her love back or am I being too desperate?
Edit: she also said she feels I'm only with her for the sex. We haven't spent much quality time together and trying to do both took away too much time from quality time spent together while raising the kids and taking care of the animals we have.

The original thread in manga is a post titled "Tsumiki Ogami & the Strange Everyday Life. - Volume 1 Cover", and it's an image of the cover art for the new series' volume 1 edition (Japanese manga chapters get compiled into physical volumes so you can read 7-8 chapters at a time in one book).
Now, I wrote in the title that the drama involves a power mod, and personally, I don't know how many subs someone can mod for before they're considered a power mod, but the redditors in this conversation mod 150+ subreddits for reference, so I consider that power mod status. One of these power mods in particular will create a new subreddit for every new Weekly Shonen Jump manga series, precisely so they can be the top mod for the subreddit and dictate how the rules go there. It should also be noted that this power mod creates a discord server for these series as well, and advertises it in the series' subreddits.
With that out of the way, the drama spawns shortly after a regular comment about the art for the volume: (regular redditors will be abbrev. as C1, C2, while power mod accounts will be Pmod1, Pmod2)

C1: BIG OL' STOMPERS. Pmod1: OgamiTsumiki gonna have a field trip with this today Pmod2[OP]: go away [links to a comment in another thread which states: "Don't listen to [Pmod1]. It's the same guy who'll shill his new subreddit for any new manga that appears."] Pmod1: Why do you hate me punpun, I thought we were besties :( C2: Spiderman pointing at Spiderman C3: battle of the power mods: who can be mods for more manga subreddits

Even though the spiderman comment was in reply to Pmod2, Pmod1 reads it and decides to respond to C2:

C2: Spiderman pointing at Spiderman Pmod1: Lol why don't u go and mald over some [Weekly Shonen Jump] series sales and [Table of Contents] shit what are you doing here xd. C2: Get help Pmod1: Say the same thing again but infront of a mirror now. C2: You're so god damn weird jfc Pmod1: Yeah sure you come and comment under my thread and I'm the weird one. Get a life bro lol reddit isn't everything. C2: Yes, you're the weird one. Maybe take your own advice to heart Pmod1: Bro lives on reddit and discord and likes to hate everywhere lol. No wonder they always clown on you, you should look deeper into yourself where it all went wrong. C2: Please get help Pmod1: I'm pleading the same for you too! Please go get help, being obsessed with others isn't good for you. C2: Yes, surely it's me being obsessed and not you. Get help, please. Pmod1: Just stop replying to me brother it's looking mad embarrassing for you [at this point]. C2: It's looking embarrassing for me when you're the one who replied to a comment that wasn't even a direct reply to you within a minute? Pmod1: Maybe stop sharing it to ur secret wicket discord server 😉 C2: This just makes you look even worse 😭 What would you have done if I hadn't made that comment here? Don't want your alt to get exposed and that's why you replied here instead of the discord even though the comment was made minutes later? Pmod1: What is bro yapping about 😭 go play with some charts or something don't disturb me now

(The way Pmod1 is talking to C2 makes it seems like C2 is a power mod, but I checked the account and they only mod 3 subreddits, so probably not? Anyways, the conversation, continued:)

C2: You are the one who started this convo man lmaoooo Pmod1: Yeah sure that's why it shows u being the one who said "Spiderman pointing at spiderman" first lol and what does that makes you? Don't say Batman u cringe af 🤧 C2: But that reply wasn't made to you? 😭 Pmod1: Indirectly it was?? 😭 Out of the two spidermans u referenced me as one too. C2: Are you really this dense? I didn't reply to you, you chose to engage in this convo so why are you now telling me to stop bothering you? Just stop replying lmao Pmod1: That's what I have been telling you too, stop being obsessed with me and this weird thing where you want to have the last reply for some reason. Just stop responding back. C2: Why would I? This is entertaining to me. Since you're apparently bothered by it, just stop replying and that's it? Pmod1: Lol bro thinks he's the main character C2: No, I just think you're a loser and clowning on you and other powermods is funny as fuck. Pmod1: Lol says the social loser who has been sitting on reddit all day. C2: You can't be this dense man. Not only have you been more active than me today specifically, you also immediately replied to a comment that wasn't even a reply to you and you are a god damn powermod. Like, the longer you keep replying the more you're embarrassing yourself. Pmod1: I just returned from office so I got more time now buddy. I can do this all day. Keep responding back and you'll keep getting a reply back. So just stop being a clown and stop now. C2: Again, why would I? You started this, not me and you also wanted this to stop and now you're changing your tune again. You keep making an ass out of yourself because you got so fucking triggered by a reply that wasn't even directed at you, that you can't help yourself but to continue this with more and more nonsense arguments digging yourself deeper and deeper into this hole.

I think that last comment by C2 really irritated Pmod1, because their replies get longer and the drama really duplicates:

Pmod1: Brother the only one who keeps falling deeper into this hole is you. It's like you're almost begging to be clowned atp. I can understand you have a lot of free time in your hand like most unemployed people, but that doesn't mean you should waste it all on reddit. If you want I can help you look for job applications. We can help you get through this, together. C2: It's incredible how dumb you are, jfc. Let me repeat: You started this. Not me. You. You immediately replied to a comment that wasn't even a reply to you. Not me. You. You're so insanely triggered by a single comment that you can't simply let it go and keep getting your ass trolled by me who's laughing his ass off at how desperate you're trying to somehow own me. It's so funny how pressed you are by a single comment, but I guess if the shoe fits... Pmod1: You literally came to the thread to start this shit and now trying to turn it on me...is this your new hobby now? From rolling in downvotes for your shit manga takes to arguing with random redditors? I'm honestly getting a kick out of it though so please continue... C2: Omfg, it has been a full weekend and you still can't let go. That's so fucking sad. You really spent the weekend doing fun stuff and then came back here just to be angry again. Please get help. Pmod1: Buddy I just forgot. But it's genuinely sad that you're still going on this after so long. Either get a life or some help. I'm feeling pity for you now. C2: Sure, you "forgot" even though you clearly have notifications on since you replied to a comment that wasn't a reply to you within a minute because it triggered you so much. Look, even if you forgot it's still incredibly sad that you can't just let go and keep coming here just to be wound up by me again. I also don't know why you keep trying to spin this when the whole conversation is publicly readable and it's clear you're incredibly mad while I've already stated that I won't stop because it's fucking funny. It takes me a few minutes at worst to respond and get you to bite while you insist on pretending like you're not actually angry even though everyone knows you are because why else would you even react to my comment like that lmao. Honestly, since you're only replying sporadically with the same "no u" garbage atp, it takes the fun out of it, so I'm just gonna block your ass and hope I'll never come across you again

So C2 in fact does block Pmod1, essentially allowing them to have the last word, right? But in a twist, Pmod1 responds to C2 with another account that is a power mod for 90+ subs:

Pmod-Alt1: Did you really think you can just have the final say and then block me and think this all ends? Well guess not. If it annoys you that much then just stop replying, it's not that deep. But ofcourse it's gonna hurt your male fragile ego because deep inside you're just a scared little boy 🥺 and that's alright. We won't judge you for being so sad, it's not your fault at all buddy. C2: I'm just gonna block that account too, lol. Wonder how many alts you have you pathetic loser Edit: Shit, you can only block once every 24 hours... Well, time to turn off notifs. Stay mad clown Pmod-Alt1: Keep malding. And stop replying back, u just clown on yourself more and make it super embarrassing for yourself. C2: No u

It appears C2 blocks that account, and through Undelete, I can see there were 2 more replies from 2 other accounts, but they were deleted too fast, so this is all you see:

C2: No u Pmod-Alt2: [deleted] Pmod-Alt3: [removed too quickly to be archived]

The content must have been similar to some of the comments in the conversation above, because C2 edits their 'No u' comment twice to call Pmod1 out:

C2: Edit: I'm literally just gonna block all of your accounts you obsessed freak. At least it seems like you've done me a favor by blocking me with your 5th alt since I can't see your reply. No one is buying your "no u" bullshit, which is why I'm making fun of it. I'm just gonna turn off notifs again and block any account of yours I see on sight. Stay mad, loser
Edit 2: What the fuck are you talking about you fucking weirdo?? You chose to engage in this convo. You always could've just stepped away, but you were too mad to do that. It's also crazy how you try to claim that I'm mad when you're the one who replied to a comment that wasn't a reply to you because it got you so triggered and are now scrambling to find your millionth alt just to get another reply in. You're an obsessed freak, basically proving me right just by how you're reacting to all this and all you can come up with is "no u" because you have no rebuttal. Back to blocking and hoping the notif suppression actually works now... Pmod-Alt4: Atleast ur doing both of us a favor and I can finally get rid of your obsession with me. Keep malding while I keep laughing!

Please note that this drama is a few months old, and as far as I can tell, the power mods are still doing their modding thing.

Here’s the basic info, with situation explanations below.
Cats name: Jasmine Species: Cat Age: about 11 Sex/Neuter status: Female, spayed Breed: possible Siberian forest cat mix Body weight: 12.1 (last weighed at vet about 1.5 months ago. History: Mild constipation about 1.5 months ago. Didn’t know at first. Was lethargic, hiding, barely eating or drinking. Went to vet after a couple days when I could get appointment. They gave fluids and pain meds. Vet said it didn’t “feel” like she had much of an obstruction. After a few days she was fine.
Now: came home from work yesterday, around 5:30. Noticed she was lethargic, shying away from pets. Not quite sitting, but not standing either. Seemed very uncomfortable. Wouldn’t eat dinner. (She ate breakfast) (wet food morning and night with dry food available, but doesn’t usually eat much dry food.)
I lost a friend recently, so I was maybe a bit paranoid when my cat wasn’t looking well, so I took her to the emergency vet in my area. They manually removed some of the blockage (can’t imagine kitty was too happy about that.) then did an enema, anti-nausea med injection, pain med injection, fluids, and stool softener. Got home and she was not in pain. High as a kite though. She ate some tuna (her favorite, it’s what saved her as a stray kitten.)
This morning I gave the instructed oral dose of the pain med and stool softener. She didn’t eat this morning. Checked on her during lunch. Hadn’t eaten from what I could tell. Came home from work today, and she was drooling. Gave the recommended dose of the anti-nausea pill, still waiting for it to take effect, then maybe do the pain med oral and stool softener once the anti nausea kicks in.
I do have an appointment with our vet in a couple of days, as recommended. I will ask them in person about what digestive enzyme supplements they recommend, but I wanted to also get other recommendations from other vets or anyone who has had personal experience with digestive enzyme supplements for their cats.
NOTE: I will wait to buy anything until after I’ve talked to our vet. I just want to know your experience, and what ones seemed to work for your animals, so I can bring them up.
TIA

I was hired as a part time associate in the tool rental department a little over a year ago. In December, I was offered a full time spot. I accepted, and still had to wait until February after my vacation before actually starting. I have been working 40+ hours every week since then, and it has since come to my attention that full time associates are supposed to earn 4 hours of sick time every month on the same date of their hire date.
I have still only been getting 2 hours every month since February, so when I realized I was right I complained to HR to try to figure out wtf was happening. They said they would look into it, about two weeks later I finally get a response and they are basically saying "Sorry, you're fucked" and that there is no way to reverse it or add hours of sick time back in after the fact, nor could they put it on a check. I am not buying that.
I'm owed at least 4-6 hours of sick time for working the hours that I have. Apparently the reason my stuff got fucked up is because of the HR manager or whatever's own screw up and negligence, having forgotten to change me in the system to full time. How tf does someone forget to do that when they are scheduling me 40 hours every week? And now I have to suffer for someone else's mistake.
My status as a full time associate has been ammended now in the system, but I still couldn't get a guarantee that I would get my 4 hours this month, or that I would get 40 vacation hours when my next 6 months hit. Now I don't know what will happen with that since I was just "changed to full time officially" this month.
Beyond that, I spoke to my direct supervisor of my department and she gave me some bs response "Oh sometimes they do that like a trial period for a few weeks before moving you over". I was not told that or anything like that when I was offered the position at all.
Now I'm wondering, if there is anything I can do about this to fight this, if anyone else has experienced anything similar, and what my course of action should be. I got my "HR representative's" number that was posted in the break room, the person who seems to be HR's boss, and plan to contact them soon and complain.
Is there any other way for me to escalate this further and get it resolved? I just want my sick time. They're messing with my money now when all I've ever done is help them out, never even missed a day.

We will be celebrating International Astronomy Day this Thursday at the Keeble Observatory! I know, I know, you're thinking: "But International Astronomy Day is the 18th!" Well, the weather this weekend is looking terrible, so we're celebrating a few days early. We'll be open on Thursday the 16th from 8:30 to 10 PM.
In addition to stargazing, we'll also have some cake and lemonade. This will be another paint night as well, so we'll have miniature canvases and paint for you to illustrate your own starry scenes.
The Moon will be up, as well as the amazing star clusters M3 and M13, and the star forming galaxy M82. These all look spectacular through our telescope!
This will be our last event for the semester. We will be back in the Fall for another year of public observing. The best place to check on our status is on our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/keebleobservatory/
These are free events, and no registration is needed. We're on campus at Randolph-Macon College, up in Ashland, at the corner of Caroline and Calhoun Street. Parking is free, and you can enter at the doors facing Caroline Street.
Hope to see you there!

Long story short: if you do not have a USCIS online portal account…. MAKE ONE. We could’ve had our green cards MONTHS ago.
I, US Citizen, filed I-130 for my parents and I-485 in July 2021 after turning 21. In the beginning, our cases were going as planned, however we never sent medical forms with I-485 (our lawyer advised us not to- we have now learned how detrimental that has been to our processing time and we are aware our lawyer gave us terrible advice). My parents checked case statuses using their receipt numbers on the main USCIS page and never made an account because we had always received all RFE and additional notices through the mail and didn’t think we needed one. Our I-130 got approved 2 years later on 08/2023 and after waiting a few months with no updates on I-485 (we were waiting for medical form RFE), I decided to seek congressional help in November of 2023. They told us on 11/17/2023 that there are no updates from USCIS and that they will let us know if they need anything. In January, we requested new work permits since my parents’ were set to expire and they were issued about 2 weeks later. I reached out again to congressman 02/2024 and they told me that USCIS is STILL processing our case and will let us know if they need anything.
I have the lawfully and case tracker apps that I check everyday but there were no new updates. So after doing some reddit reading, I decided to make an online USCIS account because it seemed advantageous. We waited 2 weeks for access codes to come in the mail. I created the account and saw a “DENIAL NOTICE” for both of my parents “due to abandonment” that was issued JANUARY 4, 2024. My stomach dropped. Apparently they had notified us in August of 2023 (the day after our I-130 was approved) to send medical forms by November 23, 2023. We had never received any of these documents through the mail (neither did our lawyer or congressman) and they did not show up on the lawfully/case tracker app. How could USCIS tell congressman 6 days before the medical forms were due that they do not need anything from us and then in February tell us they are still processing our case after it had apparently already been denied a month earlier?!?! And now it was TOO LATE TO APPEAL.
LUCKILY our congressman was able to provide proof of our inquiries and our lawyer met with someone at the USCIS Chicago field office (which we never received any mail from) and they reopened our case due to their errors. They sent us new RFE for medical forms which we have sent and we are now waiting to hear back.
All of our notices, including the I-130 approval, had been coming from the Nebraska field office. The documents that were on the portal but were never mailed had been from Chicago Field Office. They also made a mistake in their denial notice stating my parents needed to depart the US within 30 days of receiving the denial notice because they entered the US illegally, which was FALSE because they had come here legally. Needless to say, it was an emotional and stressful rollercoaster.

Species:domestic short hair • Age:3.5 years • Sex/Neuter status: Male, neutered • Breed: tabby, brown • Body weight: 14.5lbs • History:N/A. Healthy, last wellness check 4 months ago. • Clinical signs: 4 hours ago was scooting after using the litter box, I assumed maybe anal irritation. Found balloon string about 6cm in area of the house where he was scooting. He has been sleeping since. Ate breakfast and lunch prior to any of this and was normal. Do not know time that string was ingested. Woke up for 15 mins near his dinner time, did not eat dinner just went back to sleep. Has been licking himself clean as usual. Licked my face as well. • Duration: 5 hours since scooting started after using the bathroom. This was after lunch time • Your general location: DMV, USA •no relevant diagnostic studies
Is a vet worth it right here and now? Monitor condition? My first pet and means a lot to me. Thank you

Hello,
I can not figure out why
docker ps
would not deliver the currently runinng container(s).
Before I would do
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 breadapp
and get a long sequence of characters. Then I would openanother powershell terminal in the same folder (where also the Dockerfile is located) and type in docker ps. I don't get any output Depite I keep checking in my powsershell with admin access if the docker is running
Get-Service *docker*
Status Name DisplayName
Running com.docker.service Docker Desktop Service
The "Dockerfile" looks like this:
FROM openjdk:17-jdk-slim
WORKDIR /app
COPY mvnw .
COPY .mvn .mvn
COPY pom.xml .
RUN ./mvnw dependency:go-offline
COPY src ./src
RUN ./mvnw package -DskipTests
ENV PORT 8080
EXPOSE 8080
CMD ["java", "-jar", "target/Backend-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar"]
So I would be very grateful if anyone could provide help here as I tried so much already.

• Species: Canine (dog) • Age: 4 y.o. • Sex/Neuter status: neutered • Breed: Labrador retrieveChesapeake Bay retriever • Body weight: 80 lbs • History: healthy- no major issues • Clinical signs: uveal mass w/cystic component • Duration: first noticed March 25th, 2024 • Your general location: Colorado, USA
On March 25th I noticed a red “bubble” in my dog’s eye (inside the eyeball). I monitored for a few days and there was no change; he wasn’t showing any signs of pain/discomfort but it didn’t go away. I made a vet appointment on 3/29/24 with our primary vet. The primary vet initially thought it was a hematoma from potentially hitting his head or playing too rough. He ran a glaucoma test, ulcer test, checked for abrasions, and did blood work (all came back normal). He prescribed dexamethasone sodium phosphate eyedrops to administer 3x per day for 1 week. We followed up with our primary vet on 4/5/24, there was no change after using the drops for 1 week. At this point he referred us to an animal ophthalmologist. We scheduled the appointment for 4/26/24 (that was the earliest option they had).
On 4/20/24 he showed signs of pain/discomfort so we decided to bring him into the emergency vet. They redid the glaucoma test, ulcer test, and checked for abrasions (all normal). They virtually consulted with an ophthalmologist (sending photos and test results). This ophthalmologist diagnosed it as a uveal mass and recommended enucleation. They sent him home with carprofen 100mg 1x/day, gabapentin 200mg 2x/day, and neo/poly/dex ophthalmic solution 2x/day.
On Monday 4/22/24 we called the ophthalmologist office we had our original appointment scheduled with for 4/26/24. We asked to be seen earlier for a second opinion on the uveal mass diagnosis from the emergency vet. They got us in on 4/22; in which they repeated the tonometry test, fluorescein stain, and also did a schirmer tear test. All were negative/normal. The ophthalmologist did an exam of his eye with different scopes and agreed with the diagnosis of uveal mass; however he said there’s a cystic component as well. Below are the results of all the diagnostic tests they ran:
Schirmer Tear Test - Initial: 27 mm/30s 22 mm/30s Fluorescen Stain - Initial: Negative Negative Tono Vet Rebound Tonometry-Initial: 3 mmHg 12 mmHg Menace Response: Good Good Dazzle Reflex: Good Good Pupillary Light Reflex (PLR): Normal Normal Biomicroscopy: Abnormal Normal Binocular Indirect Ophth.: NSF Normal
He recommended enucleation with biopsy of the mass. He said the mass wouldn’t be surgically resectable which is why the full removal is necessary.
We have scheduled his surgery for the end of this week. I’m mostly just feeling guilty and nervous that he’s so young. I am happy we got the second opinion and I trust the vet teams; I just want to be sure that this is the right course of treatment for my boy.
I tried to link the photos in the comment below. I haven’t ever done that before so I apologize if it’s not the right way.
Thank you all!

Edited from post for clarification:
I already know that I passed my exam from the end result screen when I took it.
Previously, I was able to see online that my exam score was “On Hold.”
For some reason, I no longer have the option to see and select the exam I took.
I can no longer see the link on the ASCP website "Completed BOC Exam Applications" to check my exam status.
I can no longer see that I even took my exam.
The link for me to click on no longer appears at all.
Is this normal and part of the process once they are putting in my score and certifying me?

A marketplace where people can ask to see live video of a place. For example, if you want to see live status at airport security check or current seaweed conditions in Cancun etc.

Hello,
I've never posted about this kind of stuff, but I've never experienced such a persistent nagging pain
My ex and I had a very turbulent 7 year relationship, I initially met her months after healing from another long term relationship, about 25 years, and that ended amicably, and to this day I see her as a friend.
The beginning of our relationship was amazing, it was very sexually charged, she was into everything and anything I did, she was sweet, comforting, a great listener, the times we had were almost euphoric. Even during this phase of the relationship, I acknowledged to myself that I have to take things slow as things are moving so fast.
About a month and a half into "dating" she got pregnant, and I told her I will be there for you, and I'll never run away from being a Father, ever! Immediately everything changed, and of course I understand why and empathize with how she may have felt suddenly being pregnant, and I genuinely cared and made myself available at all times. We only lived a building apart, we were basically doors down from each other.
Immediately she wanted to get a place together, I let her know that she could stay with me anytime, give it a trial run, but we still need to get know each other, as I just got over a 25 year relationship. She started staying with me on and off and I began seeing a complete different side of her, she would storm out of my place and take issue with little things like clothes on the floor, or an unmade bed, I mean over the top anger.
Still throughout this period I began falling in love with her, and falling in love with my unborn child. During this period I started discovering a pattern of lies, some just white lies, some extremely severe, lies that had the potential to affect any sort of positive outcome as they entailed criminal behavior. When confronted with the worst ones I was assured she would stop.
Skip ahead to the birth, I was with her, we were both content, a happy beautiful healthy daughter came from the womb. I was in love, both with my child, as well as the Mother. We were inseparable for awhile, then she became extremely controlling, even vicious at times. My time with my daughter was often relegated to when the Mother was asleep, I would let her sleep when my daughter woke up in the night and bond with her then.
One day she got extremely upset with me as I wanted to bring my daughter and her to a family event, she had an issue with a family member of mine, this turned into a CRAZY argument, that ended up with me being denied seeing my child for over 12 days. I ended up going to the courthouse to file papers that would give me the legal right to see my daughter, regardless of the status of my relationship with the Mother.
I never served those papers, as my daughter had gotten sick, and we both met at her pediatrician appointment, everything melted away and we were together again, she became loving again, we shared bringing up our child, but I began to lose touch with all my family, including my friends, anything I would do or plan to do would cause an insane amount of friction.
Through this time we did our best to be close, but the lies never stopped, and I completely began to lose my sense of self. There were times when my daughter would be completely weaponized, used as a pawn to control me, I slowly began isolating myself from just about anyone but my daughter and the Mother. We would have an argument, could be anything, big or small, and instantly I'd be disregarded, no communication, no texts, no calls, no responses. Then we would get together and she would show me love and kindness, and I'd be hooked again. This on and off pattern lasted a good 6 years. I still struggle thinking about how dark some of those days were, and I've never strayed or abandoned my daughter. She's the light of my life, just has 2 parents that can't seem to live peacefully together.
Forward to now, just a few months ago we talked and decided it would be best to part and focus on co-parenting. The 1st month was great, we were cordial to each other during pick ups and drop offs, but we stopped both putting our child to bed together. If she had her I used to always go over and put her to bed, read books, bathe, etc and she would for the most part so the same when I have my daughter. We stopped that, as when my daughter did fall asleep that's when we would connect, quite often it was just sexual, looking back it was like giving a dog a bone, it was void of true intimacy, it was just enough to keep things balanced in an odd way, it became the only affection I came to know.
This entire time, regardless of our status, whenever we were with other people she was a gem, she always would bring gifts even if not necessary, always be extremely affectionate towards me, basically playing a part.
Here's an example, I got sick one evening, some sort of food poisoning, it got bad enough where I had to go to the hospital and be treated in a bed from early morning until evening. This happened to fall on a night we had planned a "date" night. She came to the hospital to pick me up, my parents were there and she was as sweet as you could imagine, as soon as I got discharged and we were driving home, now just the two of us, she flipped on me for ruining our date. She bought tickets to a show, and she was recklessly pissed off and as mean as one could imagine, and I was still sick, she ended up storming out of my place.
These kinds of situations became normal, and a nonstop cycle of on again/off again partners became the norm.
I'm getting long winded now, but I'll come back to the present. After about a month of just co-parenting and coming to terms with ending any sort of romantic relationship, and being cordial to one another, she started reminiscing about our past, sharing pictures of happy times with my daughter and us together, pictures of just her and I, messages of love, how she misses me, will always love me, all these things, and I opened the door again. This was days before she was leaving for a "yoga retreat" and I would have my daughter. Needless to say, those 4 days there was no more communication, not even with my daughter. The 1st communication on a Sunday morning was about being together again, and sentiments of love.
This has since happened 2 more times, always surrounded by secrecy, even if it directly affects my daughter, which unfortunately it has. Come to find out she was never away, "out of town" she was just down the road at an Airbnb with some guy that fly's in from out of state, she told me all this and actually said how much I would like him, and that this guy would love to meet me, and at the same time maintaining how much she still loves me. Just whacky, not even months after ending any romantic partnership.
This coming week my daughter and her are taking their first "vacation" without me involved. I was completely fine with this, expressing how I first had some mixed feelings, because my daughter has never really traveled without me and her Mother together. Then I came to terms with it and even started suggesting places to show her, a beach to check out, dolphins in these waters, manatees here etc. The guy she's been seeing at random airbnbs lives in the state they are flying too.
It's just thrown me for such a loop. I haven't truly trusted her for a while for good reasons, lots of lies, and complete disregard for any prior planned commitments, but this just feels out of the park, and has me feeling like an emotional train wrecked weakling. Yesterday I responded to an email saying "I just need to process some of this stuff and not communicate unless it has to do with our daughter", the response was crazy, completely shitting on me as a person on how much I've wronged her and how I never cared for her and all this stuff. My reply was you are right, I'm sorry, I've been having trouble letting go, but I'm now ready too, let's focus on being the best we can be for our daughter.
Instant reply of what a great father I am, how I've always been there, how much my daughter loves me and counts down the days to when I have her. How sorry she is that she treated me poorly, etc. It's all just nuts, and I can't simply not communicate, and I'm so confused as to why I'm feeling so hurt by all this stuff while I recognize the healthiest thing I can do for myself is truly let go. I have so many mixed emotions I can't even think about dating, or even chilling with someone new. I'm all over the place, mainly sad, it's so confusing. So many mixed signals, and I think my esteem has been shattered for awhile now.
Only with my daughter do I feel myself, she brings the best out in me, she always has, she's like sunshine on a rainy day, she's the best!
Apologies for such a long winded post, may not even make clear sense, just let my "swipe" keyboard go nuts for a bit
Hope you are all well!

Hello everyone, just want to get some advice before I try and pursue this process.
I’m looking to retroactively withdrawal a semester from my local community college in 2018. That was when I was about a year out of highschool, and I’m not going to give the full sob story, but life was nowhere near as stable as it is now and things got progressively worse in my personal life until I ended up not attending the last couple weeks. It was four classes over one semester, I had one look at my grades at the end but I think it was something like one B two Cs and a D or F for what should have been easy classes. I just checked my transcript status and I also still have an outstanding balance of around 1300 dollars. Fast forward six years, I’ve enrolled at a different community college with a fresh transcript and just finished my first semester with all As. I am now completely confident in what I want to go school for and have an enthusiasm for academic pursuit I’ve never had in my life. I think a lot of this is just from how life has stabilized from how chaotic it was. Something that is bugging me now is the realization that this botched semester transcript from six years ago can and will come up when it comes to higher education and future applications. So I just contacted that colleges offices and they gave me an email for a guy at admissions who would be the one to talk to, along with an academic registration appeal form. I’m curious if anyone has had such an experience with appealing a semester so that it simply shows up as withdrawn on future transcripts, and if they are willing to just do it with the semester as a whole. I really hope that this process is possible so I am not constrained by this one semester at a completely different time in my life, and even if it isn’t I believe I can still succeed, I just want the academic freedom of having it truly taken care of.
I also want to say that this is absolutely no fault of the institution or professors, and while I can blame the at home circumstances I was dealing with at the time, it ultimately was my fault and how I handled that period of my life, and I am definitely seeking grace in this process.

The features are:-

1. Start.
   
2. Login display appears.
   
3. User inputs information to login.
   
4. If information is valid, proceed. Or else, give login error and go back to step 2.
   
5. User enters calculator mode.
   
6. User inputs the compound.
   
7. Check if compound is a valid chemical. Give error and re-run the program if it is not, proceed if it is.
   
8. Main menu appears.
   
9. Select an option from the menu:
   

• Calculate percentages composition
  
• Calculate Molar mass
  
• Calculate number of atoms
  
• Calculate empirical formula
  
• Calculate ion concentration
  
• Calculate PH
  
• Calculate Density
  
• Calculate corrosion rate of compound
  
• Calculate enthalpy change
  
• Combustion analysis
  

1. Perform the selected operation.
   
2. Provide option to either display the answer or move further with another operation.
   
3. If another operation is chosen, display the menu again.
   
4. Continue the cycle until all user-desired operations have been performed.
   
5. Provide a listing option or tabular form option for result display.
   
6. Display the results.
   
7. Give option to attempt quiz to reuse app for free or exit program.
   
8. Quiz taken from user.
   
9. Quiz checked.
   
10. If less than half marks obtained, show failure status with obtained marks. Else, show success status with obtained marks and rerun steps 5-15.
    
11. Exit the program.
    
12. End.
    

Im pretty much done with everything but the logic/formulas to calculate all those quantities. Like, How do I save all that information about the elements or compounds?