I got in recently at midland medical with an APRN for primary care at the end of last year. Good experience so far

I have a similarly sized house and second this down to the usage. Last year we did end up buying a few loose bags to get us through the end of the season. We purchased our pellet stove and the company that sold it installed it. It was 2 yrs ago and very reasonable. We have it serviced yearly, $150‐$200, but it's fairly easy to maintain in between.

Love your username. Finishing up the last few exams I have for my ASA(actuary), so I’m usually studying or working. I don’t really drink or go out like others do, so i’ve only made a few friends up here. I second what others have posted about rec sports.

Come pick up tennis at RWP when the courts open in the spring. It’s a fun time, and I’ve made most of my friends/connections over there. I’ve been dying to go hiking around here, but haven’t gotten the opportunity yet. I got a gaming PC last year; I will DM you with my usernames later.

You know that this just indicates to me that you are one of the users that was banned for their transphobic comments and that you are now ban evading, which is a site-wide rule violation, right?

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Try Lifespan Physician Group in Warwick and Cranston, they’re both accepting new patients.

This 10X. Rhode Island needs better buses. Even when the state made Commuter Rail free for the summer the ridership for the trains went up by 50% but the ridership was still around 400 people per day, a far cry from what it could have been.

For reference even the most conservative estimates from before the stations were built put them at around 1500 riders per day.

This is really valuable insight. I agree if the free service is suboptimal or leads to over-crowding of buses, that could potentially reduce ridership. I guess it’s kind of a juggling act between providing quality service and making it affordable.

This is so so good!!!

But who’s counting

I haven’t ridden on RIPTA in years after experiencing how slow they are compared to buses in Taiwan. If RIPTA was faster and turned faster, I’d enjoy riding them a bit more.

Oh please yes, bus lanes and signal priority.

We need to be able to say, Hey Drivers, in a hurry? Want to save time? Take the bus!

No worries. Feel free to ask anything else.

For comparison, I have an oil boiler driving a forced hot water system in an 1100 ft^2 house. It also supplies my hot water. I got a delivery of oil yesterday, an the cost since mid-December worked out to ~$8.60/day, and I don't have to haul around 50# bags of pellets.

Thanks for the input. I have zero clue about pellet stoves so that information is very helpful

Correct. Good thing is it allows flexibility of where to put it. I own one, in a L shaped ranch and it definitely has some downsides. It's pretty loud, you hear the pellets clink when they drop. Mine also uses more than a bag a day when I kept it on a setting of 3 out of 5 because if I drop it lower the front of the house cools down to about 62. Mine supposedly heats 2000 sqft and my house is only 1500. Refilling can be a pain in the ass too. I bought a breckwell so could just be my model. In the right house they're probably great. Just the little things to think about that I wish I knew ahead of time. Still definitely cheaper than oil.

Also. That 350 a pallet is for lower quality pellets with high ash content. The better stuff at the high end is 500 pallet.

I use the R line a bit more than I would if I had to pay each time. I really notice the time saved when people can just get on. Most importantly, the service is almost pretty damn good.

If there is a choice between great service at affordable cost or crappy free service, most people would rather pay. (edit: getting to work consistently on time can matter even more when you do not have a lot of money)

I think an honor system for payment would lose less $ to fare evaders than it would save in collection related expenses. That crappy app is going to have be patched and updated forever. Better to pay drivers than coders. If the service is good, all but very few people who can truly afford to pay will pony up.

I don’t, so I’m assuming I’ll need a flue installed from what I’ve read

Oh, I work in the industry, I can provide a perspective that may not be considered. Free transit is great, but more transit is better. If the state will supplement the fares with additional revenue and makes it free, that looks good doesn't it?

But there is a backside to that: if they had put that same amount of money into the system but kept the fares, the state can buy way more service, and that's what makes it attractive to passengers. If you take a bus that comes once an hour and now it comes twice, you can make commuting by bus much more attractive. Do that to routes that come every thirty minutes and now they come every fifteen your customers may not even need to look at a schedule. More people will ride. It's the frequency of service that puts more people on transit. Fare cost factors way less into the decision.

However, if the state only supplements the fare revenue making it free, but the service isn't great, it won't convince more people to ride. And, it works against the customer for demanding more service because the canned response is that they don't pay for it: "you get what you pay for".

There is also a deleterious effect that free transit fares can bring. Buses can become rolling homeless shelters. Without fare enforcement, there is nothing to prevent someone from riding all day, every day. This is not an anti-homeless position. They need proper facilities in the community to seek shelter, the free transit bus is not that facility but will be used that way in the absence of proper facilities.

Cynically, free transit only benefits the politicians that vote for it. It lets them off the hook of making real hard decisions about transit, transit infrastructure, and which road users should have the most access to the limited supply of roadways. Initiatives like dedicated bus lanes, level boarding platform stops, real time arrival information are costly and take space from single occupancy vehicles. Those are hard decisions to make, but ultimately benefit transit and drivers alike, they just don't play well in modern politics. So, instead, they go for the easy answer: free transit.

Do you currently have a fireplace?

I have no idea, I’m in the very beginning stages of looking into them and was wondering how cost effective they were

They are actually really easy to install, just heavy. Depending on the model. Are you doing an insert or free standing?

As far as I know they scrapped the moviegoing, and basically all the other fun events when Covid happened and half the company went remote.

It was stressful when I worked there last year as a 1 year temp before they dumped me, but I can say I made some lifelong friends in my department, and the good times were always great there. Unfortunately the last few months I hear they’ve been burning alive.

It’s been especially rough this season with near constant cloud cover.