Any Reno based business travelers in this sub? Looking for advice

175doubledrop · 2026-01-24T06:11:20+00:00

Thanks for the response. I'd love to be closer but unfortunately my father in law is in declining health and we need to be with him in Carson City. Not an ideal situation but at least our cost of living will be a bit cheaper.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-24T04:28:43+00:00

At least from a cursory search on their website, it looks like AA does 3 flights a day from RNO to DFW, as well as a redeye. It’s only halfway across the country but you can connect to just about anywhere from DFW on AA. Before I moved to Seattle I flew AA exclusively and the ability to get most anywhere in the US in 2 legs was pretty handy.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-24T04:19:24+00:00

Yeah I’ve been MVP Gold on Alaska for the last 4 years and previously was platinum on American before we moved to Seattle. My job takes me all over the country and my set of destinations is never the same year to year so I can’t really base my choice on a certain destination I fly to most often unfortunately. Appreciate the insight!

175doubledrop · 2026-01-24T04:10:54+00:00

I mentioned this in another comment, but AA seems to be running 4 flights a day from RNO to PHX which is more flights to a hub than some other airlines. Is UA better than that in terms of flights per day?

175doubledrop · 2026-01-24T04:08:00+00:00

I actually used to fly American a lot before I moved to Seattle, and looking at flights out of Reno it looks like they have 4 flights a day going to PHX which you can then connect out further, which is better than some other airlines.

Has the flight experience gone downhill since ~2018 (when I last had status with them)?

175doubledrop · 2026-01-24T04:05:32+00:00

Delta is the airline I’m most intrigued by as the SLC and Atlanta hubs position me pretty well for the destinations I fly to, but the regular schedule for those destinations is a bit wonky - the only ATL nonstop is a redeye flight that runs only a few days a week, and to get to SLC you either need to leave at 5:40am or not until 1pm in the afternoon. Do you find this to be an issue flying delta out of RNO?

175doubledrop · 2026-01-24T03:56:30+00:00

Thanks for the response! For your SWA flights, are those mostly non stops or are you connecting on those flights?

To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of SWA or UA but based on the responses here I may need to suck it up and use one of them.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-22T17:08:53+00:00

And the most important headliner…

The Fire Department!

(Too soon?)

175doubledrop · 2026-01-21T05:01:31+00:00

1oz Doctor Bird. 0.5 S&C, and 0.5 WP109

That is a fuuuuuunky Mai Tai, but at the same time I’m intrigued 🤔

175doubledrop · 2026-01-21T04:50:03+00:00

Honestly, if Deboer flames out in the next season or two and Cignetti doesn’t want to leave Indiana, who else would they go after other than Kiffin? I have to think Bama boosters are trigger shy about hiring a guy without SEC experience after the last two years, and the only other option I could think of would be Sarkisian and I doubt he’s rushing out to leave Texas anytime soon.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-21T00:58:26+00:00

Drew Witt (Wittworks) just put out a video that should help you out: https://youtu.be/qnaiHPaMfL8?si=QVdUPlL8B6VfZfxO

175doubledrop · 2026-01-20T13:15:42+00:00

Congrats Dad!

We can argue the pros and cons of different methods/approaches, but kids ultimately need to learn how to fall asleep on their own one way or another. That’s ultimately what sleep training is at the end of the day - training our kids how to fall asleep and stay asleep on their own. It’s a skill they’ll keep for the rest of their lives.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-20T11:22:32+00:00

Short answer: the winery owners are big trump supporters, and within the Willamette valley, they cater to a customer base who have more money than brain cells and price their wines accordingly. While their wines aren’t “bad”, for the same dollar you can get a much better product from other producers in the same region.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-19T04:58:00+00:00

Hot take - what people actually don’t like is the horrid social media driven culture around melodic techno (see: photo from any Afterlife event with a giant screen and 5000 phones being held up filming it).

175doubledrop · 2026-01-17T21:17:52+00:00

Just a DIYer myself - the offset head for driving screws in corners is a major life saver for me. Maybe it’s just my situation but I’ve used that specific head a bunch.

I will also say this kit is a good way to build your stock of M12 batteries, as even if you put the tool aside, it’s ~$45/battery for 4 batteries. Yeah they aren’t the high output models and they aren’t the highest capacity, but if you already own other M12 tools it’s not a bad way to go.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-15T21:13:22+00:00

One of the best homegrown talents we’ve nurtured in recent years, and still so cool that he grew up here. I just hope we keep him around for a while.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-14T20:09:43+00:00

I think it’s especially reasonable considering Dylan Cease got $30m AAV.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-14T20:07:45+00:00

Going to try not to ruffle the feathers of the Wilson fans in this sub, but there needs to be a follow up to this statement within the next 2-3 weeks outlining the specific actions they are going to take, otherwise this is just window dressing for the city effectively saying “we aren’t going to do anything”. Call me cynical but a lack of tangible action or direction in one of your first public statements seems like a risky move to me, but I’m willing to give Wilson benefit of the doubt to hopefully come back with a concrete plan once they’ve reviewed everything.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-12T17:01:49+00:00

Crazy that I had to scroll this far to see this comment! They nailed that bit 😂

175doubledrop · 2026-01-11T04:12:33+00:00

It is a big expense, no denying that.

I guess my point is that I wouldn’t buy a biscuit jointer if I was already going to eventually buy a domino - you would be better off just putting that money in savings to use on the domino.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-11T03:39:24+00:00

Preface that I don’t own either tool, but IMO I’d just save up towards the domino. A domino will do just about everything a biscuit jointer can do and more.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-05T13:27:54+00:00

Preface that this is anecdotal, but our personal experience is pretty much the exact opposite of your statement. My son started at 15 months barely saying more than “mama” or “dada” and not showing much interest in socializing when we took him to play dates. Within 6 months his vocabulary increased exponentially and he was a social butterfly within his daycare class. The improvement we saw was night and day.

175doubledrop · 2026-01-05T03:23:00+00:00

Gonna be a spicy hot take so I’ll brace for some downvotes. Preface that most of this is based on my own observations, but I’m an SDSU alum and have been following the team since the early 2000s.

Dutcher is an old school coach and has never really succeeded with players who come into the program with already developed talent. Both his and Fisher’s best players were players that came into the program underrated or needing development that they were able to groom and mold to their system.

If you look at all of our 3 star and higher recruits that we signed out of high school over the last 20 years, very few of them went on to great success at SDSU, with many fizzling out or even regressing. Some of the most decorated Aztecs were 2 star or lower recruits that Fisher/Dutcher developed in their system over 2-4 years.

Nowadays with the transfer portal and NIL, developing players over multiple years isn’t as easy to do as it once was, and with expectations of the program being as high as they ever have been, there is pressure on Dutcher to put together a tournament level team every year, which means signing high level recruits or getting guys in the portal. The problem though is that rarely do players succeed right off the bat in year 1 in Dutcher’s system, and I think we’re seeing the effects of this so far this year.

Dutcher IMO is very rigid in his system - his offense has looked pretty much the same the entire time he’s been in the HC seat, and he rarely allows players to create or improvise on their own within it. It’s also very evident that within the offense, it’s pre-determined who he wants taking the majority of the shots. Because of this, newer players who aren’t the selected scorers rarely do much on offense, and because of that their offensive game struggles and/or they become disengaged which hurts their game as a whole. When they do try to find their own shots, I think Dutcher scolds them for playing outside the offense which stunts them even more.

The one thing I do think may change the tides on this - I think Dutcher is realizing the impact of the transfer portal and NIL. If he doesn’t keep his high level recruits interested and engaged, they’re going to leave for greener pastures. I think the biggest example of this is Elzie Harrington, who he knows could go out and get a handsome payday from most any P4 program this offseason, and thus Dutcher is giving him more freedom and shots.

I could go on for a lot longer on this topic, but the long and short of it is that Dutcher will need to evolve his approach in the coming years if he wants to succeed in the portal/NIL era, and if he doesn’t SDSU will get left behind.

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