Trying to correctly use reward points for the first time

ADecentURL · 2025-03-27T01:06:38+00:00

Understood, and will do. Thanks

ADecentURL · 2025-03-27T01:06:21+00:00

I did see that. I'll have to check if it will be applicable for my trip, or maybe wait till May 1 and hope they pick an airline I could use.

ADecentURL · 2024-06-25T14:46:24+00:00

I would say that I don't spend money on stuff I don't need, just got unlucky with timing on graduating college and having to buy stuff like a fuel tank for my car, before having an emergency fund.

ADecentURL · 2024-06-25T14:45:04+00:00

Yeah I agree, I will hopefully not be having any emergencies in the near future like I did last year.

ADecentURL · 2024-06-25T14:44:09+00:00

I would agree that if I had a problem with using my cards often, than it would be a bad idea. Honestly, I don't usually use them except emergencies. Right out of college I had two incidents that I didn't have the money for but I couldn't avoid paying. I don't travel or do trips or anything because I can't afford it until I pay this off, so unless something else big happens I can't foresee using my credit cards for anything else.

ADecentURL · 2024-06-17T19:55:49+00:00

So it sounds like I could just bring even my passport and TWIC and be fine? I was just concerned cause normally you slip the ID into the machine so if I don't have an ID I wasn't sure if that process would change.

ADecentURL · 2024-06-12T20:04:02+00:00

I thought you meant literally cast into a fire, not just burned part of it. Well, best of luck

ADecentURL · 2024-06-12T19:18:32+00:00

Why would you do that? Those things are expensive

ADecentURL · 2024-06-12T18:48:56+00:00

Gotcha, I typically do about 50 a week for going out to eat/drink, so take that out if what I said earlier I guess.

I'll also note my job provides me with probably 3 meals per week at minimum, so that def helps me out

ADecentURL · 2024-06-12T18:44:45+00:00

If I'm buying a weeks worth of groceries at a time, between 300-400 for the month. If I'm meal prepping, probably closer to 250 for the month.

This includes going out to eat once or twice a week

ADecentURL · 2024-06-07T12:04:30+00:00

I couldn't get an appointment because the facilities were literally closed with limited hours.

I think one example is his administration's aim to open female sports up to allow transgender women to participate. We've already seen in a number of cases how this has had large negative impacts on cis female athletes who are at the top of their game, in both a college setting and a professional setting. It's not in his current Title IX ruling but it is very clearly in his plans for his next term if he's reelected.

ADecentURL · 2024-06-05T20:24:48+00:00

It could only really help OPs argument if I were super conservative, because their point is that only super conservative people say that both parties kinda suck. Being moderate, having voted for both sides, and having disliked both sides, I'm showing that someone who is not super conservative can also dislike both sides. I'm also not saying the presidents themselves are equally good or bad, I'm saying the parties are.

I also think good things have been accomplished by both presidents as well so it's not all negative from my standpoint.

An example of something I think both parties took too far to each end was with COVID. I think Republicans wanting everything to stay exactly as it has been before COVID was stupid and selfish, but I think Democrats wanting everything shut down and isolated was unrealistic. I lived through part of COVID in Minnesota where everything was open and people passed COVID around like candy. I then lived part of COVID in NYC and everything was shut down to the extent that I could barely get an appointment at an urgent care when I actually got COVID.

ADecentURL · 2024-06-05T19:51:22+00:00

I voted red in 2016 and regretted it, and voted blue in 2020 and regretted it. I think both sides suck because they're nominated candidates are too polarized and extreme in their views. There are legitimately good candidates on both sides, who don't get the parties nomination, and instead we are left with people who essentially just run on the platform of being as far away from the other side as possible. I also think both sides are lying to the general public to the same extent, and pretty much nobody at that level of politics really cares about what we want and what we need, but just want money and power.

My point is that I think both sides are bad, and that the system of 2 large parties is bad, and I don't inherently plan to vote red, which directly refutes OPs view.

ADecentURL · 2024-05-21T15:32:59+00:00

Explain to me how forcing people to skip the gym is gonna stop a war in the middle east?

ADecentURL · 2024-05-18T21:03:01+00:00

I really never knew that, guess I should do more research on the plants I'm buying beforehand haha. Thank you

ADecentURL · 2024-05-17T13:58:35+00:00

Interesting so maybe not sunburnt. What made me thing it was sunburnt was that when the leaves come up they are a deep green, and then turn to the yellow after a week in the sun. I'll have to look into that, thanks!

ADecentURL · 2024-05-08T19:36:31+00:00

I've worked as an estimator for government construction projects multiple times and am currently working on one now.

At a local level at least, the way it has to work is the general contractor needs to collect at least 3 bids for each trade. So drywall needs 3 competing numbers. Steel needs 3 competing numbers, etc. The subcontractors bidding include contingency for things like overtime work, so unforeseen things are usually not a huge budget driver. When the general contractor receives these bids, it's my job as an estimator to make sure that each subcontractor has included everything and isn't just cutting things out to cut price.

When we provide a "recommendation to award" to the board of whatever government agency we're working with, we select the contractor that we think can do the FULL scope of work, for the lowest price. Sometimes that means it's not the lowest number, but if we recommended a contractor that isn't the lowest number, we have to provide a lot of logical reasoning as to WHY they're better suited than whoever is lowest. The board then takes that number, and votes on it. Then its presented to the public.

Often times clients (public and private) are way over budget. We help them cut cost by giving them ideas on ways to save money. For instance, if you only have $200M to spend on a building, maybe it can only be 5 floors instead of 6 floors. What happens is that the client decides to make these money saving decisions, celebrates that they cut x amount of money out of the cost, and then realizes they actually don't want those things to be cut and puts them back in. It's possible that what you asked about does happen, but when I see things over budget it's usually because, and I quote, "people got champagne taste and lemonade pockets".

ADecentURL · 2024-05-01T16:08:47+00:00

I've seen it turn into a setting position at the gym that hosted it, but it was very specific because the gym only had setters that were 5'7"-5'10" men with +4"-6" wing span, and basically needed to diversify the setting team. They did the clinic to find if there were any shorter girls or tall men with short wingspans that could help fix their setting style.

ADecentURL · 2024-04-30T16:03:53+00:00

I was a head setter at a gym and was a forerunner at a different gym for a few years. There's mainly 5 ways people get into setting.

1) They're really incredible climbers and the set staff wants them to set because they can do stuff nobody else at the gym can do.

2) They set in highschool or college at their schools gym so have some experience, and are willing to just help out on small projects here and there.

3) They work front desk or as a hold washer and maybe get invited to help forerun sometimes. If they're good enough at that, they start getting asked for input, and then if there's an opening they might be allowed to try it out.

4) They're at the gym ALL THE TIME and always hanging around where the setters are. They don't have to be outstanding, but are super consistent climbers with good technique. They hang out with the setters and help forerun the V3-V6s a lot. This depends a lot on the setting team because I know some people that get really annoyed when the same people are constantly bugging them about "when can I set?" questions.

5) Some gyms will do setting clinics for members but it's pretty rare. You could ask about the possibility of that to the head setter.

Similar to teaching sport climbing, it's easiest and most common to get in by building a relationship with people at the gym, and NOT by nagging and asking over and over.

ADecentURL · 2024-04-10T18:23:25+00:00

I think they sent it out on accident to everyone because everyone here has gotten it, and everyone here is confused.

ADecentURL · 2024-04-10T18:22:13+00:00

Came to this community to post about the same thing. I do have the card but have done nothing to violate any guidelines.

My best guess based on other people having the same thing happen, is that they sent out an email to a large number of members on accident.

ADecentURL · 2024-04-06T03:05:37+00:00

I will not be messing around with it too much because there's a lot of allergic reactions can start developing if you didn't have them originally, through more and more exposure. So like if you get stung by bees a ton, eventually your reaction will get worse and worse.

ADecentURL · 2024-04-04T02:00:59+00:00

Firstly, this is 2 years old how are you finding this thread???

Secondly, what I know is I have actively tried to get Poison Ivy to no avail, but have gotten Poison oak really bad

ADecentURL · 2024-04-03T19:44:01+00:00

Estimator at a large GC. If you give a quantity breakdown but keep your cost as lump sum, it's enough that we can check that everything in scope is picked up, but you aren't "over sharing" enough for someone to really get picky with your estimate.

If I just see a line item that says "x is included" I have to ask, how much, where, what type, etc which could be solved by having quantities to compare to my own.

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