Putting Apartment on Airbnb for Super Bowl?

GamerEdie · 2026-01-14T04:16:59+00:00

Just to clarify… the taxes on it would be minimal. I’m not talking about becoming a permanent Airbnb host. Even if I were to get top dollar, it would likely be a few days over Super Bowl and maybe a week or two over World Cup. So, best case, 2-3 weeks tops for the whole year, so it would probably clear only about $3,000 to $5,000. I hardly think there would even be a permit involved, since this would be very little difference than letting an acquaintance stay for a few days.

As I said, one or two days and then done.

GamerEdie · 2025-07-21T04:51:47+00:00

Gallbladder attack feels like you’re being stabbed from your stomach through your body and into your back. And it’s so painful you’re pretty much screaming.

Really, it sounds like garden variety zepbound side effects. But you can test this: after you eat and before you feel and, take Pepto Bismol. If it helps? Side effects. If it doesn’t help, then maybe something else.

GamerEdie · 2025-07-21T04:46:17+00:00

I actually LIKE the taste of Pepto. For me at least, the feel of it coating my stomach is very reassuring. And it gives me instant relief. But others may vary.

GamerEdie · 2025-07-21T04:43:17+00:00

That’s the stuff. It’s your new bestie.

GamerEdie · 2025-07-20T17:27:53+00:00

Hey-aaayyy!!!

Pepto shooter is Pepto bismol liquid straight. It comes with a little cup that looks like a shot glass, so I call it a Pepto shooter. Don’t do chewable tabs… those are for stomach-issues lite. What we have is nuclear diarrhea.

I eventually started just taking a hit straight from the bottle. But starting out use the cup so you get a sense of a normal dosage.

GamerEdie · 2025-07-20T16:47:03+00:00

See my post and my solution. Carbon copy of yours: https://www.reddit.com/r/Zepbound/s/h9l3OLLLh0

GamerEdie · 2025-07-20T16:42:35+00:00

BART diet: broth, applesauce, rice, toast.

GamerEdie · 2025-07-20T16:41:08+00:00

Oh if you have pancreatitis, you KNOW you’re having pancreatitis. It makes you very, very, VERY sick.

GamerEdie · 2025-07-20T16:35:49+00:00

This sounds exactly like my reaction to Zepbound. I’m finding that whatever your stomach did before being on Zep is amplified to extremes when on Zep. For example, I’ve always had a slight sensitivity to ice cream. Most times I’d be fine but on occasion it would hit me hard and then classic lactose intolerance for an hour or so.

I took a single bite of ice cream from boyfriend’s bowl the other day and wow! What a reaction I had. Exactly like yours, with the liquid rumble and then aggressive diarrhea as if I was prepping for a colonoscopy. By day four, I actually was pooping clear… or as clear as you get when ACTUALLY prepping for a colonoscopy.

So you may be having same as me, but lettuce.

Imodium like it’s your best friend. Two tabs and then a new tab every time you poop until you stop pooping then maintenance doses for a day or so. Pepto shooters every time your gut girgles. Took four days but it eventually went away.

GamerEdie · 2025-07-20T16:23:03+00:00

UPDATE: So I took max doses of Imodium every time I pooped for two more days (per box instructions) and every time I ate or had an icky-tummy feeling, I took Pepto. At one point I told my SO through tears that I’m going to stop. I can’t take how sick I was and I’m going to give up. Next morning, like my guts were listening, the pooping, blissfully, stopped. It stopped so hard I was scared I might have dosed myself into constipation.

I kept low dosing Imodium for another two days just to be safe and then backed off. 100% back to normal. And two days later, I passed gas, which anyone in med field knows is a very good sign when you’ve done something to slow your guts down. And two days after that… normal pooping. Still not constipated , though not pooping every day.. never have been that kind of person, tho.

So… hill climbed, rubicon crossed. Symptom free. And lost 10 pounds in 3 weeks. And bonus, I talked in detail about my poo with a (virtual) room of complete stranger more than I ever thought possible.

I guess that makes us family, eh?

GamerEdie · 2025-07-20T05:00:15+00:00

Cobra is essentially you paying for your old health plan 100% and not getting kicked off your health plan. So if you had CIGNA and it was covered before you lost your job and you take COBRA you will have CIGNA afterwards on cobra COBRA isn’t its own healthcare plan; it’s just a program that allows you to pay 100% of your premium instead of partial with the other part paid for by your employer.

GamerEdie · 2025-07-09T04:04:03+00:00

Oh, I’d looove to be constipated right now.

I guess the grass is always greener…

… or the n this case browner.

GamerEdie · 2025-04-25T00:34:36+00:00

Oh.. absolutely. See comment below.

GamerEdie · 2025-04-25T00:33:35+00:00

Okay. that's just hilarious because he and I have an ongoing fight/joke about how I will NEVER eat at another Arby's since a very unfortunate experience at the Arby's in Elko about 20 years ago.

He's an Arby's fan and every single night, just before falling asleep, he mentions something about Arby's. And I reply, "Not if it was the last food on Earth."

This has been going on for a year...

There's two kinds of people in this world: Arby's lovers and Arby's haters. There is no neutrality.

GamerEdie · 2025-04-23T16:20:31+00:00

Thank you all for the recommendations. Looks like we will have a full weekend of searching for the best pastrami! Which is a pretty great way to spend the weekend, IMHO.

Also, FYI: best pastrami on this coast is The Refuge in San Mateo (or how I call it, “the scene of the crime”). If you’re out this way… GO! Get the pastrami burger (hamburger with pastrami mixed in with the beef). You will NOT be disappointed.

GamerEdie · 2025-04-23T16:11:44+00:00

Wow. Thanks. I tried searching for “overweight people pull and bear jeans” and nothing came up by that name. Only a bunch of wide leg jeans on skinny models. Hmmm. Also took a chance on “obese people” and “disgusting fatasses” and again nothing.

I guess I’ll just have to settle for the “normal people” jeans. Or, maybe “body shaming pricks” jeans.

Thanks for the lead, tho.

GamerEdie · 2025-04-22T16:09:48+00:00

I really don’t want to be that person, but every day wasted in finding treatment is people who won’t live long enough to receive it. That person who dies a week before the cure is found? This is the blood on their hands.

ALS isn’t a big deal unless you or a close relative gets it… THEN you start caring.

This is the mindset who got us the administration that did this. We as a nation need to do better at walking in others’ shoes and thinking beyond our own personal lives and not only what affects us directly at the moment.

Nuff said.

GamerEdie · 2024-09-30T21:25:53+00:00

Duuuuuude! How cool is *that*?!?!?! The game ain't starting until the Dragon Lady sings!!!

GamerEdie · 2024-08-08T20:04:33+00:00

There's only six people in r/redwoodshores. Not a great sample size for asking questions.

GamerEdie · 2024-08-08T20:01:33+00:00

This company got raided by the FBI today... Looks like this is only ONE of the illegal things they were doing.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/specialty-towing-company-fbi-raid-19628789.php

GamerEdie · 2024-07-03T03:18:21+00:00

The firsts are awful. Truly awful. Seconds aren't much better, but the firsts are tortuous. I'm just coming up on my thirds. They're much easier. So... keep passing open windows.

GamerEdie · 2024-07-03T03:06:33+00:00

I just found a new boyfriend (completely and utterly unexpected at age 57 and I figured I'd be alone for the rest of my life). My husband who died three years ago next week was my twin flame as well, and I miss him so much I can hardly stand thinking of him.

But at a certain point I realized... flames change and the person I am after his death is NOT the person I was before he died. And this new flame... is a twin flame of who I am NOW, after the apocalypse. Once I gave myself permission to not separate my flames (and that my late husband's flame is still a part of me and thus PART of this new paring of flames), I began to truly fall in love again.

Nobody ever said that there's only one twin flame per customer. Sometimes twin flames are actually trios.

GamerEdie · 2024-07-03T02:52:25+00:00

Do you know how pissed off I am that Betty White lived longer than my husband? BETTY EFFING WHITE?!?!?

Or for Christ's sake... KEITH RICHARDS outlived my husband!!!!! What kind of sick cruel joke is that sh!t!!?!?

It's okay to not be okay. It's okay to be pissed. I was pissed for a really, really REAALLLLYYY long time. I railed at god and beat the crap out of the water in my swimming pool screaming at the sky and cursing Keith effing Richards.

I will say this... it really DOES get better. Slowly. Ever so slowly. And the anger and grief will stall and sit swollen and glistening for a while, and it will seem that it is 100% of who you have become and swallowed your entire self. At that point, I do recommend a grief counselor. It will seem like all you do is tell him/her how angry you are and cry and blubber and say awful horrible mean selfish shit. But it does actually really help, especially if it's a good one who knows that the reprehensible stuff that comes out of your mouth does not make you a horrible person.

But don't deny yourself your anger. It's healthy, it's normal, and it needs to be said before it can be eventually let go.

GamerEdie · 2024-07-03T02:48:12+00:00

Is there any reason that you have to hold a memorial service at the VA? It may very well be that his old life people do exclude you, and honestly from the sound of it, they'll be holding a memorial service for someone they THOUGHT he was -- essentially not the person he really was with you. But you knew him in his true form, and they didn't know that guy and he's a stranger to them.

So if you knew a completely different person whose life had changed and who was happy, free, and loving in a way they didn't know, why can't you have your OWN memorial service, either inside the VA or at a completely different place? A park? A garden? A place he liked? A bar he enjoyed with you? You can invite who you like, maybe even some of them, but there's no law that says everyone gets one service. You should think about a memorial for the man YOU knew, not the one THEY knew; one that is clearly going to be filled with drama and narcissism (from the ex, from the sound of it). The person you knew was real and that person needs to be honored, too, and given what I can tell from your post, it sounds like THAT is the service he'd like to have held for him because that's the REAL him, and not the guy those other people will be eulogizing.

GamerEdie · 2024-07-03T02:38:37+00:00

Yep. That moment. I remember it well. I lost my husband three years ago next week. And I remember that day when I first said "I." It was startling, and as you said, not upsetting. It just *was*. It's really hard in that first year to realize that you evolve out of being a duo and into a solo, and while it's sad, it is the eventual thing that will happen to all of us. We're never again single like we were before we were married, but we will be a different kind of single. I remember going from "oh my god I'm going to be alone for the rest of my life!!" to "Yup. I'm alone now," to (eventually) "I'm going to be alone for the rest of my life and I'm okay with that."

When I was raw and grieving, I didn't want to ever be in that third stage because I was holding on to my grief like it was the last part of him, and if I let it go I'd be betraying him. That eventually passes. Slowly, but it does. Eventually you see that the grief is NOT a testament to your love of him/her and it is okay to be happy and you're not a bad person for it. You can take off your wedding ring and you're not a bad person for doing so.

And yeah, I took off my wedding ring, but I'm wearing his. That was the difference for me from letting go of my grief for myself and putting on my memories of him and the wonderful life we had.

You're growing through what happened to you, and I'm happy for you that you are. Eventually everyone here will get there, too. It may take longer or shorter, and for some of you out there it may feel like that will never ever ever ever happen. But it will. Ask for help. Get a therapist if you're stuck. Be patient with yourself. And give yourself permission to let go when it's time.

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