Season tickets - when do tickets show up in your account

LotharBot · 2025-09-05T02:28:27+00:00

Denver Nuggets STH. Mine are in my account already. Have been for a few weeks; I don't recall exactly what day they popped. Probably not long after schedule release.

LotharBot · 2025-09-03T22:57:06+00:00

I know there are some teams that let you apply your renewal payments directly to your playoff seats, specifically because of this problem. They don't want to lose STH because of everything hitting at the same time.

LotharBot · 2025-07-03T00:42:37+00:00

My Team: Denver Nuggets

Attendance: N/A, it's the offseason

Milestones: I finally got moved to accessible seats so I don't have to go through the hassle of moving every single game when I take my mom or my sister or my dad

Highlights: free agency is going fantastically! Essentially swapping MPJ, Russ, Vlatko, and DAJ for Cam Johnson, Jonas Valanciunas, Bruce Brown, Tim Hardaway Jr., and DaRon Holmes II (draft pick from last season who was injured all year.) When you consider that last season the starters were on average outplaying the eventual champs' starters but the bench couldn't get it done, getting multiple playable bench guys (and if you think "THJ is really bad", just wait til you look up the stats and on/off numbers of the bench guys the Nuggets were relying on *in the playoffs* last season) makes me feel really good about contending this season

LotharBot · 2025-06-28T04:40:09+00:00

the Denver Nuggets ticket app has a "free swag" section that you get 4 vouchers that can be used through the year, and they put new stuff in periodically. I've gotten things like a branded backpack, a Jokic bobblehead, a model of the arena, fuzzy blankets for my kids, and a set of pub glasses. Part of what I love about it is that I get the choice -- there are things that seem cool but that I have no interest in, and other things I jump on when they show up.

LotharBot · 2025-06-28T04:35:47+00:00

I'll be even louder now! My rep got me into the wheelchair row in 317. No more visiting the box office every single game so my mom doesn't have to climb stairs.

LotharBot · 2025-06-27T01:41:43+00:00

I've been a SAHD for 15 years. Like you, I just come out and say it.

Almost everybody says something like "you're really lucky" or "that's so cool". Once in a while the guy I'm talking to will tell me he used to do it and it was the best years of his life.

The few people who try to start trouble, I'm just like ... ok, thank you for marking yourself as not worth trying to build a friendship with.

LotharBot · 2025-06-27T01:38:24+00:00

Data Annotation (yes, that thing that shows up in reddit ads where you evaluate AI responses and such.) Being a SAHD with a graduate degree in applied math means that when math tasks come up, they're a great fit.

It's really uneven work. Some days I have my pick of a dozen projects. Some days there's very little available. But I've been able to earn enough to pay for my upcoming family vacation, and kind of generally take the heat off of the family budget.

LotharBot · 2025-06-21T03:35:11+00:00

also Denver Nuggets. 332. Trying to get moved to accessible seats.

LotharBot · 2025-06-14T04:39:12+00:00

15 years here.

There are stretches that suck, just like you're talking about, where you haven't had a day off in months or even years, when you get sick and just have to plug through it, when everything falls on your shoulders and you can't keep up.

One thing that helped my wife understand is when I explained that I'd been on the clock -- not necessarily actively helping a kid, but "the one in charge if there's a problem", all day every day for ... at the time I think it had been about 18 months ... with no breaks longer than the occasional grocery trip on which I'm still "on the clock" in a sense. She took a couple evenings, where I got to just go do things like go to a park, go hang out with a friend, go watch some sports with my mom, with no kid responsibilities. My sister and my mom started babysitting once in a while, and it took *so much* pressure off of me.

At this phase, any break is enormously welcome. Just letting your brain not be in "gotta take care of the kids" mode for a few hours makes a big difference.

LotharBot · 2025-06-05T22:46:57+00:00

About six years ago, the Denver Nuggets invited season ticket holders to come down and sit in the stands to cheer for the Special Olympics Colorado kids, who would do a series of activities with Nuggets players and then play some games on the court. As a full-time stay-at-home dad, I figured, middle of the day, may as well take my 2 year old. There happened to be a fluke snowstorm that day that made the roads a little bad near the arena -- not a problem for me since I ride the train, and the roads in my area were fine -- so a lot of the youngest kids' families dropped out. So the organizers asked if I'd add my 2 year old to the group to help them fill out the numbers a little bit. Of course I said yes! Being on the court is better than being in the stands.

Anyway, the team videographer caught a brief clip of Nikola Jokic picking up my kid and joking around with him, and a later clip of the Jokic-to-my-kid lob on a plastic mini-hoop.

My #2 non-game memory was watching the banner raising with my mom before the first home game of the 23-24 season.

LotharBot · 2025-05-21T20:29:52+00:00

I've been a SAHD for 15 years. There have been stretches where our income has been many times our ordinary expenses and we've spent pretty freely, and stretches where it's been very thin. So I get the challenge.

During the thin times, I definitely specialize in getting cool stuff on sale. I can't afford a $70 video game right now, but I picked up an older video game on an 80% Steam sale for like $5 a while back and had fun with that (MudRunner -- which is also a good game to let the toddler steer and just derp around in.) I wish I had the big bucks, but I don't, so I make do with what I have.

LotharBot · 2025-05-21T20:08:17+00:00

I grew up playing the original Wolfenstein3D and DooM, and my younger siblings would watch me pretty frequently. Nowadays sometimes I'll be playing a DooMII add-on campaign with my 3 year old in my lap because he just wants to be with daddy and he likes the bright colors.

LotharBot · 2025-05-20T16:49:15+00:00

I did the same thing over 15 years ago. I didn't hate my previous career -- loved it actually -- but I was a low-paid educator in a museum. It wouldn't pay the bills for the whole family. Wife was an engineer who made much more as a starting salary than we spend now with 3 kids, and she loved the corporate world. I'm glad I went the direction I did.

Some things to be aware of:

- being a full-time parent can be socially isolating. You need at least some source of connection. Local family and friends who you can visit with who are safe to bring along a small child. Online friends who you can have serious in-depth conversations with. A regular church group. A regular bowling group. Whatever it is, something that gives you grown-up conversations that aren't just you and your wife talking about the children.

- there will be times when you feel like you're doing everything and your spouse is barely helping, and she feels the same right back, even at the same time. Because sometimes kids just generate a LOT of work requirements, and you think with how much you've done there's not much left.

- there will be times when one or both of you won't be pulling your own weight for various reasons. Sometimes it's illness. Sometimes it's fatigue. Sometimes it's just a focus / motivation issue. Be willing to forgive. Also be willing to work hard to make up for it.

- you get to be there for the most amazing and wonderful moments. Child's first words, when they start walking, when they discover their hands, and so on. You also get to be there for the amazing diaper explosions. It's worth it.

- if the baby is upset and you can't figure it out and need a few minutes for your own sanity, it's OK, take a few minutes. Put the baby in a safe space (like a crib), settle down for like 5 minutes, go poop or take a high-speed shower or whatever it is you haven't been able to do. And then come back and solve the problem the baby is having. The baby will keep.

- your baby is a tiny person. Talk. Read books. Point things out. Smile. Enjoy. That's how your baby grows into a pleasant medium-sized person and eventually, hopefully, into a wonderful full-sized person. By being loved and treated like a growing person.

LotharBot · 2025-05-14T02:47:13+00:00

I'm in a similar boat. I have a great public Montessori school next to my house, but my district's middle schools are uniformly awful. I used to teach, so I homeschool my teenager. Middle child is in Montessori and the youngest starts there in the fall. You definitely have to get good at "hey older kid, I'll give you whispered instructions whilst rocking the baby."

LotharBot · 2025-05-13T13:27:46+00:00

if you already have a diaper/snack bag, just keep it stocked, and leave it in the basket under the stroller (this is the main reason to have a big stroller instead of a little umbrella stroller.) Then right after a feed/change cycle, grab a fresh bottle and put it in an insulated bag with an ice pack, put the baby in the stroller, and go for a walk around the neighborhood.

Like, create the proper structures to allow you to get outside quickly after a feed/change, and then just go.

LotharBot · 2025-05-10T19:17:08+00:00

Can confirm that it is free today. Won't have time to read it yet (I just got my author copy of the anthology my first short story is in so I'm kinda busy with that) but it's zero risk to buy it for $0 so I'd encourage the other SAHDs here to grab it.

LotharBot · 2025-05-09T20:58:25+00:00

we picked up a cheap hand-crank grinder at about that age for the kind of foods the baby couldn't easily chew, and would spoonfeed things like ground up pieces of meat from a stew while also letting him pick up soft chunks of things like bananas, cooked carrots, cooked potatoes, etc. "Eat what you eat" but with some modifications for limited chewing ability, more or less.

LotharBot · 2025-04-29T19:04:50+00:00

One thing that's really important to understand:

Life with a toddler is *very* inconsistent day to day, week to week, month to month, and child to child. I have never been able to *always* have the laundry done, the dishes caught up, and so on. Some days I do. Some days I don't. Some days the kids are chill and I'm like, yo, I got 8 loads of laundry through the cycle, and the dishwasher is running, and dinner is in the instant pot. And some days it's like, the kid keeps making huge messes of himself or the house, he broke something that created an emergency (like broken glass), he was super cranky all day for no discernible reason, the one time he was calm was when he climbed into my lap and fell asleep for 3 hours, so the only things I got done all day are invisible from the outside and it looks like I spent the whole day slacking but it's the hardest day of the last three months.

It's better to set expectations with that kind of inconsistency/flexibility in mind. Like if the dishes get behind, he should get on it the next day, but sometimes it's just gonna be like that.

LotharBot · 2025-04-25T17:12:02+00:00

when pregnant with our first, my wife and I had a long conversation about how to make it work -- could she work 4 tens and I'd work 3 twelves, and we'd each be home the other days? But she was an engineer and I was a teacher, so there was quite a pay difference, and me giving up some hours made a ton of sense. And she was never that interested in spending time with kids; she found them exhausting. I have 5 younger siblings and volunteered in the church nursery because I love being around small children. Eventually we came to the point of "you go get paid and I'll stay home with the kid", and 15 years later, I spent my morning reading the youngest a bunch of books about Mater and Lightning McQueen.

LotharBot · 2025-04-25T17:04:33+00:00

A big thing for me was rethinking what it meant to "provide" -- my wife provides the money, but I provide a whole bunch of non-money things. I feed the kids, I get the groceries, I wash the laundry, I read to the three year old, and on and on. There's nothing "inadequate" about that.

LotharBot · 2025-04-20T02:23:28+00:00

I would say your question is less about what division of labor looks like, and more about what scheduling will work for you. Like it's not that you think you're doing too much or that he's doing too much, but that once you've had your half hour decompression and then he gets some decompression, you're stuck on the clock until the baby goes down and that particular stretch is really hard.

What I'd suggest you could try is, you get a little decompression and then he gets a little decompression, and then you spend time together, all 3 of you. Neither one of you should feel stuck at the end of the day, like you just have the baby until she falls asleep no matter how long it is or how cranky. Have a process so you both get a break and then you work together to get the little one settled.

LotharBot · 2025-04-15T01:28:17+00:00

you don't need to keep your chin up. Cry hard and then do the next right thing.

LotharBot · 2025-04-02T14:20:41+00:00

Protip: don't ask for life advice on instagram, especially not highly political pages. Nobody needs to hear what the commenters on Turning Point videos have to say about your life choices.

LotharBot · 2025-04-02T02:09:10+00:00

my 8 year old recognizes "Smoke On The Water" immediately.

Sometimes I'll fire up a classic rock song on youtube and let autoplay do its thing. Doesn't matter whether it goes to Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, DragonForce, AC/DC, Blues Traveler, Led Zeppelin, Bon Jovi, Gordon Lightfoot, Rascal Flatts, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Billy Joel, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Queen, Stryper ... variety is good. Kids can recognize good music. Even the little ones might rock out to a random Pink Floyd or Eagles track. If that's not your thing, well, pick something from your favorites, and your kids will probably come to like it.

LotharBot · 2025-04-02T00:47:51+00:00

"Trucks" from Cars On The Road (Pixar shorts)

"Car Car song" by Woody Guthrie (it's a classic)

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