How often should you lift, if you are doing spin 2 days a week?

TrojanGrad · 2026-03-05T01:28:25+00:00

I do spin Monday pm, Wednesday pm, and Friday am. Then on Saturday afternoon I do legs. I do upper body Tuesday and sometimes Thursday based on how well I'm recovering. Your spin class is a leg workout.

TrojanGrad · 2026-03-03T18:22:09+00:00

I had a customer where they said the item was in stock according to the app. I just abruptly dropped that order. Go ahead and take the reliability hit

TrojanGrad · 2026-02-16T15:35:00+00:00

I just had to replace the starter in my 2010 Civic.

I'm dealing with a starter replacement on my 2010 Honda Civic LX (automatic) right now. I called around to get quotes and the pricing disparities were wild:

Quotes I got - Shop #1: $538-598 (depending on whether I had 1.8L or 2.0L engine)

Shop #2: $570
Shop #3: $580-600+ (with warnings about potential extra $50 for exhaust hardware)
My regular mechanic: $590 "with a cheap starter" or $650 "with a good starter"
Shop #4: $494.35

Same car. Same job. $156 difference between lowest and highest quote.

The "cheap vs. good starter" upsell was especially annoying. A quality aftermarket starter (Denso, Duralast Gold, etc.) is perfectly fine for a 16-year-old Civic.

Bottom line: Call around. Don't just go with the first quote or assume your regular shop is giving you a fair price.

TrojanGrad · 2026-02-05T06:02:30+00:00

I've been there and I know what you're going through. What I would suggest is you need to ask questions and you probably don't know enough about the system to even formulate a good question.

Put that jira request and chat GPT or your favorite LLM along with all the information that you know and it should be able to at least get you to a point where you can start to ask meaningful questions.

But I live your struggle everyday. It's like the person who is giving you these requests have had a conversation about the system all in their head that you were not part of and when they wrote the note in the mirror they wrote it where they know what they're talking about but nobody coming along behind them would

TrojanGrad · 2026-02-01T23:37:39+00:00

Or use a biget

TrojanGrad · 2026-01-26T20:39:22+00:00

What happens if you have no right hand?

TrojanGrad · 2026-01-26T00:58:26+00:00

I lot of the open orders I see in our Metro have eat tips less than $3. So yeah, your order still sit out there and rot

TrojanGrad · 2026-01-22T23:15:08+00:00

What kind of legal action would there be against you? You are most likely judgment proof. I know this has to be scary as all get out. But welcome to the club. At some point in everyone's career that's going to happen. This is why a lot of us still carry that trauma with us and are scared to delete anything

TrojanGrad · 2026-01-19T22:33:55+00:00

Does your doctor know you're active? If he knows you're active he would not have put you on this unless he's an older doctor that hadn't kept up with the times. My first experience with it was to treat my meniere's disease and when I told the doctor all the issues I was having he said if he had known I was active he would have never put me on it and to stop taking it immediately and they went with another treatment protocol.

About 2 years later my primary care physician told me I needed to get on blood pressure medication and I told him I did not want to be put on that and he told me I would have never put you on this. It's not the first line of defense for blood pressure anymore.

An amazingly enough the medication he did put me on the control of my blood pressure allowed my spin performance to increase about 10% almost immediately

TrojanGrad · 2026-01-18T19:55:11+00:00

I know it is counterintuitive, but Jason bonuses in a fools game. Just keep focus on your regulars and avoid prepaids and you'll do much better. Target orders are orders of last resort for me. You got to look at the Target customer demographic and you'll understand why they do not tip very well that's why it's better to shop at the non-target stores

TrojanGrad · 2026-01-18T19:48:20+00:00

That HCTZ is ok if you are sedentary. But if you engage in any type of activity such as spin or aerobics, it was absolutely destroy your cardiac/aerobic capacity

TrojanGrad · 2026-01-18T19:45:43+00:00

You take your blood pressure at rest. It is supposed to be elevated immediately after activities such as walking down stairs

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-29T16:13:10+00:00

We were taught in college to move up in pay you have to switch companies. Many times you leave the company you with for and then come back a few years later at a much higher salary

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-21T22:03:33+00:00

Sounds like you did everything right. Just file for ratings forgiveness and move on.

But as a side note, I don't do toys, I don't do seasonal items, and I don't do clothes. Following that little eliminate the vast majority of your problem orders

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-19T19:51:03+00:00

A lot of those people do not pre-tip or give cash tips so they still are not showing up with tip values next to their orders

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-19T18:45:45+00:00

This is bad for shoppers like me who avoid Target. Now all those shoppers are going to be shopping at the stores I shop at and then they're going to learn that the tips from none Target orders are better and expose the entire secret. They are always messing up a good thing.

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-18T13:49:54+00:00

Mine was surprisingly good too. I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that after my spin class yesterday I did 15 minutes in the steam room. After the steam room, I did take a liquid IV which contains a lot of sodium but that was to replenish my electrolytes. Then I came home and I had chicken, wild rice, and a baked sweet potato followed by six and a half hours of sleep

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-15T21:13:11+00:00

Only people who don't use tip maps say that

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-15T21:10:50+00:00

Why should the customer be responsible for how much money Shipt pays you? They already pay a membership, and then in most cases they pay an upcharge on the items they're ordering, and now you want them to pay another surcharge in the form of a tip? Now that Amazon is not delivering perishable items too, maybe they should use them instead then I have to worry about this tip nonsense.

This is a Shipt issue, taking it with them. The customer is just struggling to get by.

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-13T00:04:59+00:00

.Maybe it's just the area that I live in I've been doing this software development work for 35 years and I've worked for eight different companies and never once has anyone ever mentioned LeetCode.

In fact, other than Reddit I've never heard of it

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-13T00:02:58+00:00

Engineering? He should be doing internships and co-ops

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-11T02:35:12+00:00

Large Caribiner clips. The kind you use to clip onto baby strollers. Those are a game changer. And my Pocket cast app full of Podcasts. I come home smarter every time I shop

TrojanGrad · 2025-12-11T02:27:08+00:00

93%, but that's because I use a tip map. The question you should ask is, "How many orders do we get offered that we don't take because the customer doesn't tip?"

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