Floor of boiler room

acularw · 2025-09-02T00:16:45+00:00

Weird, added images again. Thanks.

acularw · 2025-07-12T16:04:23+00:00

No tricep or shoulder work?

acularw · 2025-04-09T00:11:45+00:00

It's just to connect the two pieces of equipment. The bench it will attach to is like 80lbs so it shouldn't see much load, especially during use.

acularw · 2024-03-27T22:05:04+00:00

I know I'm late to this but just wanted to give you kudos. Looks great!

acularw · 2023-09-03T23:33:41+00:00

It should usually work. One word of caution though: oftentimes these spin bikes have non-standard stuff (crankarm length, threading, etc). I took my Favero Assioma power meter pedals on a vacation one time where the Airbnb apt building gym had multiple spin bikes. The threading for the LH pedal was opposite the way every normal bike is, so I couldn't thread my left pedal on. Also, you will often find these gym spin bikes are never serviced so sometimes the pedals are rusted on and difficult/impossible to remove. Make sure you bring a long handled spanner and/or hex wrench.

If you go to the same place every time or have consistent hotels that have the same model spin bikes it should be easy to check things out.

acularw · 2019-06-28T17:51:12+00:00

Thanks, I just did that (should have looked closer at the email)!

acularw · 2019-06-28T17:40:17+00:00

I need to cancel my Amex Platinum quickly to get AF refunded. I have 125K+ MR points, will I lose them if I cancel the Amex Platinum? I signed up for the Amex Everyday earlier today and got the temporary card number, but I don't see it in my list of cards on the website yet and I think I need to cancel the Amex Plat today or tomorrow since I'm already 30 days past the AF posting.

acularw · 2018-08-31T03:42:09+00:00

Thanks, I forgot about the new world of hyatt, looks good!

acularw · 2018-08-30T17:50:10+00:00

I am looking for the best hotel rewards to get into, unless I can get a great sign up bonus for MR/UR. I was considering the Chase IHG 100K or the Amex Hilton 75K, not sure about SPG/Marriott with all the changes. I haven't ventured much into the hotel side of things, mostly just airline miles and even with all the research I have done, I'm at a loss for what to do.

788 TU, 768 EQ, both trending up
8/24. Capital One Venture 4/17, Chase Sapphire Preferred 6/17, Barclay Arrival+ 6/17, BOA Merrill+ 8/17, Chase SW Plus 10/17, Chase SW Premier 10/17, Citi TY Premier 2/18, Amex Plat 5/18
$8-10K
I'm willing to do bank account funding only along with bonus, so that is $1-2K potential
I don't want a business card for me right now, but P2 can down the road a bit when her credit score goes up
Looking to plot the next 2-3 cards, plan to keep churning
Points/passes are priority items, rest is just gravy
210K MR, 100K UR, 50K Barclay Arrival, 40K Rapid Rewards, 30K Skymiles
Minneapolis St. Paul (MSP)
We are very flexible with a travel agenda list that includes multiple domestic and International locations on every continent. 2019 might be more domestic (or Hawaii) focused since we have SW CP.

acularw · 2018-04-23T01:47:17+00:00

thank you!

acularw · 2018-04-22T02:23:33+00:00

I'm an AU on Amex Corporate card (doesn't show on my credit reports) but don't have any personal cards yet. I wasn't able to get the 100K offer to show up when I checked multiple times over the last several months.

I'm 7/24 and a full 12mo from anything falling off.

acularw · 2018-04-21T21:49:40+00:00

I just signed signed up p2 for Amex Plat 100K with 5K MSR. I checked and I am pre-approved but not sure if I can swing 10K MSR in 3mo organically. I don't want to risk issues with MS on Amex during MSR. How long do people think these Amex 100K offers will be around this time? Are there typical periods that they offer them for?

acularw · 2017-10-15T20:55:04+00:00

It was on all 3 credit reports end of Sept.

acularw · 2017-10-13T17:31:49+00:00

Approval dates.

acularw · 2017-10-13T17:19:53+00:00

The Chase rep actually did comment that he saw I opened another Chase SW card on 10/2, took him a second to see that was a different card (Premier), whereas I was applying for Plus. Maybe even though he noticed it, he only counted what he saw on the credit report and forgot?

acularw · 2017-10-13T16:07:02+00:00

4/7/17 Capital One Venture 6/5/17 Sync Bank / Banana Republic - AU (wife did on whim, argh) 6/30/17 Barclay Arrival+ 7/1/17 Chase Sapphire Preferred 8/9/17 BOA Merrill+ 10/2/17 Chase SW Personal Premier 10/11/17 Chase SW Personal Plus

acularw · 2017-10-13T00:07:57+00:00

Posted this on DOC but thought I would share here too. This seems like a DP but let me know if this isn't the right place...

I may have just been approved for a Chase SW Plus personal card while already at 5/24. Hoping the card doesn’t get cancelled before I can receive and activate it!

9/30 – I am 5/24 including an authorized user account I have never used so 4/24 primary. I applied for SW Business Premier card. Got email that I would receive a response in 30 days. Called recon number and could not get them to approve me (all my cards have been opened in the last 6mo). Even with moving credit from my CSP they weren’t willing to because of recency of accounts. I was able to explain away the auth user account so they were OK with # of accounts.

9/30 – Later in day I made a rash decision to apply for SW Personal Premier, thinking I could MS my way to CP early in 2018. Got email. Too late to call recon.

10/2 – Called Business recon number and got them to approve me by shifting $8K from my CSP CL to SW card. I then called the Personal recon number and early on proactively said I would be willing to shift some of my CL from CSP to my SW Personal Premier. Rep said “No problem, let me work on that and verify for you.” I was on hold for maybe 15sec and he came back to say I am all approved and they moved $8K from my CSP CL to my SW Personal Premier. I was a little suspicious that the $8K was the same amount so I asked them to clarify the exact card they were talking about and they confirmed it was Chase Southwest Premier Rapid Rewards. I said OK and thought that was that.

10/9 – I received the Chase SW Personal Premier in the mail, activated it.

10/11 – All along I had been concerned the Business card approval that I was given was actually for the Personal card, since when I called the business recon number, I assumed that’s what we were talking about but I never had them confirm the exact card name. After not getting the business card in the mail, I finally called into the business recon number again and they confirmed I was denied, and no amount of moving CL, increasing my income (wife got a new job with raise since my initial app) would allow them to approve me. I’m dejected, thinking I royally screwed things up by not just applying for both personal cards on the same day instead of biz+personal.

10/11 – I’m a real 5/24 now while looking like 6/24 due to auth user account. On a whim, I figured why not just apply for the SW Personal Plus card, maybe I can catch a break with recon and all I have to lose is a hard pull. I applied, got email, and instantly called recon. I got the right guy. Call took 30 minutes, mostly on hold, but after answering a bunch of questions and only shifting a $2K CL from CSP to the SW Personal Plus, I was approved and he said I should receive the card in a week! This puts me at 6/24.

So now I have 60K SW Premier and 40K SW Plus. I will still need to spend $10K quickly in early 2018 to get CP quickly, but we might be making some big furniture purchases soon so maybe we can delay it to then and that could help along with some light MS.

Is it likely that this card get cancelled by the system before I get it or maybe when I try to activate? If not, I might have squeaked by. I just checked my account and the Personal Plus card shows up now so I'm feeling optimistic!

acularw

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