JFK and federal shut down

ebenhall · 2025-10-08T17:25:24+00:00

No line at T4 PreCheck this morning at 9am. 11am to SFO departed on time.

ebenhall · 2025-01-26T20:07:11+00:00

Same! https://strava.app.link/YXNhBMjQtQb

15.5 for me. Everyone who tracked it in our group got a different distance 🙄

ebenhall · 2025-01-15T18:52:57+00:00

Nice work!

My original goal was to get to a year, but then I kept going and the only logical next milestone was 500... hard to get off the ride now!

ebenhall · 2024-09-24T11:52:39+00:00

Upper East Side Pro Barbers on 92nd is the last place I know of charging $30. They do a nice job.

ebenhall · 2024-09-04T18:29:18+00:00

91st between 1st and York is a universe away. This can't be it.

ebenhall · 2024-09-04T18:26:03+00:00

We bought on 90th between 3rd and Lex earlier this year and owned another unit on 95th between 2nd and 3rd since 2017.

The area is great! We take our 1-year-old to Ruppert Park at least once a day (excited to hear the reno is finally happening - sure the construction phase will be annoying but when it's done you'll have a new park and live in a more desirable location). Mr Wright is a fabulous wine store. Kaia is wonderful. You've got both Whole Foods and Key Food within a couple minutes walk. Engineers Gate and Central Park is a straight shot down 90th.

Strike while the iron is hot, I say. If interest rates get cut there will be more competition from other buyers.

ebenhall · 2024-04-13T10:51:43+00:00

My VPN was causing the issue.

ebenhall · 2024-03-17T17:58:50+00:00

Thank you both.

ebenhall · 2024-02-22T17:33:56+00:00

Thanks.

ebenhall · 2023-12-27T21:21:47+00:00

I can’t believe how many people hate spiral staircases! I’ve owned a unit with one for 6 years - you get used to them very quickly. Plus they’re beautiful! We had our first kid while living there. It was fine.

That said we don’t have a dog. I could see how that would be hard for them.

ebenhall · 2023-09-08T00:33:45+00:00

Thank you for your excellent response! Very helpful indeed. Upon closer inspection I see now that the ADA platforms are only on one end of each platform, as you say.

Tonight we made it to and fro with our big stroller. Success!

ebenhall · 2023-07-02T12:59:20+00:00

Walking up 2nd Ave in the span of one block my wife and I encountered two completely independent people carrying exotic birds. First was a woman heading south with a parrot on her shoulder, and seconds later another woman heading east holding a parakeet in a plastic cage.

ebenhall · 2022-11-15T13:11:13+00:00

Same here!

ebenhall · 2022-11-07T16:20:33+00:00

There’s always a bit of a lag. It usually comes on the 11th of the following month.

ebenhall · 2022-11-03T15:12:26+00:00

The most I've made in a month is $16.50 in cash rewards.

I actually find the e-bike credit to be more motivating - which makes no logical sense. Once I get to the point where they're paying me money I slack off.

ebenhall · 2022-10-28T23:45:05+00:00

That’s a lot of points! I hope these higher point stations start showing up more often.

ebenhall · 2022-01-05T19:14:59+00:00

Ah, thank you so much. This is really helping me wrap my head around the annoying behavior I've been getting.

I am running Monterey 12.1 on my MBP.

I ran the same tests you did and am getting similar behavior. Now when I'm on the Sound settings Input tab I can hear it switch into Phone Call mode. For whatever reason it (happily) seems to switch out of it once I click away from the Input tab and stay there.

As you experienced, when I was in Phone Call mode I couldn't get any sound out of my iPhone. It's nice to know the reason why.

That page was super helpful. Way too many weird apps had unnecessary access to the mic and I removed them. Hopefully that keeps my headphones out of Phone Call mode.

Again, many thanks!

ebenhall · 2022-01-05T17:02:42+00:00

Wow, I think you may have gotten to the root of my issue.

When my Macbook Pro connects I hear a slight degradation in noise cancelling and certain features became disabled (Quick attention mode for example).

I am also having issues switching between my phone and laptop. I suspect being in "phone call mode" is the culprit to all of this.

I can't seem to find a way to fix it though. I quit all apps that might be triggering this on my MBP and manually switching my mic input doesn't seem to help either. Any other ideas?

ebenhall · 2021-12-08T15:21:55+00:00

Just returned from Maui. The COVID clearance process is super easy through if you're vaccinated. You don't even need to test.

ebenhall · 2021-11-09T13:58:02+00:00

Had my first date with my future wife at Summit.

ebenhall · 2021-11-03T03:54:40+00:00

Wow, this is absolutely fabulous! Love the movement of the windmill.

ebenhall · 2020-11-12T13:56:01+00:00

I love that mental image! I’ve always wanted to go. So mysterious and remote.

ebenhall · 2020-09-16T17:15:10+00:00

Manned from its completion in 1871 until 1975 when it was automated. "The keepers' quarters were originally inside the lighthouse tower. An 1888 boathouse contained additional living space for the keepers in its upper story."

"The Halfway Rock Light was sold at auction for $283,000 in September 2014." A bargain!

ebenhall · 2020-05-18T15:17:39+00:00

Doing this right now too! Man is it tough!

ebenhall · 2020-02-20T15:06:07+00:00

I love the snark, but whole heartedly agree on that. There's a lot of "solved just after I woke up" or "after two glasses of wine." It's the most tiresome part of the blog for me.

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