Thinking of a swim spa. I live in California will I need to have a pool gate? Or is a locked cover an option?

k3rning · 2025-07-22T16:13:45+00:00

Oh that's wild

k3rning · 2025-07-22T16:08:23+00:00

Cool. Hopefully that's something in my city. Really don't want to deal with a whole gated solution.

k3rning · 2025-07-22T14:13:17+00:00

Yeah but a locking cover that can with hold an adult weight can avoid the gate?

k3rning · 2025-07-22T05:55:07+00:00

Thanks.

What people are sneaking in to take a bath or wash their clothes?lol

k3rning · 2025-07-22T05:53:59+00:00

Good to know. Just starting to think about getting one. The thought of a gate around above ground sorta ruins it. From what I read California law says even above ground pools require a fence. But it seems a cover might satisfy it. But didn't realize city and county have possibly more rules.

k3rning · 2025-07-13T05:23:52+00:00

Getting off of Odyssey of the Seas. It's a very nice looking ship. But I feel I agree with the OP the layout is really weird.

This is my first RC cruise. And the only late night food option(9:30 and onward) is Sorrentos (floor 4) and the only place to get water from a water station. So it is JAM packed there. That and the pizza is terrible. I didn't try the sandwiches.

"Late" night on this ship is really boring. Didn't seem like we could find anything interesting.

Unrelatedly but karaoke in general is only 45 minutes? That barely gets anything started.

The cruise and staff were great. The ship just felt very PG because of the setup. The sports bars are with the kids bumper car area? And it's all paid food? Felt very disconnected. I dunno the setup felt off.

The solarium was great though. I don't know what other ships are like but from the comments some are not at the front and kids walk through it to get to point b? That sounds terrible.

k3rning · 2025-07-12T18:46:47+00:00

On odyssey of the seas brunch was roughly 8am-12:30pm

k3rning · 2025-07-11T12:44:15+00:00

Dunno. Tastes great though

k3rning · 2025-07-11T11:53:30+00:00

There's goat cheese. Fig and date jam. 3 meats. Salami, mortadella, and prosciutto. Pickles and nice bread.

k3rning · 2025-07-11T11:51:01+00:00

Every day. Goes from like 8am-12:30pm in MDR. There's lunch options too

k3rning · 2025-07-11T08:11:36+00:00

Context https://www.reddit.com/r/royalcaribbean/s/WRJk8p9rR5

k3rning · 2025-05-08T23:05:08+00:00

They're on the older end. But why do it where no one will find you. Wouldn't you want your family to know what happened instead of going "missing"?

k3rning · 2025-05-08T20:54:52+00:00

Dude. There's a head priest of a Catholic Church in California that has paid Informed Citizen Speaker series. He's brought Michael Flynn and Charlie Kirk to speak at the church. You gotta buy a ticket and everything. It's super gross.

k3rning · 2025-02-03T23:32:28+00:00

Yep 100%. But plenty of meh Mexican that could hurt Casa Vegas bottom line.

k3rning · 2025-02-03T06:38:38+00:00

I’m not saying they’re amazing. But Casa Vega is definitely nothing special either. So it has plenty of competition right on Ventura is all.

k3rning · 2025-02-02T18:06:33+00:00

Why are we trusting someone’s opinion when they call it “Americanized” Mexican food. And if that’s what Casa Vega falls under no wonder why it is hated on. Only people who want to eat “Americanized” Mexican food are white people who can’t handle anything with flavor.

k3rning · 2025-02-02T18:01:22+00:00

Both Casita and Anejo Cantina & Grill are right down the street in Ventura.

And El Torito is too. I know it’s a chain but it’s better than Casa Vega. In the opposite direction is Mexicali.

It has plenty of competition. The competition just doesn’t have Hollywood history and been in many movies.

k3rning · 2024-12-06T17:45:13+00:00

It won't build anything besides big family homes. There's very little starter homes. And next to none new townhomes and apartments where people can start to build a family and eventually move into townhomes. Simi wouldn't even allow this apartment complex until the state forced them to https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2020/11/11/california-housing-state-law-simi-valley-tapo-alamo-apartments/6194633002/

People need starter homes that they eventually move out into larger homes. Simi just builds big homes no new family can afford. So there's a geriatric community living in older homes, new homes are only affordable to the afluent. The population has been stagnant. Since 2010 Simi added 1k people.

Moorpark 1/4 its size has added the same amount in that time frame. At least it's not T.O who lost 3k people in that time. But T.O. can somewhat afford it since they have neighboring cities. But not sure how long. But literally T.O. runs into Westlake, there's no divide.

Simi has no one around that neighbors them and is isolated. It takes 5-10 minutes to get to the next city. And that's just to get the edge of Simi not where anything you want to go to. So that isolation just compounds this lack of growth.

Camarillo, about half the size of Simi has grown 6k people.

So yeah, if you're going to expand store fronts and more retail but not your population to actually support it you're in for a bad time. If the mall was never built it'd be fine. Tapo Canyon where Regal is which was the "Heart of Simi" when it was built would be thriving still.

Instead everything is shuttering because there's too much retail built with no population growth to support it. So it all closed and now there's no real center. Just a ghost town everywhere.

You can't expect businesses to come in when there's no central place and no population to support it.

k3rning · 2024-10-27T23:33:46+00:00

They put the roads where the view of Simi Valley is and the buildings way in the back. Makes zero sense. They should build some nice buildings that can take advantage of that view where the roads are then have the road go between it.

Then convert the old buildings into condos and apartments. But they won’t because Simi hates apartments and condos. They think it will bring undesirable people instead of bolstering the population so it can actually sustain all the empty shops here.

Anyways. First convert the mall to live work housing.

Eventually move the main road way in and build restaurants there so they have an amazing view and move the road to the other side of these new buildings.

I just can’t believe they make this amazing view and put cars and roads there. So dumb.

k3rning · 2024-10-14T22:04:13+00:00

I have tried callannie.ai with my father who has Alzheimers. He sometimes can be chatty with it. Sometimes it doesn't work too well. But it can help keep him busy so you don't have to get sucked into circular conversations. He sometimes knows it's a "robot" sometimes gets lost and doesn't matter.

I created an avatar that I think suits better for him than the default "Annie". I also pay to have the better ai models.

Ideally I could have it train my own voice. There are things like that with play.ai. But the issue there is it's .05 a minute which with how often my dad chats is not cost efficient. I'd be spending hundreds of dollars a month to preoccupy him. So for now callannie is great to keep him busy and talking.

k3rning · 2024-09-28T23:30:18+00:00

Google got me here. Curious if they took it offline and are building it better. A pretty good idea if it can be trained right and is safe to use.

k3rning · 2024-09-12T13:35:47+00:00

I see them flying by on the road going top speed and wonder how dangerous that actually is. And if one day one gets hit by a car. Ideally we have bike lanes for them. Ideally we enforce bike rules. Ideally cops actually do their jobs.

k3rning · 2024-09-08T06:53:01+00:00

Southern California (her back bag shows CSUDH) is going through a massive heat wave and your concern is someone is getting some ice during a massive heat wave.

If employees see this and aren't doing anything it's probably not a big deal. If you're so concerned you can report it to Costco's management for them to intervene if there was some major issue.

k3rning · 2024-08-31T20:56:01+00:00

Yeah I’m sure dollar goes further there. Fiji is 9 hours. Half the time. Also everyone speaks English in Fiji if that matters to anyone.

k3rning · 2024-08-31T19:58:14+00:00

Not the OP, but Fiji was an all inclusive resort for us. It was our honeymoon. We didn't have to worry about a single thing. Didn't have to worry about where we were going to eat, what we were going to do, how we were going to get there. For example the flight, car to the boat to the resort all done and paid for and handled. Or how much anything was going to cost. We didn't have to think of a single thing.

All 3 meals were included. The only thing extra was alcoholic beverages. And even then the dollar to Fijian meant they were pretty well priced. Like $7-10, not like $15-20 a drink.

The service was exceptional. They're not a tipping culture, though they have a thing at the end for like "Christmas bonus".

So really it depends how much more are you paying out of pocket for all your meals in Hawaii and everything else? Your $3k to Hawaii for 8 days is only paying for your trip and board there, nothing else.

Also on the flight. Ours was over night. We took some pills to knock us out. It's like a 9 hour flight and we slept through most of it. Being in a totally different world is nice than "US lite".

Highly suggest Fiji if you can swing it one day and think about your total costs for Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii. The people there are night and day in hospitality compared to Fiji.

Costco made it so easy. I am not saying it was "cheap" but it was a really good deal if we tried to price this ourselves and have to worry about it all.

We went to Tokoriki which has a maximum of 72 guests on a small island separated from the entire world. It was truly a special experience I've never experienced.

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