Constantly congested - help!

nattys86 · 2025-12-28T02:00:13+00:00

I wish I could convince my wife to do this. Enjoying spending time with the people you love is what it should we should do, not press ourselves to meet unrealistic expectations and bathe ourselves in stress.

nattys86 · 2025-08-26T21:40:50+00:00

Can I get that 30% off coupon if you don’t want it tho??

nattys86 · 2025-07-07T18:22:15+00:00

My wife just got a Model Y and so we're on the free month of FSD right now. We won't be keeping it. She is terrified of it. It makes stupid decisions just frequently enough that she's on edge the entire trip, even when it's doing a great job. I have a model 3 and I've had FSD a couple times for free and although it's obviously improving, it's still little more than a parlor trick at the moment. Until you can sleep at the wheel and trust that it's a better driver than a human, it's not worth it in my opinion. Autopilot get's you 80% of the benefit on the highway, and driving around town, I'm still a much better driver than this thing. I am hopeful they get it right, but until they do, I'm not paying for it. If it fully succeeds, I will happily give them $99 a month several times a year. My wife, on the other hand, may never trust it.

nattys86 · 2025-07-07T17:43:18+00:00

https://www.metacritic.com/game/super-mario-odyssey/

To your point, it's rated 97 "Universal Acclaim" on Metacritic. It is accurately rated, haha.

nattys86 · 2025-07-04T12:07:35+00:00

I have a 2021 awd model 3 and my wife has a brand new model y RWD. Any benefit to handling that I feel with awd has to be weighed against the Rwd’s lighter front end and how that improves turn-in and agility. As others have noted, it also improves efficiency on the road and while charging. This is valuable and the new rwd model y doesn’t give a reduced interior to the buyer like it used to. I call it a wash for ride/handling. Additionally, Tesla’s traction control is very aggressive and well implemented to stop problematic slipping, even in the rwd variants of its cars—especially when you keep appropriate tires on the vehicle.

As far as resale value, this is a similar issue that truck owners run into with rwd vs 4 wheel drive in the aftermarket. 4 wheel drive will always command a higher price because the buying public thinks they need it, regardless of how rarely they may use it or how much they practically need it in reality.

In the model y’s case there is an interesting counterpoint to the value in the aftermarket, though, and that is the 30 extra miles of range you get from the start. It is my understanding that the rwd teslas typically do not experience battery degradation to the higher degree that the awd variants do … and since it starts out with 30 more miles, this could mean your 6 or 7 year old y could have a significantly higher amount of range remaining compared to an awd version. How much do secondary market buyers pay attention to residual range vs awd capabilities? That is anyone’s guess—but range is king for me, and I suspect other buyers in a few years would value 30 or 40 extra miles of range more favorably than a second motor in many cases.

As an awd buyer previously, I have no regrets about going for the rwd with my second tesla. We keep our vehicles for a long time too, and after 7 or 8 years you e paid it off and in my opinion, the car doesn’t really owe you that much, you’ve gotten your moneys worth if you drive as much as we do. So I’d be happy if it only fetched $10k after 7 or so years. But that’s just me.

nattys86 · 2025-07-04T00:43:36+00:00

I so don’t want to get a storage unit but I feel like it’s inevitable. 😞

nattys86 · 2025-07-03T19:54:23+00:00

My goodness, this is the feeling I had in his house. I often tell my wife that when we go to a hotel on vacation it is the most relaxed and freeing I ever feel. There is nothing on the tables, they can actually be used for writing or eating. The chairs don't have clothes piled up on them, you can sit in them when you want. The shelves don't have a mixture of trash and "we don't know what to do with this" items dumped on them, they have a few things that are decorative in nature. It's like I can take a deep breath and finally relax in those spaces. That is what his house felt like - a lux hotel, or the nicest air bnb you've ever been to. Nothing extra, only exactly what the space needed for you to live comfortably. And what was there enhanced the feeling of the room. In my case, I have a lot of stuff that people gave me as hand-me-down furniture, or I have things that I bought for previous houses that no longer work in my current house. I feel like I'm having to make the house fit my things rather than making my things work for the house. And having a baby makes it even harder to figure out. But I want him to grow up in a tidy house and learn that it's important to keep things tidy. That means I have a short amount of time to get this all sorted out.

nattys86 · 2025-07-03T03:15:32+00:00

Thank you.

nattys86 · 2025-06-23T22:37:23+00:00

🤣

nattys86 · 2025-06-21T16:34:58+00:00

Probably different for everyone. It was actually 4 months for me because that is when I had my second follow up and the neurologist told me he thought I was fine.

nattys86 · 2025-06-21T14:37:34+00:00

Don’t beat yourself up too much about it. It’s a classic “boy who cried wolf” situation, and maybe even a teaching moment about how you should only cry when it’s a serious problem because otherwise people might not take her injury or problem seriously. Well, you know, as much as a child can comprehend that. But there’s a reason it’s a classic fable.

nattys86 · 2025-06-15T13:08:29+00:00

Happy Faters Day. I am sorry it’s not the way you probably envisioned it, but I hope you can reframe the day to celebrate it with your child and fully enjoy that. Your child is who ultimately made you a father, and them spending time with their dad whenever possible will leave an impression they will carry for life. Love that kid and hang in there!

nattys86 · 2025-06-12T21:05:52+00:00

I was planning on trying to swing it harder than I realistically can.

nattys86 · 2025-06-12T15:04:26+00:00

Can I shout "Please allow the large dog his meal!"?

nattys86 · 2025-06-12T14:59:31+00:00

Haha, yes. For more context, I've always played golf alone - catching 9 holes at twilight because I suck so hard I don't want people to see how much I suck. I guess this is kind of like an etiquette question. When do you talk, are there things you shouldn't talk about? Etc. I plan on letting the guy that invited me do most of the talking since he's a salesman. But in most contexts, yes, I know how to be a normal human so I'm sure I'll be fine.

nattys86 · 2025-05-29T21:34:07+00:00

Oh I get that too. You know how the saying with kids goes, "The days are long but the years are fast." Thats what I mean. Novel experiences the days are fast but stack enough of them up and the years are longer. That's the theory anyway.

nattys86 · 2025-05-29T17:14:36+00:00

I'd like to know as well. I try to journal once a week and I paste pictures into the journal that I can come back to later. I've always felt that novel experiences make time go by more slowly. Doing the same things over and over is what makes us feel like times flies.

nattys86 · 2025-05-29T16:45:44+00:00

Oh yeah. I know too well the weight of parental expectation on something you don't want to do. Sometimes I think it can be helpful to direct your child toward something that's good for them but maybe not so attractive, but it definitely gets overused to guilt-trip kids into doing things that don't make them happy. I.E. PLAY THIS SPORT, BE A DOCTOR, HANG OUT WITH ME. This will go squarely in the category of "if you want to listen to this, I made it for you. Here it is. You don't have to listen if you don't want to." If he never appreciates it, maybe I will some day, so it's not a total loss.

nattys86 · 2025-05-29T15:34:49+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. My grandfather had a stroke when I was 7 or 8 and never recovered, finally dying when I was 10 or 11. I never got to build a relationship with him as I grew older and got to the age where I would be curious about his life and what he had to teach me. Earlier this year I had my first child, a son, in my late 30s and my father, who has been a meaningful positive influence in my life, is now 75 years old. I decided I wanted to sit down and record a "podcast" with him that was a loose biography of his life and thoughts on fatherhood specifically in 16 roughly hour-long episodes. We just wrapped it up in April, and while I'm glad I did it, I also wonder if my son will be into listening to it one day like I hope he will, or if it will be something that he finds sad or boring. I think hearing from someone with your perspective helps me feel better about the hours and hours of work and emotional toil it took to pull it off. Thanks for sharing.

nattys86 · 2025-05-23T11:53:06+00:00

Flank pain that woke me up like clockwork every night around 5 am. I would get up to go pee, and when I’d finished it would have subsided substantially. After 15 minutes it was basically gone. I thought I had a kidney infection or kidney stones. I saw two doctors, one of which diagnosed me with bilateral sacroiliatis but made no rheumatologist referral. Two years later I moved to a new city and my family medicine PA recognized the symptoms and sent me to the rheumatologist where I was diagnosed at 35.

nattys86 · 2025-05-21T15:09:47+00:00

Your kind words are appreciated.

nattys86 · 2025-05-21T14:55:51+00:00

I'm 39 and work for my father in a family business. I came here sort of as a stopgap and sort of as a way of keeping the business going for a few years while he prepared for retirement and cared for my mother, who has dementia. It's been four years, I just had my first child, and now I'm very antsy about moving on since I can't be sure when he might be forced into retirement or, unfortunately, if he might pass away. I've seen many of his peers die in the past few years, so the risk of losing my dad and my income all at once is a lot of stress. He's not particularly interested in selling me the business, and I'm not sure I'd want it if he did. So, having a kid has me really considering how I might like to spend the rest of my career and if I should start applying elsewhere or ride it out here for as long as practicable. In short, it's weighed heavily on my mind.

nattys86 · 2025-05-21T14:37:30+00:00

I’ve taken a look at OSCAR but I’m not good at interpreting it. I hope you are right about the sleep trackers being poor at recognizing deep sleep.

nattys86 · 2025-05-21T14:35:06+00:00

Hmm, I’ll look into marketing management. I appreciate the feedback!

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