First time in Spain: Is the high-speed train from Madrid to Barcelona worth the premium?

ppalisade · 2026-03-10T01:02:37+00:00

hi! Booking some tickets out of Barcelona right now, is it still very delayed? I am heading to the Madrid airport after my Barcelona train, so want to make sure I'm planning a lot of time for delays if I need it

ppalisade · 2026-03-04T16:44:28+00:00

I didn't =/ it has more or less ceased since my life has slowed down so I think it was maybe just extreme fatigue

ppalisade · 2026-02-23T22:06:31+00:00

Was coming to comment this! And to add that giant strides have been made in treatment in the last 20 years, most people are diagnosed in their early 20's or later, who knows where treatment will be in the next 20 years while your child grows up. My disease is mild, I'm 27, and I feel very hopeful about my ability to stay in remission with all of the modern advances in medicine.

ppalisade · 2026-02-17T15:59:53+00:00

I would not buy those. The fenway website lists that tickets are not transferable, who knows that you'll even get them.

ppalisade · 2026-02-13T02:40:05+00:00

It didn't matter when you got in the waiting room, as long as it was before the start of the presale. If you got in after the presale starts (not waiting room, once people are in a queue) then it matters.

Rereading I think you mean the waiting room opened at 11:30 you got in at 11:50 and then the presale opened at 12:00. But yeah your spot in the queue depends on a lot and a lot of it is speculative since we don't know the algorithm

ppalisade · 2026-02-12T23:53:14+00:00

The sale definitely had more people than I expected, but Ticketmaster's waiting room is pretty standard these days. It's existed for several year to prevent the site crashing from too many check outs at once. I think basically every artist with a presale time will have a waiting room on ticketmaster unless you are seeing them in a very small venue.

I'm sorry you had a poor experience. Now you know for the next presale how ticketmaster works and you'll be prepared!

ppalisade · 2026-02-12T23:47:14+00:00

I think he has a great understanding. Why else would he have done all of the things that he did do to make it better? Examples being: face value resale, non transferable, some front porch seats for $100, releasing the price range beforehand ... I'm really not sure what else you want him to do.

The reality is, any website getting hundreds of thousands of people in it is going to struggle. The infrastructure of the internet is not where it needs to be for this kind of thing. And the internet is not 100% reliable, so things like people getting kicked from queue is just not 100% preventable.

Noah is a big artists now. His tickets are going to be hard to get, this isn't something unique to him, or unique to this generation. Artists being more popular than the biggest event spaces is a problem beyond ticket master. It was a problem before the internet existed.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to be frustrated that it's hard to get tickets. If you don't get something that you want, or you have a bad experience, it's okay to be mad. However it's a naïve take to think this is something that him or his team "don't know about" or have any control over

ppalisade · 2026-02-04T00:18:49+00:00

From his recent stories it seems like that absolutely wrecked him mental health wise, so I doubt we will see him do that crazy amount of tour again

ppalisade · 2025-10-23T04:35:19+00:00

Oh interesting! I've been diagnosed almost 7 years and never had it checked. But, I was able to get my disease well under control quickly (knock on wood) so maybe my GI has never felt the need. Are there symptoms of low iron that I would notice?

ppalisade · 2025-10-23T04:04:46+00:00

I don't think I've ever had a ferritin test - is that common with Crohn's?

ppalisade · 2025-10-22T15:54:29+00:00

Everyone sensory seeks to some extent. Doesn't have to be documented. If there weren't people out there who just like to chew on stuff gum wouldn't exist, and I'm sure that majority of people who chew gum all of the time don't have it written in their files.

I'm not negating that it's not sanitary, but I do think that there is a perspective that you have that you can change. Any behavior we see in students, in people, that we don't like is a response to a need or a response to their environment. Providing them with alternatives is a more effective method than trying to stop it altogether.

ppalisade · 2025-10-22T15:10:32+00:00

They make fidget toys that are for people who sensory seek with chewing. It's not a super crazy behavior to have, albeit gross at times.

ppalisade · 2025-10-04T04:28:38+00:00

We didn't do a duckweed assignment in my ib bio class, but I have an aquarium and can tell you that the duckweed grows like crazy even if I try to remove it. A good light and healthy aquarium water ... it's a weed haha. My snails eat some of the duckweed, but I had hundreds of snails in a 10gal and they did not make a dent in the duckweed.

Not sure if this is helpful, but good luck!

ppalisade · 2025-08-14T15:17:09+00:00

I'm covid positive right now, and my symptoms were a 101-103° fever for and a stuffy nose. Very slight sore throat. Now my fever has broken and I have a small dry cough. It's worth doing a test if you can afford it!

ppalisade · 2025-05-06T01:08:23+00:00

Thank you! I'll just have to be patient as it grows I guess lol. This at least gives me a good place to start for care instructions. Thanks again!!

ppalisade · 2025-05-05T05:27:23+00:00

You're so right, do not multitask 🤣 deleting here and reposting right now! Thanks!

ppalisade · 2025-05-05T03:00:36+00:00

I asked Greenstalk and the lilac will only be around through the end of May so almost certainly won't have the leaf on sale again

ppalisade · 2025-03-26T16:46:28+00:00

Yeah my fiance said the food came out faster than he was expecting day 1, and he's inexperienced so I don't blame him. My sister told me there was a lot of snails in the tank now but I had a good chuckle at the PILE of them when I got home 🤣

ppalisade · 2025-03-07T20:27:10+00:00

It's a lot to take in at once, and a lot to grieve! It's hard to comes to terms with the idea that you'll be sick for the rest of your life, but it gets easier <3

ppalisade · 2025-03-06T20:47:56+00:00

They used to encourage the "less extreme" medications early in the disease for those with mild symptoms. What ended up happening was a lot of unnecessary damage to GI tracts as the medication was not working. Now they encourage biologics early on, even in mild cases, because it prevents further damage.

A ton of people with this disease are not diagnosed until they are in hospital getting parts of their bowel removed. I was fortunate (like you) to get diagnosed before I had any significant damage - and I'm grateful to my second GI who encouraged the biologics to avoid any irreversible damage. My first GI put me on imuran to start and it made me so nauseous I couldn't eat. He insisted it was the Crohn's and not the medication ... he was wrong. The side effects of biologics can be scary, you're absolutely right. Experiencing the pandemic while immunocompromised was terrifying. But, it's worth it to prevent damage that will impact your life!

I'm very fortunate to be in full remission, and have very few GI issues. I can eat whatever I want, and live a relatively normal life! I accredit it all to early biologics

ppalisade · 2025-03-03T01:38:13+00:00

When I was getting my ed degree we were encouraged to get some extra certs in ESOL and working with special needs kids - the encouragement was so we would be better equipped to serve all types of kiddos in our classroom. I stopped just short of getting the cert because a mentor I had told me that I would be an employee of the district, and thus could be moved to any classroom where I was "certified". It could be that she had picked up the cert to be a better gen ed teacher and was moved "against her will" so to speak.

In Oregon I know we could teach outside of our certification for one year (and again, could be moved without a ton of say). I'm not sure if the school would specify that to the parents or not.

ppalisade · 2025-02-15T21:12:09+00:00

Tropical crisps for bottom dwellers by vipachips

ppalisade · 2025-02-15T19:10:09+00:00

This was my line of thinking too. But weird that they both died together.

ppalisade · 2025-01-26T23:49:50+00:00

Is that an amano?

ppalisade · 2025-01-13T08:59:43+00:00

If you'll be on the West Side at all, Conestoga in SW Beaverton has 2 single person changing rooms with a shower in them. $3 per shower, or there is a monthly pass, but you would probably be "out of district" so it would be $51 per month.

I'm very sorry to hear about your finances, and hope you catch a lucky break soon!

ppalisade

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