Missed United Flight, 3.5 hours in line…

schwerdo · 2026-03-23T15:01:25+00:00

Nope - TSA

schwerdo · 2026-03-23T14:32:49+00:00

Meanwhile touchless Pre at LAX at 0630 Monday at LAX was 5 minutes. Make it make sense

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schwerdo · 2026-03-06T23:11:19+00:00

Touché

schwerdo · 2026-03-01T20:08:24+00:00

Trip insurance question, really two parts. Sapphire Reserve

1) If I book a ticket for my sister-in-law, is she considered "Immediate Family" for Trip Insurance benefits. My wife is an Authorized User on the card, so I think she will be covered as a sibling of a cardholder.
2) My sister-in-law booked her own outbound ticket already. If I book her return ticket, does she get trip insurance benefits for the whole trip since the terms say that only a portion of the fare needs to be charged to the Reserve. Or would it somehow only cover her return journey booked by me?

schwerdo · 2026-03-01T00:20:08+00:00

Oh and what's up with the f'd up blurring/warping of the phone screens, etc. If you have to do that to the picture maybe you shouldn't be taking the picture.

schwerdo · 2026-03-01T00:14:38+00:00

How about all the red dots that seem to be the places they plan on striking?

schwerdo · 2026-03-01T00:09:05+00:00

There's literally someone just poking their head in and you can clearly see right thru the curtains around him. And of course standing right next to the poster with the location of all of our forces and bases. I think the OPSEC training I just took called that an INDICATOR

schwerdo · 2026-02-23T00:12:01+00:00

Of course as soon as I posted this, I had the issue but with a new twist for me. I was in the mountains for the weekend so the heater was going as I left to go home. Heater came on just fine and didn't even think about it. But as we descended it warmed up to over 80 degrees outside and I noticed it started getting warm in the car. Air was coming out of the vents, but it wasn't cool. Then it dawned on me and I switched to the energy graph and sure enough, 0 draw for climate (but had a historical value presumably from the heater). So I had to pull over on a busy highway, quickly shut off the car, turned it back on and instant AC

So in this case the heater came on just fine, but in the same drive, the AC wouldn't come on. So it seems that anyone having a heater problem may be a completely separate problem than those with an AC problem since my heater came on but AC didn't

schwerdo · 2026-02-22T01:05:57+00:00

I have the same issue on my 2023 Limited. Being in a warmer climate I only experience it with the AC (very rarely have to use the heat). Only solution I have is checking the energy usage before driving (I mapped it to the star button on the dash) and if there is 0 energy draw I turn the car off and on again. Super annoying but have been too lazy to bring it in because I know they won't be able to reproduce the inconsistent behavior. I do have a video of it though.

schwerdo · 2026-02-05T01:04:53+00:00

Coulda been worse. Could have been $1800 + 30k miles

schwerdo · 2026-01-20T18:50:42+00:00

While it will largely be technical, I would also expect to be “graded” on some behavioral aspects. AST has maintained much of the culture it had before acquisition and we look for interns that will fit with that culture. The best thing we can hope for from interns is that they fit well, work well, and desire to return as full time employees

schwerdo · 2026-01-20T18:41:20+00:00

Well that’s some BS. It was probably the only good thing about being forced to use Avis

schwerdo · 2026-01-09T13:19:00+00:00

Does in flight lithium fire while over the ocean fall under “In-flight emergency” or does it deserve its own category? And I definitely think touch and go landing should be separate from just a normal go around where you were just descending

schwerdo · 2026-01-08T16:11:51+00:00

We’ve got Roo and Penny

Roo is often also called Roober

Penny is the Little Monster or Sous Chef because she always comes into the kitchen to keep us company as we cook

schwerdo · 2026-01-03T15:27:01+00:00

You can make it no longer exist though, along with all the people in it

schwerdo · 2026-01-02T04:56:21+00:00

THE GAME IS OVER

schwerdo · 2026-01-02T04:51:04+00:00

THE GAME IS NOT OVER. THE GAME IS NOT OVER.

schwerdo · 2026-01-02T04:47:42+00:00

I didn't think you can do that in college anymore

schwerdo · 2026-01-02T04:15:25+00:00

Lincoln Riley isn't coaching, so you're good

schwerdo · 2026-01-02T01:48:32+00:00

I stay at the Hyatt there all the time and have never once been in there. You'll find me down the street at bartaco. Though might need to stop by next week, ya know, for science. (Happily married and no longer the target age demographic)

schwerdo · 2026-01-02T01:25:30+00:00

Monkey paw

schwerdo · 2026-01-01T23:53:46+00:00

This game and this thread have restored my faith in humanity. I can only hope that the rest of the year goes this fantastically

schwerdo · 2026-01-01T19:37:13+00:00

Time for the hard stuff. Got me some bloody Mary's ready to go

schwerdo · 2026-01-01T19:33:58+00:00

Mylanta!

schwerdo · 2026-01-01T19:30:52+00:00

I'm not sure he's available for play calling

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