Jump to content

Chuychanga

Full Members
  • Posts

    220
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Chuychanga

  1. You can still bring your own.  They just won't be served by Southwest.  It's more of a liability thing.  It has been the policy for years to not serve peanuts if the FAs know there is an allergic passenger one board.  They learned a while back not to make a big deal about it with announcements and to just quietly serve the pretzels with no mention of peanuts on those flights.  But there were still complaints.  Some airlines let passengers with allergies preboard so they can wipe down the seat and tray (not sure why they can only do that during preboarding). SWA doesn't want to disrupt the boarding process any more than it already is with wheelchairs, kids, etc..  And they don't want the liability.  

    Me personally, I like the Veggie Wheat Thins better anyway.

     

     

  2. 8 hours ago, DaysOff said:

    Had my first opportunity to fly our 737 MAX9 IAH - ANC. Still a 737 but it was super smooth. New radar allegedly good to 320nm with lightning and hail locations. Also a rear camera to show approaching flight attendants and terrorists. Most importantly after 50 years Boeing put 2 cup holders in per side.

    14ff9e407cf957a8336d7045fb439611.jpge52bfad0e271c46df8dfac2e39ef843f.jpgf1e813eaf192cc08d511f7149a36bb51.jpg

    I flew the Max 800 last month for the first time. Smooth and quiet. Engines take forever to start. Do y’all not have the cup holders at your inboard knee and another under the side window on the older models? I haven’t seen one without both. We must have splurged on cup holders with all the money we saved on jerry-rigged VNAV software. 

  3. Thanks everybody. 5280, it’s definitely a 401k.  But instead of matching my contributions the company just puts in an automatic percentage unrelated to my contributions.  Our profit sharing also goes in there until I reach the 55k limit. 

     I cannot afford to max out all three of these sources of retirement at the same time yet.  So I guess I’m now on the hunt for a fee based independent planner to take a look at it all every few years. 

  4. I have one company who runs my 401k. I have another guy who runs my Roth IRA and 529s. And I have an employee stock purchase  at 10% discount program that I’m pretty much on my own for. 

     I need help figuring out how much money to allocate to each of those and which should be a bigger priority to max out.  I feel like if I talk to the 401(k) group they’re going to steer me toward maxing it out while the guy who runs my Roth will steer me toward maxing it out first.  

      As it is now I’m maxing out the 401k and making a much smaller contribution to the Roth and just about to start buying the discounted stock but only at a couple hundred bucks a month or so.  

     Are there rules of thumb on this stuff that I should be following? Do I need an independent financial planner that can look at the whole package and steer me straight on all of this? 

    Edit:   My company contributes 15% of my salary into the 401(k). It’s a Plan B, not a match. That 13% goes in regardless of what I contribute.   My understanding is that that goes toward the limit of 54k but is separate from my limit of 18.5k. 

  5. If the disc is just bulged PT might work it back in.  If it's ruptured and the gel is pressing on the nerve root then you aren't going to PT that gel back into the disc any more than you could put the toothpaste back into the tube.  Mine was the L5-S1.  I had surgery 6 months ago.  Microdiscectomy.  It was the best thing I ever did.  My symptoms were sciatic pain that gradually got worse to the point of severe.  After surgery I was instantly pain-free.  6 hours after my surgery I was walking around the neighborhood.  Couldn't lift stuff for a while, but I'm full speed now.  Glad I didn't postpone surgery any longer than I did.  

    • Like 2
  6. I went to L.L Campbell Elementary in East Austin for 4th grade.  That was the year Austin began busing kids across town to go to school outside of their neighborhood to integrate the schools more.    And this was long before East Austin was a hipster hotspot.   I was one of four white kids in our class, all four of use were bussed over from our neighborhood off Burnet Road in North Austin. 

     I don’t remember it being too bad but my parents were divorced and my dad lived in a better school district and they decided that was a good time for us to move in with dad.  So I just did that one year. That elementary school was somewhere over near Chicon St and it has long ago been closed.   

     

     

     

     

     

     

  7. 18 hours ago, theCruiser said:

    Other than the midwest chain "Meat & Stuff", there is most certainly a difference in quality of meats within grades and cuts.  

    back to trivial:  people who host 50 people inside their living room in July with "business attire" on the invite and just keep the A/C at whatever  it was set to before the event started. Humans give off heat.  If you don't understand how that works, you shouldn't be hosting events or allowed out into society at large. 

     You should get your AC checked out. As all the fancy business people arrive at your party the room will indeed tend  heat up, but your thermostat should reflect that and keep the AC on longer to still keep the room at 72 or whatever. 72 in an empty room is the same as 72 in a room full of people. If the AC is set to 72 and it heats up the 75 the unit is running and trying to cool it already, setting it to 68 doesn’t help that happen any sooner. 

    • Like 1
  8. I used to have a fork mount and hated it.  Even with a quick release, taking off and re-attaching the front wheel becomes a pain in the ass.  I moved from that to a PVC homebuilt contraption that I loved.  But then I installed a roll-n-loc bedcover and now the bike won't fit with that rack because the roll-up cannister stole 6 inches of bedspace.  So now I roll with a tailgate pad over a bed extender.  I leave it in full-time.  I run a cable lock across the bed and through the frame triangle from two bed tie-downs.  It's not secure enough to leave anywhere for a long time but it's enough to let me run inside a convenience store pre or post-ride.  The extender folds away with the pad on it and it's all hidden under the bedcover when I don't need it. 

     

    I'm happiest with my current system.

    0_A9_D7_E03_000_B_4_A49_BF91_21447_C5_CB

    599_AF454_2711_405_B_933_E_B2899232_CCE7

    F524_D246_D56_E_420_B_A46_A_38_F16_FFE45

    C932052_E_341_B_4_E31_8905_1490858694_A9

     

     

    My old system was something like this and it was great for convenience until I decided I wanted a bedcover.

    ebc9c5b23e2eefff77c7c597e28c5c0a.jpg

     

     

×
×
  • Create New...