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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.

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.

Yeah but that included at least to the back of his face too.

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.

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.

She IS a video game groupie. She’s hot for sure, but I could see being ready for something different after three years. The guy has money and is good looking. She’s not his only option.

I'm a gun owner but there's not a bigger bunch of pussies than the guys who feel like they need to be constantly carrying just to get through everyday life.

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.

I’ve never bought a home without one.

I thought warranties were pretty standard and expected on every sell.

You have lice. And occasionally some of them jump off your head and die on your windowsill.

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.

Not if you get it done below 10k’. Unsterile so to speak.

Dude looks exactly like he did in college. Not because he looks young now, he just looked,like a 40 year old man back then.

Timely post. I’m doing V1 cuts in the sim tomorrow.

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.

Herman should offer the guy. Historically we’ve never been able to stop a Jason White.

His hair was perfect.

My dad stayed behind in our Basin campsite.

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

Loooonnnng post! Lots of pics! TL/DR: Desert, mountains, backpacks, sunrise... Here's a few pics from my Big Bend trip last week. It was my Dad, my two sons ages 10 and 13, and myself. Drove to Marathon Thursday afternoon, and spent the night there to arrive in the park at a decent time Friday morning. The campground in the Basin was wide open but it filled up by Saturday evening. Slept under the stars most nights except a few dashes into the tent during short rain showers and one night through a decent thunderstorm. Highs in the 80's in the Basin, lows in the upper 60's. Except the desert, out there it was hot as balls. Day 1: Set up camp, beer and nap in the shade, then the Lost Mine Trail. I'd never done it. The Window has always been my "get used to hiking again" warm up hike. Skipped it this year and did Lost Mine instead. Good call, can't believe in all my times going out there I'd never done it. The views at the far end looking south rival those on the South Rim even if there are't as many of those views. Day 2: Had a storm that night and woke up to an evil-looking fog rolling in over and around Casa Grande. It was eerie to watch. We drove across the park and hiked around and up a little hill over-looking the river near Rio Grand Village. Saw a million centipedes, which the kids got a kick out of. Then we headed to the river crossing at Boquillas, took the row boat across, rented horses and rode to town for lunch. I was planning on us walking to town and I assumed the locals were just trying to get some business when they recommended the horses due to the high water at the creek crossing. But they were right, as we crossed the waist-deep muddy creek I was glad we were on the horses. Had a great meal at Boquillas Cafe. I had cabrito tacos, my older son had pollo enchiladas, and my younger son had tamales, my Pop had a combo plate. It was loved by all. After lunch we rode back, crossed back over, and went to the hot springs. Meh... it felt good to get somewhat clean but it was too crowded. Didn't stay long. Headed over to Ernst Tinaja. This place is under-rated. It's one of the coolest places in the Park! I don't know why it's not featured more in park photos. I find it far more fascinating that the view from the Window or the Balanced Rock pics you always see on BBNP book covers and memorabilia. It's a few miles up from the southern end of Old Ore Road and then a 1/2 mile or so hike in. Very cool flowy sedimentary rock formations in a narrowing slot with a pool in the middle. No swimming though, the water is stagnant and the surface sits several feet under the rounded rock rim of the pool. If you get in you aren't getting out without help from above. Day 3: Drove to Santa Elena Canyon. The Terlingua Creek crossing was about knee-high and we had to bushwhack a little to get to the trail, but we did it. Poor planning on our part put us there in the heat of the afternoon but we sucked it up. Rewarded ourselves with cold beer, cokes, and mexican food in Terlingua on the way back. Day 4: My boys and I headed up to the South Rim. Leaving from the Basin Trailhead we took Laguna Meadows up to the Rim and went east along the rim to the eastern edge. Was hoping to see a bear or two, but only saw some deer. The boys did great. The older has backpacked a little bit, the younger one never has. But both are athletic and adventurous. I knew my oldest would have no problems and I was prepared to take everything out of the younger one's pack if he had problems. He carried about 16 pounds initially but we drank the water out of his pack first so he was down to 11 pounds or so by the time we got up there. The older boy carried about 20. I carried 30-ish depending on the water situation. They came though like champs. It was 9 miles and up almost 2000' that day. We started when it was cool and were hot and worn out by midafternoon. Took lots of breaks, drank lots of water, and got to the campsite about 3pm. Chilled out, enjoyed the view, threw some rocks, cooked some Beef Stroganoff, watched 3 separate thunderstorms all pass by in the desert without hitting us, and slept under the stars about 20 feet from the edge of the rim. The desert floor was almost 3000' below us. It was a cold windy night and we woke up to a great sunrise. Day 5: Hiked 7 miles down back to the Basin via Boot Canyon and Pinnacles. Refilled with water at Boot Spring. Uneventful hike other than more great views. Got to the trailhead and got ice cream... and a cold beer or two. We all had a terrible but satisfying steak in the lodge restaurant that night and then one more night under the stars in the campground. Day 6: Up with the sun, packed up and gone by 8am for the drive home. Every day since then: Fuck this Austin humid heat!!

HA!!! Shit that was harder than it needed to be.

fuck me

fail seriously, how the fuck do you do this? Where does the link go?