u/Apptubrutae

So the hotel I was staying in last night caught fire. I left most of my stuff in the room, about $10k in A/V gear.

I’m fine, but the hotel looks to be in bad shape. Might not get the contents out soon, if ever. Also have a rental car in the parking lot, haha.

Wondering at this point what exactly I do.

I need to have the A/V gear for work, so I have to rebuy it. Relevantly, I own the business, so not a matter of getting my employer to reimburse.

Also just fun fact, the smoke alarm didn’t go off, so I was awoken by heavy smoke in my room. Fun!

I’m fine, I’ll be fine, but just curious what the best course of action is to make sure I am as compensated as I need to be here.

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The Reddit ski/snowboard trip is officially happening. We have a group chat going, have done a video call to meet each other, and everything is booked/paid for. One spot reopened, so we’re looking for a 6th.

Dates: Feb 27–Mar 3, 2027
Ride days: Sun–Tue
Resort: Breck
People: 5/6 spots filled

Current group: u/infinity33133, u/Apptubrutae, u/alwaysreading96, u/tk393, u/Rybitron

Lodging:
'Tannenbaum 301' near Peak 9
~6 min walk to Quicksilver
~8 min walk to Main St
3 full baths + hot tubs/pool

Your spot: your own queen bed in a bedroom shared with one other person
Cost: $471.93 total for all 4 nights

Group is mostly intermediate skiers/snowboarders. General vibe is ride a full day, have a fairly low-key evening, keep it affordable, and connect with some new people.

If you're interested, comment or DM me!

I booked a trip for Sep 10-13, and I got an email stating that the lodge is closing at 3pm the day we depart. I can see now the whole following week is unbookable.

Now, we’re leaving that last day at like 10am, so I don’t mind that the lodge closes at 3pm well after we’re gone.

But it leaves me wondering: is there any other anticipated downside before an annual maintenance closing like that? Or is it business as usual until they close Sunday at 3pm?

Part of what I do for work is set up and live stream videos from hotel conference rooms. The streaming equipment I use is a Teradek Cube.

I also use a Beryl 7 to set up my own wifi network which feeds off the hotel’s to then hook my cube into.

I’ve been running into the issue that I’ll get a connectivity hiccup from the Beryl 7 which will then kick the Cube offline and since it takes a moment to reestablish that connection, the cube won’t automatically reconnect.

Obviously a bit annoying, and while in part theres the element of having to deal with the Cube, I’m wondering if anyone has any thoughts on dealing with these intermittent loss of connectivity issues with the Beryl 7 and generic hotel wifi at a Hilton or whatever.

Naturally if I can connect the cube directly to the hotel wifi without needing my own router in between, like if there’s no portal, I don’t have this issue.

Is there a product that is better suited? Some setting I can change? Or is this just par for the course.

Looking to plan a Japan trip in January and I’m curious when in January people really aim for.

Obviously nothing is certain, I’m not suggesting otherwise, just curious if you’re planning a trip set in stone…how early in January is reasonable?

I’m not even sure when places open consistently, how partial openings work, etc. Looking to build my own understanding of the norms. Any advice is appreciated!

Don’t know if anyone else is getting these, but in the past couple weeks I’ve suddenly been deluged with maybe 20 emails a day, always from a new address, offering to fund the business to the tune of hundreds of thousands.

I keep blocking the addresses because it’s easy enough but of course the emails don’t stop.

And while the spam filter is generally quite good, for whatever reason it’s not figuring these out.

Anyone have any suggestions? It’s just so annoying at this point.

I’m flying to Tokyo from ABQ next year and looking at tickets. The nature of the flight times means I’m taking a 7am flight out of ABQ for basically any connection to Tokyo.

Now, my wife happens to hate, absolutely hate, mornings. She would much rather we flight the evening before, stay at a hotel, and then continue on to Tokyo.

But of course in searching for a flight and booking with miles, I can’t seem to arrange that without making it a more expensive multi-city booking.

Of course the United system is happy to cook up 30 hour routes with overnight layovers all sorts of other ways, but not on the route I’m looking at.

Is this something I could maybe call in and have them do? Or is it just multi-city or nothing?

Curious if anyone has any thoughts here on what I should do in my scenario.

I have a 1,400 square garage in an L shape. It has far too many switches controlling the lights, which are LED fixtures plugged into outlets in the ceiling.

I think there are 8 switches total for all the lights.

What I would like to do is have all of the lights on a motion sensor. I dislike having to switch on lights all over the place.

I considered dumb motion switches, and that could potentially work…but the one big problem is that three of the switches by the door into the house are next to a fridge, which blocks line of sight until you’re basically right on the fridge. Meaning you could be walking back into the house halfway in the dark with half the garage unlit if you’re working in the 80% of the garage hidden from the switch.

So…any ideas at where to start to tackle this?

I could potentially leave most of the lights on dumb motion switches too, but at a minimum I need to figure out a way to address the fact that for 3 of the switches, their line of sight is blocked.

I’ve seen the advice to avoid Chinese new year in Japan, but I’m curious since it spans a couple of weeks: is one week worse than the other?

I’m planning a trip to Tokyo for next May/June, and I’m curious if anyone has any insight into what I should expect when watching points prices. I’d also fly into KIX, but less options there of course with only SFO flights.

I’m probably ended up on United metal, because ANA doesn’t (for now at least) seem to offer more than 2 award tickets on a flight. And I’m buying 3 tickets.

I’ve been checking daily for departures in the May 22-June 5 window, preferring earlier in that window. Flying out of ABQ. Looking at economy, but I’d buy Polaris saver if it showed up. I also have platinum status and a credit card.

So far, almost every United flight has been over 100k, which I’m certainly not gonna do.

I did find one flight on my preferred day, May 22, but it’s an absolutely terrible flight. ABQ-DEN-IAD-HND with an overnight layover at IAD after a redeye there. But hey, 46k points a ticket.

I booked it with points just to have and cross my fingers that the schedule changes somewhere and I can rebook a good flight for free…but obviously don’t want to rely on that! If it doesn’t change, I don’t intend on keeping that bizarre route.

So for now I keep checking daily, which begs my real question, which is when can I realistically expect prices to descend into more reasonable territory for reasonable flights on a route like this? Or is it going to be iffy no matter what because of summer travel demand?

I’ve also been scanning the hubs and am open to do a repositioning flight. Preferably SFO/LAX/DEN/IAH. So far all I’ve found for repositioning is…a nonstop from IAD. Same flight on my crazy route above.

Having a July 4th party and I’m planning my hot tub logistics since I’ve never had the hot tub open for a party.

I’d likely be changing the water in August, so I figure I’ll change it early and just for the party.

How far ahead should I change it? Day before? Or more time to get it balanced?

Then after that, if it’s been heavily used by people who presumably have laundered bathing suits, lotion, etc, should I just be prepared to drain and refill again?

I’m planning on booking the Hyatt place Kyoto and just curious what cost I should expect with the pending point devaluation.

Looks like it’s a category 2 now and going to category 3, with a nightly points price of 9,500…but what should the nightly points price be in a few weeks when things shift?

Anyone know?

Curious if anyone can help me with this one:

I have about $160k in debt. 150 months of payments. Currently sitting on SAVE.

My income for the next year or two will be very low because I’m a business owner who got destroyed by COVID, so I have some decent accrued losses.

But then after that, could be $200k or more a year as my income.

I’m struggling a bit with deciding if RAP makes sense or going back on IBR does.

On the one hand, for the next 2-3 years if I go RAP…relatively low payments, interest getting waived.

On the other hand, I’m already halfway to forgiveness.

It seems like if I go RAP and my income kicks up quickly enough, I’ll pay the loans off a bit before forgiveness anyway. Seems like that might make sense purely for the interest mitigation.

Whereas if I go IBR, I’ll have interest for a few years and then if my income goes up enough…I’ll also still likely pay the loans off shortly before they forgive.

But I’m not sure if I’m thinking correctly here.