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I appreciate the alerts function for various tickers. Is there an alert I could set for “any position” I own? Like just a blanket setting to send me an alert if any position I own is up or down x percent in a day. Obviously could be an annoyance with options, but for equities, it would be nice instead of manually adding each position I have.

Looking to make She Crab Soup this fall. From what I can tell on a few recipes/sites, a dry sherry is recommended. I’m somewhat fluent in most alcohol things, but could someone confirm, +/- recommend one? I’d assume a Fino would work. If I recall, we’ve had She Crab with sherry poured on at the end as well (?)

I haven’t enjoyed Sherry or fortified wines much but don’t know them well. If I pick one up, any good recommendations for other uses so I don’t waste most of the bottle?

(I know I don’t want cooking sherry, and just on principle, it seems like dry would be the preferred type in a soup vs sweet).

Sorry if this isn’t the best sub for this.

I’m hoping to slowly landscape my backyard and eliminate a lot of lawn in place of shrubs and whatnot. We have a lot of trees in the deep backyard, I suspect at some point we could need a tree service (thankfully only one pine and the rest are hardwoods).

Our yard slopes decently away from the house and we currently have a gate that is car width, allowing backyard access.

If I want to leave enough space for an arborist crew to get in, what kind of vehicles am I concerned with? We have a few tulip poplars which I assume are at mature ish height (real tall nonetheless). Does a crew need a bucket truck ideally, or could I try to just leave room for a boom lift or similar? The slope as is seems hard to drive a heavy truck back out of if it was muddy, but I could make some changes to plans to assist.

I’m not going to be able to make the Atlanta show and I have 2x floor tickets for sale for face value- $75 each or best offer. Message me if interested!

Boone, North Carolina has a decent amount of these large maple looking trees that have nearly black leaves. I asked r/Boone what they were and it sounds like they’re invasive Crimson King maples/Norwegian maple variants.

Just wondering if there are any Japanese maple cultivars that I could sub for one of these? Just looking for a leave that’s closest to black. I love how the dark heucheras look, as well as black-ish hellebores. A black Japanese maple would be a cool companion

We’ve visited Boone a few times now and I haven’t had a chance to look into it.

What are the large black-leaved trees in Boone? They look like Maples but unsure. I love how they look and am interested in trying to acquire one if they magically can grow in my zone.

I’ve seen a few in Asheville too but they’re most prominent in Boone/Banner Elk I assume.

I’m not going to be able to make the Atlanta show and I have 2x floor tickets for sale for face value- $75 each. Message me if interested!

So do we think Asheville is just BSS/full band and a full set? Debating on maybe not doing Atlanta and instead going to Asheville. 🧐

We’re about to have a third surprise baby. We currently have an almost 7 year old, a 5 year old and soon to have an infant.

My wife has a Telluride, and I have a sedan and a 90s Landcruiser.

I’m halfway wanting to opt out of all this AI and touchscreen business we’ve had the past 5ish years and get a Land Rover of some sort. I’m good enough at working on cars, just don’t always have time or energy.

I’m thinking I could maybe pull off a Rover of some sort, but not sure if car seats would work. Any tips on what I could legitimately consider?

In my head, I could have a rover for driving around town and taking kids to school etc, and then we’d have the telluride for actual road trips etc. I’d maybe keep my existing car/cars as backup too.

I can 100% stand behind my Landcruiser in regards to reliability overall, but I would love a 90s ish Range Rover or a Defender. Toyota surely is more reliable but just being a car dude, a rover would be so cool to have if it would fit car seats safely.

So if you can recommend for or against a 90s rover, I’d love to hear it. Doubt I’d go for a discovery, and while LR3/LR4 seem modern (still!), I feel like they might not balance “cool factor” with reliability enough and just might be more risky with regards to maintenance. I’d be looking for one at less than $50k USD.

I’m just now finding out about using 529s for certifications, continuing education, etc, from the 2025 act. Not a huge game changer of course, but I have been struggling to find a few pieces of info.

1. For continuing education or certifications, do we think you could use it to cover hotel/transportation expenses for things like a conference in another city? I feel like that’s under the umbrella of “cost of attendance.”
   -also it looks like it would cover membership in a society that helps with CE/certification as well.

2. Do we know if this is at all retroactive? My spouse paid for a prep package a year or so ago (ie prior to passage) for a certification and wondering if we could use 529 funds to reimburse “well after the fact.” I’d assume not but feels worth it to ask.

I found the covered certifications fine and think what we have done/will do would be covered from that aspect but wondering about timeframe and breadth of applicability.

I’m currently trying to cycle a little through my 529 to help cover student loans, but figured I could maximize a little more with covering some possible trainings.

Feels like most things out of the (US) government these days just helps billionaires, but there are occasional perks for us little guys. Wish they’d bump the student loan payment cap up several tens of thousands of dollars.

Considering bringing kids and hanging out in Decatur for a bit Sunday around lunch. Wife is flying back in to ATL around 6 pm and thinking of surprising her at the airport. Any good kid activities between the two that we could do outside of watching the World Cup somewhere?

We’ve done the zoo and Delta Flight Museum.

Also, is this completely dumb from a traffic perspective? We’d be driving in from East of ATL and I’m familiar with general Atlanta traffic, just not sure what it’s been like with World Cup.

My mom watches our kids if we go out of town. She is super anxious and worries about all the things that could go wrong, even though we could both die in a terrible car crash on the way to work.

What kinds of things do we need outside of a will and defined beneficiaries to ease her mind about “what happens to the kids if you both are murdered by a far-right Antarctican statehood movement hell-bent on American Parricide”?

We have written a “permission to treat” letter so she can take them to the doctor.

I will ask her more about what she thinks she needs, but it is really stressful and hard to meet her in the middle. Trying to find ideas just so we can set up a plan and be done with it. I know having these plans spelled out is a good idea, but it’s hard working with her and her worrying.

I have 96 80 series. My sunroof won’t open- it sounds like the motor is sticking. It’s also leaking when it rains.

I’ve cleaned the drains before but can’t since I can’t access them from the bottom.

On ih8mud, there is a write up of how to manually open the sunroof with a flathead. When I try, it seems like way too much resistance and I’m afraid I’m going to break something, much less strip out the head on that brass screw.

Is there a secret fuse somewhere I’m neglecting? Or should I just suck it up and pull the headliner out? Ih8mud has good info on a few threads but no complete answers. I’d love to get the sunroof working again but also would just like to be able to clean it at least.

Points guy is running a bonus if you buy $200 in points through their link today. Works out to 0.04¢ with the 100% existing.

Only good till around 4pm EST today; I got a link in my email.

Edit: had original math wrong.
Bonus is 125% = base + (base x1.25)

I went to Fort Benning Georgia for several months for training. I see on the Georgia unclaimed property site that my name has a few small amounts in the Columbus GA. I can’t tell if it’s mine based on the minimal amount on the site. Can I attempt to claim and they will figure it out for me? Don’t want to inadvertently commit fraud. I assume they somehow give you more info or request info to confirm match but won’t punish you if you’re “just fishing?”

I’m a newly minted travel advisor and I booked a room for myself and spouse in Privé. It showed up in the app. I checked later this week and rates got better so I booked us again and got a confirmation # etc, and I cancelled the existing booking.

My new booking hasn’t shown up in the app yet. Any idea what I should do? I imagine call the hotel and make sure it’s active? I imagine double booking is the actual problem here so I’ll avoid it in the future, but as a normal traveler it hasn’t been a problem.

I see that Ziva PVR was renovated last year, but the articles/posts I see aren’t super specific. It sounds like the North Tower was renovated, but on Hyatt’s app, it lists “club tower” and “main tower” as options. Can anyone clarify for me? I assume only one tower was renovated and if we go we should pick that one- that’s the club tower, correct? I hear food is meh but that’s incentive to go into town.

I’m looking at infusing some Campari, this time with strawberries. I have some of the Crew bottles at home-they make infusing a little easier and prettier. I can leave the fruit in the bottle and still pour from it.

What kind of shelf life do you think I’m looking at in regards to brightness of flavor if I leave the strawberries in the amaro, keeping it refrigerated? I’d also be willing to remove the fruit to get it to keep longer. Hoping I can make one batch and it last most of the summer.

We had a Sum and Substance hosta at our old house that I had high hopes for. Our new home has a narrow margin I’d like to fill with hosts- are there any that max out at about 2-2.5 feet in diameter that have larger leaves? Looking for brighter greens if possible, and/or slightly sun tolerant (gets sun until lunchtime)

Thanks!