im traveling with my boyfriend and his surf board and our little dog to Jaco on july 28 i need recommendation for transportation that is pet friendly and will allow our surfboard? please help .
Starting to prep for MBB recruiting and trying to figure out the best way to split my time between different methods.
Live partner practice seems obvious but coordinating schedules is a nightmare. Hard to find partners far enough along to give useful feedback vs just fumbling through it together.
I’ve been using AI tools to drill frameworks and mental math and they’ve been more helpful than expected - practicing at midnight and getting instant feedback on structure is genuinely useful. Obviously not the same as a real interview but good for building basics.
Less convinced by solo written cases. I always feel productive but I’m not actually practicing the part that scares me - talking through my thinking out loud under pressure.
My current plan is AI and written work early to build fundamentals, then shift heavily to live partner sessions once I have a foundation. Maybe 20/80 once I’m a few weeks in.
Curious what actually worked for people who got through this recently - how did you split your time and what resources would you actually recommend? The amount of prep material out there is overwhelming.
We’re about three months into migrating away from our previous enterprise support arrangement and it’s been a mixed bag so far. Context: we run a hybrid environment, roughly 400 users, with a significant Azure footprint covering compute, SQL Managed Instances, and some newer Fabric workloads. The decision to move was mostly cost-driven, but we also had real frustrations with slow triage on severity incidents and support tickets that just seemed to bounce around without resolution ownership.
What’s working: the new vendor relationship actually has a named contact who knows our environment. That alone has changed how quickly we get traction on issues. What’s not working: some of the historical context from previous tickets hasn’t transferred cleanly, so we’re re-explaining our architecture more than we’d like. It’s getting better but the first month felt like starting from zero.
We still have one foot in the old contract through the end of the quarter, which is its own kind of headache. Running parallel support arrangements means we’re sometimes not sure who to call first on a P2 incident, and there’s a bit of internal politics around which team owns the relationship.
For anyone who has fully completed this kind of transition, especially on Azure Microsoft support specifically, how long did it take before things felt stable? And is there anything you wish you’d done differently during the overlap period?
I didn't have a pic of the pants 😭🥀but it was a baggy trousers in black
So we run a small insurance brokerage, four people total. Last month we finally set up an AI voice system to handle inbound calls after hours, mostly because we were losing leads who called at 7pm and just got voicemail. I did not expect much honestly, figured it would be a stopgap at best. This week we pulled the logs and realized the system had handled 23 calls on its own, captured contact info for 18 of them, and two of those have already converted into actual policy discussions. For context, we’d normally lose every single one of those after-hours calls. It’s a modest win but it genuinely surprised me. Now I’m trying to figure out what the smart next move is. Do we expand it to daytime hours as an overflow when agents are busy, or is that overreaching too fast? I’m also curious whether other people have layered in chat on top of voice at the same time, or if it made more sense to get one working well before adding the other. Happy to share more specifics if helpful. Mostly just want to hear from people who’ve been a few steps ahead of where we are now.
I was looking at happy head products and saw tretinoin being an active ingredient in their super solution. I’m still new to all this and researching since I only started rapidly losing hair six months ago. I’ve used tretinoin before and stopped because it dried my face to the point where it was painful to touch. I can’t imagine it doing the same to my scalp where I can’t even apply moisturizer the same way. So my question is, is it normal for these products to have tretinoin in them, does it actually help more and is the dryness as bad on the scalp as it is on the face?
I’m licensed and working out of a small suite, not a big spa, so this might not apply to everyone.
The weird thing I’ve noticed this year is that Instagram still gets attention, but Google is where more actual bookings are coming from. Not a ton, but enough that I started paying attention. A few clients told me they found me from a service page or reviews, then checked IG after.
I’ve been cleaning up my Google Business Profile, adding real photos, and trying to get better at asking happy clients for reviews without being awkward about it. I also looked at tools like Square, GlossGenius, and DearDoc for different parts of the booking/review/site side, but I’m trying not to over-tool everything.
For other esties, are you still getting most new clients from social, or has Google started doing more of the work?
Has anyone around Montclair or Bloomfield found a good place for outpatient PT or sports rehab? I’m looking for somewhere that takes the time to figure out what is causing the issue instead of just giving basic stretches,alliance orthopedics in bloomfield is one place I’m considering, but I’m open to other options nearby too. Main things I care about are a good evaluation, clear plan, and someone who can help with getting back to normal activity safely.
I’ll be honest, I really need to lose some weight. I’ve put on a few pounds since college, and it’s starting to get a little ridiculous. For the sake of my health, I really need to lock in. I’ve been reading a lot about peptides recently, and it’s made me curious. How is semaglutide for weight loss? I know it’s effective, but what separates it from other GLP-1 compounds? Aside from that, how has it worked for you? I’d love to hear some anecdotal reviews.
Got a quote for a reroof and everything seems straightforward on paper, but a couple contractors mentioned that once they tear it off they might find bad decking and that’s where costs can jump. One guy brushed it off like “we’ll deal with it if it happens” and another gave a rough per-sheet price but wouldn’t commit to anything. Just trying to figure out what’s normal here and how people plan for that without getting blindsided halfway through the job.