u/churn5603

Background: I played bb before and have super good side vision and awareness of where my partner is on the court.

The problem: I am impacted by my partner's movement.

When I play up in the 4.5-4.8 level, I play really well even my DUPR is only 4.1. After yesterday's game, a 4.9 player came to tell me that I occasionally should take over but moved away from the ball. I watched my video and noticed this too. When I was supposed to move to the middle to pressure the crosscourt dink from the opponents, I do this really well if my partner covers the line and doesn't move. if my partner just moves a little bit to the middle, my feet automatically moved away from the middle, not much but it affected my play: I either waited for my partner to hit it or hit it with arm stretched a little bit too far since my feet moved away a little.

this actually happens to me a lot, if my partner stays still, I definitely plays above 4.5 level. if my partner moves toward me even he/she lets me hit the ball, I don't hit the ball well at all. They were joking once: when I said "mine" for the middle ball, I missed more than I made it. And if a partner complains about my poach, or he likes to stand in the middle (some people have this tendency especially when they play mix a lot), I really play like a 4.0 player. And I keep thinking about this during the game which make it worse.

there are two theories: 1) better to clash the paddle than miss the middle ball 2) always keep the same space and both players move the same time. I personally prefer the 2nd but it is difficult to find two players move that cohesively well.

How should I improve this? especially, not to think about this during the game. and 2nd, how can I improve and not impacted by my partner's movement. I am pretty sure this is my biggest issue currently than the skill set.

I started checking on RE a couple of years ago and not sure I have coasted since but definitely not going for promotion any more. My original plan was to retire at 55 when I can use rule of 55 to withdraw 401k and also reached a milestone for getting pension from my current employer.

since the end of last year, there has been a lot of changes in our organization, especially the leadership are all on different sites and our site is almost low performance site by default.

So if the company gives a fair severance package at the end of the year, I plan to take it and call it a career. And if the company lets me continue work for 2.4 years, I will retire the first day during the year when I turn 55. The third choice is very annoying right now: the company started doing the 10%-15% "needs improvement" thing and a few older colleagues have retired without severance. and my site is the current target and is rumored to have 40% "needs improvement". I am getting annoyed occasionally just by a potential chance that I will be removed without package. Gemini gives me this if putting on PIP based on my description: " I have a great tracking record for being the top performers in this company ( I am just based on the stock grant); and I have also delivered the milestone for our current project (this pissed me off the most since I single handedly moved our project forward this year when it was almost terminated). It is clear that the company wants to go with a different direction, I am not interested in doing the PIP and let's discuss a fair severance package". I just don't know whether this would work.

it is pretty sad for a fortune 500 to do this shitty thing when the company makes the most money in the last 20 years. They actually gave a decent package or some great incentive 5 years ago to encourage people to leave. but no they are trying to force people out and tried to save the severance package.

I started checking on RE a couple of years ago and not sure I have coasted since but definitely not going for promotion any more. My original plan was to retire at 55 when I can use rule of 55 to withdraw 401k and also reached a milestone for getting pension from my current employer.

since the end of last year, there has been a lot of changes in our organization, especially the leadership are all on different sites and our site is almost low performance site by default.

So if the company gives a fair severance package at the end of the year, I plan to take it and call it a career. And if the company lets me continue work for 2.4 years, I will retire the first day during the year when I turn 55. The third choice is very annoying right now: the company started doing the 10%-15% "needs improvement" thing and a few older colleagues have retired without severance. and my site is the current target and is rumored to have 40% "needs improvement". I am getting annoyed occasionally just by a potential chance that I will be removed without package. Gemini gives me this if putting on PIP based on my description: " I have a great tracking record for being the top performers in this company ( I am just based on the stock grant); and I have also delivered the milestone for our current project (this pissed me off the most since I single handedly moved our project forward this year when it was almost terminated). It is clear that the company wants to go with a different direction, I am not interested in doing the PIP and let's discuss a fair severance package". I just don't know whether this would work.

it is pretty sad for a fortune 500 to do this shitty thing when the company makes the most money in the last 20 years. They actually gave a decent package or some great incentive 5 years ago to encourage people to leave. but no they are trying to force people out and tried to save the severance package.

I have had chase card for so many years and have/had quite a bit of different credit cards. I never had an issue of being denied, reviewed until last year. Suddenly, every application went to review. There were a couple of cards I really needed for travel and went to branch and went through some identity for almost 30 minutes. There were a couple of times, it showed offers in my chase account" you are already approved" so I went on to apply and got denied.

I have a chase banking account, multiple credit cards, great credit score, high income, never a delayed payment, not sure what has happened. kind of pissed now, since my application for amazon (1st time) went into pending.

Based on 4% withdraw rate, can I back track and assume that I have asset of SS/Pension yearly income *25? I feel kind of inflated already. Assume that both my partner and I collecting SS/Pension at 62, we may have close to 10k monthly income and 120k yearly come. If I times 120k with 25, I already have 3million asset to myself and can count me as a chubbFIRER already.

Dilemma: I have a really good defensive bh dinking and pretty good at placement on both angles and depth. When I played a 4.5 tournament, my partner did a reverse stacking with me. part of the reason is my bh was pretty good and the other part is my fh does not come naturally.

I do best for inside out with my forehand and unfortunately that is almost my natural position: when I dink cross court, my wrist looks like that I am going to do the inside out. I start adding fh slice, which makes up my weakness on the right side. However, I still can't consistently pressure the opponent from the right side. Some players can really cup the paddle and I have to guess the angel or they can do a sharp angle with ease. and I don't think that I can make the cross court player guess where I will hit it (other than the inside out to the player in front of me). Is there a good video or a way of improving this? It really bothers me that my bh almost comes so naturally in contrast to my fh.

Amex platinum Uber credit

If I save the cards in two separate Uber account, can the credit be used in both accounts

My wife and I both have the vanilla cards and plan to switch to the Schwab platinum cards (apply schwab and cancel vanilla). My question is: can we apply two individual cards with one joint account? (seems likely based on what I read here) and if we have 250k in the joint account, are both of us going to get the 100 dollar credit?

Not sure whether people argued about out calls during the tournament.

we competed in a tournament this weekend and there was a team significantly less skilled than other teams. We were projected to beat them 11:5.5. While we were ahead of 8:3 and tried to finish the game. Then I was called an out ball, which was clearly in from my end. No complain and next point: the ball was called out again. We did not argue but I was obviously a little bit pissed off and missed the next return. and it turned out my partner was not much better than I was:) and he missed the next put away. so, it was suddenly 7:8 and a close game.

We called a timeout and calmed down. We then beat them 11:7 and dropped a little bit DUPR. However, if the opponents were on our level, I don't know whether we can recover. and I am curious how other people handle this in the tournament.

I made a reservation using last year's credit for an upcoming trip. At the time, I was 100% certain that the date can be changed.

unfortunately, the date change option is not available anymore. and I can't make it to the original booked date and emailed the hotel, and the hotel told me that they can't do anything about it since it was through a third party. so I probably will cancel the hotel reservation and let amex claw the credit back.

I do book the hotel directly 1 week before the FHR date through its website directly. is there a possibility that I can get something out?

I have both the legacy IHG select credit card(49 AF) and the business credit card. Just noticed that there was more availability with the premium select card than the select. it was available for 41000 points, I can only book a night with the certificate from premium but can't find the availability for the select. First time this happened to me though for the last few years.

I just booked a hotel in China with a king bed, the only option available for the award cert. Can I call, wechat, email the hotel for a 2 bed room? what is the best way to do it?

the 2 bed is available for cash on its website