u/goxper

trying to plan a trip for late sep with my wife and our two kids. our current map is 3 days lisbon, a day trip to Sintra, then heading up to porto for a couple days before finishing with a week down in the algarve.

my issue is the transit. i was trying to budget everything out manually on spreadsheets and the cost of renting a large enough car for 4 people plus all our luggage is insane right now. but trying to coordinate train tickets, matching up check in times at 3 different airbnbs, and dealing with crabby kids at stations sounds like a total nightmare. my wife came up with the idea to look for tours ( yes, i suppose we're getting old) and found at prepackaged itineraries that include multiple cities and guess what, it was cheaper, looked for reviews here on reddit, quora and other forums and ultimately indus travel packages seem the most reliable, they bundle the regional transit and hotels together. what are your opinions on these? they also give you possibility to rent car and the whole package which tbh is so good to have everything in one place

if someone traveled with kids (not necessarily in portugal), did u just rent a car and deal with the driving or is it worth paying a company to just handle the whole layout for u? any opinions are welcomed, thank you ladies and gentlemen!

been dancing lindy for about a year now and ive been making do with whatever sneakers i had lying around. figured it was fine, you know how much difference can shoes really make.

well my instructor kept gently hinting that i should get something with a leather sole and i kept ignoring it cause i'm cheap and didn't wanna spend the money. finally caved last week and ordered some proper dance shoes.

took them to class yesterday and i get it now. the pivots, the spins, everything just felt smoother. i didn't realise how much i was fighting my own shoes until i wasn't anymore.

kinda mad i waited this long tbh. anyone else have that moment where you finally upgraded and realised you'd been making it harder on yourself for no reason?

honestly losing my mind a little bit with this current flare up. The shooting pain down my left calf is one thing, but dealing with the constant unsolicited advice from people who have never had actual nerve pain is just draining my soul

I got so fed up with my standard PT clinic treating me like a conveyor belt patient and barely listening to my symptoms. I eventually just booked a custom session at mudras because I desperately needed someone to address how my entire upper back and hip were locking up from literally walking sideways for three weeks. They were great and it definitely helped my sanity and the secondary muscle spasms, but obviously it doesnt cure the underlying L4-L5 bulge

Its just so frustrating that navigating actual healthcare and insurance feels like a constant fight, while everyone else thinks a downward dog is going to magically fix a compressed spinal nerve

sorry for the rant just needed to put this somewhere where people actually get how exhausting it is.

i’ve been thinking a lot lately about why it is so damn hard to actually stick to a new routine. every single time i try to change my habits, things go great for maybe three or four days, and then i hit a wall. the moment i make one tiny mistake (like skipping a morning workout or just messing up my diet for one single meal), my brain just completely shuts down.

instead of just picking up where i left off, i get stuck in this stupid guilt loop. i will literally freeze, spend three hours scrolling on my phone, and basically treat the whole day like a total failure. it is so exhausting because logically i know it makes no sense, but the emotional fatigue just takes over.

Improve Myself is what i constantly try to do, but i realize my mindset is still so fixed on being perfect. if it’s not 100% perfect, my brain decides it’s a zero. i am trying to learn how to value momentum over perfection, but breaking this chronic perfectionist habit is proving to be the hardest part of my journey.

for anyone else here who managed to overcome this, how did you actually train your brain to just reset after a bad morning? i really need some advice on how to stop throwing away the whole afternoon just because of one small slip up. any tips?

Every time I need to deal with the medical system around round rock, it feels like an olympic sport just to get someone on the phone who isn't reading from a script. The sheer burnout of trying to navigate all these massive, soulless healthcare conglomerates is real

Spent like three hours last week just trying to find a place for a friend who was having a rough go of it, and kept getting bounced between automated menus and "we'll call you back" voicemails that never actually get returned. Its like they designed the intake process to be as frustrating as humanly possible so you just give up. We eventually stopped bothering with the big systems and looked at smaller setups like discovery point retreat just to find somewhere that felt like it was run by actual humans and not a room full of middle managers

Why is basic care such a headache here now? it feels like everything is turning into a giant corporate bottleneck. I swear my blood pressure goes up ten points just from opening the patient portal on my phone. ready to just go off the grid for a month tbh.

im planning a 3 month trip across the usa starting in california and working my way through national parks and smaller towns before heading east. having my own car would give me the freedom to stop wherever i want and explore off the main routes without being tied to buses or flights.

i was looking into turo for renting something reliable for the whole trip since it seems more flexible than traditional companies for longer periods. has anyone used it for multi month travel in the usa? any tips on insurance coverage or what to watch out for when booking for that long?

did a loop from Sydney down the south coast and back last month. skipped hotels entirely, stayed in holiday parks the whole way. here's

roughly what we paid per night:
powered site $40 to $55, depending on location
basic cabin (sleeps 4) $110 to $160
nicer self-contained cabin up to $190, but we only did this once

used a mix of places. most had decent amenities, some had pools, laundry and camp kitchens.

total accommodation for 10 nights came to about $1,100 for two adults. equivalent hotels would've easily doubled that.

honestly the vibe is just better too. you have more space, outdoor areas and you actually meet people. would do it again without hesitation

look i get it invisalign is profitable or whatever. but why does every dentist in this town act like my slightly crooked bottom tooth is a medical emergency?

went to a place near downtown last month for a cleaning. sat down opened my mouth and before the hygienist even started scraping she was like have you ever considered straightening your teeth? ma'am i am here because my gums hurt when i floss. i dont care about my bottom tooth its been like that since 1999

then the dentist comes in and does the same thing. pulls up this simulation on an ipad showing what my smile could look like. i felt like i was at a car dealership. want a regular dentist. someone who looks at my xrays and says hey this filling is cracked or you need to floss more and then lets me leave.

anyone got a normal dentist in flint? or is this just how it is here now

Our wedding is in September and we have planned a 7 day trip to Iceland for the beginning of October as our honeymoon. We are really excited about it and want to make it special.

One thing we want to do is see the northern lights. I found some nice tours and read more about the small group northern lights hunts from Reykjavik with warm drinks and photo help.

Has anyone been to Iceland on their honeymoon? How was early October? Any tips for couples? We're also wondering where next after this short trip.

look i'm not here to complain about Adelaide because honestly i love this place. the food scene, the people, the pace of life compared to Sydney or Melbourne. moved here two years ago and have zero regrets about the city itself.

but can we talk about the job market for a second because something feels off.

i've been casually looking for something more stable, full time hours, consistent schedule, nothing fancy. and the options in the metro area are either wildly overqualified roles or shift work with zero consistency dressed up as a real job.

been filtering by suburb so i'm actually finding Adelaide metro listings instead of wading through roles in Elizabeth or Seaford with no way to get there. that part works fine honestly.

just feels like the city punches above its weight in every category except employment variety. or maybe i'm looking in the wrong spots entirely

anyone else find the transition intostable full time work in Adelaide weirdly difficult compared to other cities? what actually worked for you?

honestly getting so burnt out on the whole "luxury outdoor experience" trend ruining every quiet spot. I swear if I see one more $200/night canvas tent with wifi taking up space near lake placid I’m gonna lose my mind

Me and the dog are literally just looking for dirt and some trees. Skipping the southern dacks entirely this weekend. heading way up toward the champlain border, grabbed a regular site at camp happy grounds just to get away from the downstate crowds tbh

when did simply sleeping outside become a competitive sport? just wanna drink my cheap beer by a fire without hearing somebody's bluetooth speaker echoing through the woods.

Started on NetSuite about 2 years ago when we were 15 people. Made sense at the time. Now we're at 40 and the system is creaking in ways nobody anticipated.

Implementation partner is long gone. Internal person handles the basics but anything involving custom workflows or reporting takes weeks. We're basically paying for a system we're using at maybe 50% capacity.

Been looking at dedicated support options. Came across nuage netsuite and Coastal Cloud among a few others, they seem to do ongoing optimization rather than one-off fixes. But I'm genuinely not sure if that's the right model or if we should just hire someone internally.

How do other fintech teams handle this? At what headcount does it make sense to bring in dedicated ERP support vs keeping it in house?

Could be anything. Driving, cooking something complicated, public speaking. The thing that looked completely out of reach and then eventually wasn't

got sideswiped pretty good on peachtree road in buckhead two weeks ago in my 2024 mercedes c300. the other driver swerved into my lane while texting and scraped the whole passenger side taking out both doors the fender and mirror.

body shop flagged possible frame tweaks plus full paint match so i refused a quick patch job. insurance dragged their feet and only wanted to cover half the oem stuff until i started working with ian perez. he took over the back and forth and got them to approve everything plus a rental while the car was in the shop.

car is finally back and drives like new. mercedes owners whove had sideswipe damage whats the long term reliability like after a full repair? any hidden issues that showed up months later with door alignment or electronics?

Every single night, or two, for 2 years. The sudden, violent spasms in your calves that make you leap out of bed at 3 am and walk the room until they go away.

Here's what I've tried:

• Stretching before bedtime, which gave some relief, but it was inconsistent.
• Drinking more fluids. I was getting enough hydration already, but no change.
• Potassium, I get it from bananas every night for three months straight, nada.
• I tried compression socks, but they're too uncomfortable, and I did not wear them consistently.

After falling down the rabbit hole, I kept having magnesium deficiency in muscle cramps. The reason most people don't manage to alleviate this with typical magnesium supplements is the form: magnesium oxide, which is used in most cheap brands, barely gets absorbed at all, and mostly gives you digestion problems instead.

Magnesium glycinate absorbs correctly. After researching buffered versus unbuffered forms, I came upon MAGSUPPS, as it does not include magnesium oxide in its products like other companies.

After two weeks, my nighttime cramps disappeared entirely. Now, at four months past the beginning, I've had only one cramp.

My GP basically shrugged and said some people get them. That was the extent of the advice.

I genuinely don't understand why this isn't the first thing a GP mentions. If you're dealing with this and haven't specifically tried a pure magnesium glycinate, be attentive, not magnesium oxide, not a cheap supermarket blend, try it before resigning yourself to this being permanent.

I started riding more in hotter weather lately and I’m realizing some summer gear still feels like wearing an oven at stoplights. I want something that actually flows air without feeling super flimsy or unsafe.

What jackets or gloves have honestly worked for you in real heat?

Every week I get CSV exports from about a dozen different clients. Same data categories but formatted completely differently. Date formats vary, some use comma delimiters while others use semicolons, and the column order is never the same twice. Right now I'm manually reformatting everything before it hits my main excel file and it's eating hours.

I know power query exists but I haven't dug into it yet. Is that the standard solution here or do people use other approaches? Also curious how you handle files where the column names change slightly month to month. Do you just manually adjust your cleaning steps each time or is there a way to build something more flexible?

Im just so burned out on the phone right now. bought a batch of aged life leads last week and I swear 90% of them either go straight to a disconnected tone or it's someone screaming that they already bought a policy six months ago. the shared lead industry is just getting greedier and the quality is in the gutter tbh

Sat at my desk staring at the dialer for like 20 minutes today just dreading putting the headset on. I decided I literally cant do the manual dial grind right now without losing my mind. exported the whole remaining list and just pushed them through DropCowboy to leave voicemails instead. if they actually still want to talk about life insurance they can call me back. my response rate is probably gonna tank compared to aggressive live dialing but I just need to protect my peace today.

how do you guys push through the mental wall when the lead quality is this aggressively bad? I know everyone says it's just a numbers game but sometimes the numbers just make you want to quit the industry altogether.

I’ve noticed one tooth has become pretty sensitive to cold drinks recently.

It’s not constant pain, just a sharp feeling that goes away quickly.

Is this usually something minor like enamel wear, or something that should be checked sooner rather than later?