i never flew a TA before and discovered icelandair has a single flight from EWR to BGO in april where other airlines have 2 or 3 more flights. unsure if it will populate more flights later or not so any insight would be appreciated. i'm assuming icelandair wouldnt put me on another brand flight if they had issues but what are the rules regarding inter airline transfers if icelandair doesnt have a flight that day for me?

edit: also after reading the posts below i'm curious if theres any advantage to going iceland and then directly to bergen vs flying to oslo then bergen? i know next year there will be that new passport registration going into affect and that will take more time. so will it be easier in iceland or are all airports equally as busy?

ive also now been told these arent lay flat seats. and now icelandair is more expensive than a SAS prem econ. but cheaper than some others. and now im curious your opinion which is the best lay flat seats: SAS lufthansa united or airfrance?

I need to replace the shower sweep however now that I got a new one I noticed some differences and I am curious if they matter. The first thing I noticed is that the one that was installed with the glass has a sloped edge on both sides. The new one is a squared off end. Does this matter. I would think the squared off helps keep water in better. But upon closer inspection it looks like he cut that angle intentionally to make it curved on either end as I can see it is a little bit uneven and not perfect like a machine would do it. Why would he do this.

Secondarily it looks like for the end where the hinges are he cut out a bit of the top vertical piece so that the sweep at the bottom could extend to the wall completely without leaving that quarter inch Gap in an attempt to keep more water in. This must have been very tedious to do. I'm guessing if you just put the whole thing flush up against the wall when you open and close it that would become a problem whereas since he cut it down just the two pieces of plastic at the bottom are more flexible so looking for guidance here.

If this custom cut is recommended what tool do you recommend is the easiest to do this

if no custom cut is needed, should the sweep go tightly against the wall and the front panel glass? or some spacing?

The guy that cleans my 20 yr old boiler suggested that I might want to paint this because apparently something dripped down on it from the exhaust pipe and over the past 20 years it looks like it's starting to rust. I did not ask him any other questions but I am curious do I have to protect the threads from being painted. I was thinking of using the high temperature spray paint for grills so should I just spray everything and not worry about the threads or what I protect the threads or must I not worry about anything at all.

i assume use a wire brush to get all the loose stuff off?

long post about the stress of finding a new wallet only to be questioning my decision now. please be kind as im very particular about these things and it took a long time to get this far with the purchase. this is more indepth wallet talk you've ever heard for sure :) only proceed if you like intricate details.

my ancient wallet (cant discern a brand) was really on its last legs, i put off for years looking for a new one, so i went to over a dozen stores today and got a new one. i wont order online because the feel of it is important to me. in the pic my old wallet it shows i had 4 cards on the top right slot and 5 cards jammed in the lower right slot. I was given advice to get a larger wallet with more slots to more evenly distribute the cards and perhaps prevent wear in my new wallet. though really the inside of my old wallet wasnt that bad if you ask me.

the new wallet at brooks brothers was 150 on sale for 75, is lambskin, feels best of all i touched today, it has 4 card slots left and 4 on the right. i knew when i put the wallets together before purchase that the new one was about 1/4 to 3/8 bigger top to bottom and id have to get used to that. but it seems that the wallet really feels a LOT thicker in my hand and in my pocket now that its full. a try at measuring the thickness shows at least 1/4 inch thicker. also it feels more "wobbly." thats the only word i know to use..

i can only think that in the new wallet the middle of the 2 middle cards is the only place where all 4 cards on a side meet where the tops and bottoms of each side have less bulk or heft or depth. it's hard to describe. like a seesaw maybe. in essence in the old wallet i had 4 cards together, a piece of leather, then 5 cards together (was basically a somewhat level thickness all on that one side) and now i have card, leather, card, leather etc etc. adding 2 more pieces of leather thickness on either side and more out of balance. i assumed it would just be perfectly flat when folder together but i was wrong.

is the new wallet gonna compress like the old one and this will be a bad memory is a few months? it seems like when you look at the pic with both wallets full that even when i compress them manually now, it's never going to be as thin as the old one because i have an additional piece of leather between each card that i didnt have before. and the cards arent so balanced in the way they were before.

i could return it to brooks brothers but it's 40 min away and my only real alternative i liked is a 20 dollar 6 pocket one at nautica that i liked and id just jam in 4 cards in the top and 5 in the bottom as with the old wallet to make it 'the same'. but it seems stupid to do that. or is it? and i can continue to use the new wallet but after a short time it's not going to be presentable to be returned so i have to decide quickly.

in my 5th pic you can see the wallet from the bottom how little the cards 'meet ' in the middle. i also included a pic of the new wallet full compared to the empty old one. and then the full old wallet compared to the new empty one. just for fun. if you read this far give yourself a gold star!

i bought 2025 perpetual a few months ago and dont use the acronis cloud but after the trial expired a few weeks later i was offered this. so if you are going to consider this cloud it may pay you to wait.

after 2 visits my 2 tank system thats just a few years old is still leaking out the drain tube. work orders attached. the guy told me ask for another tech next time. i guess he's unable to fix or something. kinda weird. he did say he's only been at the company 2 years. he never said it SHOULD be leaking so i assume i'm correct that its not.

initial problem was constant running water after a recharge. that problem was fixed in that it wasnt constant anymore. but i noticed it still leaking very slowly in my laundry tub. after the 1st visit he took the hose off the unit and after 30 min i did i see there was no leak in the outlet and i was happy but then a few days later i took off the hose to ensure it was empty, then hooked it up and before any recharge, i took off the hose and a few oz of water came out.

then i decided after a recharge to keep the hose disconnected, dried out the outlet to ensure no water, then came back after 2 hours and it was filled up and leaking over the edge of the valve. i reproduced this 2 more times since the guy left yesterday. so its 100 percent very slowly leaking

im gonna call the company next week but what other parts should he have replaced when he came back the 2nd time?

EDIT to correct it's a feb 22 purchase. time flies!

The travel bag pictured was laying on top of my bureau for probably a month and when I went to remove it it was stuck and I tried to do it as gently as possible but this happened. The spotlight directly above it is necessary to fully appreciate the stain.

I tried traditional furniture polish and Murphy's and I'm not sure what else to do. The strange thing is it is only visible from one angle but of course that really doesn't matter in the scheme of things. But I posted pictures looking from both sides of the stain and you can tell which is which by looking at the distressing in the furniture for sake of a positional look.

Also when I try to get the stain off of the bag itself it does not come off.

forever i've used wallets that have 3 slots on the right side and the left side was an ID thing i just removed and nothing else stored on the left. i liked all the cards on the right and got used to it. however, now i'm wondering how bad an idea it was keeping 5 cards in the top slot, none in the middle and 7 on the bottom with regards to the wear shown in the pictures. or if it had no effect on the external wear?

also wondering if anyone has gone from a setup like mine (stacking thick in the slots) and regretted it. i know i can just get a different one and switch back to using it it like my current one if i hate it of course. but change is hard! plus i must have a bill divider and thats sooo rare

there is only 1 card in my bottom slot (out of 7) thats taken out regularly and none in the top spot where 5 reside are removed for months sometime. so maybe it's better to just have like 8 slots and just double up in just 4 of them. i just am worried adding thickness of the wallet material with the new holders will be worse than the thickness of the cards as it is how they are stacked

i never had an issue of any slipping out as they tension was always good and i see no noticeable issues inside the wallet like tears etc. but now it's time to get a new one as the outside is starting to fall apart.

90 percent of the wallets i see have ID flaps which are nonsense to me but id just not use it. maybe cut it out. and those wallets have 3 or 4 more slots on the left side of the wallet and some add slots on the other side of the ID . so now i'm wondering maybe try one with more slots.