u/smolsaturn

I've been going abroad for a few months at a time over the past year. I am on Vyvanse, and for the past three times, I've been able to get multiple prescriptions for it from my psychiatrist and pay the usual copay at the pharmacy for all of them.

This time, though, I went to pick up the prescriptions at my usual pharmacy, but Kaiser wouldn't cover two of the three Vyvanse prescriptions, meaning I would have to pay out of pocket for those two and the copay for only one.

My psychiatrist hasn't changed, coverage has been the same, pharmacy isn't different... what changed with the coverage?

I've been going abroad for a few months at a time quite a bit recently. I am on Vyvanse, and for these past few times, I've been able to get multiple prescriptions for it from my psychiatrist and pay the usual $10 copay at the pharmacy.

This time around, though, I recently went to pick up the multiple prescriptions and was going to be charged full price for two of the Vyvanse prescriptions and the $10 copay for one prescription. This is very strange, considering I've been going to this same pharmacy and have had the same coverage for however long I've been doing this now.

Has Kaiser's policy changed on coverage for multiple of the same prescriptions? I don't really want to pay $65 per bottle when this has never happened before.

The front brake lever is a bit far out for me, making it difficult to use it comfortably while keeping my palm on the throttle.

Is there any way to adjust the front brake lever's position? Or do I just need to pick up an adjustable AM lever? There's no adjustment dial and I don't want to fuck up the cable slack.

Who is out here putting heavy stickers on 5 lb boxes?? I'm preparing my ass to pick up Thor's hammer and these boxes end up weighing less than my pinky toe.

Then we've got the 50 lb boxes threatening to break my back that never have heavy labels. If a heavy sticker makes it onto a truly heavy box, then some sort of miracle has occurred.

About 1.5k miles on the bike. Occasionally I'll be at a long light, need to open my neighborhood gate, need to open my garage, etc, and want to shift into neutral so I don't have to hold the clutch 24/7 or try to finagle my way with my phone pocket.

In these cases I'm completely stopped, clutch pulled in, rear brake on (sometimes front brake). Yet I still can't find neutral. No matter how hard I'm pushing up while in first gear, it refuses to shift into neutral.

Now, sometimes, right after taking off from a stop, I'll shift into neutral rather than second. This is the only time I've ever been able to find neutral, which is... odd.

You're telling me that my body solely wants to grow ASS HAIR?

Listen. I want a perfectly groomed happy trail. I want proper stubble on my chin and cheeks. I want a spackling of hair on my forearms.

But no. All I get is ass hair. A free filter for diarrhea that I never asked for. A stank ass sweat trap that gives me the nastiest swamp ass I could imagine. Lord almighty, save me from this curse.

(Marked as discussion since this is just a humorous rant..)

Had to take off my wheel due to a flat front recently. Does anyone know the torque specs/have a source for the aforementioned? I'll need it for when I put the wheel back on, but so far I haven't been able to find any trustworthy sources/official source from Kawasaki. My owners manual doesn't specify either.

ETA: this is for a front wheel, sorry!

ETA 2: Found the torque specs in the owners manual. For some reason it was in the chain adjustment section rather than the wheel maintenance section. It is indeed 72 ft lb

Recently drove on the 91 Express on my motorcycle. Riverside FasTrak says on FAQs that motorcycles do not need a transponder, but I missed the part where Riverside apparently only controls the 15 express lanes, which is.. stupid.

I didn't even know that the 91 Express was a separate thing until I received the violation notice in the mail. I only rode up until the county line, then got off the express.

I called customer service earlier today and the lady told me I received a penalty for having no FasTrak account, yet my toll due on the paper said $0. It's incredibly stupid that I need an account to pay a total of zero dollars.

Anything I can do, or am I just forced to pay the fine?

Unfortunately I have a flat front with a relatively big puncture (1/2in hole?) that's going to need replacing.

I have two options: load it into my pickup or patch the puncture to ride 5 miles to the shop.

The only thing is, I'm not sure how to load it into my pickup given I don't have the proper ramps. I also don't particularly want to ride on a patched front just because of the risks.

I could get a U-Haul motorcycle trailer, but I'm trying to spend as little money as possible getting it to the shop.

What would be my best options?

Summer is in full force out here in the desert. We've hit our first 100F day already and I was cooking like a steamed vegetable up in my gear while commuting home.

Normally, I'd be alright in this heat, but the problems happen when I 1. hit traffic, or 2. get stuck at a light. Which... my commute happens to have a significant occurrences of both. Normally the traffic part is relatively chill, but there's a few spots where I can't lane split just because of how the roads are built.

So I've barred myself from riding if the temps are going to get over 94F, because at that point I may as well be digging my own grave instead. Luckily the week is starting to cool a bit into the mid 80s, so I should be fine, but tomorrow I'll still need to take my car, sadly... curse you 99F heat.

Also, fuck the hot wind that comes with anything above 90F. Makes me feel like I'm in an air fryer.

So, to preface, I work in a warehouse that is government-affiliated, meaning that I have to be wearing a badge with my legal (dead) name on it at all times.

I like to believe that I pass pretty well as a guy. I do get a fair amount of misgendering still, but it's really up in the air and I probably lean more androgynous, resulting in people just going for calling me whatever. I don't get questioned in men's spaces and I have a deep voice, so 🤷‍♂️

Anyway. At my job, there's always such... varying reactions from my coworkers. Which is, well, expected. But it's kind of odd in a way, because 75% of the time it's been a positive experience (objectively). Some people will accidentally misgender me, not know what to call me, etc etc, and then turn to me after a few seconds (after I speak) and then immediately, profusely apologize for doing that. Which, like, I appreciate it. But there's a point to where it kind of gets on my nerves with hearing people apologize 50 times over after I tell them it's all good. You don't know me personally, how I identify, you're fine.

I think I've had like, only two people outright ask my pronouns and preferred name, though.

The other 25% is an oddly mixed bag of... meh reactions? There's the people that switch between calling me she/he (often within the same interactions?), those who just refer to me with neutral terms (person, etc), those who call groups "ladies" while I'm in them... probably more I'm not thinking of right now.

The most annoying is the coworkers who are decent people, pretty nice and helpful, but still go out of their way to actively misgender me despite others referring to me as male and hearing my voice, seeing me go in the men's restroom, etc. Like, outside of these interactions where I'm being misgendered, some of them are actually some of the most helpful coworkers I have and don't ever act rudely to me. It's seriously a mindfuck. I don't care enough to call them out on it because it helps me pass more (not sure if I've ever seen a cis guy throw a fit about being misgendered) and it just embarrasses them if other people realize.

How do you guys experience misgendering in your workplace? Anything similar to this? More negative, positive?

Came in today and had decent amount of work for the first few hours. It started to slow down a bit before lunch, so I figured after we got back from lunch there'd be some backup in sortation that I could sit on for some time (almost the entire warehouse gets put on lunch at the same time. Why? No clue.)

I was dead wrong. Get back from lunch and the floor is near empty. I start doing busy work and help people finish loading their cans (air hanger), which is relatively enjoyable for a little bit.

Once 2 pm hits, there's nothing to do. Quite literally.

Our supervisors look us dead in the eye and tell us to "look busy" or else they're going to get yelled at.

So I put together a few shuttles, stage some pallets, and wander around in circles until I just go to sit in the break room for a bit because I'm feeling dead tired from the heat. A supervisor comes in 5 minutes later, yelling at everyone who's in the break room for sitting down and doing nothing. There's nothing to do. We're wasting our energy walking around rather than resting until more cans come in, but apparently our managers don't care and want everyone moving.

What a day. I wouldn't complain if we got to sit and do nothing while getting paid for it, but the supervisors being up everyone's asses made me want to just run out of the warehouse.

Which, to put the cherry on top, they told us that if we left early we wouldn't get the holiday pay rate.

So recently my Vyvanse has decided to suppress my appetite despite it not ever doing so before. The problem is, I work a very active job that requires energy for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I'm getting a good ~400 cal protein shake in me for breakfast that's high in both carbs and protein, but after that, it's super hard to eat anything whatsoever.

I need to be eating throughout the day to maintain my energy and make sure I don't just pass out on the job, but I feel like vomiting (out of just like... disgust? for food) every time I try to eat a snack if I'm not desperately hungry. Usually by lunch it's calmed a little bit and I'm able to get a high calorie, small meal inside me, but otherwise I still struggle with quick snacks.

Does anyone have tips for maintaining my energy through the day and keeping my body fueled? I know this is a common topic in this sub but all the advice I've come across is just to eat a high calorie, easy to digest breakfast- which is good advice, but I do that already and am still struggling.

I get constipated every once in a blue moon. I mostly suffer with the diarrhea side of things.

The past week, though, I've slowly been getting more and more constipated to the point where I'm typing this when I'm supposed to be trying to sleep purely because of the stomach pains. Every time I go to the toilet, it's like a thunderstorm of gas, but the shit I can feel brewing inside refuses to come out.

I mixed up some miralax and cranberry juice to see what happens tomorrow. A bit nervous because I have work all day (warehouse) and can't exactly use the bathroom or take a break whenever, but miralax usually treats me pretty nicely.

So I just had my first hookup on Grindr last week. It was super great and I had a lot of fun, which was reciprocated by the guy. We both were looking for FWB situation with each other.

He's super sweet and friendly, we were talking for a while before hooking up and neither lost interest. Even after he ended up needing to rain check a few hours for our meet because of something unexpected, he was super apologetic and felt super bad.

So after the sex went well, I messaged him the next day saying I had a lot of fun and would love to meet again. He got back to me saying he also had a great time and that I made him cum a lot, would love to meet up. I told him to let me know and that I would also happen to be in his city next week, to which he responded he'd love to meet up but would let me know day of.

Comes the day of, today, and I check Grindr after I eat breakfast to see what's up. He's not in my messages. I figure it's a glitch, close app and re-open, still not there. I check my favorites tab and he's gone. I wait a bit, return, still gone.

So, presumably, he's blocked me for whatever reason. It sucks because he was super good in the sex department, but happened to be a very cool person as well and someone I'd have loved to get to know more. We found out we shared some interests and hobbies during our meet.

I wish I knew why, but oh well. I'm disappointed and somewhat hurt, but I guess that's probably normal for me being newer to hookup culture.

Probably will abstain from Grindr for a while until I'm desperately horny enough to go searching again.

(And after I get myself some STD testing - which, he was clean, but I haven't had sex in a few years before him, so better safe than sorry!)

May not be the right place, so to speak, but the closest I can get. I work for an air cargo company that pretty much exclusively works under contract for Amazon, so I work for Amazon indirectly.

So far, what I've been doing is mostly scanning boxes and jiffies from shuttles and then putting them into mail bags, also while separating large boxes from smaller ones. These mail bags are then loaded onto air cargo containers as well as the larger boxes, which are loaded individually and not inside mail bags.

People who are permitted to drive are usually on forklifts in the mornings, unloading pallets of boxes and shuttles from trailers into a staging area(?) where they'll then be taken to different areas, either for stacking cans or scanning in the mail line.

We also unload mail bags and boxes from containers into shuttles.

Anyway, what exactly is this department classified as? Is it just a glorified sorting center?