u/strikecat18

First of all, I’m a huge animal person. I’ve rescued dozens of animals and even intentionally seek out special needs ones. I don’t want her to get rid of the dog because that’s not right. I’m just… annoyed by it.

She had an Aussie/Collie mix that sadly passed this year. She was a fantastic dog. I miss her a lot.

My wife wanted another Aussie and ended up adopting a purebred mini Aussie. I had suggested a golden retriever or another good family dog, but I get why she wanted one that reminded her of the dog she lost.

This thing is just… insane. It never stops moving. It’s like having a Malinois except for without any of the utility. It runs across the top of all the furniture and on top of me and the kids. It relentlessly provokes our sheepdog to play fight by nipping at her. The sheepdog, who has always been gentle, recently bit our daughter because she’s so on edge now. (Everyone is fine)

The dog can’t even leave us alone for bedroom time. We try locking her out of the bedroom and it yips in the hallway relentlessly.

It’s chewed up things that belong to the kids. It chewed up a remote with the batteries inside and almost caused a fire. The plastic was melting from the heat when I found it. It chews power cables if it can reach them.

I had pictured an Aussie being like the Aussie mix we just lost. Apparently all the good behavior came from the other half of that mix.

My wife seems irritated that I clearly dislike the dog. Should I be trying harder to just accept this thing?

I’m not really a gamer. I’m just a guy who really enjoyed playing the first game with his son. But we’ve been counting down the days for the sequel since it was announced.

This whole thing just feels really disappointing.

First of all, and this sounds minor- it makes zero sense why you’d swap the controls around unless you’d never played the first game.

But bigger than that, having minimal information about the weapons and armor just kills the farming/build aspect that made the first so addictive.

The open world concept is also disappointing from a dad prospective. My 8yo figured out the map concept in the first game immediately. This one is just frustrating him, and honestly it’s confusing me.

Overall, it feels like besides the visual design being similar and some mobs/weapons being the same, this game has little connection to the first.

I think most of us just wanted new realms, mobs, weapons and artifacts in the same world as the first game. I don’t know why they decided to start all over from scratch with the sequel.

I was mostly agnostic about the fee structure change. Then I started to see how it’s actually shaken out.

I raised my prices 15% to offset the change. But I’ve also kept an eye on all the local comps I always reference. Only one of those ~15 hosts has raised their rates as of today.

I’m sure it’s a mix of less tech savvy hosts, property managers who aren’t invested in the bottom line, and people afraid of raising prices.

Whatever the reasons are, the net impact is that anyone who raised their rate to keep their payouts the same is now substantially over market pricing.

No doubt this was what Airbnb was hoping for. They always prefer hosts book more nights at a lower price than actually be profitable.

Had tested mine downstairs on my Yamaha RS-700 and they sounded fantastic. Took them up to the bedroom and have tried three Class D amps. The dynamics are pretty poor with all of them, including my A07 Max that’s supposed to be nearly 100wpc.

Little research says their impedance dips down to 3.7 ohm… maybe this is why my traditional class A/B amp does so much better?

Had a customer in office today. With someone live in front of me that I had to apologize to every time something went wrong, I finally realized how accustomed I’ve become to things not working.

Saved a home quote? System error when you attempt to reopen it.

Clicking “next”on a quote to advance screens? “Application error”

Validate an app and everything is good? Never mind, a random underwriting alert banner comes up later out of nowhere and now you need the roof reviewed before binding.

Submitted an auto? ID card documents “not available” when you go to print them.

List goes on and on.

That’s without mentioning the obvious issue: we’re now running modern software on slow desktops with entry-level hardware from five years ago. Everything is online, but the internet connection SF provides agents is ~40mbps. I’m so tired of waiting for screens to load that I could rip my hair out.

The three things in the office that don’t break are the phones, NECHO and Philibert. All of those systems are decades old.

I think this might be my sign to get out.

We have smart smoke detectors in our home. I received a notification at 9am this morning that one was going off. I didn’t think anything of it. They are super sensitive and guests set them off cooking bacon all the time. I’d only panic if the unit was empty. I checked the front door camera to confirm they were still there (and fire trucks weren’t) and went on with my day.

Got to the home after work tonight to start the turnover. 9 hours after the smoke alarm. I open the door and am hit with a wall of burning smell- to the extent that I quickly look through the home to make sure nothing is actively on fire.

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what happened. I’ve burned food lots of times. That odor doesn’t last an entire day. This smells like someone had a campfire in the dining room and threw garbage in it.

I checked the trash and can’t find what was on fire.

The fire extinguisher we leave on the counter is mysteriously nowhere to be found.

I messaged the guest very politely. Told them I hope they enjoyed their stay, but wanted to know if something possibly caught on fire, because there is a heavy smoke odor. Said I’m trying to determine if there’s an issue that happened after they left or if they possibly just burned some food.

Was trying not to get them defensive; I just want to know what happened so I can mitigate the smell properly and hopefully prevent it in the future. No response so far. I’m assuming they are afraid I’m going to charge them for something.

I guess lesson learned and I’ll bother the guests with a message anytime the smoke detector goes off, even though it happens during half the stays we have.

The fact the home may or may not have been close to burning down is making me reevaluate things though.

We need to do something rather quickly. Our downstairs is around 1000sqft of tile. We have a 235lb dog who is starting to develop joint issues, and not being able to get traction when he stands up is a major contributing factor.

Traditional carpet seems like it would be a disaster with kids and pets. Perhaps commercial carpet tile we can replace squares of?

What I’d really like to find is some sort or rubber or padded vinyl flooring that doesn’t look awful in a living room. Not sure if those exist?

Ideally we want DIY friendly and inexpensive. We’re not staying here forever and I assume we’re ripping whatever dog flooring off the tile before we’d sell.

Logged into PL today for the first time in a while. We’ve been around $200/night base rate for a while. With adjustments it averages around $240.

It’s suggesting $305/night base if I use 3 & 4 bedroom comps. If I select only 4 bedroom comps, it’s telling me $340/night.

I feel so lost. We backed down to $200 base from $230 in June because our booking had ground to a halt. Now we’re full for the next six weeks, but it’s telling me I’m severely underpriced.

At this point I feel like maybe I should just manage pricing myself or use the Airbnb dynamic pricing.

Listened to the show. Had a legitimate question about the accuracy of his investment return claims. Had a good discussion in the replies… mods yanked it down because it painted him as potentially wrong.

Is this place run by Ramsey staff or something?

Watched a clip today where Dave told a woman with $1M in her retirement account that she didn’t need to be as frugal as she had been. He said “market return averages 12%. You could withdraw $80k per year and still see it grow $40k year after year.”

I was sort of in disbelief. Safe withdrawal rate being ~4% isn’t controversial. I searched for some other videos with him giving advice, and this seems to be his consistent assumption?

I know he’s smart enough to understand sequence of return risk, even if you accept the 12% average return premise.

Has he ever discussed this at all? It feels concerning to tell people they can plan on spending 8% to 12% of their account value every year.