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I have Fast Lane, All-Day Dining with a prestige membership. Gonna drive down to KI and spend a full day there, then drive down to CP and do the same

I have Prestige, All-Parks Fast Lane, All-Day Dining & live 3hrs from Great America but about 5hrs from Kings Island. Been contemplating on getting my moneys worth on these passes and hitting other parks that aren’t insanely too far.

I just want to be normal and fit into society again.

I’ve always been the quiet type and the keep my corner small kind of guy. Never really fit into the cliques but I had friends. Decent family but didn’t grow up with my biological father or mother, I grew up with my grandmother. I joined the Army in ‘24 and lasted a whopping four months, I fractured my hips and pushed through the injury until I couldn’t and was picked on, beat/assaulted, had an inpatient stay, then discharged. When I got out, nothing was the same, or has been the same. I don’t connect with people like I used to anymore, I feel like I’m watching my life go by most days but I’m not actually present. I have good days, I smile, I laugh, but it’s like this hole inside of me finds its way back. At work socially I mind my own, I try to fit in or connect with coworkers but I realized that I am nothing like them and have nothing to connect with them about, so I just kind of fake it. I love my girlfriend, I would do anything for her but I find myself even wondering if I’m a sustainable good boyfriend or worth her time, no matter how good I treat her, or the many things I do for her. I have a hard time relating or connecting with her as well. I have a hard time with authority and don’t want to be told what to do, I just kind of want to do my own thing and to f\*ck off. At work and outside of work I disassociate so often that sometimes it gets so bad I can hardly even stand and I just have to lay my head down. My accomplishments don’t mean anything to me now and it’s just something I had to do. I get paid monthly by the VA for my hips and I blew all the backpay on things that were beneficial for my life but also leisure and it didn’t touch the giant hole inside of me.

I’ve always been the quiet type and the keep my corner small kind of guy. Never really fit into the cliques but I had friends. Decent family but didn’t grow up with my biological father or mother, I grew up with my grandmother. I joined the Army in ‘24 and lasted a whopping four months, I fractured my hips and pushed through the injury until I couldn’t and was picked on, beat/assaulted, had an inpatient stay, then discharged. When I got out, nothing was the same, or has been the same. I don’t connect with people like I used to anymore, I feel like I’m watching my life go by most days but I’m not actually present. I have good days, I smile, I laugh, but it’s like this hole inside of me finds its way back. At work socially I mind my own, I try to fit in or connect with coworkers but I realized that I am nothing like them and have nothing to connect with them about, so I just kind of fake it. I love my girlfriend, I would do anything for her but I find myself even wondering if I’m a sustainable good boyfriend or worth her time, no matter how good I treat her, or the many things I do for her. I have a hard time relating or connecting with her as well. I have a hard time with authority and don’t want to be told what to do, I just kind of want to do my own thing and to f*ck off. At work and outside of work I disassociate so often that sometimes it gets so bad I can hardly even stand and I just have to lay my head down. My accomplishments don’t mean anything to me now and it’s just something I had to do. I get paid monthly by the VA for my hips and I blew all the backpay on things that were beneficial for my life but also leisure and it didn’t touch the giant hole inside of me.

I was in a short period of time because I fractured my hips and both of my arches to some degree collapsed making my flat feet worse due to the pressure on my feet from the injury. I did my best to not get discharged, but I did. I have an uncategorized discharge but I’m rated 40% and I was told I would requalify for medical for the rated conditions. I called the number, and also went in person and they told me they recommend to upgrade my discharge or something along those lines?? I somehow still am ineligible? I’m in pain almost everyday and have a hard time standing on my feet. My gait is definitely not normal as well. Money is great and all but it doesn’t change the fact my legs go numb and I have a hard time walking.

The last two were rough mentally for me but I believed they went well. I moved to step 5, now I’m back to step 3 and something was uploaded that was named “exam rework.” I just got another call from QTC services they’re scheduling me ANOTHER exam. The last examiner told me he saw everything he needed to and was only asking the questions to make sure everything lined up. I’m not too sure how many more of these I can take, they’re mentally exhausting plus I am burning up all my vacation hours.

I’ve had two C&P exams for mental health so far, and both of them I felt went really well and I have thought I had service connection (inpatient stay + adjustment disorder diagnosis), but the claim has been bouncing back and forth and I’m starting to get concerned the claims people don’t see the same. Is this good/bad that it keeps bouncing like this and now says exam rework?

The charger they gave me with the car didn’t work and looked fried so I just purchased a new charger, so right now I am running off gas still getting 300 on one tank. What’s some tips for these cars? Accessories I should buy?

Got here around 1140 today. I have an All-Season FL & Prestige Membership + All-Season Dining Plan. There was a couple of schools here today but nothing I haven’t experienced during the summer months. Multiple coasters on one train; X-Flight, Batman, Wrath, I believe Maxx Force to name the ones I saw today. I didn’t get on Superman/Goliath/Wrath because the lines (even for FL) kept pushing out and were not moving well at all. If I didn’t have the Fast Lane & Membership I would have been extremely disappointed in my experience today. When I left around 4, all of the school groups looked exhausted and were audibly complaining about how bad the lines for everything (including food) was. I took my girlfriend who hasn’t been on a coaster in years and got her on Viper, Demon, X-Flight, Raging Bull, & Batman and managed to make it a positive experience for her to want to come back and ride the rest of the ones in the park. X-Flight they had this girl on a side by herself and clearly she was either new or incredibly exhausted or both because she was hydrating on every single launch of the single train they had, she was doing her best but the operations for X-Force was the worst I have ever seen. We waited an hour and almost a half even with FL because of this. Batman operations was abysmal and the other car is dismantled and in pieces right now. Yet for some reason they had 5(?) operators for this coaster. Raging Bull was delayed almost all day and came online later in the day, we rushed over there and the line was significant, even though they were managing two cars on RB today. When we got up to the rest of the FL line the operator was ignoring FL people for multiple train cycles before letting us get in a line for a row. Then right before we got on, someone pulled their phone out on the lift hill and they ceased entire operations and sent some poor operator climbing that massive lift hill to go retrieve the phone. Overall, that was out of their hands, and we got on and had a blast on Bull. Demon operation was even slow and there was a large line for that all day but with FL we walked right on. The lines for drinks were always INSANE and pushing out of their queue lines so we opted to just fill up our cups at the water stations at the park. We didn’t even make it a full circle around the park or to other coasters because if we didn’t prioritize what we FL’d we wouldn’t have gotten on anything. I have never seen operations this bad at any theme park, especially for a park that is supposed to be one of their “flagship original parks”, the 120+ minute wait for wrath is horrid and there is no excuse a brand new coaster is only on one train three weeks into the season, or the X-Flight line is 1+hr and there’s a singular train on that, or Batman is on a singular train as well, or Maxx Force is operating SO slow I legitimately thought it was just going down and up all day.

Walked onto Viper, Demon, Justice League. Fast Laned XFlight, they’re only operating on one train just like Wrath so we’ve been waiting an hour almost because they only have the one train to cycle and the ride op’s are new. Bull has been down the entire day so far. Superman has been on and off. Food lines are absurd. Nonetheless having a good day, but if I didn’t have fast lane it would be a different story.

Update 1; X-Flight went down right as it was our turn due to technical difficulties. Zero idea the downtime now.

$228 upfront / $108/mnth is the total cost of Prestige/Fast Lane/Dining.

Fast Lane is usually $130/day minimum on peak days. Dining is $28/meal. Preferred parking is minimum $59/day. Say you have two meals. Total comes out to $245 not including drinks.

You’re saving about $137/visit on just a single visit per month. Multiple visits only bring your costs down.

Is it worth it? I think so.

I have about $2-$2.5k I’m willing to spend on a computer, I’m mostly going to be gaming and I’d like to occasionally play 1440p for a story game, but honestly 1080p is good enough for me. Minecraft, Fortnite, Assassins Creed, etc. I had a 5700 XT and a 6700 XT awhile back, but I could be persuaded to go Nvidia.

It’s in good condition, it’s a premium so has the nice interior. Needs tires, and maybe an alignment.

I’ve been here about two months. I get paid $15.50 an hr. The other teller got fired a few weeks into me being here so they’ve been bouncing between applicants and finally settled on one. I was upfront alongside the other teller and had JUST gotten comfortable up there. They’re starting next week so yesterday, close to closing operations was here and my branch manager had them switch me over to drive thru, which was the one he was using to assist us. The drawer was severely disorganized and messy and I just spent the last forty minutes organizing it. I’m wondering why they’d put the new hire upfront and push me into the back. Also, I keep having to work back to back Saturdays and three Saturdays in a row and I’m starting to get irritated because when I got hired they told me maximum of two. This bank is tiny and a two branch bank and everything’s just done so disorganized or messily, plus it’s outdated! One of our cash counting machines broke and there’s zero talk on replacing it so we only have one to utilize. The other teller has been here for years but I often find that I’m the only one balancing the coin machine and also totaling up the vault so we can count it. I guess I’m starting to feel the pains of a small bank.

I’m getting over 10,xxx dollars plus $800/monthly — I grew up poor, and have never had this much money at my disposal before, even when I was operating my own automotive detailing the most I ever had was a few thousand. I blew through that money pretty quickly and lost the business and in turn it lead me to where I am now. I don’t want to repeat those mistakes and I’d like some advice and opinions on what I should invest in, utilize the money for, etc. I was thinking about opening a CD at the bank I work for and leaving it there for a couple of years; for example.