My wife has the wired version of that and loves them. Super comfy, even when she’s wearing glasses. Great sound quality. Not to sound like an advertisement but, yeah, we’re happy with them
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This is sensible but a little disappointing. I had dreams of living it up in swanky airport lounges for exactly one year before I cancelled the card.
I probably need to go visit family in Ireland, but it’s unclear when people will be allowed in again. I also want to visit my sister in Australia, but that seems even further away since her field site is in WA and then will let her (and us) in approximately never. But I’m also working for a startup without a very clear vacation policy so overall the travel thing is more of a dream than a plan.
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Computers have better labor laws than humans.
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As someone who has been to some of the swankiest airport lounges in the world: it’s very exciting the first time, and then it really mostly stops being exciting and is just a nice convienence. They aren’t as swanky (mostly; flagship first-class for Emirates/Korean excluded) as you imagine, especially the ones covered on lounge pass etc (in some airlines there are separate regular/first class/business lounges).
Lounges are just a different place to sit with (sometimes) more accessible outlets and occasionally a separate (better) wifi connection. If you drink alcohol, the free alcohol can be nice, and in the really fancy flagship lounges, a shower can be nice for long-haul.
Lounges make the most sense when you’re traveling a LOT because the conveniences really do cut down travel cost. I was adding up how much I saved in airport food in 2019 due to my lounge access and I think it was like $400 in food. And I don’t even drink alcohol. But I also was in airports a few times a month. SSO was in airports a few times a week in 2019 and I think it added up over $4,000 of “free” food and drinks.
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For W. Australian flights: Alaska, United, and Airfrance/Flying Blue points are good bets because they are travel partners with Quantas.
Alaska has a 50K sign up bonus right now, which is pretty good but not amazing. If you’re interested, let me know and I’ll hook you up with a referral and we both get points.
United can make sense for WA because you’ll probably need to fly into AUS via Melbourne or Sydney and Unite will give you the free hop across. But I also used like 7,500 alaska miles or something criminally small to fly each Melbourne > Perth and Perth > Sydney.
For Ireland: United card, it’s a Staralliance partner so you’ve got the most coverage to Dublin from North America (and can do a hop on train or AirLingus if you need to get outside Dublin)
The best sign up bonuses with United right now are 60K points + 10K if you spend an extra amount for the United Explorer. You can go economy to Dublin from North America for ~35K points, RT for 70-80K Plus, United lets you do free stopover/hops, so if you need to get to Galway or elsewhere in the Europe region you can do double open jaws for no extra points. United points don’t expire and this card has no annual fee the first year.
Here is my referral link- we both get extra points if you use it:
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Plus you can check out those swanky lounges if your airport happens to have them (or at least United used to give a couple lounge passes per card–it hasn’t been worth it for me for a while, but I’m pretty sure that was still listed as perk when I was comparing things 
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Papasan or Acapulco? Although both of those are usually a woven/wicker look, not metal. That may be a modern take on one of those styles?
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Basket chair turned up a lot of google hits
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Target had some
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Isn’t that Peter Brady’s company??
Does anyone know of good yoga videos that are designed for people with orthostatic hypotension? I get woozy after too much time with my head down, which leads me to now, sitting on my yoga mat dizzy after only 20 minutes.
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Maybe chair yoga?
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That’s a thought! I feel like chair yoga might be too far on the other end of the spectrum, like not active enough? I still want to move around, just be more upright. More lunges and warrior pose, less bending over and moving back and forth for ten minutes with your head down.
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What headphones are they? The link didn’t work for me.
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I think that when I tried the Down Dog app, they had a setting for “minimal inversions” that was essentially that - normal flows but mostly standing poses.
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Oohh thank you! I’ll try that out.
The link had some of the wireless bose ones. I will say the first pair we got died in like 6 months but they sent new ones right away and those have been great for 5 years
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I was gonna say- maybe look for prenatal content if you can stomach the language around it, because there’s usually minimal or no inversions, and there’s modifications offered if there are.
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My friend is getting abdominal surgery tomorrow for benign ovarian polyps. Had anyone had this or similar procedures and could let me know what sort of stuff you’d want in a care package?
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