Raise your hand if you carry an emotional support water bottle. 
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No. 
I drink tea. I do have a ginormous mug for that purpose.
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I pay A LOT to ski. (especially this season, with season pass… not much snow, travels to help family… only got out twice). BUT I almost never wait in line. In fact, I ski solo (usually hubby drives and hangs out in the lodge)… and sometimes my problem is waiting for somebody to join the line so that I don’t have to ride up alone.
They do this every year.
Seinfeld Tix were over $100 at First Bank. You just have to know to wait for this. It used to be $25, now $30.
This isn’t a new thing or related to any lawsuits. This is their way to move volume where seats aren’t selling.
I mean who would put a comedian in a 6 or 7k ampitheater?
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Even when you are skiing with someone, the singles line most always has no one in it. We always do that.
I don’t think it’s that clear. While it’s clear that non-zero microplastics are present in bottled water, negative health effects from this degree of microplastics are largely speculative.
In contrast potential negative health effects from certain tap water locations have been well proven, but the risk of such negative health effects various widely by location and in many cases particular tap within that region. Bottle water reduces this risk of getting a particular location/tap that happens to have especially high levels of PFAS, goes through lead pipes, or similar. In my mind this makes tap water from a random (not researched beforehand) tap during travel more risky, particularly if you are in a country that has different contaminant regulation from US.
I usually drink bottled water and am fine with paying the $1 per gallon cost. While water testing in my region shows what is considered safe level of contaminants (aside from special groups, such as pregnant women), I am not a fan of the chlorine taste, which relates to chlorine/ammonia treatment.
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Have your son book another room for you. He obviously has a promo code.
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It was really good. This theater has an offering of about 5 plays per year but with locals as the actors. It also has my favorite thing - free parking! I first saw Come From Away about 10 years ago and didn’t know anything about it. I was crying and cheering at the end. And in awe of the actors performing for 2 hours without a break.
They have sales for the ‘big’ broadway theater shows for a certain price (often about $35) online about times a year. I used to do that, but now the seats are only for the balcony and I don’t like that (beggars CAN be choosers and I am about where I sit), so I’d rather do the rush tickets on the day of the show. I have scored some great seats for half price, and there is no service fee when you are buying from the box office (I don’t know why) so that also saves $10-20 per ticket.
I haven’t figured out how to get cheap tickets for the symphony, opera, or ballet yet. The theaters for everything in Denver are together but they are all run separately (except parking, which sucks equally for all). There used to be 2-for-1 for the ballet in the old Gold C discount booklets, which a lot of youth groups used to sell for fund raisers, but those are long gone.
I’m not giving up. I’m going to find a discount for those other things too.
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Have you called HR and asked if they are recruiting for ushers?
Yes, ushering is a very inexpensive way of seeing shows if you are willing. Our community theater is happy to have usher volunteers.
In the Chicago area those ushers are part of an organization called The Saints. https://www.saintschicago.org/
OOOH, sign me up!!!
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Where is the Salmon you order from? We almost always eat wild caught Alaska salmon (or Pacific NW salmon - you get the idea). I rarely buy or eat farm raised.
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My wife will sometimes unfreeze salmon (wild) but it’s always fishy to me.
Is that a thing - fresh can be ok but any fish (frozen) tastes fishy?
They use a vendor company. The company provides ushers for almost all venues in the city, from baseball to the symphony to U of Denver for its events (Junior Women’s League craft sale, grade school robotics competition). What I don’t think you can do is mix and match, so if you are a theater usher, you do that 2-8 times per week but then you don’t also do baseball, and don’t do the symphony even though it is next door to the theater.
I did interview for a ticket seller position with the theater (it is a direct hire) and they also don’t cross over, so if you work for the theater group, you don’t sell tickets for the ballet or opera and can’t get freebees to those events. I don’t want to see the same play over and over, standing, for a 14, or 28 or Hamilton length run!
Gotcha.
I have retired friends who zip around (symphony, ballet, experimental theater, opera) and although it’s hard on the knees, they see EVERYTHING.
23 is very high. In Charlottesville 14-16 is the norm and its very good.
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Blueberries were 4.59 for the pint size (not the small size that raspberries come in) at my Aldis today.
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I have a water tester on top of my Zero Water pitcher, I think you can buy them for a few bucks on Amazon. Maybe when I travel now I’ll take it with me and check the tap water, if clean, no need for bottled water.
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What is it testing for? Skimming through Amazon, the PFAS testers I saw cost $200+. They required mailing to lab and waiting a week+ for results. The testers I saw for a few bucks just reported TDS total (electrical conductivity).
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