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Alright, so I have the Aetna traditional insurance, and I have -5 eyes. Anyone know if there's any plans or programs I can take advantage of to get some expensive-ass surgery done ($5k+ out of pocket), with a multi-week recovery? Since they keep cashing out anything over 80 hours, I can probably just take an unpaid leave if necessary, for anything beyond two weeks, but are there any options I have that I'd be a fool to not take?

Or would I be better off just waiting until like... October, when my 80 hours PPTO (carried over) + 48 hours PPTO + whatever PTO are all available? Is this a situation where medical leave is preferable?

Hello,

I have a 2006 Toyota Avalon XLS, with a bit over 180k miles on it, as the title says. Bought the car from my mother, three years ago, after her hip and knee problems required her to get something easier for her to get in and out of, and she bought it new. She kept it up to date on recommended maintenance. Around two months ago, while driving the car to work (highway driving, straight and level, good conditions), the car started regularly shuddering (around a third of a second, every second) and pulling to the right. I found a place to pull off and check the tires, but found nothing wrong. The car was fine after that, for several days.

Roughly a week later, the behavior repeated

Hello,

A few years ago, I read and enjoyed an online translation of a novel that I'm having difficulty finding again. Should have saved it in NU. I'm pretty sure it was Japanese Scratch that, I just remembered that the MC drinks soju, so it's probably Korean.

The premise: male MC gets drunk one night, passes out, and wakes up in a Silent Hill-esque version of where he is - almost everything is degraded/rotten/rusted/etc. A few things aren't, like a random knife. He explores for a bit, fights some crap, has a system (with relatively interesting stats), then goes to sleep, and wakes up back in the real world. Different areas of the real world present different threats in alt-world -

Hello, so I built my PC well over a decade ago. First-gen i5, SSDs didn't really exist yet, no sata 3 or USB 3. A few years ago, I popped in an rx480, an SSD, replaced the fans, and tossed a new 600w PSU in, and it's been chugging along nicely, but I'd like more ram and a beefier CPU - I'm getting CPU and memory bound (and upgrading memory would be a big chunk of the cost of just building a new system). Also, I'm starting to get "old PC" issues, like the front headphone/mic jacks have some hiss.

So, I've decided to build a new PC (probably sticking with the i5, but current gen). I'm reluctantly thinking to buy a new case (my current case is a steel full tower - built to have a double fi

I don't care which side you're on - actually, I think the fact that there are sides is bullshit. At least, that there are only two sides.

But! I loved that this election felt like either side could take it. That was something I haven't seen since I moved here. And it was exhilarating.

Unfortunately, I need to reset that counter, so I searched out a SMART meeting in my area - they appeal to me more than AA (the higher power aspect of AA makes me uncomfortable), so I thought I'd give it a go.

Wish me luck!

So, I work on the square, and used to eat hot dogs from Fincher's Franks all the time.

A few months ago, the two hotdog vendors (Fincher's and Pappy's Dawgs) disappeared. I know that Fincher's wasn't planning on shutting down, as he'd just finished setting up Square, so he could take credit cards.

What happened?