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Rural lot, no municipal supply available, and the neighbours on both sides say their wells came in somewhere around two hundred feet. The quotes cover different things as far as I can tell, and one of them is per foot…
Put 32 in the tank on Friday, and my banking app immediately showed 75 pending. The real amount appeared on Monday and the 75 disappeared, but for the weekend I was 75 down on a balance I was watching quite carefully.…
I tracked six months of bills and tried about a dozen of the standard tips, and only two of them showed up in the numbers at all. Before I keep doing the other ten out of habit, I want to hear which ones survived other…
68kg, first three day trip in September, hut to hut so water carries are short. Twenty percent would put me at 13.6kg loaded which feels enormous next to the gear lists I see here. I would rather know what people…
Four hybrid layers, a covered run, and a 20kg sack of layer pellets that I keep buying without ever noticing how long it lasts. I want a real monthly figure before I add two more birds, including whatever people spend…
Nine songs, four piece rock band, drummer is genuinely good but our practice room is about three metres square with a low ceiling and I have eight inputs at home. Everything else we can track ourselves and we have time…
Every guide I read gives me the same three phrases about anchoring and enthusiasm, and I have used them twice and got nothing but a repeat of the original figure. Both times I had no competing offer and I was fairly…
Galaxy Tab with the pen, and every recommendation thread I find is about the iPad. I need to write by hand in meetings, find things again six months later by searching for a word I wrote, and get everything out in a…
Product is eight months old, 30 customers at 89 a month, and it came out of the consulting work I still do two days a week. One of my old clients wants an import from an internal system that I am fairly sure nobody else…
I have about 250 saved and a craft fair booked in eight weeks, and I want to turn up with roughly fifty 8oz amber jars. I already own a kitchen scale, a saucepan and a thermometer. What I cannot work out from supplier…
Agreed a low five figure sale for a tool I've run for three years. Buyer is friendly, no lawyers, we're doing it on a two page agreement. I naively assumed 'transfer the assets' was one job. It isn't. The domain has its…
Showed the homepage to six people for five seconds each, then asked what the product does. Four said some version of "automates something", one said "analytics dashboard", one said "I did not read it, I looked at the…
I kept my old one bed when I moved in with my partner rather than selling, mostly out of inertia, and I am now four years in with an agent taking 12% and a boiler that has needed two visits this year. On paper the rent…
Off work, reading in short bursts, and the recommendations I keep getting are either corporate wellness books that boil down to 'do yoga at 6am' or academic ones I cannot hold in my head right now. I'd like one book,…
About two months into practising at home, four times a week. Downward dog is fine for the first minute and then the heel of my hand, right where it meets the wrist, starts aching, and by the end of a sequence I am…
Two weeks around southern Vietnam with three shirts, so washing every night is the entire plan. I wash in the sink, wring it by hand, hang it on the shower rail, and at 7am the shoulders and the side seams are still…
I spend about 40 minutes on Sunday evening laying out the week in blocks, and by Tuesday morning it bears no resemblance to reality. One urgent thing arrives, everything shifts by two hours, and then I abandon the plan…
Trip is in nine weeks and my passport expires roughly four months after the return date. I keep reading about a six month rule but also that it does not apply everywhere. Renewal is currently quoted at six to eight…
I sew because ready to wear trousers never fit my waist to hip difference. My last pair took three toiles and a good chunk of money in fabric before the real ones existed, and I could have paid a tailor twice over for…
Standard recipe I've made a dozen times, 35% olive, 30% coconut, 25% palm, 10% castor, 33% lye solution. Blended to light trace, added 30g of a new floral fragrance oil, and it went from pourable to a stiff mash in…
I live at the top of a 200 metre residential hill that the council never salts and plows late. Right now it is a FWD Golf on all seasons and I got stuck twice last winter. I can either buy a set of winters on steels, or…
Snake tank, false bottom with clay balls, about ten centimetres of substrate, springtails and isopods added at setup. I mist twice a day, there is no fan and the vents are two small strips at the front. The smell is…
The door has to open at sunrise and close after dusk whether or not anything else works, and I want to see the shed temperature on my phone from the house. Wifi reaches the shed but it is marginal, and we lose mains…
I'm 5'11", put my height into two of the online calculators, and both spat out roughly the same pair of numbers. Seated feels fine. Standing at 108 cm I hunch within about ten minutes and my shoulders creep up, which is…
Windows on the desk, phone in my pocket, both set to a work focus that allows precisely nobody through. Screen time still reports around eighty pickups on a working day and the phone is not notifying me about anything.…