Took eight months off and went back last Monday. Legs were fine on Tuesday, agony on Wednesday, and it's now Friday and going down stairs is still a project. I did what felt like a light session, squats with just the…
I have about 80 a month and 6 hours a week for Portuguese. Option A is two 30 minute sessions weekly with a structured teacher. Option B is free self study with a grammar book plus one hour of conversation practice with…
Six weeks in, portfolio is fine, spending is under plan, and I still get a jolt every second Friday when the salary would have landed. I keep opening the brokerage app for no reason. People further out: does this…
Two and a half pound chuck roast, first time cooking one this way. I can start it Saturday morning or Sunday morning, so both are possible, but the 24 hour version means running the circulator overnight in a flat with…
Two hives, both strong, both with supers still on. Did my first proper alcohol wash on both and got nine and eleven mites per 300 bees. I know that is high but I do not know how high, and I do not know what I can…
Bedroom wall, roughly 4m by 2.4m, with about a dozen nail pops and two shallow dents. I have painted plenty but never skimmed. The paint is a mid sheen which shows everything. I have a free weekend and no plastering…
Third time this year a door sensor has gone from showing full battery to completely dead within a day, with no gradual decline to warn me. I built a dashboard card showing battery levels precisely so this would not…
I've fallen down a hole on this one. Depending on where I look, OK is a joke abbreviation from 1830s Boston, a Choctaw word, a West African import, or a shortening of a Scots phrase, and each source states its version…
New fine steel nib, smooth on the downstroke and left to right, but it drags noticeably on the upstroke and when I pull it toward me. A loupe shows nothing obvious. It's my first pen above 20 pounds and I don't know…
Streetlight roughly four metres from my bedroom window, bright orange, on all night. My current curtains leak a halo around the edges. I rent, so anything I drill has to come out later, and I have about 60 to spend. I…
My broker statement lists a distribution of about £190 for one of my index funds last quarter. No cash arrived in the account and the number of units I hold is exactly the same as before. The unit price did go up…
Eight months freelancing full time. I track everything and I'm averaging about 19 billable hours out of a 40 hour week. The rest is proposals, invoicing, email, calls that go nowhere, and fixing my own website. I keep…
Twelve year old push mower, worth maybe $60 if I sold it working. The carburettor is gummed up and needs at minimum a clean. A rebuild kit is $12 and a whole aftermarket carburettor is $28 including gaskets. I have…
Lookup value is an order number like 100234, sitting in column A on both sheets. returns N/A for about a third of the rows and works perfectly for the rest. If I copy the value from one sheet and paste it into the…
Three trips now and the first night is always awful. I lie there hearing everything, doze off around 2am, and feel wrecked on day two. Second and third nights I sleep fine. Pad is comfortable, quilt is warm enough, I'm…
First Pi, first project, so I have no baseline. It is in one of those aluminium cases where the whole shell is the heatsink, sitting on a desk in a room that is about 22C. Idle with nothing running it reports 59 to 61C.…
Fourteen months in and the constant thinking about them feeling has largely gone. Nothing is wrong. We're good together, no fights, still enjoy each other. But I notice I'm not counting hours until I see them, and I…
Five months in, evenings and weekends, product has been usable since month three and I have had lots of encouraging conversations and zero payments. Everyone I read about seems to get their first customer in week two.…
I soaked dried pinto beans overnight, drained them, and put them in with tomatoes, onion and stock for eight hours on low. They were still slightly chalky in the middle. Everyone I ask says beans in a slow cooker are…
Rented one bedroom flat, concrete ceiling I can't drill, no garden, no beams. Budget about £70. I can train outside at a park with bars but realistically only twice a week, and I want something indoors for the other…
Tiny kitchen, two burners, one of which is noticeably weaker. Cooking for two most nights, occasionally four. Budget is about 90 total. I keep going back and forth between one big 12 inch carbon steel that does…
First dividend I have ever been due. The record date was last week, the company announcement lists a payment date about three weeks out, and my account shows nothing at all, not even a pending line. Is the payment date…
Five weeks of flossing every night and it still feels like a decision I have to actively make, sometimes twice, standing in the bathroom. I keep reading 21 days and 66 days and getting different numbers everywhere. Is…
Started a small site in March, publishing one article a week, 12 posts up. Everything is indexed within a couple of days but impressions stay in single digits for weeks and clicks are basically zero. I keep reading that…
Six weeks in and I have 340 put away against monthly essentials of about 1450. At this rate it is roughly six months, which feels absurd for what everyone describes as the easy first step. Not looking for encouragement…