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It also needs to be full to work. The bacteria that break things down live in that liquid, and the tank separates solids by letting them settle in standing water. A dry tank digests nothing.

Little tablecloth is going to delight her. Also somewhat delighted that the verb came from the agent noun and not the other way round.

One downspout empties about three metres uphill of the near trench. I had not connected those two things at all.

Fun bit of history: the scalding version is the reason a lot of building codes eventually required compensating valves in new work. It wasn't comfort, it was the number of burns, particularly with children and elderly guests who can't get out of the way fast enough.

Doing this right now with two clients. The thing that unblocked me was writing the configuration as a file per client and putting those files in the repo. Suddenly the differences were visible in one place, and about two thirds of what I thought were code differences turned out to be four field names and a schedule. Boring, but it turned a vague fear into a diff I could look at.

One caution on double progression: keep the rep range honest. If set one is 8 and set three is 4, you're not at the top of the range yet even though the first number looked good. All three sets hit the top before you add weight.

Several languages have the same idea independently, which is usually a decent sign that a story doesn't need a court case to explain it.

Did the portal thing last year and the thing nobody warned me about was what net-60 actually means in practice. It does not mean sixty days from your invoice. It means sixty days from when their system accepted the invoice, and acceptance can take a fortnight if anything is off.

My first one was paid on day 74. The second, after I learned to submit on the first of the month and email the AP contact directly with the PO in the subject line, was paid on day 61.

If you are used to cards settling in two days, plan for that gap before you agree to it.

And if it's slimy or smells swampy rather than metallic, ask specifically about iron bacteria. That's a shock chlorination job, not a filter job.

One more: check whether they expect you to carry insurance. It shows up buried in the contract rather than the questionnaire, and for a one person software vendor it is usually obtainable and not enormous, but it is a line item you should price into the deal before you agree rather than discover afterwards.

And validate the VAT number rather than trusting what they typed. There's an official EU checking service and you want the result on file - if the number is invalid the reverse charge doesn't apply and that's your problem, not theirs.

Fair, and that's a good reason to pick something you won't have to abandon at the exact moment it starts working.

One more thing to check: whether the fixtures are on a dimmer. Non-dimmable bulbs on a dimmer circuit fail early and flicker on the way out, and it looks exactly like a heat failure.