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Overpaid for six years and would do it again, with one change: I would have built the emergency fund first and completely. The year I lost a contract, I had a smaller mortgage and no accessible money, and I ended up putting three months of living costs on a credit card at a rate that made the whole exercise look silly. The maths on overpaying is sound and it is the wrong first move if the buffer is not already there.

Words first, characters as a byproduct. That is the exact opposite of what I have been doing for six months.

Also worth saying that a certified race course is measured along the shortest legal line, so on race day everyone runs at least that far and most of us run more. My watch has read long on every half I have done, sometimes by 200m.

Dosing more to fix algae feels completely wrong but I will trust you. Any risk of it feeding something worse?

Legs stall first and it is not close. Upper body has a long runway with that kit because a pull up bar plus 12s covers rows, presses, curls and you can keep making pull ups harder for a couple of years by adding reps then adding pauses then adding a backpack. Lower body runs out fast because a double 12kg goblet squat stops being hard within a few months. The fix is unilateral: Bulgarian split squats with the back foot on a chair, step ups onto something knee height, single leg RDLs, and slow eccentric split squats. One leg at a time roughly doubles the effective load without buying anything, and the balance demand is genuinely useful for the not weak at fifty goal.

They will humble you. Add a two second pause at the bottom before you even think about more weight.

I tracked source-to-screen for four months because I was going mad. One-click applications: 140 sent, 3 screens. Applications direct through company sites: 46 sent, 9 screens. Roles found through a person: 11, 7 screens. Same resume throughout. Since then I use the big platform purely as a listings index and never apply inside it, and I stopped applying to anything more than about five days old.

Cottage cheese blended into a sauce or mixed into scrambled eggs is the other easy 20g nobody notices, texture disappears completely.

What does one hard session look like at my level, intervals on a track or just a faster continuous run?

The sad plant look at three weeks is usually the tank melting its emersed grown leaves, not a light problem. Give it another fortnight before changing anything.

Older students in my department finish at a higher rate than the twenty two year olds, in my entirely unscientific observation, because they already know how to work when they do not feel like it. That is the whole skill.

Going to be the unwelcome answer: if you have added weight to the bar for eighteen months and the mirror has not moved, the rep range is probably not your problem, your food is. Muscle is built out of a calorie surplus and enough protein, and plenty of people run a perfectly good hypertrophy block while eating at maintenance and conclude the programme failed. Track what you actually eat for two weeks before you rewrite the training, because if you are not gaining any weight at all, no rep scheme is going to fix that.

Worth checking your tenancy before drilling anything, but tension rods inside the reveal need no fixings at all. I did the same with a second rod and a blackout panel and got my deposit back without a conversation.

This is the correct nuance and it is why the blanket 'RAM is useless' answer has aged badly. Worth deciding which models you actually want to run before buying either thing.

I bought a cheap kitchen timer safe, the kind with a lid that locks for a set number of minutes, because I felt ridiculous but had run out of ideas. Pickups on working days went from somewhere in the eighties down to the teens within two weeks, and the teens were mostly at lunch. The unexpected part was how uncomfortable the first three days were, which told me more about the habit than the numbers did. It was not that I needed the phone, it was that I needed somewhere to put the boredom.

There it is. Free fix, and it's the foot end that's soaking, which is the end that sags. The tent has been telling you.

Seconding this. The internet's default answer is always eat less and sometimes that is the wrong advice for the person asking.

The weekday qualifier in your post is where I would look first. Two weekend days eaten freely can easily be 1500 calories above a weekday, which spread across seven days moves your real average by 400 or so, and that is usually the whole deficit.

Second place to look is the things people do not weigh. Cooking oil is around 120 calories a tablespoon and gets poured by eye, nut butters are dense and get scooped, and dressings, milk in coffee and the bits eaten while cooking never make it into the app. Weighing oil for one week is unpleasant and extremely informative.

If after a properly logged fortnight, weekends included, nothing has changed, then your maintenance is genuinely lower than you assumed and you adjust the number.

For scale: I kept two forty minute sessions through a fourteen week build at roughly your volume, and the honest summary is my legs felt better on hills, my form held together in the last five kilometres, and my time improved by a couple of minutes. I cannot separate how much of that was the lifting and how much was another block of consistent running. What I can say is that nothing got worse once the scheduling was right, and the niggles I usually collect around week ten did not show up.

Test the blade before you commit any hours, because the handle work is the expensive part in time and the blade decides everything. Sharpen it properly, then use it for a full week of normal cooking including a couple of sessions on hard vegetables, and see whether the edge is still biting on day seven or has rolled by day two. A soft blade will feel wonderful on the stones, because soft steel sharpens beautifully, and then fold the moment it meets a squash. If it holds a week of home use, it is a good knife and worth rehandling.

Practical bit: find out now whether the course allows a calculator on exams. If it does not, add mental arithmetic with fractions to the triage list, because doing derivative quotients with ugly fractions under time pressure is its own skill.

I have run both on the same site, rows for four years and then a mixed layout for five. The mixed one takes noticeably more thought at planting and noticeably less weeding by midsummer, because the ground is covered and there is nowhere for weeds to establish. What it costs you is harvesting speed and clarity, you cannot walk down a bed pulling one crop, and you will forget what you planted where unless you write it down. For someone with an hour on a weekday evening rather than a whole Saturday, the mixed bed won.

One more thing nobody asked about but that matters: sleep. On five hours I am hungry all afternoon regardless of what I eat, and on eight I am not. If your hunger appeared alongside a change in sleep, look there before you rearrange your meals.

And it is the part that never appears in a chart comparison, because it is impossible to photograph a chart badly.

The property you are looking for is a standard group head. Machines built around a common commercial group have parts available essentially forever because the same gaskets and screens fit hundreds of café machines, and any tech can work on them. Machines with a proprietary brew unit are a bet on one manufacturer's spares policy. That single question, standard group or proprietary unit, sorts the market better than price does.