Tia, seven weeks in

Third option and the one I would pick in your shoes. Two bass traps in the corners changed my mixes more than any plugin or any single piece of advice, because I stopped guessing about the low end. The reason your mixes never feel finished may be that you cannot hear the bottom two octaves in that room and you are making decisions blind. Treatment is also the only one of your three options that keeps paying on every song forever.

Scale up before you post and scale back after. A $6 box is $6 for a reason. Four gigs for one week is single-digit dollars. There is no prize for surviving your launch on the smallest instance available.

The butter browning instantly thing is exactly what happens. I've been preheating on medium-high because I assumed hot pan equals no stick.

This describes exactly what I do. I workshop the perfect observation and then it is too late for it and I say nothing.

Tried it on two dumbbells and there was zero wrist ache the next day. Feels like cheating.

So the revalidated UI and the return value come back together. That explains why my router.refresh() after every action was doing nothing useful except a second fetch.

The 'you removed the filler' thing is uncomfortably accurate. I definitely used to default to things I didn't like just because they were there.

Year one of a taught masters is the worst it gets, partly because everyone is still working out whether they will still be here next year. Things changed for me when I started teaching, because the other teaching assistants are a natural cross departmental group who all have the same complaints at the same time. If your programme has any teaching, demonstrating or lab support going, take it for the social reasons even if the money is bad.

Tried it again at week seven and it's genuinely different - much creamier and my hands don't feel tight. Would not have believed the same bar could change that much.

No zap, so at least I haven't made something dangerous.

I ended up buying a proper infrared CO2 unit to sit next to the cheap one, mostly out of curiosity. Particulate readings tracked each other reasonably. The CO2 lines had almost no relationship - the estimated one responded to cooking and cleaning products, the real one responded to how many people were in the room and whether a window was open, which is what you actually want to know.

For what it is worth, I composted couch grass roots years ago on the assumption the heap would deal with it and I spread that compost over three beds. Two full seasons of pulling it out afterwards, and I still get it along one fence. That single decision cost more hours than every other gardening mistake I have made put together.

Watch what you replace it with. I dropped energy drinks and felt very righteous while drinking four espressos a day, which was more caffeine than before, just in a smarter looking cup. Count the total, not the number of cans.

Disagreeing with the drill framing. I spent a year running mental checklists and became noticeably worse, because the attention I was spending on the checklist was attention I was not spending on the person, and people can tell. What actually moved it was volume of genuinely low-stakes contact with no goal attached: the same barista, the same neighbours, no technique in mind. Drills for a week to notice a habit is fine. Drills as an ongoing practice made me a worse conversationalist and a more anxious one.