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Monitor sits on the nightstand and logs to my phone. Daytime is low and flat, then it starts rising around 11pm, peaks in the small hours and drops away within twenty minutes of the door opening in the morning. No…
I have six bottles between 30 and 60ml left over from a phase of buying every scent that sounded nice, all from a candle supplier. I want to turn them into small reed diffusers as gifts rather than binning them. I also…
Got my first bonus card four months ago and the second one looks appealing, but every guide I read gives a different waiting period and half of them contradict each other. I have no plans to borrow money for anything,…
My list is sixty small manufacturers, family owned, most with a website last touched around 2019. There is no team page, no about us with names, sometimes just an info@ address and a phone number. I cannot justify a…
I have been learning piano for a few months. There is a simple piece I can play comfortably except for one transition a single bar into the next: where I stumble every time. The frustrating part is that I can play the…
Two or three a month, and once the pain starts it typically holds for somewhere between 28 and 36 hours before it fades. When I mention it at work people clearly picture a bad headache that a nap fixes, and I've started…
I am an engineer and biology is my weak subject, so apologies if this is naive. The usual answer to why two eyes is depth perception. That explains why not one, but it does not explain why not four or six more…
Electricians consistently say that you must complete the conduit run first and then pull the conductors through, never assemble the conduit around wires already laid in place. I understand that pulling is the normal…
The security promise of an end to end encrypted messenger is that nobody between the two devices can read the conversation. That seems sound. What I cannot resolve is what happens when the device at one end is not…
Most results get celebrated. I am interested in the opposite: theorems whose truth or falsity was a letdown, where the mathematical community had been hoping for the other answer. I do not mean results that were merely…
I work on two Macs and keep a working file on the Desktop, which is synced through the cloud service. Changes do propagate, but sometimes with a long delay: long enough that I have edited the stale version on the second…
Writing and code review mostly, working from home, no hard interruptions to blame. Short timers make me stop exactly when it has finally started working, and long ones make starting feel enormous so I do not start at…
Southwestern Ontario, about 1,800 sq ft, gas furnace from 2009 plus a fifteen year old AC that is clearly on borrowed time. Since I need to replace the AC anyway, a cold climate heat pump ought to be the obvious swap,…
I mistyped my password several times on a console login and the account is now locked, with a message saying it is locked due to failed attempts. I still have root access to the machine through another route, so I am…
I live essentially at sea level and I am planning a trip where the option exists to drive up a mountain of around 2700 metres in one day and walk from there. Everything I read about acclimatisation is aimed at much…
Two hundred emails over three weeks, hand picked, personalised first line, sent from my own domain with a real signature. First hundred got eleven replies, four of which turned into calls. Then I got efficient and added…
About 900 visits a month. The dashboard says roughly 70% direct or none, then a long tail of referrers that add up to nothing. Three things are running: a monthly email, posts in two communities, and a docs page that…
Stock and similar liquids often come in cartons with a screw cap over a foil seal. Twisting the cap the first time breaks the foil, and there is no way to take the cap off without breaking it. That means the cap alone…
Crested gecko, enclosure already bought, so I am pricing drainage layer, substrate, leaf litter, plants, cleanup crew and a light. Every guide I read lands near 150 and my basket sits at just over 300 without a single…
Ireland, €318,000 outstanding, fixed at 3.55% until 2030, and my lender allows overpayments up to 10% of the balance a year without penalty while I am fixed. I have €26,000 sitting in savings earning far less than the…
I drink coffee from several sources brewed at home, from cafés, occasionally from a can: and I have no idea how they compare in caffeine. Published figures are broad ranges and clearly do not account for what I actually…
Rural edge of town, our septic is twelve years old, tank was pumped last year and looked healthy, field has never backed up. The town is running a main past the property and hookup plus abandonment of the old tank is…
Travelling alone, my main cost is always the room. A hotel in a large city runs well over a hundred a night, and I am paying for a double bed, a desk and a bathroom I barely use, because I am out all day and asleep the…
About forty hours of lessons, manoeuvres are fine, roundabouts turn me into a passenger. I have one attempt before a job start date that requires me to drive, so a retest in eight weeks would be a genuine problem. I am…
Broad shoulders, strictly on my side, and I wake up two or three times a night with a dead arm and a stiff neck. Budget around £70. I have been through a memory foam contour pillow that was too tall, a down one that…