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Second year, humanities adjacent, and every senior student I have asked is on some combination of teaching, adjuncting at another institution, or a partner's income after year five. None of this appears anywhere…
Third attempt on a 10 inch skillet. I scrub it back, warm it, rub in a thin layer of oil, then bake it at about 180C for an hour and let it cool in the oven. Every time it comes out tacky, like a fingerprint sticks to…
Two apps on my phone, points in three schemes, and I plan the week's shopping around whichever has the better member prices. Honest estimate is an extra 45 minutes of driving and about the same again in planning each…
Delhi, car parked outside at work for eight hours a day, and summer cabin temperatures are brutal enough that my phone refuses to charge in there. My last camera lasted fourteen months before the mount adhesive let go…
Never done one of these. Someone replied to my email and booked 30 minutes tomorrow morning. I'm an engineer, I have never sold anything to anyone. My instinct is to show them the product because that's the thing I…
Never run before, starting a couch to 5k next month, 95 kg. I have about $130 and a running store 40 minutes away that offers gait analysis, plus every online shop imaginable. My actual worry is buying something…
Twenty five minute commute, mostly a plowed highway plus one residential street that is often unplowed until the afternoon. No garage, so it sits outside all winter. I have budget for winter tyres on a second set of…
Built a cubic metre pile in one go, mixed leaves and grass and some horse manure. It climbed to about 140F within 48 hours, held for three days, and then dropped to ambient over the next week. I've turned it twice since…
Starter doubles in about four hours at 24C, smells sharp and yeasty, passes the float test. But loaves take seven hours to rise 50% and bake dense with a tight crumb. 500g strong white, 350g water, 100g starter, 10g…
Every seven to ten days I find the same white fluff in the leaf axils and where the petioles meet the stem. I wipe every one I can find with a cotton bud dipped in 70 percent isopropyl and they visibly dry up. A week…
Day five of my first proper solo trip and I've had a good time all day and then felt genuinely low every evening around 8pm. Nothing has gone wrong. The days are great. It's specifically the gap between dinner and sleep…
Inherited a B2B site with 40 service pages of 250 400 words each, all written from the same template, most getting under 20 sessions a month. I have five hours a week and no writer budget. Option A is rewriting them one…
Winter means we get through a lot of oranges and I end up with a bowl of peel most days. The outdoor heap takes it without complaint, if slowly, but the last time I put a decent amount in the worm bin the worms went to…
I am happy to pay three times the price for something that lasts three times as long, but I keep getting burned by premium versions of the same disposable object. Extended warranties are already ruled out, I have never…
Second year of an evening course, one deck of about 3000 cards, currently 30 new a day and roughly 200 reviews. I have 45 minutes on weeknights and nothing on Fridays. Splitting by chapter would let me focus on what is…
About 400 a month going in, twelve holdings, commission free platform with fractional shares, taxable account. I could turn on automatic reinvestment per holding, or let dividends sit as cash and deploy everything…
Third time in five months. I file the travel notice in the app before I fly, and it still gets blocked on the first or second transaction, and then I am on hold for 40 minutes to a fraud line with a local SIM and hotel…
I need a B1 certificate for a residence application in roughly a year and I want to budget properly instead of drifting. Currently: one free app, one grammar book, no tutor, and about an hour a day I can defend. What…
One brochure site, five pages plus a blog they will update twice a year, about 1500 visits a month. The client pays for their own hosting and domain and will absolutely ring me in eighteen months if the renewal doubles.…
No following anywhere. I decided the honest way to start was to go where people ask about the problem my tool solves, answer properly without linking, and leave the product in my profile. Six weeks, roughly 60 answers,…
New client, six week engagement, and in the two scoping calls so far they've changed the core requirement twice. They're not difficult, they're just early and figuring it out as they go. My instinct says hourly because…
Started from just flour and water 15 days ago. It rises and falls predictably now, roughly doubling in six hours on a 1:1:1 feed at room temperature, but the smell has gone from pleasant and yoghurty around day eight to…
I have a measure that flags high value customers and sums their orders. Each row in the table looks right, but the total at the bottom is much smaller than adding the visible rows myself. Nobody at work seems surprised…
8oz jar, 7cm diameter, soy container wax, CD10 wick, 8 percent fragrance oil. First burn ran three and a half hours and the melt pool reached about 5cm across, leaving a ring of hard wax on the glass. Second burn was…
This happens to me in engineering meetings and it happened last week at a hospital appointment. I ask once, I get the same explanation again slightly louder and slightly faster, and then I nod and leave with nothing. I…