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I want to find patterns rather than just record misery. On paper I write more detail but forget half the days. In the app I tap it in reliably but the fields never fit what actually happened and the export is a mess.…
I've started three of them and finished one, and the month I finished I did absolutely nothing for the following six weeks. I'm about to start another because January brain has arrived early, and I'd rather learn from…
Toast for breakfast, a sandwich or a salad at lunch, then a big protein heavy dinner. I am fine until about two in the afternoon and then I am ravenous until I eat, and I usually snack through it. Total calories are…
Small tool, roughly $2,100 a month, been going three years. Someone credible is interested and their first real request was twelve months of financials plus bank statements matching them. The problem is that for about…
Backing up about 3TB from the server to a remote object store with restic, nightly, single job. It started at around 90 minutes and it now takes nine hours, and the repository has grown by roughly 400GB in the last…
I have about £400 to spend and I'm in a place with real winter from November to March. Tempted to buy one proper wool coat at the top of the budget, but I also wear very different things on different days office, dog…
It is a secondhand shirt in a fabric I cannot replace and it fits better across the shoulders than anything I have made. I want to understand why, and ideally get that fit into a pattern I already own rather than…
Moved teams internally in March for a role that was described as owning the reporting platform. In practice the previous owner never actually left, keeps doing the work, and I get handed small tickets. I've raised it…
UK citizen, mix of house sitting and a van, no tenancy anywhere. I have been using my parents' address but they are moving in the autumn and I would rather not build my whole administrative life on somebody else's post.…
Buying next month, budget is the same either way, and the two candidates are an empty panel van and a crew van with a second row of seats and factory windows down one side. Use is long weekends plus two or three longer…
I am a software developer, comfortable with code, and I keep failing to get through statistics books. I get through descriptive stats and probability basics, then hit a wall somewhere around hypothesis testing where it…
Shift work, so there is no fixed morning and no reliable evening either. I want three things to stick: ten minutes of stretching, twenty minutes of language practice, and not taking my phone to bed. I have tried three…
I do three or four books a month for friends and colleagues and I've only ever charged for materials, which everyone tells me is daft. Strangers are starting to ask now and I have no idea what a realistic number looks…
$2,100 a month of subscriptions plus roughly $3,000 a month of onboarding and migration work that i do for new customers. the services money is real, repeatable and has a waiting list, but no individual customer pays it…
I shoot portraits at the weekend, mostly delivered as web images and the occasional A3 print. I currently own the cheaper prime in the same focal length and my complaint is not sharpness, it is that the background gets…
Coil zipper on a rain jacket, about four years old. It zips up fine and then the teeth part again a few centimetres below the slider as I walk. I squeezed the slider gently with pliers top and bottom, which fixed it for…
Same room, same take, and you can hear the wardrobe and the window in every chorus, a sort of hollow ring behind the voice. I have tried the duvet over the head trick and one of those foam reflection filters that clamps…
Came from the pages router about a month ago. I now have , and groups, each with a layout, plus per section layouts under for settings, billing, projects and one per project for the tabs. Eleven files, several of which…
Batch of six bars curing on a wire rack in a spare room. At about week three, four of them developed a fine white powdery crystalline layer, mostly on the top face, patchy rather than even. It brushes off with a dry…
I apply in the morning and then never again, and I keep reading that this makes the morning application close to pointless. I'm indoors nine to six with a 15 minute walk at lunch. I want to know what people with…
Three weeks in October, starting in Lisbon and finishing in the Scottish Highlands, so I need a rain shell and one warm layer as well as normal clothes. I'm trying to decide between a single 40L that goes everywhere…
Filled a 200 litre dual chamber tumbler with two weeks of kitchen scraps, coffee grounds and some grass clippings. It's now a heavy sludge that sloshes when I turn it, and opening the hatch smells sharply of ammonia.…
I can afford roughly 15 pounds a month on sunscreen. That's either one nice imported bottle I'd ration and use maybe half the recommended amount of, or two bottles of a supermarket one I'd apply properly and reapply at…
13700K, big dual tower air cooler installed two weekends ago, fresh paste. Idle is 33 35C which seems fine, but 30 seconds into a multicore render it's at 95C and staying there. Gaming sits around 70C so it's not…
Been buying two broad funds for three years assuming I was diversifying. Looked properly this week and their top holdings are nearly identical and the correlation looks close to 1. One has a slightly lower fee. Do I…