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Australia, Brisbane, first purchase, aiming for a deposit of around $110,000 and currently sitting at $71,000 in an ordinary savings account. My marginal tax rate makes the salary sacrifice angle look attractive on…
Mid level, two promotion cycles a year, told next cycle twice by a manager who has now left. The new manager inherited me four weeks ago and has no history to argue from. I like the company and would rather not leave to…
My niece asked how planes stay up and I have about ten minutes and a kitchen table. Every explanation I find either says air goes faster over the top so pressure drops, or says the wing throws air downward. I do not…
Cleared 2300 on a card I had had for nine years, then closed the account because I did not want the temptation. Two weeks later the score is down 19. Everything else is the same, no missed payments ever, one other card…
Five months into a new city, no friends here yet, two free evenings a week and most weekends. Introvert, and I am after one or two people I could call rather than a big circle. There is a board game night every Tuesday…
Marathon build, currently four runs a week, long run has grown from 14 to 22km over about seven weeks. Every long run past 18km both calves get progressively tighter until they feel like wood, and I end up walking.…
I make maybe six garments a year, mostly cotton wovens and the odd knit tee. My finishes are zigzag or pinked and they hold up fine, but they look homemade inside. A serger is about a month of hobby budget and my sewing…
Front opening glass tank, full screen top, two inches of LECA under three inches of substrate, and a decent amount of standing water in the drainage layer. I mist heavily in the morning and it reads 90, and by early…
Four year old lab mix. Started licking the left front paw about two weeks ago, now the fur between two toes is stained and the skin looks pink and damp. I have checked between every toe with a torch, no thorn, no cut,…
850 fill, rated 2C comfort, and I've been cold twice now on nights around 3C. Not dangerously, but awake and shivering by 4am. Sleeping in base layers on a 3.2 R value inflatable, in a single skin shelter. I'm a cold…
Only the left side, only in the bottom third, and only under load, bodyweight squats are completely fine. It's a distinct pinch right at the front of the hip crease rather than an ache, and it goes as soon as I come up.…
Around 1.4 million split roughly seventy thirty in favour of the 401k, no Roth conversions started, and no pension. I understand the theory of every option and what I want is which one people picked and what they found…
Crop sensor, 50mm equivalent, portraits at f/2. On the camera screen everything looks tack sharp. On a 27 inch monitor at 100 percent the eyes are just slightly soft — not motion blur, more like the focus landed on…
Northern Europe, took a daily D3 softgel from October through March, and the retest came back only marginally higher than the first one. I took it first thing with coffee, no food, same brand throughout. I'm not asking…
I am looking at a coat that costs about four times what I normally spend, and I wear one coat essentially every day from November to March. Before I commit I want to know what people have actually got out of theirs, and…
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…