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On my third toile of a fitted shirt and each one fixes a problem and reveals another. Started too tight across the back, then gaping at the neck, now it's the sleeve. I keep seeing people say they made a pattern…
About to buy a 25kg box and I would rather not buy the wrong one twice. I make 8oz jars for gifts and a small market stall, 8 percent fragrance load, and my kitchen sits between 18 and 22C. Straight soy is roughly a…
Pothos in a 15cm pot, roots circling out of the drainage holes and the soil dries out in three days now. It is late October, my flat faces north and gets fairly weak light all winter, no grow lights. I have the pot and…
Currently running a task app and a separate notes app and I keep losing things in the gap between them, particularly anything that's a note with a task hiding in it. Tempted to consolidate into one tool that does both.…
Bought three white oxford cloth shirts and by the fourth or fifth wash the collar sits flat against my chest instead of rolling up and standing. Starch makes it stiff but flat, which somehow looks worse. They're button…
I have entry level 5 inch monitors and an untreated 3.5 by 4 metre bedroom with a carpet and a bed. I can't drill into walls, landlord's rules. £350 available. Everyone online says treatment first but the no drilling…
Planted about 15 small clumps of dwarf hairgrass eight weeks ago, spaced roughly 3cm apart in sand with tabs underneath. It is alive and a couple of blades have got longer but I have seen maybe two runners total. No CO2…
One tab per site, 30 sites, about 1700 rows each and growing monthly. The summary tab currently does VLOOKUP into each tab by name, which means 30 formulas per metric and a rebuild every time a site opens. The…
Finished my third book five days ago and it still has a sharp sour smell when I open it, somewhere between vinegar and school glue. PVA on the spine, wheat paste on the pastedowns, cheap bookcloth, sitting on an open…
I finally sent my little habit tracking app to five friends yesterday and I felt physically uncomfortable doing it. It works, it does the one thing it is meant to do, and it looks quite plain. Two of them replied…
Took eight months off and went back last Monday. Legs were fine on Tuesday, agony on Wednesday, and it's now Friday and going down stairs is still a project. I did what felt like a light session, squats with just the…
I have about 80 a month and 6 hours a week for Portuguese. Option A is two 30 minute sessions weekly with a structured teacher. Option B is free self study with a grammar book plus one hour of conversation practice with…
Six weeks in, portfolio is fine, spending is under plan, and I still get a jolt every second Friday when the salary would have landed. I keep opening the brokerage app for no reason. People further out: does this…
Two and a half pound chuck roast, first time cooking one this way. I can start it Saturday morning or Sunday morning, so both are possible, but the 24 hour version means running the circulator overnight in a flat with…
Two hives, both strong, both with supers still on. Did my first proper alcohol wash on both and got nine and eleven mites per 300 bees. I know that is high but I do not know how high, and I do not know what I can…
Bedroom wall, roughly 4m by 2.4m, with about a dozen nail pops and two shallow dents. I have painted plenty but never skimmed. The paint is a mid sheen which shows everything. I have a free weekend and no plastering…
Third time this year a door sensor has gone from showing full battery to completely dead within a day, with no gradual decline to warn me. I built a dashboard card showing battery levels precisely so this would not…
I've fallen down a hole on this one. Depending on where I look, OK is a joke abbreviation from 1830s Boston, a Choctaw word, a West African import, or a shortening of a Scots phrase, and each source states its version…
New fine steel nib, smooth on the downstroke and left to right, but it drags noticeably on the upstroke and when I pull it toward me. A loupe shows nothing obvious. It's my first pen above 20 pounds and I don't know…
Streetlight roughly four metres from my bedroom window, bright orange, on all night. My current curtains leak a halo around the edges. I rent, so anything I drill has to come out later, and I have about 60 to spend. I…
My broker statement lists a distribution of about £190 for one of my index funds last quarter. No cash arrived in the account and the number of units I hold is exactly the same as before. The unit price did go up…
Eight months freelancing full time. I track everything and I'm averaging about 19 billable hours out of a 40 hour week. The rest is proposals, invoicing, email, calls that go nowhere, and fixing my own website. I keep…
Twelve year old push mower, worth maybe $60 if I sold it working. The carburettor is gummed up and needs at minimum a clean. A rebuild kit is $12 and a whole aftermarket carburettor is $28 including gaskets. I have…
Lookup value is an order number like 100234, sitting in column A on both sheets. returns N/A for about a third of the rows and works perfectly for the rest. If I copy the value from one sheet and paste it into the…
Three trips now and the first night is always awful. I lie there hearing everything, doze off around 2am, and feel wrecked on day two. Second and third nights I sleep fine. Pad is comfortable, quilt is warm enough, I'm…