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Six weeks in and I have 340 put away against monthly essentials of about 1450. At this rate it is roughly six months, which feels absurd for what everyone describes as the easy first step. Not looking for encouragement…
I made a syrup with about three cups of sugar to one cup of water, boiled until clear, and hung a seeded skewer in a jar on the counter. Two weeks later there is maybe a centimetre of growth on the stick and a fuzzy…
Started doing a proper weekly review five weeks ago. The first one took nearly three hours, and they've settled at around two, which is a big chunk of a Friday afternoon and I can feel myself starting to skip it.…
Four multi day trips now and day one is always awful. The pack feels wrong, everything aches, I question the entire idea by lunchtime. From day two I'm completely fine and by day three I don't want to go home. Is this a…
First year composting and I'm somewhere with real winters, snow cover from November to March and the pile frozen solid for a good chunk of it. Started the pile in June, it's now a dark crumbly mass with recognisable…
Single hive, second year, ten frame box with a super. Opened up on Sunday and found six capped cells hanging off the bottom bars of two brood frames. I saw a lot of bees but did not spot the queen and I did not see…
I drink two or three sessions a day and share a kitchen with three other people, so everything lives in a box on a shelf and comes out and goes back. Budget is about $40 total. I mostly drink oolong and some black tea.…
I have reread the same three novels probably fifteen times between them over the last four years. I have a shelf of unread books I bought with genuine enthusiasm and I keep going back to the familiar ones instead,…
I have slouched at a desk for about a decade and started deliberately sitting upright a few weeks ago. Twenty minutes in it feels like actual work and I sag back without noticing. Does this stop being effortful, roughly…
Making about one 1kg batch a month for family and friends, no plans to sell. Deciding between a silicone loaf mould at around £18 and building a wooden box mould with freezer paper liners for roughly the same in…
First time using the water bath. Pulled a strip steak out of the bag after two hours at 130F and it looked like something that had been left in the sink, pale grey outside and damp all over. It smelled fine and the bag…
Bought a soft 1000 grit six weeks ago and have sharpened maybe ten knives on it. Laid a steel rule across it yesterday and there's a visible hollow through the middle, enough to see light under the rule. That feels fast…
It arrived rolled up in plastic and had a strong smell straight out of the box, a bit like a new car mixed with something sweeter. Three weeks later it is much fainter but I can still notice it when I get into bed at…
70 percent wool, 30 percent polyester, bought in October. Six weeks of wear and there are dense little pills along the seatbelt line across the chest and under both arms. Nowhere else. I have not washed it, it has only…
Added a second treatment room last year, build out and kit came to about 9k, plus around 300 a month in extra rent and utilities. Six months later it is used maybe eight hours a week out of a possible forty. The main…
Switched to a ceramide cream two weeks ago after my skin got tight and shiny from over exfoliating. It stings mildly for about ten seconds on application, mostly around my nose, then settles completely and my skin feels…
Small home studio, 3 by 4 metres, white ceiling and walls, one 60W COB with a 65cm softbox. Budget is about 250. I shoot seated interviews and product close ups. Everyone says a second light fixes separation, but in a…
First time leaving the country and everyone in my family has a different opinion, ranging from take nothing and use cards to carry a thousand in an envelope. Two weeks, mostly cities, plus a few days somewhere rural. I…
Seller has offered a run around the block, which he reckons is ten minutes. That felt short to me but I have no reference point and I do not want to be the buyer who is unreasonable about someone else's car and…