Four months in, ten minutes of scales at the start of every session, mostly C, G and D major, hands together, two octaves. I can play them and they are getting smoother, but I cannot point at a single thing in the…
Eight plants, all in the same room. I have been bottom watering only for three weeks, yellow sticky cards above every pot, and I let the top of the soil dry out properly between waterings. I catch maybe 20 gnats a week…
Three months of evenings. When something breaks I still feel a small drop in my stomach, scroll to the bottom, read the last line and start guessing. People around me seem to read the whole thing and go straight to the…
Did my first real lower body session on Monday, squats and lunges and some hamstring work, nothing heavy but a lot more than I'm used to. Tuesday I was fine, Wednesday I could barely sit down on a chair, and it's now…
Column of dates from an exported report. In the pivot, right click, Group is greyed out for the date field, and the rows show every single day as its own line. If I type a date manually into a blank cell it looks…
Personal budget tracker, 8000 rows, maybe 15 columns. Every edit hangs for 15 20 seconds before the cell updates. I assumed 8000 rows was tiny. There are a few VLOOKUPs, some SUMIFS pulling from other tabs, and about…
Quoted a flat 3,000 for a five page site based on a brief. Three weeks in we're at fourteen pages, two of which need a filterable listing, plus a newsletter integration nobody mentioned. Client is pleasant and seems to…
65 percent kit, 68 switches, through hole diodes already populated thankfully. Six hours across two evenings, and nothing went wrong at all. It works, it looks fine, no bridges. But I kept stopping to re read…
First attempt at rice koji. Soaked overnight, steamed 45 minutes, cooled to about 35C, inoculated with spores, wrapped in a cloth in a cooler with a warm water bottle. Bed temperature has been drifting between 30 and…
Six weeks into training, doing push ups on the floor with flat hands. Everything else feels fine but my wrists ache for about a day afterwards — not sharp, more like a dull soreness right at the crease where the hand…
Ten minute 1080p piece. My H.264 export is 1.8 GB, the file the client got from their previous editor is about 420 MB and looks the same to me on their monitor. I matched resolution and frame rate. They asked, politely,…
Same routine for a year. Moved house and the brewing spot is now about 18C instead of 24C. The tea still goes sour roughly on schedule but no new pellicle has formed across the surface in three consecutive batches, and…
My eight year old asked what the nap in kidnap means and I had absolutely nothing. It clearly isn't sleeping. Then she asked whether napkin is the same nap, which felt like a reasonable guess and I suspect is a…
Cooked a 1 inch ribeye at 133F for two hours, dried it, then seared in cast iron with oil for about two minutes a side to get a crust I was happy with. Cut into it and there is a 4mm grey ring all the way around, which…
Budgeted 42k, spent just over 50k in year one with no big one off purchases, no move, no new car. Categories all look slightly higher rather than one obviously blowing out. I tracked everything the same way I did while…
Every case binding, the pasted down endpaper goes on flat and then within ten minutes there are ripples running parallel to the spine that never fully press out. 100gsm coloured paper, PVA straight from the bottle,…
Made my first toile for a simple button front shirt in cheap calico. Drag lines from the bust to the armpit, gaping at the neckline, and the shoulder seam sits about 2cm behind where my shoulder actually is. I measured…
Left after work drinks at half seven having genuinely enjoyed it, and then sat in the car for ten minutes unable to face driving. Needed about two hours of silence at home before I felt like myself. This is not anxiety…
I've done it twice now. Both machines sit open in front of me, both use the same headset via a USB switch, and in a hurry I hit unmute on the wrong window and start talking into the wrong meeting. Nothing sensitive got…
Fourteen nights, roughly 1800 dollars including internal transport but not the flight in. My instinct is four cities because I might never come back, but a friend who travels a lot says I'll spend the whole trip in…
I have a job and a small child, so I get roughly 45 minutes after bedtime and maybe two hours on a Saturday. By the time I have opened everything and remembered what I was doing, half of it is gone, and I usually end up…
Hard little green dots that will not wipe off, and they are exclusively on the anubias, the crypts and the java fern next to them are clean. I already cut the photoperiod from eight hours to six a month ago and it made…
Standing forward fold, hands nowhere near the floor, about mid shin. If I straighten my legs my back rounds heavily from the low back. If I keep the back flat I have to bend the knees a lot. It has been exactly like…
Cleared out about half my wardrobe six weeks ago because most of it didn't fit or I never wore it. Now getting dressed takes twice as long and everything I kept feels slightly off, even things I used to like. I keep…
Running about a dozen containers behind a reverse proxy. After every host reboot, eleven of them come up fine and one returns 502 until I manually restart that container, after which it works for weeks. The container…