I wipe the chain down most evenings and relube maybe once a week, and by the following weekend there's visible surface rust on the rollers and the plates. Riding about 15km a day on roads they salt heavily from…
Planted an 18x18x24 six weeks ago with a pothos cutting, two small ferns, a bromeliad and some moss on the background. Everything is alive and nothing has died, but it looks exactly like it did on day one. The pothos…
Card is 4100 at 22 percent, car loan is 9800 at 6 percent with four years left. Income is stable, no other debt, and I have about 800 in savings. The 300 a month is genuinely spare after everything including a small…
Six indeterminate plants in the ground, mulched, drip line twice a week for about 40 minutes. Over the last ten days the upper leaves on four of them have rolled up along the midrib and feel thick, almost like plastic.…
Four small holes in a fine gauge merino jumper, each about 5mm. Every time I work on one it gets bigger, because the cut ends of the yarn keep pulling back as I handle the fabric. By the time I've secured one side the…
Same bottle, same brand, same everything. For two years my hair was soft and had volume. Since about six weeks ago the exact same conditioner leaves a film — waxy at the roots the next day and looking greasy by…
Team of nine, about 60 pipeline runs a day, suite is 22 minutes of which roughly 14 is integration tests hitting a local Postgres. Budget I can defend is around $300 a month. I can either pay for bigger hosted runners…
Happened twice this week in the same hotel. Shower is fine, then a distant flush, then about two seconds later it goes genuinely painful and I'm pressed against the tile. It settles back down after twenty seconds or so.…
Trying to get to about 140g a day and I plateau around 90 because I run out of ideas by dinner. I have eaten chicken breast and rice five days a week for a month and I am starting to dread lunch. No allergies, I cook,…
Sales matrix, product hierarchy on rows, months across columns, four measures. Two million rows in the fact table, which I thought was nothing. It takes 35 45 seconds every time a slicer changes. Other visuals on the…
Shooting seriously for about eight months. A three hour walk gives me maybe 300 frames and two I actually like. It feels wasteful and I cannot tell whether it means I am shooting too much, culling too harshly, or…
Bought a young sheng cake on a recommendation and it is aggressive: bitter, drying, and it gives me a strange hollow feeling if I drink it before lunch. Everyone says it mellows with age. Are we talking one year, ten,…
Broken in boots, about 120 miles on them. Every hike past six miles I get a hot spot on the right heel that turns into a blister if I ignore it, and the left foot is perfectly fine. Same sock on both feet, laced the…
18g in the stock double basket, 36g out, and the shot takes 38 to 42 seconds, which by every guide I have read should be over extracted. It tastes sharply sour with a bitter edge underneath. I have gone three steps…
It runs but takes two full cycles to dry a normal load, and the repair quote is 180 for a heating element and thermostat. A plain replacement without any smart features is about 600 here. We do maybe five loads a week…
Ryzen 7 7700X, B650 board, 2x16GB DDR5 6000 kit in A2/B2, EXPO enabled. About one cold boot in four the BIOS reports the full 32GB, the rest of the time it says 16GB and Windows agrees. Reseating the sticks fixes it for…
Six months in. A card with a nine month interval came up yesterday and I had absolutely no idea. Not a hazy memory, nothing. It shook me because I thought the whole point was that this stops happening. Is this expected…
A guide that has ranked in the top three for its main term since 2023 fell to positions 8 12 over about nine days in June and traffic went from roughly 1,400 to 550 sessions a week. No changes to the page, no changes to…
Coffee goes in at home, I want it drinkable four hours later at the desk. The flask lives in a rucksack with a laptop and gets dropped onto tiled floors maybe once a month. My last one was plastic bodied and cracked at…
Budget is about 200 for everything including storage. It lives on a bookshelf in the living room so noise matters, and it needs to be on all the time. Usually one stream direct playing to a TV, occasionally a second…
Been baking a year and this only started in the last month, which is also when my kitchen went from 20C to 26C. Same recipe, 75 percent hydration, strong white flour. First two coil folds are fine, dough is smooth and…
Gravel setup, 40mm tyre on a 23mm internal hookless rim, tubeless with about 60ml of sealant. On dry hardpack corners at 25 psi the front lets go of a burst of air and I lose maybe 3 psi each time. The bead is seated…
Ten year old indoor cat, threw up three times between 7am and noon. First one had food in it, the last two were mostly clear liquid with a bit of foam. Since then she has eaten a small meal, kept it down, and is…
Two of my six started laying about ten days ago. The eggs are maybe half the size I expected and yesterday I found one that was just a membrane sac, no shell at all, sitting under the roost. They're on layer pellets…
Standard international twist converter in a steel nibbed pen. It fills to roughly half and then stops taking ink, even doing the plunge and twist trick five or six times. The pen writes fine on what it does take. New…