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…
First Pi, first project, so I have no baseline. It is in one of those aluminium cases where the whole shell is the heatsink, sitting on a desk in a room that is about 22C. Idle with nothing running it reports 59 to 61C.…
Fourteen months in and the constant thinking about them feeling has largely gone. Nothing is wrong. We're good together, no fights, still enjoy each other. But I notice I'm not counting hours until I see them, and I…
Five months in, evenings and weekends, product has been usable since month three and I have had lots of encouraging conversations and zero payments. Everyone I read about seems to get their first customer in week two.…
I soaked dried pinto beans overnight, drained them, and put them in with tomatoes, onion and stock for eight hours on low. They were still slightly chalky in the middle. Everyone I ask says beans in a slow cooker are…
Rented one bedroom flat, concrete ceiling I can't drill, no garden, no beams. Budget about £70. I can train outside at a park with bars but realistically only twice a week, and I want something indoors for the other…
Tiny kitchen, two burners, one of which is noticeably weaker. Cooking for two most nights, occasionally four. Budget is about 90 total. I keep going back and forth between one big 12 inch carbon steel that does…
First dividend I have ever been due. The record date was last week, the company announcement lists a payment date about three weeks out, and my account shows nothing at all, not even a pending line. Is the payment date…
Five weeks of flossing every night and it still feels like a decision I have to actively make, sometimes twice, standing in the bathroom. I keep reading 21 days and 66 days and getting different numbers everywhere. Is…
Started a small site in March, publishing one article a week, 12 posts up. Everything is indexed within a couple of days but impressions stay in single digits for weeks and clicks are basically zero. I keep reading that…
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…