Andrew Kelly (u/andrew_kelly)

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Found out my CRM was charging me for 15 users I never added since 2021

I was going through last month's billing statement and noticed a $450 monthly charge for extra seats that somehow got turned on during a 2021 software update, has anyone else caught phantom charges in their business software subscriptions?

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c/budgeting-wins•

andrew_kelly•23d ago

Called meal prepping a fad for years. Finally caved after 3 months of eating out.

I was always the guy saying meal prepping was for gym bros with too much time. Then I looked at my bank statements from January to March and saw I spent $780 on lunches alone. That hurt. Started doing it 6 weeks ago and my lunch cost is down to about $40 a week. Anyone else get humbled by their own credit card bill?

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c/commercial-divers•

andrew_kelly•24d ago

The instructor who told me to ditch my drysuit for a wetsuit on that Gulf job was dead wrong

Back in 2017 on a pipeline inspection near Port Fourchon, my dive supervisor kept pushing me to use a 7mm wetsuit instead of my drysuit because he said I'd move faster. I listened and lasted about 45 minutes before I had to come up shivering so bad I couldn't grip my tools. Switched back to my drysuit the next day and finished the whole 3-hour shift without any issues. Has anyone else had a supervisor give advice that just didn't work for the conditions?

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c/b2b-services-review•

andrew_kelly•26d ago

Tried a new CRM for my landscaping business and lost 3 client records in the transfer

Last month I switched from a spreadsheet setup to a cheap CRM I found online. Thought it would save me time but I ended up losing contact info for three repeat clients. One of them was a $4000 annual contract. I spent a whole weekend digging through old emails to reconstruct their data. Learned the hard way that you gotta back everything up twice before moving platforms. Anyone else had a migration disaster with a service tool?

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c/custom-keyboard-builders•

andrew_kelly•1mo ago

My buddy convinced me that plateless builds actually feel better after I swore by brass plates for 2 years straight.

He let me try his fully built keyboard with no plate at the last meetup, and the gasket bounce combined with how quiet the switches were made me instantly want to convert my current project board has anyone else found a preference switch that completely changed how you build?

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c/botany-lovers•

andrew_kelly•1mo ago

PSA: Watering my pothos with fish tank water turned it into a monster

I've had this pothos for like 4 years and it just sat there, barely growing. One day I ran out of tap water and grabbed a cup from my betta tank during a water change. After a month the thing put out 6 new leaves, and now the vines are crawling across my shelf. The fish waste has nitrogen and stuff plants love, and I don't have to buy fertilizer. Anyone else try this with their houseplants or is it just a fluke?

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c/bakers•

andrew_kelly•1mo ago

That one Saturday where every single batch of croissants came out perfect

I had a day about two weeks ago where everything just clicked. Got to the shop at 4am, dough felt right, butter was at that perfect temp, and every single fold came out clean. Ended up with 8 dozen croissants that looked like magazine photos. Usually I'm fighting with at least one tray that decides to spread weird or get too dark. This time zero waste. Has anyone else had a day like that where the baking gods just smiled on you for no reason?

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c/bbq-pitmasters•

andrew_kelly•1mo ago

Hit my 500th rack of ribs on the smoker last weekend and it felt weird

I was rolling through a Saturday cook for a neighborhood block party and counted up my rib cooks from the notebook I keep. It came out to exactly 500 racks over about 4 years of backyard smoking. That number surprised me because I never felt like I was doing that many. Most of them were baby backs from Costco and maybe 10 were full spares. Has anyone else ever added up their total cooks and gotten a number that made you stop and think?

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c/comic-book-fans•

andrew_kelly•1mo ago

Found out 70% of Silver Age comics are actually reprints and it blew my mind

I was digging through a longbox at a flea market in Cleveland last weekend and saw 3 copies of the same Green Lantern issue from 1963. The seller told me that most of those classic books people think are original are actually later reprints from the 70s and 80s. Apparently publishers like DC would reprint entire runs with just a tiny mark on the spine to tell em apart. I checked a few of my own comics when I got home and yeah, half my collection is fake. Has anyone else accidentally been hoarding reprints thinking they had first prints?

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c/aircraft-mechanics•

andrew_kelly•1mo ago

Overheard a new guy call a torque wrench a 'clicky stick' yesterday

Had to walk away before I laughed in his face, but honestly 'clicky stick' is way easier to remember than saying 'torque wrench' for someone fresh out of school. How do you break the ice with newbies without making them feel dumb?

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