Ngl, I always thought travel insurance was a waste of money until I shared a bunk with this guy from Australia. He told me his policy paid for a $1,200 hospital visit after he got food poisoning in Cartagena. Honestly, seeing his receipt made me realize I was gambling with my safety for like $50 a month. Anyone else skip insurance and regret it later?
I used to rely on my phone for trail mapping on my ATV up near Bancroft. Last fall I hit a spot with no cell service for about 2 hours and got turned around pretty bad. That pushed me to buy a $60 handheld GPS off a discount site. It kept losing signal under tree cover and the maps were just basic lines. Now I save up for a proper Garmin unit with topo maps built in. Has anyone else found that cheap GPS units are worse than just using a paper map in dense bush?
I went on a 2 week vacation last month and left my one tomato plant to fend for itself. Came back to a dried out, droopy mess with leaves curling up like they were giving up. Figured it was a goner but I watered it anyway just to be nice. Three weeks later that same ugly plant has 12 massive tomatoes on it, all lumpy and weird shaped. They taste better than the perfect looking ones from the grocery store for sure. Anyone else have a plant that thrives on pure neglect?
By the time I figured out that extra water was the issue, the concrete was already starting to set and I had to work like crazy just to get it passable, has anyone else dealt with a batch plant pushing wet loads late in the day?
Last Tuesday it hit 103 here in Phoenix and I came home to find three of my hens panting like crazy in the run. I rushed to set up a misting fan I had laying around from my HVAC work and threw some frozen water bottles in their water. One of them ended up with egg binding from the stress and I had to do a warm bath soak on Wednesday night. Has anyone else dealt with heat related issues like this, what do you do to keep your girls cool when it spikes?
My rolls from a bright day came out washed out and flat, but the overcast shots had way more color and less harsh shadows. Anyone else find that cloudy weather actually gives better results with certain film stocks?
Last July in Phoenix we had that 5 day stretch of 115 degrees and my 8 hens just stopped moving. They were all huddled under the coop panting with their wings out and I panicked thinking something got in. I ran out with a hose and misted them down plus set up a kiddie pool with ice packs and within 2 hours they were back to normal. Turns out they were just overheating bad and I almost called the vet for nothing. Has anyone else had their birds go totally limp from heat before I lost a whole day of work over it?
I had a client send me a set of redlines last week for a commercial tenant improvement and FOUR of the dimension strings didn't even add up. Like the overall length was 45 feet but the individual room dimensions added to 52. How do you miss that? I had to stop my whole drafting workflow to call him and walk through every single measurement. It cost me half a day of billable time. Has anyone else dealt with clients who just eyeball their dimensions instead of actually checking them?
I've been doing board-level repair for about 3 years now, mostly for a local shop in Austin. This month I hit my 50th repair, which is way more than usual for me. What surprised me was that 12 of those were just bad capacitors on the same Asus model from 2021. I almost missed this pattern because I was treating each one like a new problem. Has anyone else seen a big spike in failures from a specific motherboard batch this year?
I rewatched Cyber City Oedo 808 last week and the animation felt more like a slideshow half the time, even if the aesthetic is cool. Has anyone else found older OVAs just don't hold up action-wise compared to modern stuff like Jujutsu Kaisen?
