Switched from a whole month on one page to a single week per spread and suddenly I'm actually filling the thing out instead of giving up by day 5; has anyone else found that scaling up the grid size fixes your consistency?
I used to just dump all the wet ingredients into the dry ones and stir until it looked smooth, thinking that's what you're supposed to do. Then my sister watched me bake last Thanksgiving and was like 'dude you're overmixing those into hockey pucks.' Now I do the thing where you make a well in the center and fold it gently like 12 times max, even if there's still some flour streaks. First batch of blueberry muffins after that trick came out soft and fluffy instead of dense bricks. Has anyone else had a simple mixing habit change completely change their baked goods?
I started with a closed terrarium for my ferns and everything got moldy after 2 weeks, but then I tried an open one with succulents and they're thriving 3 months later. Is the humidity difference really that massive or did I just pick the wrong plants for the closed setup?
Was reading through a FAA advisory circular last night and saw that some commuter jets can have one A&P do a full engine swap without a second sign off for certain operators. That surprised me since I always thought two sets of eyes were required for anything major. I work on 737s mostly and our manual says two signatures for any powerplant removal. Is this really a thing for the smaller birds or am I reading the reg wrong? Anyone here work at a regional that can tell me how it goes?
I had this jar of starter on the counter that I been feeding for like 2 months. Forgot to loosen the lid before I went to bed last Tuesday. Woke up at 3am to a loud POP and found sticky dough goo dripping from the light fixture. Still finding little dried bits in random places 4 days later. Has anyone else had a starter get that violent on them?
I left a box of my dad's old Maxell XLIIs in my truck for 3 days during that 95 degree stretch last July. It took me about 6 hours of careful rewinding and playing to figure out why half of them were warbly and shedding oxide. Has anyone else lost good tapes to heat damage like that?
I was gearing up on a bridge pier inspection in Seattle last month and overheard this guy telling his tender that the pressure gauge on his bailout bottle was stuck at 3000 psi and to just keep going. No joke. He said he'd been running dives like that for weeks. I called out the dive shop right then and the supervisor got pulled off rotation. Taking shortcuts on life support gear is how people end up dead. Has anyone else seen stuff like this slip through on their crews?
I was 3 hours into a dredging run near Baton Rouge when my main water pump just quit. No warning, no weird noise, just stopped pushing. Had to radio the shore crew and float dead for 2 hours while they brought out a backup. Turned out a seal blew from sediment buildup I'd been ignoring. Anyone else had a pump fail on them like that?
Was smoothing down the spine of a 400-page hardcover and my cheap bone folder just cracked at the handle. Had to finish the whole thing with the back of a metal spoon instead. Anyone have a favorite supplier for a decent bone folder that won't die on you after 3 months?
I brought home a new fern and within a week my three sealed terrariums were INFESTED. I had to quarantine everything and do a full substrate change. Has anyone else had pests jump from a houseplant to a closed system?