Rant: My $120 GPS watch died on day two of the Wind River Range loop

Battery crapped out halfway up Texas Pass, leaving me with just a paper map. It was a total waste and almost got me turned around in the fog. Anyone have a reliable altimeter watch they actually trust for a full week out?

Tried a 3-degree pad on a navicular case in Lexington and got a weird reaction

I was working on a Quarter Horse with a long history of navicular pain, and after talking with the vet, we decided to try a 3-degree wedge pad to change the breakover. The horse actually seemed more sore for the first two days after the shoeing, which was the opposite of what we expected. I'm wondering if the angle change was too much too fast, or if we missed something else in the trim. Has anyone else seen a horse get worse before getting better with a wedge pad?

Trying to attach a rusty gear to a piece of driftwood took me three whole evenings!

My password manager flagged 22 duplicate passwords across my accounts this morning

I was cleaning up my Bitwarden vault and it showed I had reused the same password for 22 different logins, from my old college email to my bank. That's way more than I thought, and it means if one site gets hacked, all those accounts are at risk. Has anyone else had a shock like this when they finally checked their password habits?

Question about the best time to visit the Grand Canyon. Everyone says summer but locals know it's a mess then.

Warning: I paid $40 for a sealed copy of 'Blinx: The Time Sweeper' and the disc was rotted

I found it at a flea market about six months ago, still in the plastic wrap. The case looked perfect, so I thought it was a safe buy for my original Xbox collection. When I opened it, the disc had that weird bronze color and wouldn't read at all. The seller was long gone, so I was just out the cash. It's a known issue with some Xbox games from that era, but you never think it'll happen to you. Has anyone else gotten burned by disc rot on a game they were really excited to play?

I switched from buying pre-cut shelves to making my own with a simple jig

About a year ago, I needed a 28-inch shelf for a closet and kept finding only 24 or 30-inch ones at the store. I bought a cheap circular saw and a 2x10 board, then built a basic crosscut jig from a scrap piece of plywood. Now I can cut any shelf to the exact size I need in about five minutes, and it saves me around $15 per shelf. Has anyone else built a simple jig that made a common task way easier?

Update: I tried to pick between Python and JavaScript for my first real thing

My friend said 'just pick one and build a dumb website that shows cat facts', so I went with JavaScript because I thought it was just for websites. Turns out I spent two whole days just trying to get Node.js installed on my old laptop before I even wrote a single line of code. Should I have just started with Python and saved the setup headache?

My old camping stove just hit 500 meals cooked

I was cleaning my trusty WhisperLite International last night and saw the tally marks I've been making on the fuel bottle sleeve. I started it back in 2012 for a trip in the White Mountains, and it just crossed 500 meals. It's been through everything from snow in Montana to rain in Oregon and still lights on the first try. What's the oldest piece of gear you're still using every season?

I've been shuffling my Dominion cards wrong for like five years

A guy at our game night in Seattle pointed out I was doing the 'mash shuffle' which bends the cards, and showed me the proper 'overhand' method. Anyone else have a basic game rule or technique they totally missed for ages?