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28m ago
inMy writing group told me to use 3 random words as prompts, and handing someone else the reins broke my 8 month dry spell
The random words just gave you a way out of the real problem, which was you agonizing over picking the perfect prompt. I'd bet money you could've written 900 words on grapefruit alone if you'd stopped trying to find the right thing to write about.
10d ago
inThought I was a pro at torque specs, then a 767 taught me otherwise
Reminds me of when I was learning to weld and my old boss swore up and down that you always tack both ends first to stop warping. Did it that way for years until a pipe fitter showed me a job where that actually made things worse because of how the part was clamped. Turns out the procedure sheet had a whole different order depending on the joint type and nobody ever told me. My boss wasn't wrong, he just learned one way and never ran into the case that broke it. Same deal with your manual, the chart is the easy answer but the notes under it are where the real info hides. Stuff like that makes you wonder how many other pages we all skip past because we think we already know the job.
11d ago
inI finally hit 100 weird combos and my top rated one surprised me
Soy sauce on cantaloupe beating out hot sauce ice cream is wild to me because that sounds so plain on paper. The salty sweet combo makes sense though, kinda like how people put salt on watermelon in the summer. Simple stuff really does win sometimes.