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13d ago

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Vent: I think small weekly savings are overrated compared to big picture cuts

Did you ever add up what you were spending on bank fees and interest? Thats where the real money goes, not dish soap.

13d ago

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Saw a guy on a mobile crane skip his outrigger pads on wet ground last Tuesday

My neighbor tried to level his RV on a wet side yard once with stacked boards. The whole thing went sideways and his awning got all bent up. Reminds me, there's a reason they put those greenway signs on soft ground.

15d ago

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That moss propagation trick I picked up at the Portland Garden Show

Wait, like the yogurt you eat or some weird gardening yogurt?

15d ago

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Bumped into a retired weatherman at a bus stop and he told me something wild about rain

And honestly, that's how a lot of things work if you really stop to think about them. I mean, take the dust that settles on your coffee table. A little pile of it looks harmless, but think about all those microscopic little flakes of dead skin and dirt just piling up over months. Same with the pressure on your ears when you go underwater even just a few feet. It's a gentle squeeze at first, but go down a little deeper and it's a real force. I guess the lesson here is that anything in big enough numbers stops being romantic and just becomes physics.

15d ago

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Unpopular opinion: those cheap scanner tools from Amazon are actually decent

Except those cheap scanners can't do half the stuff I need them to. My Snap-on gives me live data on every sensor and lets me run active tests that have saved my ass more times than I can count. A basic code reader might get you by once but it won't help you track down a intermittent short or program a module when your truck really starts acting up.