Did you check inside the Carcassonne box itself... right where it should've been?

Have you ever found something in the clearance section that was a total steal? I grabbed a really nice pair of leather boots once for almost nothing because the box was beaten up. The boots themselves were perfect. It is amazing how much good stuff ends up there if you are patient enough to dig through it.

Oh come on, it's really not that deep. I mean yeah cold butter helps but people act like it's this huge secret that'll change your life. You don't need to dump it in ice cubes like you're making a fancy cocktail. Just stick your butter in the freezer for ten minutes before you start, that's what I do and it works fine. All this extra fussing around with ice cubes just makes more mess and cleanup for no real reason. Unless you're entering a bake-off for a blue ribbon, nobody's gonna taste the difference anyway.

Oh man, I feel that. I used to keep a notebook under my keyboard for passwords until my nephew spilled juice all over it during a visit. Switched to a password manager after that and honestly it's way less hassle than trying to hide a piece of paper somewhere clever. Now I just let the app handle everything and don't have to worry about getting locked out again.

He said he does it all the time" - yeah, well, I've seen guys say that and then eat their words. The thing nobody's mentioning is how the weight shifts when the boom is fully extended and swinging. A 50 ton crane with a 100 foot boom moving a load laterally while on wet ground, that's a lot of lateral force. The outriggers aren't just holding it up. They're anchoring it against tipping sideways. Soft ground gives way faster when the pressure comes from an angle instead of straight down. I've seen a boom truck tilt just from the ground giving out under one pad during a swing. It doesn't have to be a full tip to wreck your day.