I had a regular at my farmers market booth in Portland tell me straight up my sourdough was too tangy. Said it reminded her of vinegar and she couldn't enjoy it with butter. I pushed back at first because I thought that's what sourdough fans want. But after a few more people made similar comments over two weeks, I lowered my bulk fermentation time from 14 hours to 9. The bread still has character but it's more balanced now. Have any of you adjusted your recipes based on customer feedback and regretted it later or was it worth it?
I dropped $800 on a fancy CRM last spring thinking it would organize all my leads and jobs for my landscaping company... but the setup was so complicated I spent 3 weeks just trying to import my client list. Ended up going back to a simple spreadsheet and Google Calendar, which actually saved me time and money. Anyone else get burned by expensive software that promised the world but couldn't deliver on the basics?
I was stacking some pine boards last weekend and decided to count everything I had saved from pallets and old fences. Turns out I had 104 board feet just sitting there from the last 8 months. That's like $200 worth of lumber I didn't have to buy for my new raised planter bed. Has anyone else measured their stash and realized how much free material they actually have?
I was at this old diner on Euclid Ave last Tuesday, arguing with my buddy about which laptop has the best battery life for under $600. Then I knocked my whole mug over onto my coworker's Dell and it shorted out instantly. Now I always keep a silicone keyboard cover in my bag - any of you guys carry one around just in case?
I came home from work and found this greenish liquid leaking from my top shelf onto a bag of spinach and some carrots. The eggs were from a batch I made like 3 months ago, so I'm guessing the seal failed or something. My buddy says just wipe down the jars that were nearby and keep the unopened stuff, but my wife thinks any porous veggie that got touched by that liquid is done for. Has anyone dealt with a fridge bomb like this before, and did you end up trashing everything or just the contaminated parts?
I had a three day window to stain a big cedar deck in Lakewood back in July and the weather was supposed to hold steady, but by 9 AM the wind kicked up and dust from a nearby construction site settled all over the wet stain. Ended up having to sand the whole thing down and start over the next day, which pushed us into Saturday and cost me an extra $400 in labor. Has anyone else had a simple job spiral into a nightmare over something dumb like weather?
The water just sat there and bred mosquitoes instead of soaking in, so I learned you really need to dig down past the clay layer at least 2 feet before it actually drains anything around here in central Texas, anyone else have to scrap their whole system and start over after following advice from somebody in a different climate?
I’ve been running 5k’s for about a year. My usual is 24 minutes. Last month a guy at a local 5k in Austin told me I looked stiff and my arms weren’t swinging right. He said I was holding my shoulders up near my ears. I thought he was just being annoying. But I tried loosening my arms on my next run and dropped to 23:15. Now I can’t tell if it’s just a fluke or if form actually matters that much. Anyone else had a small tweak like this blow up your numbers?
I was out front watering my plants last Tuesday when my neighbor Betty came over. She's 68 and moves better than I do at 35. She told me she's been doing this same 3-move stretch routine every morning since 2004, never more than 5 minutes. She showed me how she just sits on the floor and does a simple hamstring stretch, a shoulder roll thing, and a neck tilt. I tried it the next day and it actually loosened up my lower back without any sweat. Has anyone else found a tiny routine like this that they actually stuck with for years?
Everyone said I needed coilovers to get the look right but I tried a cheap set of drop springs from Summit Racing anyway. They rode stiff for weeks then softened up nice how is that any different from breaking in a new set of Bilsteins?