Wait is that 0.45% right though lol I thought Schwab's high-yield checking was at 0.30% last I checked? Their investor checking with the brokerage account is 0.45% but only if you also have a linked brokerage account or something. Still way better than 0.01% though so no hate on the move.

You said "it's just normal cooking" and honestly, that's what I thought too until a buddy of mine told me about his neighbor. She was a single mom on a really tight budget and she used to take one pack of chicken thighs and stretch them over four days. She'd boil the bones with some celery and carrot scraps to make broth for soup one night, shred the leftover meat for tacos another, and then use the broth to cook rice with a little leftover chicken for a third meal. He said she never complained about it or made it feel like a struggle, she just treated it like regular cooking. So yeah, some folks might call it normal, but for people who really have to make every penny count, it's a skill not everybody knows.

Muscle memory is a weird thing, but I think it's more about your brain finally getting out of its own way. You spend all that time fighting bad habits and overthinking, then one day you just let your body do what it's been practicing. Then your brain shows back up and screws everything up again. For me, the perfect streaks usually happen when I stop caring so much about each bead and just trust the puddle. The second I start analyzing why it's going good, I might as well pack up for the day.

You're actually probably salty but also not wrong. Those services love to throw around "results-driven professional" and "synergistic approach" but HR folks see right through that stuff. Did your friend mention what specifically they wanted to see that the service missed?

Haha, "ate up all the reach" is exactly what my buddy in Denver said when he tried to snake a drain in an old building off Colfax. He had this cheap single brush head and the pipe had like three 45 degree turns in a row. He spent two hours just feeding it in and pulling it back out, cussing the whole time. Finally he just gave up and went back to the truck for the triple brush, and he said it was a totally different job after that.