Shoutout to the guy who talked me into a heated vest for cold water jobs

I was working a long job in Lake Michigan last November and the water was 38 degrees. Spent about $300 on a good heated vest that runs off my dive pack. It made a huge difference, I could stay down longer without getting stiff. Anyone else use something like this for winter dives?

Rant: I used to sketch everything on paper, now it's all on my iPad

I switched about a year ago after a client in Chicago needed revisions in under an hour. The undo button alone has saved so many fabric swatches from my coffee spills. Does anyone else feel like they've lost the 'feel' of the paper, or is it just me?

Unpopular opinion: I think the pressure to make a bullet journal look perfect is missing the point

Last month, I was setting up my weekly spread at a coffee shop in Boise and spilled my entire iced coffee across the page, ruining a tracker I'd spent an hour on. Instead of starting over, I just blotted it dry, wrote 'coffee incident' in the margin, and kept using the messy page. Has anyone else had a big mistake that actually made their journal more useful to them?

Counted 17,000 bricks laid on a single job in Tacoma and it hit me how much we actually move

I tried two ways to track my freelance hours and one saved my sanity

For years I just wrote my hours in a notebook, but last month I tried a free app called Clockify against my old paper method. The app caught over $200 in billable time I would have missed because I forgot to write down a few quick calls. Now I can see exactly where my week went instead of guessing. Has anyone else found a simple tool that made a big difference in getting paid for all their work?

Question about a handwritten ad for vinyl record cleaning I saw on a laundromat wall.

It got me thinking how we used to care for physical media. Now most music is digital, but some people still cherish the old stuff. The ad had a drawing of a record player on it.

Seeing tons of styrofoam trays headed for the dumpster daily

This waste is killing our planet and our profits.