Everyone told me it'd trap moisture and rot the roof decking but after one cold snap my garage stayed 8 degrees warmer than my neighbor's who used batt insulation, has anyone else had good luck with closed cell up there?
I spilled my morning coffee last Tuesday and it landed exactly in the middle of my granite counter. The shape looked like a satellite photo of some desert island with a little peninsula. I stared at it for a solid 45 minutes before wiping it up because I kept seeing new details in the brown splatter pattern. Anyone else get stuck looking at accident stains way longer than makes sense?
Ran a 12-inch for years on the Mississippi near Baton Rouge. Swapped to a 10-inch last month because we hit a lot of clay and rocks. The before was constant clogging and slow digging. After the switch, we went from 3 hours of clearing blockages per shift to maybe 20 minutes. Anyone else seen a big change from downsizing cutterhead size on tougher material?
Was at a job site in Phoenix last week where a guy spent 4 hours sanding a 300 sq ft overlay smooth as glass. But my old boss taught me you want some tooth left for the sealer to bite into. Over-sanding makes it look nice for a day but then the sealer peels in 3 months. Has anyone else seen this happen on their projects?
I was following every recipe that said flip at 8 minutes, then again at 12. Last week I got lazy and kept the drumsticks in for 22 minutes straight at 375. Crispiest skin I ever got, no dry spots. Tried it again with thighs last night, same result. Has anyone else just stopped bothering with the mid-cook shake?
I had this job for a bracket that needed a tight .001 tolerance on the bore. I kept cutting and measuring, cutting and measuring, and it was still off by .003 every time. After 45 minutes and 3 scrap parts, my coworker walks over and points out I had the wrong tool in the offset table. What's the longest you've chased a ghost problem like that?
I was fixing a Panasonic DVD player from 2004 for a neighbor last weekend. There was a cracked capacitor near a plastic connector, and I worried the hot air would melt it. I went with my Hakko soldering iron and a pair of tweezers instead, taking it slow. The cap came off clean and the new one went in without any damage. Has anyone else had to pick between tools on a tight spot like that?
Had coffee with an old college buddy last week and he brought up my old Geocities page from 1998. He remembered the sparkly star cursor and the MIDI file that auto-played every time you loaded the page. But what hit me was when he said that site felt more like me than the polished portfolio I have now. I spent hours on that old thing just figuring out HTML tables and picking animated gifs that matched my mood. It was messy and full of typos but it had personality. My current design work is clean and professional but something got lost along the way. Has anyone else felt like their old school sites had more soul than the modern ones?
Tried plugging it into a modern Windows 11 laptop and the hard drive started clicking like crazy... apparently the old FireWire drivers are completely gone. Anybody know a workaround or is it truly dead tech now?
He said "don't press so hard, let the pencil do the work" and I still hear his voice every time I pick up a scale. Has anyone else had a random mentor like that stick with you for decades?