People keep confusing natural gas with propane for kitchen stoves and it drives me crazy

I was helping my aunt set up her new stove last Saturday in her cabin upstate. She kept saying it was natural gas but I saw the tank outside was clearly propane. The fittings are different the pressure is different and if you hook up a natural gas line to a propane stove you'll get a fireball. I learned this the hard way when I helped a buddy in Brooklyn hook up his grill wrong 3 years ago. Has anyone else seen electricians or plumbers mix these two up at work?

TIL sorting bookmarks by date added shows how my interests shifted over 5 years

I was cleaning out my browser bookmarks last night and decided to sort them by date added instead of alphabetically. The oldest ones from 2019 were all about vegan recipes and beginner guitar tabs, stuff I was obsessed with back then. Then around 2021 I had a whole folder of job hunting sites and resume templates. The newest bookmarks are mostly gardening forums and a tutorial on how to fix a leaky faucet. It was kind of wild seeing my life phases laid out like that in just a list of links. Has anyone else noticed a pattern in their bookmarks that tells a story about them?

Noticed a huge difference in panel labeling after 6 months

I took over a building downtown that had panels from three different eras. The old stuff from the 70s was labeled in pencil, half of it worn off. The 90s panels had a label maker job that was peeling. But the panels that got labeled with those Brady labels back in March? Still look brand new. No fading, no curling. The property manager before me must have just used whatever tape was lying around. Have you guys noticed a big difference between labeling methods over time?

That week last July when nothing went right with shoes

Had a horse last summer that just would not stand still no matter what I tried. Took me 45 minutes just to get the fronts done because she kept shifting weight every time I got close with the rasp. Then my forge propane ran out halfway through heating the back shoes and I had to drive 30 miles to the nearest supplier to refill. By the time I got back it was pushing 95 degrees and the horse was sweating worse than me. Has anyone else had one of those weeks where you question if you picked the right trade?

Swallowed my pride and $25 on a set of those meal prep containers with the snap-lid vents that claimed to keep salad crisp for a week

After tossing out a soggy, fermented mess of romaine and cherry tomatoes on day three I'm wondering if anyone has found a container that actually works for more than 48 hours or if I should just go back to making salads the morning of?.

Talked to a retired librarian at a thrift store about her old date due cards

That cheap air mattress I bought for hostels popped on night 2 in Prague

I was staying at the Mosaic House hostel in Prague last month and decided to save money by using my own air mattress instead of paying extra for a proper bed. It was one of those 15 dollar vinyl ones from a random shop. On the second night I woke up at 3am flat on the floor with a hissing sound coming from a seam. I tried patching it with duct tape from the front desk but it just peeled off after 10 minutes. Ended up sleeping on the hostel couch for the rest of the trip which was actually fine but my back hated me. Anyone else have a travel gear failure that forced a weird backup plan?

Vent: That foreman who swore by a wet cure on a 90 degree day

Old Bob told me to keep the burlap soaked every 2 hours on that slab in Phoenix, I figured I knew better and let it dry out. Sure enough, had to grind down 3 big cracks after it set, $400 out of my pocket to fix it. Anyone else learn that lesson the hard way?

Pulled a 1970s Polaroid camera out of a dumpster behind a CVS in Tulsa

Figured it was junk but took it home anyway, cleaned it up, and ordered some fresh film online. First shot came out all washed out and blurry, but the second one actually developed into a pretty cool picture of my cat. Anyone else ever resurrect old cameras from the trash?

Just realized half the people on my block are using the wrong insulation for our winters

My attic was freezing after a new layer of fiberglass batts, but switching to spray foam made a $150 difference on my last Enmax bill. Anyone else in Edmonton find a specific product that actually works here?