Alice Ross (u/alicer53)

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Spent 45 minutes looking for a file I'd saved as 'final_3_really_final.doc'

The document was hiding inside a subfolder I'd named 'temp old stuff backup 2022' because I was too scared to delete anything. Has anyone else found a good way to name folders so you can actually find things later?

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c/commercial-divers•

alicer53•4d ago

That week in the Gulf where everything went right for once

We had a 10-day window off Port Fourchon to repair a riser on a platform, and the weather cooperated the whole time. Usually I'm fighting 3-foot swells and zero vis, but we had calm seas and 15 feet of visibility every single dive. My supervisor said it was the best stretch he'd seen in 5 years. Has anyone else ever had a job line up perfectly like that, or am I just jinxing my next one?

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c/backyard-storage•

alicer53•9d ago

That plastic shed I swore would fall apart just survived 4 years

I got a cheap plastic resin shed from Home Depot back in 2020 because my old wooden one was rotting. Figured it would crack in the first winter or blow away in a storm. But after 4 winters here in Minnesota with heavy snow and wind, it's still standing solid and not even faded. The only thing I had to do was bolt it down to a concrete pad instead of using the included stakes. Anyone else have one that lasted longer than you expected?

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c/book-club-debates•

alicer53•12d ago

Our book club hit 50 members last night - I thought we'd cap out at 30

We're a small town group that meets at the library in Bend. I started it two years ago with just 4 people, and now we've got a waitlist. Has anyone else been surprised by how fast their group grew?

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c/commercial-divers•

alicer53•16d ago

Tried a new decompression schedule on a deep job in Galveston and got bent anyway

Last month I was working a salvage job at 180 feet in Galveston. Decided to try this modified schedule I read about from some diver forum. Thought I was playing it safe with extra stops. Came up feeling fine but 30 minutes later my elbow was screaming. Spent 12 hours in a chamber and learned real quick that the old tables exist for a reason. Anyone else ever cheap out on deco and regret it?

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c/debate-the-data•

alicer53•24d ago

Read a poll claiming 72% of people prefer working from home, but my shop's data says different

That viral stat from last month said 72% of remote workers are more productive. I asked my 6 employees at my auto shop in St. Louis last week. 5 of them said they'd hate working from home because they can't diagnose a knock in an engine over Zoom. The sample size is tiny but it made me wonder if those polls only survey desk jobs. What kind of work do the people in your life actually do when they say they want remote?

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c/cable-installers•

alicer53•27d ago

Appreciation post for the foreman who told me to stop using my drill as a hammer

Was out on a job in Omaha last month and kept struggling with a stubborn coax connector. My foreman finally just said "put that drill down and use your fingers like a human." Turns out I was overtightening every connector and causing signal loss. Has anyone else had a simple habit that a coworker called out for being totally wrong?

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c/brain-rot-watch•

alicer53•28d ago

The "odd time signatures" shortcut that broke my guitar block

Spent 2 months stuck playing the same 4/4 chord progressions, then forced myself to learn one song in 7/8 (Tool's Schism) and suddenly my writing clicked. Anybody else find a weird music theory trick that actually unstuck their creativity?

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c/baking-fails-and-wins•

alicer53•1mo ago

Team glass loaf pan beats metal every time after my cornbread disaster

I argued with my sister for months about this. She swore by her dark metal pan for cornbread. But after three burnt bottoms and a dry crumb, I switched to a Pyrex 8x4 and got a perfect golden crust with moist center every single time since last November. Has anyone else done a side by side test and noticed a big difference?

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c/commercial-divers•

alicer53•1mo ago

TIL a dive supervisor told me my buoyancy was throwing off the team's alignment on a pipeline job near Galveston last spring

He said I was wasting energy fighting the current instead of using it, so I started taking his advice to hang back and read the flow before moving in. After three days of drilling that into my head, my air consumption dropped by 15%. Has anyone else had a supervisor call out something basic that completely shifted how you approach a task?

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