He swore by a quart of Dexron III in the fuel tank every 3,000 miles to keep the plungers lubed on my 7.3 Powerstroke, and after 6 months of doing it the injector stutter is completely gone has anyone else heard of this trick?
I was at a Starbucks in Portland last month working on my bujo and spent 45 minutes trying to draw this elaborate October cover page. Ended up messing up the lettering three times, ripped the page out, and just wrote "Oct" in black pen. Honestly felt way better just using that space for a weekly layout instead. Has anyone else abandoned fancy cover pages for something more practical?
A guy on a commercial job in Raleigh let me borrow his rotary laser for one afternoon and I measured back with my tape and everything was dead on, so I went home and tossed the string in the trash the next day.
I was trimming out a closet in a 1920s house in Portland last week. Hit a spot where the baseboard wouldn't sit flush no matter how much I shimmed it. Took me three hours to figure out there was an old rusty nail strip buried under three layers of paint and drywall compound. Anyone else deal with mystery obstacles hiding in old trim work?
I was looking for a fantasy landscape for my office wall and had $200 to spend. I could either use Midjourney to make something cool in 10 minutes or pay a local artist I found on Instagram for a custom piece. I went with the AI at first because it was faster, but the print just felt empty on my wall... no story behind it. Ended up reaching back out to the artist and she made me a forest scene with a hidden fox that my kid spots every morning. Has anyone else switched back to human art after trying the AI shortcut?
Honestly, I was about to rent a truck and haul like 20 bags of branches to the dump myself. Called the city office in Austin on a whim and they said they'll swing by and grab it all for free if you just stack it curbside. Has anyone else found random free services from their local government that nobody talks about?
I was at a friend’s kitchen in Portland last weekend making sourdough, and I totally blanked on zeroing out the scale with the mixing bowl on it. Ended up adding about 200 extra grams of flour without realizing it until the dough was already proofing. Figured it would be a disaster, a dense brick or something... but the loaves came out super fluffy with a nice open crumb. Now I’m wondering if my old digital scale is just off or if I’ve been under-flouring my bread this whole time. Has anyone else accidentally messed up a measurement and ended up with a better result?
Had a Nikon F3 light meter go dead last week. I spent 3 hours chasing a corroded trace on the flex circuit before giving up and swapping in a donor board. Do you guys usually fix the trace or just replace the whole thing?
I used to just toss shovels, pots, and bags of soil into my 8x10 shed in Portland and hope for the best. Last weekend I put up a pegboard from Home Depot and hung everything with hooks for about $30 total. Now I can actually find my pruning shears without digging through three bins. Anyone else find pegboard to be a game changer for small sheds?
Honestly, I didn't think I'd clear 500 until winter, but a wedding order in Denver pushed me over the edge. How many orders are you guys averaging in a busy month?
