High Desert Concrete Design vs Milagro Concrete Design?

We're finally ripping out the old tile on our main floor and looking to get polished concrete instead. I've narrowed down the bids to High Desert Concrete Design and Milagro Concrete Design. Both seem to do good work based on their online portfolios, but I'm looking for real-world experiences. Has anyone here used either of them? How was the process and how did the floors hold up?

I was wrong about using a climbing line as a rigging line for years, a big oak limb in my neighbor's yard finally showed me why.

I went to the old steel mill site they're turning into condos

I mean, the headline is all 'historic preservation', but walking around you see they're keeping one wall and a smokestack as a 'feature'. The rest is just a normal concrete box. Has anyone else seen a redevelopment project where the 'story' they sell is totally different from the reality on the ground?

I tried to use a new AI tool for making video clips and it totally messed up my project

I was editing a short video for my local hiking group in Denver, and I used this new AI tool called ClipCraft that's supposed to find the best moments automatically. I fed it about 30 minutes of footage from our last trip. Instead of picking cool scenic shots, it stitched together a weird 2-minute loop of us just putting on our backpacks at the trailhead. I had to go back and manually redo the whole thing, which took me another three hours. Has anyone else had an AI editing tool fail in a really silly way like this?

My attempt at a 'free' city tour in Prague went totally wrong

I read online about these 'free' walking tours where you just tip at the end. So I joined one in Prague's Old Town. The guide was great, but at the end he gave a big speech about how he worked for tips and stared everyone down. I felt so pressured I gave him 500 Czech koruna, which is like $22. That was way more than I planned to spend on a tour that day. I learned that 'free' often means high-pressure tipping, and it's not really a budget hack if you feel forced to pay more than a set ticket. Now I look for tours with a clear, small price upfront. Has anyone found a good way to enjoy guided tours without this awkward tipping situation?

Stuck a coax fitting in a tight crawl space with a zip tie trick

Couldn't get my crimper in a corner under a house in Charlotte, so I looped a heavy duty zip tie around the fitting and pulled it tight with pliers. It held long enough to get the line secured and saved me a huge headache. Anyone have a better fix for spots where you can't swing a tool?

Hot take: My sourdough starter from 2019 is a completely different beast now.

It went from a sluggish, barely bubbly mess that made dense bricks to a vigorous, almost foamy monster that reliably gives me an open crumb after I finally started feeding it with a mix of rye and whole wheat flour instead of just white.

My neighbor said my 'envelope system' was a waste of time, but it saved me $1200 for a new fridge.

Heard a pilot on the ramp say 'just reset it' about a nav display fault

I was doing a walkaround on a King Air in Denver last week and heard the pilot tell his co-pilot that. It was a G1000 system with a blank PFD. That phrase just stuck with me. We all know a simple power cycle might clear a fault code, but it doesn't fix the root cause. It feels like that attitude pushes the real troubleshooting onto us when it comes back a week later with the same squawk. How do you guys handle it when the flight crew suggests a shortcut that you know just kicks the can down the road?

Unpopular opinion: I used to skip the breathing parts in guided meditations, but a free online class focusing just on that got me to pay attention.