I want to say I'm sorry to all my fellow plant people, I've been referring to "diatomaceous" earth as "damascus earth". I finally read the whole word today and realized I'm a bad #plantdaddy to my #plants

At a garage sale you find a Dremel & tools. You ask how much and the owner says blankly "Free, but it will cost everything". You both laugh and load it into your car, not knowing you now have the #makersCurse. Doomed to forever walk at craft fares saying "I can make that" under your breath. #maker

I've have a cold this week and realized my partner didn't know the metrics for feeling sick.
As a recap:
- Feeling like DOGSHIT is ~40% worse than
- Feeling like SHIT which is ~25% worse than
- Feeling like CRAP which is ~10% outside the standard deviation for
- Feeling GOOD

Did I miss anything?

Cashier: "Would you like this orange juice in a bag?"

Me: "No, you can leave it in the carton."

I used to think #financialliteracy was the next most important thing after parental generational wealth in determining financial success. However, I'm starting to see how large an impact the phenomenon of "pure dumb luck" seems to have.

What's an acceptable amount of dead components when prototyping DIY projects? I fried three IC chips and an ESP32 today trying to get my #WLED project working. I turned a lot of thinking rocks into regular rocks today.