Picked a manual mask over a machine for my extraction facial today in Sacramento

My hands were way more tired but I got way less redness on her skin than with the machine, has anyone else found manual extractions work better for certain face shapes?

Stop using your phone GPS for backcountry routes, here is why

I used to rely on my phone GPS for all my backpacking trips through the Sierras, even downloaded offline maps. Then last summer near Bishop Pass I lost signal for 2 hours and the battery died by 3pm in cold weather. Now I carry a dedicated Garmin inReach mini with extra batteries, and I print paper topo maps from CalTopo before every trip. Has anyone else had a phone fail them at a bad spot?

Had a ceiling fan fall on my dining table last night, the mounting bracket was a cheap plastic part from Home Depot

Finished my 250th anime and it just hit me how much time I've burned

Started watching in 2020 during lockdown and now I'm at 250 completed shows according to MAL. That's like 8 straight months of constant watching if each is 24 minutes per episode. Anyone else ever do the math on their total hours and feel weird about it?

Realized I was the guy who talks too much at the board meetings

At last month's Bothell Community Board meeting, I was going on about sidewalk repairs for like 10 minutes straight. Then an older lady named Carol passed me a note that just said "you're losing them." I looked around and three people were on their phones and the chair was checking his watch. That was the moment I figured out I need to keep my comments to two points max and sit down. Anybody else get a reality check like that at a local board meeting?

Had a lightbulb moment with post hole depths on a job in Ohio last month

I've been setting fence posts for 8 years and always just dug to 24 inches for 4x4s. Then an old timer walked by my job in Akron and asked why I wasn't going to 30 inches for the frost line. He showed me my last few posts were already starting to shift. Has anyone else realized they've been cutting corners on depth?

That AI-generated medical 'article' my aunt shared looked fake but I couldn't prove it without a deep dive

My aunt posted this thing on Facebook about how a new study proved that drinking lemon water cures arthritis. I mean, I'm no doctor, but that seemed way too good to be true. So I spent like 45 minutes digging into it. The website looked legit at first with a .org domain and everything, but then I noticed the author photo was clearly a computer-generated face from that thispersondoesnotexist site. The whole article had no citations, just vague references to 'researchers in Sweden' with no names or institutions. I found the exact same text copied onto three other weird health blogs with different dates. It's exhausting how much work it takes to debunk one dumb post. Has anyone else dealt with relatives who won't believe you unless you show them three independent sources?

Showerthought: Paying $450 for a Festool track saw finally clicked for me today

I've been fighting with a circular saw and a straight edge for years on panel cuts. Decided to bite the bullet and grab a used TS 55 off a guy in Portland last week. First cut on a sheet of baltic birch and it blew my mind. No more sanding out wobbles, no more tape measure errors. Wish I had done this 5 years ago instead of burning cash on cheap clamps and jigs. Anyone else have that one tool they put off buying and regretted waiting?

Hit 100 perms in a single day last Saturday and honestly thought my booking system glitched out

I had 7 clients back to back with 12 perms total plus some touch ups and when I added up the numbers at closing I was shocked because my previous record was like 65 perms in a day, has anyone else ever had a random day where everything just clicked and you crushed your own numbers without even realizing it?

Found out the hard way that Instagram hates links in captions

I spent 6 months dropping my store link in every single post caption and wondered why my reach tanked. Turns out a buddy who runs a local cafe in Portland showed me his analytics where posts with links got 60% less impressions. Has anyone else tested posting the link in comments instead to dodge the algorithm penalty?