Just found out The Wire only had 60 episodes total

I was reading a breakdown on IMDb and saw that The Wire ran for just 5 seasons with 60 episodes. That surprised me because it felt way more sprawling and dense when I binged it last winter. How do shows like that pack so much story in so few episodes while others drag on for 10 seasons?

Tried freezing my own burrito packs vs buying the frozen ones at the store

Old timer showed me a trick for fishing wire through insulated walls

Honestly I was fighting with a 20-foot wall in a remodel last month and a guy I met at the supply house told me to use a glow rod with a magnet on the end instead of a fish tape. Saved me like an hour of swearing and poking holes in drywall. Anyone else run into better ways to get through dense insulation?

Had a real 'aha' moment when I tried to skip my monthly spread

I've been bullet journaling for about 8 months now and I always thought monthly spreads were a waste of time. I just used my daily log and figured that was enough. But last week I was trying to find a note about a dentist appointment from 3 weeks ago and it took me like 15 minutes of flipping through pages. I got so frustrated I almost threw my journal across the room. Then I realized the whole point of the monthly log is to have a quick reference for stuff like that. I spent an hour setting up a simple monthly spread with just a calendar and a task list and now everything feels way more organized. Has anyone else been stubborn about certain spreads and then totally changed their mind after a mess up?

My cousin called me out on using 'literally' wrong for years

I was over at my cousin's place last weekend and she straight up said 'you know you use literally wrong all the time right?' I thought I was using it for emphasis but she pulled up a bunch of my old texts where I said stuff like 'I literally died laughing' or 'that meme literally broke my brain'. She explained literally only works when something actually happened not just for exaggeration. Now I'm seeing it everywhere online and it's bugging me. Has anyone else had a friend call out a word you were totally misusing?

I was dead wrong about automated bidding

For 2 years I ran manual CPC on all my campaigns because I thought the algorithms were just guessing. Then my rep showed me a side by side test on one account that spent $5,000 and saw a 30% lower CPA with Target CPA bidding. I finally caved and tested it on 3 of my own campaigns and it actually worked better in every single one. Has anyone else fought against automation for way too long before finally giving in?

Found out OSB costs way more than plywood now in Edmonton

I was pricing materials for a shed build last week at Home Depot on 99 Street. OSB was $58 a sheet and 1/2 inch plywood was $52. I double checked cause I always thought OSB was the cheap option. The guy in lumber said it flipped about 18 months ago due to mill closures. Has anyone else noticed this screwing up their project budgets?

My buddy the SEO consultant told me to stop writing 2000 word blog posts and go with 500 words instead

He said Google cares more about matching search intent than word count, so I tested it on my small ecommerce site for 3 months and my organic traffic jumped 40% after I cut all my product descriptions in half, has anyone else seen better results from shorter content?

My sourdough starter died after I left it in the car during a Phoenix heatwave

So I was visiting my sister in Phoenix last August and forgot my starter in the car for like 3 hours. It hit 115 that day and when I came back it was bubbling but smelled like a chemistry lab. I tried feeding it but it never recovered and I had to toss it. Has anyone else lost a starter to crazy heat or know if there's a way to save it after something like that?

Shoutout to those old writing prompts that actually had limits

I was digging through some old files last week and found prompts from a 2012 forum I used to post on. They had hard caps, like "write a 500 word story about a locked room" instead of today's open ended "write whatever you want" stuff. For me, those restrictions made me get creative instead of rambling forever. Has anyone else noticed tighter prompts produce better stories than the free for all ones?