I finally stopped booking hostels in Barcelona last spring

I was in Barcelona for 4 days and figured a cheap hostel near Las Ramblas would save me money (like everyone says), but the noise from street parties kept me up until 4am every night. I ended up spending an extra $60 on a tiny pension 3 blocks away and actually slept, which made my days way more enjoyable. Has anyone else found that paying a little more for quiet beats the budget hostel hype?

That time a foreman told me my mortar was too wet

He said 'if it runs off your trowel like pancake batter, you're gonna have a mess in the wall' and I started mixing it stiffer, around a 3 on the slump scale, and my bricks stopped shifting overnight... anyone else had to unlearn bad habits from YouTube videos?

Shoutout to the guy who got phished at a truck stop WiFi in Wyoming

I was fueling up at a Love's in Rawlins and watched a driver log into his banking on the unsecured guest network. Three days later his account was drained for $2,400. Do you think free WiFi is worth the risk or are people just too careless with their logins?

Visited a 150 year old farmhouse near Bozeman and their chimney was lined with old license plates...

Hit 50k views on a rant about underripe avocados

I posted this dumb video comparing how I used to pick avocados (just squeeze them) vs checking the stem color. Totally random, just me in my kitchen in Austin. It hit 50k views overnight and now grocery store accounts are commenting on it. Strangest thing ever. Has anyone else gone viral over something super basic like that?

Am I the only one who thinks that celeb who hit 1 million followers then deleted everything was actually smart?

Everyone was making fun of that singer from Nashville who got to 1 million followers on Instagram and then just wiped her whole account. But honestly I kinda get it. She hit that number and probably realized it was all just noise. I've got 847 followers and even THAT feels weird sometimes. Has anyone else ever felt like hitting a milestone made you want to step back instead of celebrate?

Spent 6 months trying to germinate my own Venus flytrap seeds before I figured out they need cold stratification

I kept wondering why none of the seeds from my neighbor's plant in San Jose would sprout until I finally looked it up and realized they need 4-8 weeks in the fridge, who else has spent way too long struggling with a simple plant trick?

My neighbor still thinks recycling is the answer to everything, been trying to explain energy reduction for years

TIL a customer's basement flood changed my whole install approach

I was installing a panel in a basement in Denver last spring when a pipe burst and soaked everything. It made me wonder - do you guys mount panels higher off the ground as a rule, or do you trust the customer to keep the area dry? Curious what others do after something like that.

Just ran the numbers on oak wilt spread in our county

Looked up the Texas A&M forestry extension data last night and found out oak wilt has spread to 78% of the counties in central Texas. That's way higher than I thought. We've been pushing the wound sealant on every pruning cut over 2 inches but apparently most guys here still aren't using it. Anyone else seeing more red oaks dying in their area?