My buttercream split right before a wedding cake delivery in Phoenix

I was in a 90-degree kitchen and added the butter too cold, so the whole batch curdled. I saved it by slowly warming the bowl over a steam bath and re-whipping, but has anyone else fixed a disaster that fast?

Trying to find a specific anime opening song from a 90s OVA was a nightmare

Honestly, I spent like three hours last night trying to track down this one song from an old OVA I watched as a kid. I only remembered a few seconds of the melody and some vague lyrics about 'eternal sky'. Ngl, I went through every '90s anime OST playlist on YouTube, checked like five different music databases, and even posted in a lost media forum. It turned out to be from a super obscure two-episode OVA called 'Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still', but not the main theme, a different insert song. Has anyone else had this much trouble finding a song from a barely-remembered show?

I finally tried posting at 3 AM for a week straight

I saw a thread here saying engagement was better late at night, so I scheduled everything for 3 AM. My views on a video about fixing old monitors jumped from 200 to over 1,200. Has anyone else seen a big difference with weird posting times?

Question about cutting dados for drawer bottoms

I used to cut my dados for drawer bottoms with a router and a straight edge, which took me about 20 minutes per drawer box. Last month, a guy at the supply house in Charlotte showed me how to use a dado stack on my table saw with a simple jig. Now I can do the same job in under five minutes and the fit is much cleaner. What's your go-to method for setting up drawer bottom grooves?

A client in Denver taught me a simple invoicing trick

He said 'Always put your payment terms in the subject line, not buried in the fine print.' I started doing it and got paid 15 days faster on average. What's your best trick for getting paid quicker?

Rant: My whole Monday got wrecked by a fake invoice email

I got an email that looked like it was from a tool supplier I use, asking me to pay an invoice for $1,200. It had their logo and everything. I almost clicked the link, but I checked the sender's actual email address and it was a weird string of letters. I called the real company and they confirmed it was a scam. Has anyone else seen these fake invoice emails get really good lately?

A trick with borax from a guy at the Tucson forge-in

Last week at the Tucson meet, an older smith saw me fighting a weld on a railroad spike. He told me to try a pinch of borax right as the metal hits a bright orange, not yellow. I did it, and the scale just fell off clean. It let me get a solid forge weld on my first try. Anyone else have a good flux tip for tricky steels?

Got locked out of my Airbnb in Medellin at 2 AM with a dead phone