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Our children are different ages and have very different ideas of what counts as an impossible chore. The older one can handle laundry and basic meal prep, while the younger can put toys away but needs a reminder every fe...
I have two small functions that share about ten lines of code. I could extract a helper, but their needs are already diverging slightly. Every abstraction I try ends up with extra flags and branching to support both. Whe...
When someone at a café or on a tour asks whether I'm traveling alone, I usually answer honestly. A few people have warned me never to say that to strangers, which seems overly cautious in ordinary situations. I can imagi...
On our last trip it was warm enough for a T-shirt while setting up camp, then cold enough before sunrise that I struggled to get out of the sleeping bag. I brought one heavy jacket and spent the evening either overheatin...
At organized 5K events I run the first kilometer as if I'm chasing a bus, then spend the last two wondering what happened to my legs. My training runs are much steadier. The crowd, watches beeping, and people passing me...
Our fence panels are mostly straight, but three posts lean slightly after a wet winter. The panels haven't collapsed, and the wood looks sound above ground. I'm worried the bases are loosening in the soil and that new pa...
I saw the Moon in a bright blue afternoon sky and realized I still instinctively think of it as something that comes out at night. I know the Moon orbits Earth and reflects sunlight, but which part of its orbit makes it...
I committed `dist/` and other generated files into three tiny Git projects before I understood `.gitignore`. Adding those paths to `.gitignore` stops new untracked files, but Git still tracks the ones already committed....
I have two raised beds built and filled at the same time. One grows normally. In the other, plants are smaller and the soil surface stays wet longer after watering. They get almost the same sun. The weaker bed may be a l...
Our insurer offers a meaningful discount if we pay the full annual premium upfront. We have the cash, but paying it all in one month makes the emergency account look uncomfortably thin until the next few paychecks arrive...
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