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One pleasure of traveling alone is that I can abandon a museum after twenty minutes and spend the rest of the afternoon wandering a market. Strangely, I still feel guilty changing an itinerary I spent hours planning, as...
A camp chair takes a ridiculous amount of space in my car for an item I technically don't need. Yet after hiking all day, sitting on a log with a wet backside makes the evening much less enjoyable. I'm tempted by a small...
A client wants a fixed project price, which is fine, but the work is the sort where they genuinely do not know how many revision rounds they will need. Neither of us is trying to play games; the scope is just fuzzy becau...
My child received birthday money and immediately wants to spend all of it on a toy. Part of me wants to suggest saving some, but I also remember that a gift is supposed to feel like theirs. We're considering discussing o...
For pantry staples I'll happily buy the store brand. For things like batteries, dish soap or shoes, the cheapest choice sometimes lasts half as long, so the label price is misleading. I keep falling into the trap of eith...
One night of sideways rain exposed every weak point in our setup. The tent stayed standing, but our bags were damp, the cooking area disappeared and wet layers ended up mixed with dry clothes. We packed up miserable the...
I am planning a city trip with my father. He is fine walking on level ground and does not need mobility assistance, but after maybe 60–90 minutes he really wants to sit down for a while. A lot of sample itineraries look...
Most of my weekday meals are built around rice, pasta, vegetables and beans. I am not strictly vegetarian, but meat every day is not really in my budget or preference. I am trying to make the meals more filling, especial...
Our shop is busy on Fridays and Saturdays, modest on weekdays and nearly empty for the first hour of Tuesday mornings. Extended opening hours sound customer-friendly, but staffing an empty room isn't free. I'm considerin...
I took a month off a 70-hour RPG and came back with absolutely no memory of what half the characters wanted. The quest log technically records everything, but reading twenty entries makes it feel like homework. Restartin...
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