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Dinner is twenty minutes away, and my child asks for a snack for the fourth time. I don't want to make food a power struggle or ignore genuine hunger. On the other hand, a big snack now guarantees half the dinner will be...
I like scrambled eggs soft and glossy, but mine are either wet and loose or fully set and rubbery. I'm cooking in a nonstick pan over medium-low heat and stirring fairly often. Maybe I need to take them off the heat earl...
When a Python script crashes, I still have the bad habit of reading only the final exception line. Yesterday it said `KeyError: 'email'`, so I added a default value, but the real problem was an earlier function passing t...
I saved seeds from a particularly tasty tomato and planted a few out of curiosity. Then I remembered it might have been a hybrid, so the seedlings may not produce fruit identical to the parent. That's fine for an experim...
I listened to a novel while commuting and enjoyed it, but a month later I can remember the mood and a few scenes, not the exact sequence of events. I tend to retain more detail when reading print, perhaps because I stop...
My car mostly sits from Monday through Friday. I use it for groceries, visiting family and an occasional trip out of town. The convenience is real, but insurance, registration, parking and maintenance keep adding up even...
Freelance income arrives in lumps. One month I get paid for three projects; the next is almost quiet. I used to treat a big payment as extra money, then panic when tax and insurance bills arrived. I'm now thinking of sep...
I am trying to decide how aggressive to be with a low-interest student loan while my emergency fund is still small. The minimum payment is comfortable and the interest rate is not high. I currently have about one month o...
I'm learning Git branches and have somehow turned a small personal project into a forest of branches named `test`, `new-test` and `fix-final`. I know branches are useful for isolating risky changes, but creating one for...
I shot a landscape with a bright clouded sky over a shaded street. Pulling the highlights down brings back cloud texture, but lifting the shadows enough to see the buildings makes the whole image flat and oddly gray. It...
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