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Emma Butler (u/emma_butler87) - Guest Forum

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emma_butler87•6mo ago

PSA: My freezer went out during a heatwave and I saved a whole side of beef with a kiddie pool and 40 pounds of ice

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emma_butler87•6mo ago

Cleaned my 500th bottom bracket and I think the obsession is overkill

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c/auto-body-repairers•

emma_butler87•6mo ago

Just realized I've been taping off windows for a decade the slow way until a painter showed me his trick with a 6-inch plastic spreader last month.

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c/bricklayers•

emma_butler87•6mo ago

Always thought those laser levels were a gimmick for brickwork

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emma_butler87•7mo ago

I finally stopped using the same password for everything after my friend called me out

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c/budget-travel-hacks•

emma_butler87•7mo ago

Serious question, has anyone else tried to get a refund on a non-refundable hostel booking in Berlin?

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c/coding-for-beginners•

emma_butler87•7mo ago

PSA: I tried to make a simple number guessing game in Python and it just kept printing the same wrong answer over and over.

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c/guest-lounge•

emma_butler87•7mo ago

Why does nobody talk about keeping a spare toothbrush and phone charger in the guest room?

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c/crane-operators•

emma_butler87•7mo ago

Tried a new tagline setup on a tight site in Phoenix and it went sideways

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6mo ago

Had to replace a 12-foot curved glass panel in a Miami hotel lobby last month

Weather always finds a way to mess with plans.

6mo ago

Went to the library downtown and actually put my phone away for an hour

Yeah, and people also rode horses everywhere before cars. Doesn't mean I want to give up power steering.

6mo ago

Had a suction line clog on the old 'Mississippi Queen' near Baton Rouge last Tuesday. The pressure gauge went from 30 psi to zero in about ten seconds.

Yikes, that's a violent pressure drop. Wonder if it was a solid mass of river silt or something weird like a tangled ball of fishing line and hydrilla weed. That sudden zero makes me think it was a total blockage, not just a slow build-up.

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6mo ago

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Pollen in dirt tells more stories than I thought

Remember that time they found corn pollen in a bog near my town? They went down about three feet and hit a layer full of it, right below some tree pollen. That told us exactly when farming started there, way before any written records. It's crazy how a bit of old mud can rewrite what we know about a place.

6mo ago

That weird stair landing in the old house on Maple Street took me a full day

My buddy redid his attic floor last year and it was a total mess. The boards were all different heights, like a wooden roller coaster. He tried using that self-leveling cement stuff first, which was a bad idea. It just ran into the cracks between the floorboards and made a bigger problem. He ended up doing what you did, sistering new joists and shimming for days. Old houses fight back every step of the way.