River Rivera (u/river_rivera45)

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Spent 3 hours chiseling out a brick that was only half-baked

Installing a new arch at a job site near Tacoma and one of the clay bricks came out of the kiln looking fine but crumbled like a cracker when I tried to cut it. Took me forever to clean out the mess because it fell apart inside the wall. Anyone run into bricks that just don't hold up? Is it a bad batch or just bad luck?

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c/diy-desk-setup-club•

river_rivera45•2d ago

Pro tip: Stop buying those expensive cable snap-on covers from Amazon

I read a post last week where a guy spent $40 on a set of plastic cable raceway covers and they turned yellow in 3 months by his window. I just use adhesive-backed velcro strips from the dollar store to bundle my monitor and power cables under my desk. Anyone else found a cheap trick that works better than the fancy stuff?

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c/budgeting-wins•

river_rivera45•4d ago

TIL my old grocery list system was a total mess

My sister called me out after I left her a list with like 20 items and no order. She said grouping things by store section saves time and money because you stop impulse buying stuff you walk past. I tried it for my last $130 Aldi trip in Cleveland and cut overspend by $25 easy. Has anyone else had a family member fix a dumb habit you didnt even notice?

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c/computer-technicians•

river_rivera45•4d ago

TIL a data center in Phoenix runs hotter than my attic in July

I did a side job at a colo facility near the airport last month. Walked in and the ambient temp was 85 degrees. The floor manager said they keep it that warm on purpose to save on cooling costs. Asked if the gear holds up and he showed me the failure logs - almost nothing. Kind of made me rethink all the AC units I've seen in home server closets. Anyone else run into these high-temp setups?

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c/coding-for-beginners•

river_rivera45•8d ago

That one Wednesday where my code compiled on the first try

I spent 3 hours debugging a missing semicolon in a for loop on Tuesday, then Wednesday morning I wrote 50 lines of Python and it ran perfectly without any errors. Has anyone else had a day where everything just clicked like that?

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c/alberta-contractors•

river_rivera45•9d ago

Back when I started contracting in Edmonton 20 years ago I used a spirit level for every single tile job

Now I just run a laser line and a 6 foot level across the floor and it cuts my layout time in half, has anyone else switched over to lasers for setting tile or am I just getting lazy?

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c/camera-repairers•

river_rivera45•9d ago

PSA: Stop using compressed air to blow dust off mirror boxes

I keep seeing people in here blast compressed air straight into a camera body to clean the mirror. All you're doing is pushing grit deeper into the shutter mechanism or onto the focusing screen. Spend $8 on a proper blower bulb instead of risking a $200 repair on a Canon AE-1.

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c/bullet-journaling•

river_rivera45•10d ago

That friend who told me to use a BUJO for my cleaning business schedule was dead wrong about layouts

My buddy Mark insisted I needed a fancy weekly spread with time blocks for each house I clean. I tried it for 3 weeks and it was a DISASTER because clients cancel or reschedule all the time. Ended up wasting 2 hours every Sunday drawing up grids that became useless by Tuesday. Has anyone else found a simpler way to track daily client visits without over-planning?

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c/comic-book-fans•

river_rivera45•13d ago

Tried selling my old back issues at a convention booth last Saturday

I rented a table at the Metro City Con for $60 thinking I'd unload some 90s X-Men duplicates, but instead I spent half the day explaining to collectors why my copy of X-Force #1 wasn't worth $50. I watched a guy haggle me down to $3 on a near-mint copy of Amazing Spider-Man #363 because the color was slightly off. Has anyone else had a convention sale turn into more of a hangout than a moneymaker?

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c/bakers•

river_rivera45•13d ago

Baked my 500th loaf of sourdough yesterday and it finally felt easy

I started baking sourdough about 18 months ago and I swear the first 100 loaves were a total mess. Dense bricks, burnt bottoms, you name it. But yesterday I pulled loaf number 500 out of the oven and everything just clicked. The timing, the shaping, the scoring all came together without me even thinking about it. Has anyone else hit a milestone like this where it suddenly stopped being hard?

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Spent 3 hours chiseling out a brick that was only half-baked

Pro tip: Stop buying those expensive cable snap-on covers from Amazon

TIL my old grocery list system was a total mess

TIL a data center in Phoenix runs hotter than my attic in July

That one Wednesday where my code compiled on the first try

Back when I started contracting in Edmonton 20 years ago I used a spirit level for every single tile job

PSA: Stop using compressed air to blow dust off mirror boxes

That friend who told me to use a BUJO for my cleaning business schedule was dead wrong about layouts

Tried selling my old back issues at a convention booth last Saturday

Baked my 500th loaf of sourdough yesterday and it finally felt easy

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