I've been helping friends and family clean up their messy desk setups and yesterday I added up all the time I spent just this month. 100 hours of untangling, routing, and zip tying cables for other people. Never thought I'd hit that number but honestly it feels good to see so many clean workspaces now. Anyone else ever track how much time they spend fixing other people's setups?
I made two batches of fries last night to settle this. First batch I shook the basket every 5 minutes at 400F, second batch I just let them sit the whole 15 minutes. The shaken ones came out way crispier on all sides, but the unshaken ones had these soft potatoey centers that were honestly pretty good. My wife liked the shaken ones better but I'm leaning towards the lazy approach. What do you all do - shake or no shake?
I walked into a convention last year thinking I'd find some hidden gems in a long box under a table. The guy running the booth said everything was from the early 90s and mostly untouched. I spent about 45 minutes digging and ended up buying a stack for $150 because it had some X-Men issues I vaguely remembered. Got home and checked the prices online, and almost every single issue was worth maybe a dollar or two. I think the most valuable thing in the pile was a copy of X-Force #1 that still had the trading card, which goes for like $5. I could have just bought the one or two books I actually wanted for under $10 total. Now that box is sitting in my closet because I don't have the heart to toss them but I also don't want to look at them. Has anyone else gotten burned by those mystery boxes where sellers just dump dollar bin books?
