A senior drafter in Seattle called out my dimension lines and I'm still embarrassed

I had a senior guy at my last job pull me aside and say all my dimension lines were too close to the object lines. I thought I was being clean but he said it made the print look cluttered and hard to read. So I started leaving a 1/8 inch gap minimum between the object and the first dimension line. After a week of doing that my drawings got approved way faster and the redlines dropped by about half. Has anyone else had a small detail like that get called out that totally changed your workflow?

Hit 50 quarts of kimchi this month without even planning it

I was just making my usual napa cabbage batch (you know, the weekend project kind) and counted my jars yesterday. 50 quarts total, which is way more than I’ve ever done in a single month. I guess it’s because I kept tweaking my brine ratios after that first batch came out too salty back in early January. Has anyone else accidentally blown past their own fermentation goals like that?

My sourdough starter was taking like 14 days to get active

Turns out my tap water had too much chlorine... switched to filtered water and it came to life in 3 days flat. Has anyone else had their water mess up their starter like that?

I finally gave Python a real shot after avoiding it for years

I mean, I was a total C++ guy back in college and thought Python was just for quick scripts, not real work. But then I had to help my niece with a school project in Boston last fall, and we built a simple data plotter in like an hour. It just clicked how fast you can make something that works. Has anyone else switched from a 'hard' language and been surprised?

Am I the only one who remembers when our club's biggest fight was over 'The Goldfinch'?

Three years ago at Beth's house, a normally quiet member got so heated about the ending she almost knocked over a glass of wine while arguing it was a cop-out, which makes our current polite chats about character arcs feel a bit tame.

Spent $80 on a 'calming' cat pheromone diffuser that did nothing for my anxious cat.

Some people swear by them, but my cat acted exactly the same for the whole month it was plugged in. Are these things just a total scam, or did I get a bad brand?

Am I the only one who chose bulk loading over buying pre-rolled canisters?

I was spending about $12 a roll for Portra 400 and decided to invest $150 in a bulk loader and a 100-foot reel of Fomapan 100. It cut my cost per roll to under $4, but the first few tries I got light leaks from not sealing the canisters right. Has anyone else made this switch and found a foolproof way to get the canisters light-tight every time?

Am I the only one who was laying soldier courses with the wrong mortar consistency for like a decade?

I was on a repointing job in an old Charleston row house last week and the foreman pointed out that my mix was too wet, which is why my vertical joints kept slumping out before I could tool them properly.

Just realized my old torque wrench might be way off after a conversation at the parts counter.

I was grabbing a water pump for a 2012 Civic at the local NAPA and the guy ahead of me was returning a digital torque wrench he said was reading 15 foot-pounds low against his master set. I've been using the same click-type wrench from my starter kit for like eight years without checking it. How often do you guys actually get your torque wrenches calibrated, and is it worth buying a decent master set to check them?

I finally bought a proper post vise for my shop, cost about $300, and it's a total game changer for twisting and bending.