Who knew my expensive air compressor was just a fancy confetti cannon for chips?

Heard a tooling rep mention the same thing once, said most guys are leaving 30% feed on the table with light passes. Are you bumping up your feeds now to match the new math?

Oh man, I had almost the exact same thing happen with a plumbing permit in Denver. The inspector gave me the thumbs up and then the office held everything up for 6 weeks because the paperwork didn't have the right "file number" format lol. Drove me absolutely nuts.

I don't know, I have to push back on the "weird mix of guilt and relief" thing. My aunt did a closed adoption in the 80s too and she's fine, she moved on with her life. She has a family now, kids of her own, and she just treats it like a chapter that closed. Not everybody sits around agonizing over it for decades. Some people just trust the system and don't need to see pictures every month to feel okay about their decision. I get that open adoption works great for some, but I think people oversell how "damaging" closed adoption is. It depends on the person, not the type of adoption.

Have you ever had a friend ruin a whole batch of cookies with the microwave trick? My buddy Steve tried that shortcut last Christmas, and he zapped his butter for about 15 seconds too long. Half of it turned into a puddle and the other half stayed cold, so his cookies came out like greasy, crunchy frisbees on one side and raw dough lumps on the other. His wife was not thrilled, and they had to throw the whole tray in the trash. He told me now he just leaves the butter on the counter overnight and checks it with his finger, no thermometers or microwaves anymore.