Shoutout to the old timer in Mobile who told me to run the cutter head slower in clay

He said 'you'll get more done with less wear if you drop to 8 RPM in that gumbo'. I was on a job near the bay and the clay was clogging everything. Tried his advice for a day and the pump stayed clear. Saved us a bunch of downtime from cleaning jams. Anyone else have a trick for heavy clay bottoms?

Spent about $80 on a fancy heated waterer last winter... total waste for my setup.

I thought learning to code with a kids' app was a total joke

My buddy told me to try this app called Scratch for a week when I was stuck on basic Python. I laughed and said it was for little kids, but he kept pushing. So last month, I finally gave it a go for three days. I was dragging these colorful blocks around to make a cat move, and it felt silly. But then I made a simple game where the cat had to catch falling stars, and something clicked. I could see the 'if-then' logic and loops right there in the blocks. It made the same ideas I was reading about in my textbook actually make sense. Going back to Python, writing a loop didn't seem so scary anymore. Has anyone else had a weird tool like that actually help them get a basic idea?