And the thing that gets me is, are you measuring by weight or by volume? Because if you're just scooping cups of flour like most recipes say, the bread flour's gonna pack differently and you might actually be using more of it without realizing. That alone could change your rise. But if you're weighing it out exactly and still got that big a difference, then yeah, bread flour's got more protein which means more gluten, so it makes sense your loaf finally stood up. It's basically just a higher protein version of the same thing.

You found a signed Raskin for 50 cents at a yard sale? What made you stop and dig through that box instead of just driving past?

I read somewhere that a Fluke 87V can pick up a bad capacitor just by listening to the sound it makes. @tara793 mentioned getting ghosted mid reading and that cheap meter stuff is exactly why I switched. Those cheap meters can read fine one second then lie to you the next. Once you use a meter that doesn't drift around or give fake readings it's hard to go back.

Opened my credit card statement last month and found I'd been paying for some "premium" weather app for 15 months straight. Fifteen months of paying for the privilege of knowing it's going to rain (which I could just, you know, look outside for). Called them up and got a refund for most of it, but man, that feeling when you realize you've been throwing money into the void for over a year is something else. My bank account is still side-eyeing me for that one.

And that's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the post, honestly. Like, depending on how it broke, you might have just been better off wedging it with a rock and a prayer for the rest of the trip. Everyone makes a big deal about "losing a shot" but half the time you can just lean it on your pack or a log and get a decent enough picture anyway. Unless you're out there trying to do some long exposure star trail stuff, in which case yeah, that's a real bummer, but for a day hike you just work around it.