Hit 500 completed commissions last week and it felt just like another Tuesday

After ten years of doing digital portraits on the side, that 500th piece was a simple cat illustration for a repeat client in Columbus, and I didn't even realize the milestone until I counted back through my payment records, has anyone else had a big number sneak up on them like that?

Warning: Just got back from a dive tender gig in Galveston and the harbor master there has a rule about unsecured lift bags that nobody talks about

Saw a guy lose a $400 bag because his snap hook wasn't double-checked and the current yanked it right off the ladder, has anyone else run into harbor-specific rules that catch you off guard?

My phone screen shattered at the grocery store checkout and I finally got why people use screen protectors

I was at the Kroger on 5th street in Portland last Tuesday, dropped my phone from like waist height onto the tile floor, and the whole screen spiderwebbed. I used to think screen protectors were a waste of $15 but now I'm kicking myself for being cheap. Has anyone else had a stubborn moment like that where your phone got wrecked and you instantly changed your mind?

Drone crashed mid-site survey last Tuesday and I lost 4 hours of progress

I was mapping a 12 acre job site in Austin with my DJI Phantom when the battery went from 30% to zero in under a minute. No warning, no low battery alert, just dead. Had to hike across the whole site to find it tangled in a fence. Turns out the firmware update from the week before messed up the battery management. I lost all the flight data from the survey. Now I'm redoing the whole thing this weekend. Has anyone else had a drone battery fail like this without any heads up?

Wasted $80 on a 'proven' chemtrail detox kit from some shady website

I fell for this ad on a forum last year that claimed their herbal pills would flush out aluminum oxide from chemtrails. Paid $80 and got a bag of dried oregano and some vitamin C tablets in the mail. The whole thing was just a scam preying on paranoia. Has anyone else bought useless gear or 'remedies' tied to conspiracy theories and regretted it?

Spent 4 hours trying to fix a layer shift issue in my print

I was going crazy trying to figure out why my painting kept shifting on every layer. Turns out my tablet pen was glitching and adding random pressure points that the program read as cuts. Has anyone else had weird hardware bugs waste a ton of editing time?

My 5 year old nephew told me I was brushing my teeth wrong and honestly he had a point

He said I was scrubbing too hard like a angry janitor instead of doing little circles, and now my gums don't bleed every morning, has anyone else had a kid drop some weird wisdom on them out of nowhere?

Tried the power trowel on a big slab yesterday, bad move

I usually hand finish everything with a magnesium float, but this 40-yard slab at a warehouse in Phoenix was too big to do solo. The power trowel left these weird swirl marks and I spent an extra hour fixing them by hand. Anyone else stick to old-school hand tools over machines?

Tried listening to coast to coast AM for a month straight and now I get why people think secret space programs are real

Switched from round brushes to square ones halfway through a big job and I'm never going back

I was doing a massive flue overhaul on a old Victorian downtown last Thursday and my usual round brush just wasn't cutting it in the corners. Borrowed a square brush from a guy on another crew and it cleaned the soot out way cleaner in one pass. Does anyone else find that square brushes fit certain flues way better than round ones?