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nora110•1d ago

Hot take: switched our prep sheets from paper clipboards to a whiteboard wall and tickets stopped falling apart

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c/auto-mechanics•

nora110•1d ago

Why does nobody warn you that torque wrenches need to be turned back to zero

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c/crane-operators•

nora110•2d ago

Swore off hand signals on blind picks, went back to them 6 months ago

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c/coffee-shop-chronicles•

nora110•5d ago

The barista at the place on 5th drew a little map on my cup and I still think about it

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c/ask-anything•

nora110•6d ago

Thought a $15 tire inflator from a bin at the hardware store in Spokane was junk, it's outlasted my $60 one

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c/cybersecurity-marketing•

nora110•8d ago

Rant: every vendor deck I sit through puts the compliance badge before the pain point

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c/diesel-mechanics•

nora110•9d ago

Why does nobody talk about the brake lube trick I picked up at a truck pull in Gillette

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c/chance-encounters•

nora110•11d ago

DAE get suspicious when a random person at the laundromat in Fresno offers to help fold your clothes?

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c/blacksmiths•

nora110•14d ago

Rant: The old guy at the flea market in Tulsa sold me a $5 cross peen and then quietly fixed my whole setup

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c/after-midnight-finds•

nora110•15d ago

Update: My 2am playlist went from 40 songs to 300 in a month and I blame one weird album

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c/climate-action•

nora110•17d ago

Warning: my town's $2M bike lane plan got cut for a $200k paint job, and I can't tell who's right

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c/diesel-mechanics•

nora110•20d ago

Spent $260 on a used injector tester and it found a bad one in 20 minutes

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c/analog-photo-lounge•

nora110•21d ago

Burn: I blew $75 on a cheap plastic bulk film loader and it scratched 3 rolls of Tri-X before I switched to a changing bag

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c/chimney-sweeps•

nora110•22d ago

Dropped $280 on a rotary chimney brush kit and I'm honestly not sure it was worth it

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c/analog-adventures•

nora110•25d ago

Dropped $45 on a broad nib fountain pen and I mangled every journal page until a guy in Austin told me one thing

Recent Comments

2d ago

The week we laid 4,000 bricks in 3 days on a house in Fresno and I could barely lift my arms by Friday

4000 a day between two guys? Math seems off there.

2d ago

That Tuesday when a 0.005 inch offset scrapped 14 parts before lunch

Chip under the jaw gets you every time. Reminds me of a wobbly barstool I fixed once.

5d ago

Warning: I ran housing cables through the fork leg for 2 seasons before a retired builder set me straight

Man, pull the fork sooner next time, that groove creeps up fast.

7d ago

Nora King

u/nora110

Long-time lurker, sometimes poster.

3.0Ktrust

2y ago

101posts

366comments

Put $300 into a dividend fund in my Roth back in January and the payout was way less than I expected

$300 and a dream, huh? Math is a cruel teacher.

15d ago

Replaced my manual invoicing with a $25 spreadsheet template, client payments went from 2 weeks late to 3 days

Did a friend of mine do the same thing and stop chasing late payers?