Used to obsess over brush packs, now I just use one brush for everything

For about 3 years I collected like 200 custom Procreate brushes. Thought I needed a different texture for every piece. Then around last spring I did a commission for a client in Austin and for some reason my iPad glitched and I could only use the basic round brush for 2 days. That piece ended up being the best thing I made all year. Now I pretty much only use a modified version of that one brush with some opacity tweaks. Makes my workflow faster and my art looks more consistent. Anyone else go through a brush hoarding phase and come out the other side?

Can we talk about how DBZ Kai actually holds up better than the original?

I always said the original Dragon Ball Z with the filler and Bruce Faulconer score was the only way to watch it. Then I visited my buddy's place last month and he had Kai playing on his TV. I sat through the whole Frieza arc in like 12 episodes instead of 40. The pacing is just way tighter. No staring contests or driving around Namek for 3 episodes straight. I still miss the old music but the voice acting fixes and cutting out the padding actually made me enjoy the story more. Has anyone else gone back and changed their mind on which version is better?

TIL that blasting "Free Bird" at 7am in a quiet neighborhood gets mixed results

Took me 6 hours to fix a jammed shutter on a Minolta SRT-101

Turns out a tiny piece of foam from the mirror bumper had flaked off and was wedged under the curtain drum spring. Has anyone else had foam debris cause shutter jams like that?

That week in July when every single Cummins ISX had a cracked EGR cooler...

Shoutout to the guy who told me I wipe my griddle wrong

I used to scrape my flat top dry after every shift, just hit it with a brick and call it done. Some old cook at a dive bar in Denver watched me and said, "You're seasoning the rust, not the steel." He made me oil it while it was still hot and let it smoke off. Now my eggs slide like glass after three months of doing it his way. Has anyone else had some random person call out a basic habit you thought was fine?

Tried the $5 fix for a broken flagpole instead of spending $80 on a new one

I was gonna just buy a new pole at Home Depot after my neighbor's kid snapped the rope pulley. But my buddy Jeff talked me into a $5 repair kit with a new cleat and nylon rope from Ace Hardware in Bakersfield. Has anyone else had luck fixing old flagpoles instead of scrapping them?

Used to mow every lawn the exact same height all year long

I always cut bermuda at 1.5 inches no matter what until a guy at the feed store in San Antonio told me to raise it to 2 inches during July heat. Now my lawns look way greener and don't burn up as bad come August. Anybody else change mowing heights depending on the season?

Found out my coworker in IT makes 30% more than me for the same job title. I was stunned.

I was messing around on Glassdoor last night out of boredom and looked up our company. Turns out my exact role at our firm pays between 62k and 85k. I make 63k. Been here 2 years and thought I was doing okay. Now I gotta figure out how to bring this up without sounding greedy. Has anyone else asked for a raise based on this kind of stuff?

Old timer told me to stop using Teflon tape on hydraulic fittings...

I had this older mechanic named Hank who used to work at the shop down the street. He saw me wrapping Teflon tape on a JIC fitting for a hydraulic line on a backhoe and just shook his head. Told me I was asking for trouble because the tape can shred off and get into the system. I thought he was being old fashioned but sure enough about two months later I had a valve sticking on a skid steer. Pulled it apart and found little pieces of tape gumming everything up. Replaced all the lines with copper paste and never had that issue again. Has anyone else seen Teflon tape cause real damage in a hydraulic system?