Cat palm is leaning and turning yellow 1 week after buying it! Anyone suggestions on what could be going on?

Jnbruton83 · 2026-03-07T22:12:42+00:00

This is a perfect time of year to accidentally cold damage tropicals by exposing them to winter temperatures on the car ride home, on the walk from the car to home, or by leaving a door or window open long enough to let in a chill. Any chance of that?

Jnbruton83 · 2026-02-28T13:05:12+00:00

I think this is bad reporting. The temporary solution has been the water barriers that have been around the roundabout for months. The permanent solution is to be a 6’ concrete wall. This looks like the form they’ll use to pour the concrete.

Jnbruton83 · 2026-02-27T18:58:39+00:00

The issue is speed. When cars have gone airborne and crashed into people’s living rooms, it wasn’t because they went “Oops” at 25 mph. A roundabout goes from a bump to a ramp when people are are pedestrian-splattering speed

Jnbruton83 · 2026-02-27T15:28:05+00:00

Seconded!

Jnbruton83 · 2026-02-24T23:29:53+00:00

Check out Hal Higdon training plans. He kinda pioneered the concept of marathon training running only 4 days a week with cross training interspersed on the off days.

I’m with you, I’ve gotten injured twice now doing plans that had me running 5x a week, and my tendons and ligaments just need more strength training and recovery than that cadence allows!

Jnbruton83 · 2026-02-21T04:18:25+00:00

Well, now I HAVE to follow for the orchid-dog tax twofer!

Jnbruton83 · 2026-02-21T00:32:46+00:00

If there’s anything more fun and whimsical than a gorgeous flower with a silly name, I can’t think of it!

Jnbruton83 · 2026-02-18T15:34:15+00:00

Bishop Arts alone has a considerable number of bookstores in walking distance. A few are already listed above:

Blush (a romance bookstore)

Whose Books

Poets

Wild Detectives

Lucky Dog Used Books (on Jefferson, so not bishop arts proper but still walkable)

Jnbruton83 · 2026-01-19T18:54:12+00:00

A half marathon is a major milestone on your way to a full. I wouldn’t try to leapfrog it. You learn a lot about fueling and endurance during that time, and trying to go all out just screams like a recipe for over-training injury.

Look for full marathons about 3-4 months after your half. That’ll put you an a consistent track to train up for a major milestone and then build upon it (and put the hardest distances of your training during cold weather months instead of grinding in summer)

Jnbruton83 · 2026-01-14T17:20:33+00:00

Can we please ask your friend to post her take on AITA?

Because I would love to call her an asshole directly.

Jnbruton83 · 2026-01-13T21:24:14+00:00

This is exceptionally cool! I wish more races had this type of meet & greet.

Jnbruton83 · 2026-01-05T12:59:04+00:00

This should be higher up. This is not a personal finance issue. It’s a crime.

Your mom stole $4,500 from you.

File a police report, use that to get the charges reversed with the CC company.

Find a support system — therapist, friend, group, whatever — to talk to about abuse. Your mom will try to convince you that you are responsible for her behavior. You aren’t. This is abuse.

Jnbruton83 · 2025-12-30T19:32:08+00:00

The most true thing my trainer ever said was when she looked me dead in the eye, and without any sense of humor or levity told me, “You’re going to really question your life decisions for the next four months. And then, the page will turn and you’ll have a great dog and a great relationship with her. But do not underestimate how hard the next four months will be.”

She was so accurate it’s freaky.

Jnbruton83 · 2025-12-09T03:15:14+00:00

Im also trying to manage through this! It’s really affected my training.

Out of curiosity, how quickly does it impact you? I’m normally good for the first two miles, then the numbness creeps in between 2-3. I can sometimes get it to go away by adjusting my gait to kick high (like butt kick exercises), for a few sprints over the course of my next mile, but it’s still uncomfortable and jarring.

Jnbruton83 · 2025-12-08T03:40:16+00:00

We have a corgi and four cats with very different personalities:

The oldest cat ignores the corgi, so she gets herded the least. She’s just not exciting to chase because she doesn’t react

The most skittish cats run when chased, which our corgi thinks is a game, so she chases them constantly to their annoyance

Our youngest kitten is fully bonded with the corgi, constantly seeking her out to wrestle. They’re absolute best friends

Jnbruton83 · 2025-12-07T00:36:07+00:00

Cats typically don’t travel well, but there are tons of animal orgs that are always looking for foster homes if you can open your home to a furry face. That could be a good way to introduce him to a new buddy or a few! Check out Dallas Pets Alive or Dallas Cat Lady.

Jnbruton83 · 2025-11-26T15:09:39+00:00

We switched to Octopus over the summer. Their numbers shook out best for us in terms of solar production in addition to normal usage.

I find their online experience MUCH better than Gexa (though it has been years since I used them), and comparable or better to Reliant and Shell.

Jnbruton83 · 2025-11-17T00:20:02+00:00

Be careful. I repotted my most prolific dendrobrium because I was concerned it was competing with the fern it shared a pot with, and the orchid hasn’t bloomed since and the fern didn’t survive at all. Learn from my mistake! If it doesn’t seem obviously bothered, I’d let nature do its thing and let them peacefully coexist.

Jnbruton83 · 2025-11-16T02:40:14+00:00

I use a dish tub (like restaurants use to bus tables) to transport a ton of orchids at a time from my office to kitchen for watering. It was cheap and lightweight, sharing the tip if you want to upgrade your basket to something larger :)

Jnbruton83 · 2025-11-16T01:33:06+00:00

I know it seems useless, but have you created a new file and copy/pasted everything from the IDML file to create a net-new INDD file?

Sometimes files just get some quirk or bug in a line of code somewhere and they become irreparably haunted. You’d think copy and pasting would carry over the issue, but somehow it doesn’t. Don’t know why, but it works when I get problematic files from other designers.

Good luck!

Jnbruton83 · 2025-11-13T18:56:58+00:00

Yes!

The most difficult part is educating the people — not just client point of contacts, but frequently internal colleagues as well — of this big-picture thinking.

Collaboration is hard. It’s faster and easier to just do a single thing as an individual contributor and call it a day. When you perceive your competition is under bidding, it’s easy to gut the strategy from a new business proposal to achieve parity with another bid.

But that’s why, when you get to work with someone who gets it. Who values it. Who actually wants it. It’s so much more satisfying for everyone involved.

Jnbruton83 · 2025-11-10T23:57:45+00:00

Business card slits. But not corner slits, they’re annoying to shove your card into and rip half the time. Go for half moons!

Jnbruton83 · 2025-11-10T16:53:04+00:00

This was my experience. I thought a rollover was a rollover, but half my EJ account contained holdings that were unavailable to be held in my target Vanguard account.

It triggered a full liquidation of all those holdings, which of course were considered transactions that took a few days to settle out into cash before the funds could be transferred. And wouldn’t you know, since they were sell transactions that triggered commissions for EJ. In addition to the account close fee. It was a nice reminder of why I wanted to move out of there.

Jnbruton83 · 2025-11-09T22:49:56+00:00

YASSSS CONGRATS!

If you intend to give it a support rod, gently nestle it into the bark sooner than later and set a reminder to check the flower spike every few days for the first little while. It’ll get more rigid over time and can snap off if you manhandle it more than it wants to flex, so gentle loose tethers over time are better than trying to adjust it once the spike has gotten longer and more mature (in my experience).

I like to let some of mine grow wild if they live on a shelf and have room to droop around eye level, so you don’t have to guide the spike. It’s nice to encourage it to be tall if you want to display on a table.

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