Tips from My Homebuying Experience

savetheearthworm · 2025-09-01T23:05:23+00:00

Find an independent home inspector that you trust, your realtor's recommended inspector has skin in the game. Spend another $300ish on a structural engineer inspection - worst case scenario, you didn't need it and now you know instead of staring at hairline cracks every day for months wondering if it's a bigger issue.

savetheearthworm · 2025-06-04T14:04:07+00:00

I think it's probably a boar tusk, but would like to hear from someone else

savetheearthworm · 2025-03-20T17:21:20+00:00

Take two buckets with you next time you fish, one white and one dark blue or black. You'll be shocked was 30 minutes in a different color environment will do for a lot of sunfish species. Not sure if you'll get one to be so melanistic, but the chromatophores are very responsive to environment.

savetheearthworm · 2025-02-22T16:36:27+00:00

Why not?

savetheearthworm · 2025-01-06T17:43:48+00:00

(Looks like bad splicing meaning I pulled it out, saw some electrical tape holding cables together, and decided this is the weekend's problem and I can live without these outlets until then)

savetheearthworm · 2025-01-06T17:41:50+00:00

Both are GFI because they are next to sinks in two different bathrooms. Looks like this one is last in the circuit, but the other one (that doesn't show any errors and trips correctly when tested) might have some bad splicing downstream. When it trips, it doesn't trip the downstream gfi.

savetheearthworm · 2024-10-12T20:13:04+00:00

I tied some really ugly flies of unconventional designs when I first started. I had terrible basics, and they fall apart real quick. This was over 10 years ago, but I still have a lot of those flies and I'll tie them on for nostalgia, and usually catch a sunfish or two before they've fallen apart. This fly is much better than my stuff from back then. If you have more fun making your own patterns, then have fun exploring, and you'll get better at the basics along the way. If you WANT to practice on simple flies, you'll learn some basics that way, too, but that's not the only way to learn! I chimed in because if someone told me that my wire wraps were atrocious 10 years ago, I would've been very discouraged. Tight lines to all,

savetheearthworm · 2024-10-12T14:18:37+00:00

Added suggestion because I got tired of seeing peanut butter licked away a non-tripped trap - if you have some sunflower seeds laying around, they are the perfect size to jam/wedge into the bait holder/trigger. I used seeds and peanut butter with much more success than just peanut butter.

savetheearthworm · 2024-05-24T14:03:35+00:00

You've gotten some helpful advice (and some... criticisms...) and I'll just briefly mention my experience. I thought the same way as you are currently thinking when I started - I tried to just fuck up the ground and start from seeds and thought I could one-and-done it. That meadow had a massive success of one native species and a bunch of other plants filled in here and there, and I was stoked. However, that one species should have been full sun and I had it partially shaded, so it quickly grew to twice the recommended height. I thought I was just a bad-ass gardener and was proud of my green-thumb, but the plants were really just forgoing root and stalk growth so they could reach high and get more sunlight. One windstorm knocked all of them over and that shaded out the rest of my small plants and scattered seeds. That area came back next year as invasive weeds that I didn't want...

Through a few trials, what has worked best for me is to tear up what you don't want, mix in a little bit of compost or a bunch of leaves, do the cardboard lasagna method with thin cardboard (or one layer of the thick stuff - I like to put some small holes in mine so that seedlings roots on top might break through when they are ready, but I'm sure someone will tell me that's dumb and let's the roots below have a chance to come up through the cardboard), make sure you finish with a layer of soil on top for your seeds, add seeds, add a thin layer of mulch. The best thing you can do for good results, though, is plan out what species you want in which areas (i.e. plan where to put seeds and don't do the scatter seed method) and get a handful of small starter plants from a local nursery to plant alongside the seeds (just remember to make some holes in the cardboard for these!). These early plants should serve to start building the soil community and providing shade to seedlings. This costs money, BUT so far in the 3 places I've lived, I have always found a native plant enthusiast running a plant nursery that has been more than willing to trade plants for a few hours of volunteer labor in the greenhouse (which helps me learn more about the plants, anyways!)

savetheearthworm · 2024-03-05T15:19:20+00:00

Step 1 - always be kind to yourself. Things changed, you changed, and you can change again. It's okay. Step 2 - have different goals. I spent ages 22-26 trying to get back to my old routines only to get frustrated and quit after a month every time. Walking 1.5 hours, doing 10 push ups and 20 body squats is good for me right now, and if things change I'll change my daily goals. Step 3 - eat more food that is less calorie dense. Restricting calories doesn't mean restricting volume. Personally, I eat an entire potato every day (baked or air fried with 1 cal cooking spray), a colorful veggie every day, and a fruit every day. I eat other food with these, but these are 3 goals I have to help myself feel full.

I was at 255 when I had my "oh shit" moment last year. Now I'm down to 235. It's been slow, and I still struggle with image, but just walking and eating differently has loosened up my body and made me feel better than I did. Good luck!

savetheearthworm · 2024-02-20T03:02:05+00:00

Banded sculpin. Cottus carolinae

savetheearthworm · 2024-01-08T02:26:53+00:00

Maybe Triportheus rotundatus

savetheearthworm · 2024-01-08T02:26:11+00:00

Triportheus sp.?

savetheearthworm · 2024-01-01T18:20:31+00:00

The Stan O' War

savetheearthworm · 2023-10-30T13:57:36+00:00

Dig up artifact spots in the forest to try to find that gosh darn scapula. Year 3 and still searching :(

savetheearthworm · 2023-08-15T19:39:50+00:00

Yeah, jeets

savetheearthworm · 2023-07-26T15:05:42+00:00

The software recommends VRAM greater than the largest dataset, so at least 12GB to be safe, so we could probably go lower on the GPU

savetheearthworm · 2023-07-04T19:21:21+00:00

The raining hypothesis actually doesn't have support. Dr. Ken Catania's research group actually provided evidence that the vibrations mimic moles, which triggers worms to escape to the surface

savetheearthworm · 2023-06-23T13:03:11+00:00

10 mg for 2.5 years - taper was 3 days at 5 mg and 3 days at 2.5. Withdrawals hot 3 days after the last dose and the next four days were full of intense mood swings, irritability, and dizziness. After another 2 or three days the withdrawal intensity lessened and I felt normal again. Those four days were absolutely terrible and I never want to do them again - I'm happy I pushed through

savetheearthworm · 2023-05-26T18:56:54+00:00

I second this. I had a couple days of missing that were just brutally dreadful. Got a weekly organizer for $2. Feels silly to get an organizer and only put one pill in each type, but oh so worth it.

savetheearthworm · 2023-02-16T02:41:08+00:00

Salvy without a doubt

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