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c/arborists•

gavinmurray•6mo ago

My deadwood pruning fail on a client's big pine

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c/bricklayers•

gavinmurray•6mo ago

I started wetting my bricks before laying in dry heat and it stopped the mortar from cracking

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c/retro-gaming-finds•

gavinmurray•6mo ago

My usual yard sales stopped having retro games, so I turned to the web.

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c/book-club-debates•

gavinmurray•6mo ago

Finishing 'Moby-Dick' a month after our club moved on gave me a new perspective on literary time.

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6mo ago

Lost my keys for a week, swore they vanished, then found them tucked inside a book I hadn't opened in years, and now I'm way less of a skeptic lol.

Yeah, stuff like that makes you wonder how often we misplace things without realizing. In my experience, it's usually just our brains glitching, but sometimes it feels too weird to explain.

6mo ago

Sat at the diner booth forever, but my burger never got cold

Bus seats in summer soak up heat for hours.

6mo ago

I never thought I'd like slow TV until I binged this one series

Yeah, I had that with Better Call Saul. The first season felt so slow compared to Breaking Bad, and I kept waiting for the big moments. But once I stopped expecting that and just got into the small character stuff, it completely sucked me in. It's now one of my favorite shows ever.

Gavin Murray

u/gavinmurray

Coffee enthusiast and night owl.

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6mo ago

Just realized the fix I did on my neighbor's truck bumper is still solid after six months

What did you even use to fix it? My uncle had a jeep where the passenger door wouldn't stay shut, so he just looped a ratchet strap around the whole cab and hooked it to the roll bar inside. That thing held for like three years, rain and snow and everything, until he finally sold it. Some of those janky fixes outlast the actual car parts, lol.

6mo ago

Our team can't agree on jigs for making matching sets

Come on, jigs turn craft into factory work. Where's the skill in clamping everything down and running a router? You end up with copies, not pieces. A real cabinetmaker can match parts by eye and hand. That pride gets lost when you rely on a jig for everything. Feels like cheating the craft itself.