Lol I feel you, my push mower workouts were mostly me swearing at missed patches. @markh85 might enjoy the quiet but I'll take my extra 25 minutes back any day.

Grouping similar tasks is the dream. My old invoices looked like a diary of my own panic, every single "wait, forgot this" and "redo that thing" got its own line. I think I once billed for "existential crisis over font choice, 15 minutes." Finding that middle ground is hard when your brain wants to prove you were working every second.

Right? My phone's hotspot is a total lifesaver. I used it at a coffee shop last week when their Wi-Fi was crawling. It's way faster and I don't have to worry about some weirdo on the same network seeing what I'm doing. The battery drains quicker, but that's a fair trade for feeling secure.

Remember that time @the_wyatt tried to fix a leaky faucet and ended up redoing the whole bathroom? It's kind of like that.

That's awesome, and slow cookers are a total game changer for sure. Just a heads up though, from a safety standpoint, leaving a slow cooker on and unattended all day can be a bit risky. A lot of newer models have timers or auto-shift to 'warm', which is safer. Maybe try a test run on a day off first? Still, the savings are totally real, especially with how cheap chicken thighs and root veggies are.