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5d ago
inBought a $9 headlamp at a gas station in Ely, and it outlasted my $70 one on a 4 night trip
Battery life isn't really about price, since a dimmer beam just draws less power.
7d ago
inFigured out why my raised beds kept drying out and it was the dumbest thing
I've been gardening for years and still couldn't tell you which way is north.
13d ago
inFound my old bullet journal from 3 years ago in a box and wow it was just grocery lists
That box of grocery lists is still a record of your life though. What you ate, what you planned, what you kept track of during a busy stretch says something about who you were then. Three years from now you might be glad you wrote down the small stuff too.
14d ago
inCan we talk about how I used to think the Mongol Empire could never hold Europe, then a guy at a library talk in Austin made me rethink it
1241 is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this whole what if game, huh? Everyone acts like Vienna was saved by one guy dying at the exact right moment, like Europe had some magic shield that Ogedei's death activated. The Mongols did smash stone walls at Kiev and Baghdad, sure, but they also lost guys to Hungarian castles at that same time, so it's not like they were unbeatable. Maybe the bigger thing was they were already stretched thin after riding halfway across the world, and Europe is basically one big wet forest full of angry dudes in armor. A dead khan is a convenient excuse, but armies run out of steam for boring reasons too.