Can we talk about the new parking meter app crashing during the lunch rush

It completely failed on me last Thursday when a customer was trying to pay. I had to run out and feed the meter with quarters I dug out of my car console. Has anyone found a reliable workaround for when the app goes down?

Spent 2 hours trying to find a satellite that wasn't there

Last night I was setting up for a shot of the ISS passing over Denver. My tracking app said it should be visible, but I saw nothing. Turns out I had my location set to a city 200 miles away from a trip six months ago. I fixed it in 30 seconds after realizing. Has anyone else had a simple setting mess up a whole night of shooting?

My brother told me to start with Python, not C++, and he was totally right...

Had to decide between a 4 hour diag on a weird electrical gremlin or just replacing the whole harness on a 2008 Silverado. Went with the diag and found a single rubbed wire behind the dash.

Why does nobody talk about the difference between hiring locally versus using a national temp agency?

Last quarter, we needed 15 extra hands for a big project at our Corktown warehouse. We went with a big national temp firm first, and half the people didn't show up on day two. Then we switched to a local staffing company that only works in Detroit. They sent us people who actually knew the city and stuck around. The local crew finished the job two days early. Has anyone else found that local hires just work out better here?

PSA: A friend told me my apology letters were just excuses

I wrote a long letter to my sister about our fight, and a buddy read it and said, 'This isn't an apology, it's a list of reasons you're right.' I deleted the whole thing and started over, just saying 'I'm sorry I hurt you.' Has anyone else had someone call them out on a bad apology?

My cousin in Chicago said we're all just watching comfort food shows now

He pointed out that after a long day, he'd rather rewatch 'Parks and Rec' for the fifth time than start something new and heavy. Has anyone else found themselves doing this lately?

Just noticed the creek behind my house is running clear again for the first time since I was a kid, after the county restored the wetlands upstream last year.

It took about 8 months after they finished the project for the water to lose that muddy brown color, which really shows how these local fixes can have a direct, visible impact, so has anyone else seen a positive change in their own neighborhood from a specific restoration effort?

I used to think you could just 'wing it' with a client brief, but a project in Portland last fall changed my mind completely.

My neighbor swore by a weird trick to keep squirrels off the bird feeder

He told me to hang a few old CDs from the feeder pole to scare them away, and I thought it was total nonsense. I tried it anyway with three scratched discs I found in my garage. For a whole week, nothing happened and I felt like a fool. Then on day eight, I saw a squirrel run up, stop, stare at the spinning reflections, and just turn around. I've had zero squirrel problems for three months now. Has anyone else had a weird home fix actually work out?