Question about basement insulation R-values for our zone

Just read the city's building code guide and it says we need R-22 for basement walls, which is way more than the R-12 I see everyone using. Has anyone actually followed code on this or am I missing something?

My worst day this year was a crawl space job in Everett with a nest of yellow jackets.

I was running wire for a new motion sensor and disturbed the nest, got stung four times before I could back out. Had to call the customer and delay the install by two days for pest control. Anyone have a good method for checking crawl spaces before you go in?

I used to drive right past curbside stuff, but last month I grabbed a perfectly good coffee table and it changed my whole weekend

I finally looked up the actual science behind hair elasticity tests

I was reading a textbook from my old beauty school, 'Milady Standard Cosmetology', and it mentioned a specific detail about wet hair stretching. It said healthy hair can stretch up to 50% of its original length when wet before breaking. I always just did the test by feel, but knowing that exact number made me take the test way more seriously during consultations. Now I actually measure the stretch more carefully. Has anyone else started using a more precise method for this after learning the science?

Rant: My buddy used an AI to make a 'painting' of his car and called himself an artist

He posted it online last week and got mad when I said typing a prompt isn't the same as the 40 hours I spent rebuilding his actual engine. Has anyone else had a friend pull this?

Bought a cheap plastic trellis for my balcony tomatoes and it snapped in a week

I was trying to save a few bucks and grabbed a $15 plastic trellis from a big box store for my cherry tomatoes. It looked fine in the package, but after I got it set up and the plants started to get heavy, the whole thing just folded over in a light wind. One of the main support arms cracked right at the joint. Now I've got a bunch of tomato vines all tangled on the balcony floor. I should have known better than to go for the cheapest option. Has anyone found a good, sturdy trellis that can handle real weight but doesn't cost a fortune? I'm in a third floor apartment so wind is always a factor.

A regular at my chair in Phoenix said my fades looked 'rushed' on the sides

He pointed it out about three months ago, and it hit me hard because I thought I was being efficient. He said, 'Finley, the top is perfect, but the sides look like you're trying to beat a timer.' I realized I was using my cordless clipper on a guard and just going up and down too fast, not letting the blade do the work. Now, I slow way down for that first open guard pass, almost like I'm sketching the shape in before I detail it. I count to three on each section. The difference in how clean the blend starts is night and day. Has anyone else had a client call them out on a specific part of their speed that actually helped?

Hit 100 photos in my 'Forgotten Ohio' folder this morning

It's just a folder on my computer, but seeing that number felt like a real thing... all those early morning drives and quiet places. The one that got me there was an old feed mill near Zanesville, the light through the broken roof was perfect. Anyone else keep a personal count like that?

Just read that a barber in the 1800s made more than a doctor in some cities, found it in an old trade journal at the library.

Spent two hours debugging a simple loop because I forgot a colon

I was working on a Python script last night to sort a list of numbers, and my code kept throwing an 'invalid syntax' error. I mean, I checked the brackets and the indentation like three times before I finally saw I'd written 'for i in range(10)' without the colon at the end. Does anyone have a good trick for catching dumb syntax mistakes before you waste a whole evening?