Tape holds everything together" until it doesn't. Landlord's playing stupid games and you're winning wet cabinets.

Hang on, @torres.drew, did you just say you thought writing prompts were a waste of time? That one got me. I admit I was kind of in the same boat a few years back, thinking they were just for school kids or people trying to be artsy. But then I ran into a prompt about "what you wish you'd said" and I spent a whole evening writing a letter to my old boss about stuff I let slide for years. It was like a weight I didn't know I was carrying just lifted off me. Makes you think about what else we might be burying without even realizing it, doesn't it?

Man, 30 bucks for a multimeter at Harbor Freight burned me twice in one week before I learned my lesson. False readings on a simple outlet test had me chasing a phantom short for three hours. Solidarity, man - you pay for accuracy or you pay in time and frustration, plain and simple.

Whoa, okay your friend Jake has the right idea. I had a similar thing happen to me but with the Goku and Piccolo driving episode in Dragon Ball Z, of all things. Like, here's two of the most powerful beings in the universe arguing about parallel parking and who forgot the snacks. It totally humanized Piccolo for me, made him less of this cold alien and more of a grumpy dad. I never skipped a filler episode again after that, even the boring ones.

Man I've been there and the only thing that actually worked was making one person the "book boss" each month. That person picks the book, leads the discussion, and everyone else chips in $5 to cover snacks or whatever. If you didn't read you still had to show up and ask at least one question about the book. We had a rule too where if three people in a row skipped reading, we dropped the title and picked something shorter. We got through way more books when we kept them under 300 pages too.