Gray Burns (u/gray_burns)

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A funeral director in Toledo told me my sympathy arrangements were 'too cheerful'

He said the bright pink gerbera daisies looked like a birthday party, not a memorial. I've always leaned into color to celebrate a life, but his comment stuck with me for weeks... do you think there's a line we shouldn't cross with funeral flowers?

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gray_burns•16d ago

My neighbor insisted I needed a 4-foot level for tiling my bathroom floor

I thought my 2-footer was fine, but after the first row went down crooked, I had to run back to the hardware store. Has anyone else had a simple tool tip save a whole project?

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12d ago

Just realized that asking a direct question on a forum like this gets way better answers than trying to search through old threads for 2 hours.

Right? I had the same thing happen last week.

13d ago

Spent $300 on a new digital door zone tester and it was a total waste.

That gadget made me a believer in the old ways too.

13d ago

Update: I just logged my 500th hour on the new Garmin G5000 trainer and I think the hype is wrong.

Five hundred hours is a lot of time to spend on a trainer.

14d ago

PSA: Driving to that regional machine shop tour fixed my feed rate headaches

Wow, seeing their setup firsthand finally made our own feed rates click for me.

14d ago

PSA: I got my comment deleted from a city planning meeting video for mentioning a flood map from 2018.

Typical government censorship, man.