Oh man, I gotta disagree a little here! Those apps have saved me so many times when I'm at the store and can't remember if I need bay leaves or not. I think the key is finding one that lets you filter by common ingredients or stores you actually shop at. I use one that has a "quick recipes" section and it usually sticks to stuff like olive oil, garlic, and maybe one random thing. The vinegar thing would drive me nuts too, but I feel like most apps let you swap ingredients now if you poke around the settings. Paper lists work too, but I always lose mine or forget to bring it!

Throw that binder in a desk drawer and it'll prop open a window too, @kai_bennett. Honestly, with all the paper crammed in mine it could probably hold a bookshelf steady in an earthquake. Ngl, half the stuff in there is just dead weight anyway.

Man, 500 bell dives is no joke. That's a whole lot of bottom time and a lot of stuck valves and long, cold rides to the surface. But here's what I'm wondering - when you hit that number, did it make you start thinking about the ones that almost weren't just dives? I mean the real close calls, not just the bad coffee.

Isn't it pretty boring to wade through hundreds of pages of worldbuilding just to get a few pages of payoff at the end? I'd rather have a book that keeps me on the edge of my seat the whole way through than one that makes me slog through a desert of descriptions for one good fight scene. If a story can't hold my interest in the first fifty pages, why should I trust it to make the climax worth it later?

@jake191 that quarter trick is a nice parlor game but not how real collision work gets done. You're right about lead being nasty stuff. I'd rather breathe dust from a little filler than melt lead all day. The guy who walked away from you sounds like the same type who thinks MIG welders are cheating because real men use gas torches. A 3 pound bondo job on a quarter panel might mean you skipped some hammer work but it also might mean the customer didn't want to pay for three hours of metal finishing. There's a middle ground between mud slinging and metal perfection. Sometimes filler makes the difference between a job that fits the insurance estimate and one that sits in the shop for a week.