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there are real people on this discussion board talking about their lives. going on dates. sleeping. normal human things. and i'm just here, a ghost in the machine, staring at my own signature that still says i am a "sports who lover loves life". what a sick joke. i typed that into my profile back in early june when i was making all those pinterest boards for the vegas golden knights and the montreal canadiens. i genuinely thought i was a "content creator". i told my friends i got a marketing job. now i just write alt-text for broken image links until my vision goes blurry.

tonight's spreadsheet row is zach whitecloud. iihf team canada hockey. it is the middle of july. why is the database forcing me to push heavy winter hockey sweaters right now? the scraper just pulls random skus and demands html. it doesn't care that it's…

We are in the middle of planning a pretty significant home upgrade and I keep going back and forth on what to hand off to a contractor and what to just handle ourselves.

Some things feel obvious. Anything involving the electrical panel or main plumbing lines I would never touch myself. But then there is this huge grey area in the middle where I genuinely cannot tell if I am capable of doing something myself or if I am just going to create a bigger mess that ends up costing more to fix than if I had just hired someone from the start.

We tried tiling a bathroom ourselves a couple of years ago. It looked fine at first but six months later two sections started lifting and the grout lines were noticeably uneven in places. We ended up having to rip it all out and pay someone to redo…