Just saw a stat about Bali nomad visas that made me rethink my plan

I was looking at the Bali government site yesterday, and they said over 60,000 digital nomad visas were given out last year. I always thought it was a small group, but that's a huge number. It made me worry about crowds and prices going up there. Has anyone been recently and noticed it getting too busy?

Spent $120 on a new LED mask for my treatment room

Clients love the results, but the battery life is a joke and it died halfway through a facial last week. Anyone have a reliable brand they actually trust?

Unpopular opinion: a little smoke in the kitchen is a learning moment

I was trying to make frozen french fries in my new air fryer last night and I didn't shake the basket enough. A few pieces got totally stuck and started smoking after about 12 minutes. I just unplugged it, let it cool on the balcony, and scraped the burnt bits out with a wooden spoon. Has anyone else had a first-time smoke scare, and what's your go-to method for keeping things from sticking?

Saw a diver in Mobile Bay skip the pre-dive comms check and it almost went bad

He was about to go down for a simple hull inspection and didn't confirm his mic was working with topside. His voice cut out at 30 feet, and topside had to pull him up on the line because they thought he was in trouble. It was just a loose connector, but it wasted a whole hour of paid dive time. How often do you guys actually test your full comms before hitting the water?

I watched a guy at the shop try to loosen a seized injector with a 3 foot cheater bar and a torch, and I think we need to talk about this.

PSA: That weird hum in a 20 year old Otis controller took me 3 days to trace.

It was a bad capacitor on the logic board, but the sound was echoing through the shaft. Boss said 'just find it' and I spent hours up there with a stethoscope. Anyone know a faster way to isolate board noise from structural vibration?

Honestly, I just blew $300 on a 'professional' dive log app that crashed and lost my whole month of data.

Tbh, it was some new software a buddy recommended, but it totally failed during a sync after a job in Tampa. Anyone know a reliable, simple log system that actually works?

Shoutout to the old Maytag dryer that nearly took my thumb off last Tuesday

I was replacing the idler pulley on a 2007 Maytag Neptune, and the drum belt slipped while I had my hand in there. Snapped back so hard it left a bruise across my knuckles and scared me more than anything. Why does everyone say those older models are safer to work on?

Warning: my neighbor's yard sale made me rethink everything I own

I was helping my neighbor with her yard sale in Portland last Saturday, and we filled three entire trucks with stuff nobody wanted. She looked at the pile and said, 'All this just to end up here.' It hit me that every single thing I buy will eventually become waste, using up resources and energy. Now I'm trying to only buy what I really need. How do you guys fight the urge to buy new stuff?

Just realized my old torque wrench was way off after a year

Had a customer come back with a loose stem bolt that I torqued to spec. Checked my wrench against a new digital one. It was reading 6 Nm when it was actually 4. Been using it for about a year on everything. Guessing the spring just wore out. Anyone else have a wrench fail like this?