A job in a 1920s bungalow where the subfloor was all shims and hope

Last fall I was pulling up old oak in a Seattle bungalow and found the wildest thing. The whole subfloor was just layers of cedar shingles and tar paper, no plywood at all. The homeowner and I just stood there staring at it for a solid five minutes. We had to stop everything and re-frame the whole floor before we could even think about laying the new material. Has anyone else opened up a floor and found something that made you just stop and laugh?

My car keys were in the fridge for two days straight and I have no memory of putting them there

My entire long box of 90s X-Men comics got water damaged in the basement flood

It happened two nights ago when that huge storm hit and the sump pump gave out. I went down there and the cardboard was just mush, some of the bags had fused to the covers. I spent about $400 over the years at garage sales putting that run together. Has anyone managed to save books from something like this, or are they just gone?

I was torquing lug nuts wrong for a solid decade

A customer came back with a vibration after a tire rotation I did. I checked my work and everything was tight, but the pattern was off. My boss watched me put a wheel back on and said, 'You're doing the star pattern, but you're not doing it right. You're just going around the circle.' He showed me to start at the top, then go directly across, not just to the next one. I've been doing it the lazy way since I started. Has anyone else had a basic skill they needed to unlearn?

Update: I sent a thank you email after a job I didn't get... and it worked

I got a rejection for a project manager role last week, but I wrote a short email thanking them for their time anyway. They just called me back about a different opening that's a better fit. Has anyone else had a simple follow-up lead to something new?

Was cleaning out my grandfather's old workshop and found a ledger from 1938

I was going through boxes in his basement in Cincinnati and pulled out this leather-bound account book. The entries show he charged $1.25 to reback a novel, but $8.50 for a full leather rebind on a family bible. I had no idea the price difference for different jobs was that big back then. Has anyone else come across old pricing records that made you rethink current rates?

Hot take: I thought I could nail a brisket flat by just watching the temp. Ngl, getting that bark right without drying it out took me like 8 hours of fiddling with the firebox.

Honestly, my first one was like leather because I rushed the wrap. Anyone got a solid method for keeping the flat juicy on a stick burner?

My local anime club's debate last Thursday got way too heated over filler arcs

We were at the library meeting room, and a guy argued that Naruto filler is essential for world-building, which is just wrong. He got so loud the librarian had to come over. Does anyone actually enjoy watching those drawn-out filler episodes?

TIL that a single teaspoon of soil can contain more living organisms than there are people on Earth

I was reading a gardening blog from Oregon and it mentioned this fact about soil biology. It completely blew my mind and made me think about my backyard differently. Has anyone else come across a fact that changed how you see something ordinary?

DAE see people not accounting for wood movement on wide table tops?

I keep seeing builds online where they glue up a 36 inch wide slab with no breadboard ends or slotted hardware. It's gonna crack or warp within a year for sure. What's your go-to method to keep things flat?