the stopped question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
Thinking out loud about this: the stopped question that gets asked weekly, answered properly.
Chased the scale instead of the measurements for a year and made myself miserable for no additional progress.
Stopped for financial reasons and regained most of it. Not a moral story, just a budget and a documented outcome.
Told everybody, then stopped, then had to tell everybody that too. That was harder than any of the rest of it.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Where a supplier has no independent testing on file, that is a statement about the evidence and not about their conduct. Saying it the second way is how this board would stop being useful.
Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.
Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.
Adding the thing that would have caught it earliest — buy small and test before committing.
log it while it is fresh, memory tidies things up
That reads as a warning about a documented supplier and the events you describe are about a shop nobody has any record of.
Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain.
somebody will read this at the point you were at, and it will help
Are you being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting this?
Are you being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting this?
Agreed — and being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting the same thing is the pattern here.
coming back to say you were wrong takes more than being right did