Since I’m never fancy with my avocados, after I take out the pit, I slice it while in the peel, then squeeze it like a lemon onto my sandwich
There was a time when I was writing a computer program, and needed to convert a position in polar coordinates to Cartesian coordinates. So I started by finding x=r\cos(\theta), and then used the Pythagorean theorem to find y, and then did a bunch of futzing around with the angle to find what quadrant it was in to determine whether it was positive or negative.
Or, wait, I could just use y=r\sin(\theta)
You’re not the only one.
Next time just buy tubing wrenches. They have an open section so you can loosen or tighten a hydraulic fitting without cutting the tubing. Think brake lines.
The light fixture in our kitchen is a design similar to this, with a large glass bowl that is held in place by a rod that goes up the center and screws into the fixture base.
For the nearly 30 years that we’ve been living in this house, whenever I had to change a light bulb I’d unscrew the rod, pull the rod and glass cover down, then when putting it back up I’d have to hold the cover in place while blindly trying to locate the screw hole in the base to get the rod to screw back in.
However, when I recently had to replace a bulb, when I went to unscrew the rod the cap came off the end but the rod stayed screwed into the base. And it was SO much easier to put the cover back on when all I had to do was screw the cap back on the end of the rod!
when in the army, I saw a guy doing an oil-change on a car through the dip-stick-hole …
Quick and dirty oil change places will suck out the oil via the dip stick tube. Never mind how much of the old oil is left in. You might get a new filter.
Speaking of sucking.
On Wednesday, while vacuuming, I accidently sucked up a small plastic bag I didn’t see behind a chair while using the attachment. I immediately shut it off. I could see that the plastic bag hadn’t gone into the vacuum’s bag. I was pressed for time so I finished with the beater vacuum.
Later that day I took the vacuum apart to get the bag out. I assumed it had wrapped itself around the blades. 20 odd screws later I finally realized it couldn’t have got in there. The air path goes from the hose to the bag thru a filter to the motor. Something I really should have known down pat let alone figured out in the moment.
So, 4 screws later, I had to end of the hose off, could see the bag stuck in the tube. Pulled it out, put the 4 screws back on.
Then I reassembled the vacuum, but ended up with an extra screw. Took it partly apart to find the place where I missed, re-reassembled it. Ta-da.
If I had just thought a bit I could have saved myself a lot of time. I tell myself that I cleaned out some random gunk here and there so it wasn’t a complete waste, but …
Does repeatedly pushing a motorcycle up a slope so as to coast back down and bump start it only to realize the kill switch was on count?
only if it was pouring down hard on that day
iirc, The oil change was done in a normal way except for the part where you refill the oil.
I did that with a lawnmower once as a teenager. I pulled on the starter cord until I was blue in the face before I finally realized the kill switch was on, grounding the spark plug.
Then as an adult I did the same thing with a brand-new snowblower before I realized the spark plug cable was disconnected from the spark plug (presumably for safety during shipping).
Great exercise, though very frustrating.
A couple of years ago I got a pothole and popped a tire on the way to a gig. I had to change the tire, in the rain, in my concert clothes in a Walgreens parking lot, trying to work as fast as I could do I could make my call time.
It seemed to take forever to jack the damn thing up. Hard as hell to turn the handle. I’ve changed two tires since then and they were much easier and much faster.
Months later it occurred to me that my wife was sitting in the passenger seat, directly over the jack point. I was jacking up an entire extra person. I could have just asked her to go browse Walgreens for ten minutes.
At least I made it to the concert.
I was trying to disconnect a hose from a gas cylinder. I was pulling on the wrench with all my might, when someone walked by and said “Is that a left-handed thread?” No it was not. I’d just spent 10 minutes making my job that much harder.
That’s why we always pulled the wastebasket under the bread board (remember having a pull-out bread board?) Then you can knock the knife against the side of the board to pop the pit off the knife. (Aim for the pit, just next to the knife,) And gravity pulls it down into the wastebasket.
Of course, we were usually preparing 5 or 6 avocadoes at once. We had about 15 avocado trees.
The convenient thing about avocadoes is that they don’t start to ripen until after they’ve been picked.