@uma_baker99 $60 Intuos 4 is a legendary find, bet it outlasts us all.

@paulw63 I'm still not sold on the hype though. Thermal cameras and lidar are cool tricks but they're just that - tricks. You still gotta dig to prove anything exists. All this fancy tech and people still miss obvious stuff right under their noses.

My credit union uses SMS codes now too, like a second lock.

Got a buddy who did a six week hitch on a rig off Angola. Said he cleared almost thirty grand after his rotation. He spent the whole first week back buying rounds at every bar in town, had that drunk on cash look the whole time. But he also said you EARN it, like twelve hour shifts in a boiler suit soaked through with sweat and salt spray, holding a probe to a pipe that’s vibrating hard enough to rattle your teeth.

I used to roll my eyes at the old-timer advice and figured I knew better. But after three months of elbow grease on that anvil, I gotta admit he was dead right. Sometimes you just gotta trust the guy who's been doing it for forty years.