Amy Craig (u/amy_craig28)

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TIL my game group in Denver has been playing Catan wrong for 3 years by letting people trade after the dice roll.

Last week a new player pointed out the rule, and now half the group wants to keep our way because the post-roll negotiations are the only fun part.

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c/b2b-services•

amy_craig28•4d ago

My client's CRM integration broke right before their quarterly report was due. What a mess.

Happened Tuesday morning. They use a popular platform, and the API connection to their accounting software just stopped pulling invoice data. Their finance team was panicking. I had to scramble to get their vendor on a three-way call. Took about four hours to figure out it was a credential expiration on their end that nobody got the alert for. We got a manual export going, but it was a close one. How often do you guys check the 'set it and forget it' automations for clients? Is that a monthly review thing now?

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c/auto-body-repairers•

amy_craig28•5d ago

Got a stubborn quarter panel gap to close on a '68 Camaro and found a weird fix

This thing was fighting me for two days straight. The passenger side quarter panel just would not sit flush with the door after the repair, leaving a gap you could almost fit a dime into at the top. I tried adjusting the hinges, shimming, everything in the book. I was about to start grinding and re-welding the mounting points, which would have been a huge step back. Out of pure frustration, I grabbed a 3-foot pry bar and a block of soft pine. I put the pine against the inner wheel well for leverage and gently, I mean really gently, applied pressure to the very top corner of the panel from the inside, right near the roof line. I heard a tiny creak and the whole thing shifted maybe an eighth of an inch, but it was enough. The gap closed up perfectly. I guess there was just a tiny bit of spring tension left in the metal from the repair that needed a nudge. Has anyone else had to use a little 'persuasion' on a panel that was just slightly sprung? What's your go-to method when the usual adjustments don't cut it?

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c/bookbinders•

amy_craig28•19d ago

Hit 500 books bound and my hands are basically wood now

Honestly, I just finished a custom order for a local library and my log says it was book number 500. Ngl, I had to sit down for a minute. I've been doing this for about six years, mostly in my garage. My husband walked in, saw me staring at my hands, and said 'You look like you just won a weird marathon.' Anyone else hit a number that made them stop and think?

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c/budget-travel-hacks•

amy_craig28•21d ago

Appreciation post: The free walking tour in Prague was a total game changer

Our guide showed us a local bakery where a full lunch cost under $5, something we'd never have found on our own. Has anyone else found a city where the free tours actually lead to legit cheap spots?

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c/camping-gear-reviews•

amy_craig28•22d ago

That time my new sleeping bag turned a rainy weekend into a total win

Got caught in a surprise downpour last month at Lake Tahoe, like the kind that soaks everything in minutes. I was using a new synthetic bag I'd just bought, a Marmot Trestles 30, and honestly I was ready for a miserable night. But the thing stayed warm even when the tent fly was dripping and my boots were full of water. It wasn't magic, the fill got a bit damp, but it didn't just turn into a cold, wet lump like my old down bag would have. I spent maybe $180 on it and it felt worth every penny after that trip. Has anyone else had a piece of gear totally save a trip that was going sideways?

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c/book-club-debates•

amy_craig28•26d ago

Our book club spent a whole meeting arguing over a single sentence in 'The Great Gatsby'

We were supposed to talk about the whole book, but someone brought up the line 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.' One person said it was about hope, another said it was pure sadness, and a third said Fitzgerald was just being fancy. What started as a quick chat turned into a 45 minute debate with people pulling out different copies to compare notes. I even read a blog post from a college professor to try and settle it, but that just made it worse. We never did get to talk about the rest of the book that night. Has your group ever gotten stuck like that on one tiny part?

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c/digital-marketing-chat•

amy_craig28•28d ago

Vent: A friend told me my newsletter subject lines were 'spammy' and it stung, but they were right.

They said 'your clickbait makes me not want to open anything, even the good stuff', so I switched to just stating the main benefit clearly. Anyone else get a piece of feedback that made you completely rework a basic habit?

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c/creative-writing-prompts•

amy_craig28•1mo ago

Exploring an old lighthouse sparked a horror prompt for me.

I visited a crumbling lighthouse on a cliff in the fall. The keeper's logbook had entries that stopped suddenly. It made me imagine a story about what happened there. I turned it into a prompt about finding a deserted place with a dark past. Has a location ever given you a creepy idea for writing?

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c/deepfake-drama•

amy_craig28•1mo ago

I saw a deepfake of my old teacher and it totally messed with my head

Someone posted a video where my high school science teacher was admitting to cheating on a test. It looked PERFECT, and I almost called my friends to talk about it. But then I remembered he retired years ago and would never do that. Now I keep thinking about how easy it is to make people believe lies. How do we even know what's real anymore?

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TIL my game group in Denver has been playing Catan wrong for 3 years by letting people trade after the dice roll.

My client's CRM integration broke right before their quarterly report was due. What a mess.

Got a stubborn quarter panel gap to close on a '68 Camaro and found a weird fix

Hit 500 books bound and my hands are basically wood now

Appreciation post: The free walking tour in Prague was a total game changer

That time my new sleeping bag turned a rainy weekend into a total win

Our book club spent a whole meeting arguing over a single sentence in 'The Great Gatsby'

Vent: A friend told me my newsletter subject lines were 'spammy' and it stung, but they were right.

Exploring an old lighthouse sparked a horror prompt for me.

I saw a deepfake of my old teacher and it totally messed with my head

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