95%+ is totally possible with a column still. I can easily pull 92% on mine, and it's not set up to do ultra high proof. Distillit percentage can easily be measured with a hydrometer, they're less than €10, and fairly accurate. This process might be really useful to pull the last 20% of water out after distilling.
I'd love to see this experiment done on something like everclear. That's around 95% abv. It'd be interesting to see if you could get the last 5% of water out of it. It'd also be interesting to see it done on something like an 8% abv wine or beer.
Pic related, it's my 250 liter column still. I usually get heads that are 92% abv, and an average abv of 80% across a run.
add a "daily house cleaning time" to a schedule. Every day, same bat time. 30 minutes, phones off, music on. Both of you get up and "return the house to the default state."
clean the house once and take a picture of each room in the default state. Print the picture and put it on the door out of each room. Tell them that's what you need the room to look like when you walk in. Phrase it as an accommodation for your mental health. Then they're "helping a friend with a problem."
Hard tasks get rewards. It doesn't have to be anything major. Stickers work for my wife. Sour patch kids work for me. "Hard tasks" are anything we hate doing. We reward ourselves or each other. "thanks for cleaning the shower, it looks great. You get a sticker" "I went and talked to the crazy neighbor, I get some sour patch kids." Our stupid brains don't give us dopamine for doing the thing, so we have to trick them.
Yeah. I've been working in silicon Valley since 2009. I've worked everywhere from startups to Facebook. I was laid off a year ago. I did 25 applications a week for 6 months with 0 interviews or call backs. This was all stuff I have industry experience at and fantastic references for. Even the contract companies I worked with haven't been able to find me anything outside of IT roles that require 24/7 on call paying $25/hr. I was making that in 2010. The job market for tech is nonexistent.
Yeah. My wife and I bounced from the US 2 years ago. We cashed out our 401ks at the start of this year and bought a house. We're currently in the nightmare stage of remodeling where everything is twice as expensive as expected and takes 4 times as long as we were told. Outside of everything currently being hell, we feel it was the best decision we could have made.
Paradigm speakers always had the best sound per dollar in my book. I've had my 7.1 set up using their speakers for a decade and they still sound amazing. Frequently their dealers will have a backroom with discounted stock. Scratch and dent, and good shit rich people decided to replace. You'll find amazing deals there.
I contracted at plex for 6 months. The employees really care. The developers were very concerned with making the absolute best media server possible. The QA team was doing crazy stuff to try to keep everything working.
Fun story time: I once got informed of a drug test for a job I'd just accepted after a weekend of hard partying. I was on prescription opiods, Adderall, and ketamine. They called Monday morning at 9 to tell me I had to piss within 4 hours. I hadn't even slept yet. I should have lit that test up like a Christmas tree for everything except thc. It came back clean. They never asked about my prescriptions. I have 2 theories. 1) they don't actually test. 2) if too many things light up, they assume it's a calibration issue.
Oh look, it's me. Except I've put in 600 applications in 6 months without a single response. 15 years as a Devops engineer at fortune 100 companies, and can't make it to round one.
Only if you're a good girl.