Camden Butler 🥉

Honestly and the only way I've kept my sanity is the walk-and-talk escape because I'm always sprinting between daycare pickup and a Zoom that starts in five. I open with a friendly, quick "Hey! So good to see you, I've got two minutes tops, running late," and I keep my feet moving toward the car or the door. Earbuds in, keys out, backpack on sends the vibe that this is a passing hello, not a porch sit, and half the time I've got a kid melting down over a sock which helps. If they still latch on, I repeat a closer like "I really have to go, tell me the rest next time," then I wave while already turning and end it without pausing. Timing wise I've started leaving at odd minutes and parking one house down so we don't overlap, and once a week I make a point to stop for a deliberate five-minute catch-up so it still feels friendly. It felt rude for a week, but consistency trained us both and now chats are under two minutes unless I actually have time.

Think about fair as proportional to bandwidth, not perfectly equal. On weeks your partner is at 50–55 hours, you own most of the daily resets because you have more predictable energy, and they take low-friction jobs and a focused weekend block. A workable split is you do a 15 minute kitchen reset after dinner, run the dishwasher nightly, and start two laundry loads on Tuesday and Friday mornings. They unload the dishwasher before work, take out trash and recycling, do pet care or mail, and fold and put away the laundry in the evening while watching a show. Then you both do a 60 to 90 minute power clean together on Saturday morning to hit bathrooms, floors, and a quick fridge check, which keeps resentment down because you are both in it at the same time. Make it easy to follow without keeping score by assigning ownership, not micro tasks. Put a simple chart on the fridge or a shared note with who owns kitchen reset, bathrooms, floors, laundry start, laundry finish, and groceries, and agree on a minimum standard so you are not redoing each other's work. Anchor chores to routines so they actually happen, like unload while coffee brews, wipe counters during the last five minutes of cooking, and change sheets right before starting a load. Batch meal prep on Sunday for two dinners and use a slow cooker or sheet pan meals on class nights to keep dishes and effort down. Do a 10 minute nightly tidy with a timer, and have a short Sunday check in to swap jobs if one of you had a brutal week and to pick one bigger task to ignore guilt free. The rule that helps most is default to your plan, communicate if you need a swap, and assume good intent, which cuts off scorekeeping before it starts.

Agreed with everything above. I've run a non GoPro action cam with the same two prong thumbscrew and it snaps into these harnesses because the base plate and latch follow the GoPro standard. The pick they suggested is built around that spec and is marketed to work with non GoPro models, so it directly addresses your base plate size concern and avoids odd spacing. Quick check is that your prongs line up and accept a GoPro style thumbscrew.