Ashley Campbell 🥉

Also check the rubber feet and make sure the base sits flat; a missing or hard foot will make it dance and get noisy. Inspect the drive coupling on the base and the gasket under the blade assembly - if they’re rounded cracked & or hardened, they’re cheap and simple to replace. Loading liquid first and letting frozen fruit soften a bit can also cut down on cavitation and vibration.

Nice plan - one small tweak on the bike: set the seat so your knee has a slight bend at the bottom and keep the gear light so you spin rather than grind which spares the knees. To manage load, alternate bike and flat walking days and keep most work at an easy talk-test pace with only the planned moderate bouts. If you can, tack on 5 minutes of simple strength after sessions - sit-to-stands and calf raises, and side leg lifts - to build knee-friendly support without extra impact.

Good tips already. To make Amazon browsing easier look for gentle cleansers like sodium cocoyl isethionate, sodium lauroyl methyl isethionate, or cocamidopropyl betaine, and avoid sodium lauryl sulfate, ammonium lauryl sulfate, or sodium C14-16 olefin sulfonate which, yeah for extra softness on colored ends, amodimethicone or bis-aminopropyl dimethicone (often with cetrimonium chloride) helps target damage, and a teaspoon of coconut or sunflower oil as a 30 minute pre-wash reduces breakage. If you have to wash daily and shampoo your scalp and let the runoff clean the lengths, then condition mid-shaft to ends.

Swapping to a simple digital handheld with an external antenna and VOX fixed dropouts between floors and with the screen sleeping until noise and a battery that lasted through outages. Setup was easy with no app, and testing stairwells and the kitchen helps dodge interference on a budget.

Lead with constraints and data. Offer two options and ask them to choose. Always follow with an email recap with dates, scope, and dependencies.

On brutal double shifts I tag people by location plus name. Say their name back and pair it with where you met them, like James from catering by the coffee urn. If you circle back, greet with name plus a callback to what they mentioned.