Totally get that, a fresno is a game changer for big slabs. I watched a crew use one on a patio pour and the finish was perfect. It just moves the cream around so much better than a bull float.

Oh man, that's cool. Meanwhile I'm over here trying to pick colors for a birthday card and I'm pretty sure my last combo was just gray on slightly darker gray.

My buddy did the same thing in Berlin and almost skipped the day pass. He ended up hopping on and off trains all day to see different neighborhoods, and it saved him a ton of cash. Those passes are sneaky good deals if you move around even a little.

Man, that hits on something I see everywhere now. We traded all these fixable things for sealed boxes that just get tossed. My dad could tune up our old car with a basic toolkit, but now you need a computer just to reset the oil light. That repair shop feels like a time capsule of when stuff had knobs to turn and you could actually understand how it worked.

Did they at least give you a searchable index for that 50 page PDF?