[Regret] chased the scale instead of the labs for a year
Check-in as promised in the title: chased the scale instead of the labs for a year.
Chased the scale instead of the measurements for a year and made myself miserable for no additional progress.
Stopped for financial reasons and regained most of it. Not a moral story, just a budget and a documented outcome.
Told everybody, then stopped, then had to tell everybody that too. That was harder than any of the rest of it.
That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Where a supplier has no independent testing on file, that is a statement about the evidence and not about their conduct. Saying it the second way is how this board would stop being useful.
Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chosen out of impatience.
Left up, flaired Correction. The original stays with it — that is how this board works.
the regret is usually about pace, not about the decision
Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board.
Not convinced that was avoidable. Some of this is genuinely bad luck and treating everything as a lesson is its own trap.
Correcting myself: 21 weeks, not the figure I wrote. The story is the same and I had rounded it in my favour.
Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.