The line about turning your glue pot up higher than you should have hits home, I did the same thing on a 1890s ledger last year. Get a cheap candy thermometer and clip it to the pot, hide glue wants 140 to 150 degrees and once it hits 160 it turns watery and soaks in wrong. I keep a small cup of cold water next to the pot too, if the glue drips off the brush in a thin stream instead of a slow blob, it is too hot, so I stir in a splash of water and pull the heat. Taking ten seconds to check the temp beats spending two days undoing the damage, learned that the hard way.

Oof, the double email in one week is rough but the misspelled company name in the subject line is what really got me. That is like showing up to a first date with the wrong person's name on a birthday card. Been there though, my old sheet had leads marked "sent" with no note about who replied, so I just kept blasting away at people who already told me no. What finally worked for me was adding three simple columns: date sent, replied yes or no, and a follow up date so nothing slipped. Sounds dumb but it cut my angry replies way down once I stopped treating the sheet like a to do list from 2019.