Man, the worst part is you probably had a dozen failed pots before one finally worked and you still don't know why. It's like the beans are testing you the whole time, and the day they stop being hard little rocks is the day you finally earned salt. Three months for two bucks is still a better deal than most hobbies.

Man I did the same thing for like a year with a notes app on my phone. Once I started actually writing down why a meme made me laugh instead of just saving it, I noticed I mostly liked stuff that reminded me of specific people in my life. Weird how that works.

That carbon book saved your butt though, right? You thought deck, the paper said fence. That's the whole point. My memory of a job from three years ago is basically gone, but the paper don't change. Sloppy typing is a real thing, sure, but sloppy memory is worse and you can't fix it after the fact.