Did you ever try it with cold butter?

I actually read a study once that said something like 70% of furniture layout regrets come from poor window placement decisions. @caseys30 your buddy's story sounds exactly like that, people just don't think about airflow when they're picking out a couch. In my experience, living with a window for a few months before making big furniture purchases saves a ton of headache later.

You ever crack open a book from your early days and smell that glue and feel secondhand embarrassment for your past self? I still have a cookbook I bound back in 2021 that looks like a raccoon tried to hot-glue it together, but the spine somehow held better than my later "perfect" ones. It's a reminder that numbers don't fix bad technique, they just make bad technique look more consistent.