Oh man, four hours in the chair sounds rough. I read somewhere that some salons use a different formula that doesn't smell as bad, but I haven't tried it. Glad it worked out for you though, that air dry thing sounds nice.

Three different neighbors called the cops over a leaky pipe, and now someone's asking if it's "drama." Guess I'll just let my faucet flood the whole block next time.

its wild how much good stuff gets ignored just cause it looks rough or old.

My buddy Mike had the exact same experience about five years back. He was wrestling with some old Siemens panel and stripped three screws in thirty minutes. He finally swapped to a Wera precision set after his coworker Dave, who's been in the trade since the 70s, told him the same thing about butterfingers being garbage. Mike says he hasn't stripped a single latching screw since, and now he won't touch a butterfinger unless he absolutely has to.

And that's the thing I keep coming back to - the line cleaning. Like, how often are these places actually flushing their lines? I was talking to a buddy who used to work at a bar on 6th and he told me some spots only do a deep clean once a month in the summer. That's insane, right? With the heat we've been getting in Austin lately, you'd think they'd be running a cleaning cycle every couple weeks minimum. But maybe I'm wrong - what's the standard practice supposed to be for bars in this climate? Because if you're seeing that much foam and it's not just a temperature issue, there's gotta be something building up in those lines.