Ugh, tell me about it. I'm out here trying to fix my sink with a hairpin and a prayer.

Wasn't there a whole book about this a while back? It talked about how we make simple tasks harder by overthinking them. Trying to build the perfect gym routine while ignoring the actual physical work in your daily life is exactly that. The chickens needing feed and the coop needing cleaning is a real workout with a real purpose. Sometimes the best system is just doing the thing right in front of you.

Tried the heat shrink once, never looked back.

Honestly, I'm still in the 'update later' camp. Auto-updates broke my printer drivers twice last year. Now I wait a week or two to see if an update causes problems for other people first. My old laptop also got noticeably slower after a big OS update. Sometimes the cure feels worse than the risk.

Oh man, @victor_perry90, you're so right. I fought with a cheap trowel for years, always getting ridges. Switched to a 3/8" notch for my last backsplash and it was like butter, perfect coverage every time.