Oh man the pole sander thing hits home, I finally switched after years of fighting with a hand sander and my neck is so much happier now. For real though on the screws, I've been using the self-tapping ones on my last two ceiling jobs and they just grab so much better than nails ever did, plus you can actually feel when they're set right.

Totally agree, @caseyrivera. Hand motions are the only reason I can spell my own name some days. My brain just gives up after the morning coffee wears off.

@taylor_burns72 makes a good point about printers, but that student database recovery is a whole different level. Desktops and printers are one thing - keeping a database server alive when the school's whole student info is on the line is real pressure. Those three hours of config time probably saved someone a week of data entry work.

That really hit home for me. I used to think a cool setting and lots of action were enough to carry a story, but boy was I wrong. After my own writing group pointed out the same thing, I went back and gave my main character a simple fear of being alone, and it changed everything about how the scenes played out.

Hold up, a pen from 2020 giving out is cause for this much drama? Matthew703 is right, three years is solid for a brush pen that gets regular use. I've had fancy fountain pens that dry up in half that time. And finishing your spread with a different pen feeling 'super weird'? It's a weekly planner, not a sacred manuscript. Maybe just grab a new Fudenosuke for ten bucks and move on.