That's such a good point about the skill it takes to make things look simple! It reminds me of a hair stylist talking about a "messy bun" that actually takes a ton of pins and product. Maybe framing it as an art style helps, like saying a loose painting can be harder than a simple line drawing. You're paying for the artist's eye to make it look perfectly imperfect, not just for the stems themselves.

Ugh, "Restart first, then check the cable connection.

Totally agree with the brown sugar comment. Those extra bits in raw or brown sugar are basically a full meal for the yeast instead of just a snack. My first bug with dark muscovado was a monster, it ate through the sugar so fast I had to feed it twice a day. You really have to treat those unrefined sugars like a totally different ingredient. Starting with way less liquid is the only way to keep it from painting your kitchen ceiling.

Actually that's not quite chaos if you can control it, michael895. That's just a good task with a clear end.

My buddy did that on his 1910 craftsman in Dayton. Spent the extra on conduit in the attic crawlspace. He just ran a new line for his garage heater last week in like twenty minutes.