Could the weather be changing the brake pad compound enough to cause all those issues at once?

The drying room was barely warm and you were there four hours? That's crazy. @the_riley might think standing in cold rain is worse, but four hours in a damp barely-heated room sounds like its own special kind of awful. I almost feel damp just reading about it. Did you at least have a chair or was it just standing around in the cold? Honestly, I'd take the cold rain over that.

Ngl my buddy found a wire melted clean through on a new build last month.

Ha I was the dweeb who kept all mine on a sticky note under my keyboard

That "Google Authenticator has no backup or sync option by design" really got me... I learned that one the hard way too. Funny enough @drew690, my whole mess started because I couldn't decide which app to use. I actually wiped my old phone and then realized I never wrote down any of those backup codes either. Digital hoarding is real, I guess. Now I just keep a little notebook with codes written in it, which feels super old school but at least I can't lose it in the cloud.