My dad covered my rent for three months after I got laid off. I was ready to live in my car before asking. That kind of pride is just stupid, expensive pride.

Yeah that's the one! I tried their lentil soup recipe last week and it was actually so good. Made a giant pot for like ten bucks total.

Spent a whole weekend trying to build a shelf with a screwdriver. I was forcing the screws in with just the driver, getting mad that the wood was splitting. My neighbor finally asked where my drill was. I didn't own one. I thought you just hammered screws in with the handle. Felt like a real genius that day.

It's like muscle memory takes over and you stop checking the basics. I see it with people using power tools at home, running them way too high because they never read the safety sheet. That autopilot mode is real.

Oh man, wind is the worst. My buddy learned that the hard way last fall. He had his tracker set up for a great shot of Andromeda, and a gust came through that basically turned his whole rig into a sail. The image was a total blur. That's the kind of thing that makes me side-eye takes like @elizabeth900's. Sure, you can stack a ton of short shots, but if the wind is shaking the tripod even a little, every single one of those frames is soft. A good tracker with a solid tripod and maybe some weight on the hook handles real conditions way better than hoping for dead calm all night.