The average job posting gets 250 resumes" is the same thing as those dating app stats where the top 10% get all the matches. It's not that you're doing anything wrong, it's just a numbers game where most people are invisible no matter how good they are. Your cousin tossing them in a minute tells you the custom cover letter is mostly for you, not for them, so do a quick one and spend the rest of your time hitting more places.

Buddy's 135mm freed up with naphtha, no paint damage.

Man, six cards stacked on a wire shelf in a closet is a straight up fire hazard, did he at least have a box fan going or was he just cooking the drywall? Here's what gets me though, did you ever actually confront Dave about the bill or did you just eat that $150 a month for four months while stewing about it? Because the math there matters, that's like $600 out of your pocket, and I gotta know if he tried to play dumb when you brought it up. Did he offer anything at all or just act like running a space heater in July was normal?