Spent 3 hours on a HVAC duct layout last Tuesday that fought me the entire way and then on Friday everything just snapped together like magic. I think the ghost of Frank Lloyd Wright blessed my mouse for a day or something. Probably used up all my luck for the next month though.

Oh man, that's a bummer. I mean, I totally get it though. Dark Matter is the kind of book where the pacing and the internal monologue really sell the whole multiverse anxiety thing. The show had to cut all that out for time and it just felt like a standard chase scene after a while. I've had the opposite happen with a few Stephen King books where the movie actually improved on the story, but it's rare. Usually the book just has so much more room to breathe and let you sit with the weirdness.

Agreed, that's a fair point and I used to feel the same way honestly. But then I checked the analytics on my own project and saw most people actually stuck around past the first week. So yeah, you're right to be skeptical, but sometimes those numbers do mean something.

Wait, you just matched MFD from the old one too? Yeah I did that for a solid six or seven years before a factory rep pointed out I was way off on like half my jobs. It's one of those things where you figure "hey it ran fine for years before I swapped it" but man, getting the right spec makes a huge difference in compressor life (learned that one the hard way).

Actually that reminder thing worked pretty well for me when I was trying to learn a similar move. Kept a little sticky note on my board and it helped me lock it in faster.