Old timers love dropping weird advice like it's a secret handshake. Last summer a guy told me I was "fighting the mud" instead of working with it and I still don't fully get what that means but my slabs stopped looking like a war zone. Probably just needed more beer breaks honestly.

morgan915, you hit the nail on the head there. I read somewhere that most shows get cancelled right when they hit their stride because of rights disputes or licensing fees. The writers get tangled up in contracts and it just kills the momentum. It's like they care more about lawyers than actually making something good. So frustrating when a series gets cut short for that reason.

Did you ever read that study about how expert chess players don't actually memorize every possible move? They just know patterns and what the board can do. It's the same with coding - your brain's better off knowing that the function exists somewhere rather than trying to hold the whole language in your head. I had a coworker who refused to use autocomplete because he thought it was cheating, and he spent twice as long on every ticket as the rest of us. The docs are just your extended memory now.

Wait, did you at least try to microwave them or did you eat them straight out of the wrapper like I did? My stomach is STILL recovering from that experiment.

Lost mine to a mudhole last year (guy just laughed and drove past, so you got lucky).