Three hours for a Quake config, and it didn't even work? Did you ever find one that actually ran properly, or was the whole hunt just a waste of a good afternoon?

My back gate hinge was a 5 minute fix I put off for 6 months.

Back when I first started, there was an old-timer who claimed he could set superheat by feel. He'd put his hand on the suction line and say "that's close enough." We got a call back on a walk-in cooler three days later because the compressor was slugging so bad it sounded like it was eating gravel. Had to explain to the customer that their box of frozen steaks was a total loss. That meter stayed on the truck from that day forward, and I never trusted a gut feeling over actual numbers since.

Same thing happened to me with pizza dough. Was manhandling it for months until someone pointed out I was bruising the yeast.

Man I've been there. That feeling of completely botching something simple just hits different after years of doing the same stuff.