Portland? You were doing a live demo for a client in the same room and your local setup died. That is a terrifying level of pressure, man. Just picturing that makes my palms sweat. Huge respect for keeping your cool and having the API key ready to go as a backup plan. That's the kind of quick thinking that saves a deal.

Sorting by color is a total game changer for finding pieces fast.

My old pottery teacher in Austin swore by those seedling mats. She kept one under her glaze buckets in the winter to stop them from getting too thick. I tried it with a small slip container last year and it totally stopped that weird skin from forming on top. Do the mats you use have a built in thermostat or do you just plug them in?

Honestly, that reminds me of a guy I met who only brought a tablet to a meeting and the battery died. The awkward silence was way louder than any printed page.

Nah, I get the opposite. All those identical houses and dead end streets? Makes my brain work harder to find something interesting. Like a puzzle. Forces you to notice the small stuff, the weird garden gnome or the one house painted a different color.