I spent 45 minutes once trying to get Flexbox to do a simple 3-column layout and nearly threw my laptop... Grid is just easier for that stuff.

Read in a travel blog that most Couchsurfing hosts in Barcelona are younger locals who actually want to hang out, while hostel staff are just doing a job. Sounds like you got the real deal.

Missed it by a mile." Yeah, I know that feeling. I once reassembled a phone and somehow got a tiny piece of my shirt fabric caught in the screen connector. The whole display flickered like a bad horror movie. Took me an hour of staring at it before I realized I had basically dressed it in a tiny shirt. $90 is rough though, at least you got to learn something and curse the universe at the same time.