Bought one of those $80 test monitors and it paid for itself after the first time it caught a contrast issue I missed. Now I check everything on that cheap screen before I show anyone.

I feel you, that's rough man. Nothing like getting burned to make you rethink the whole watermark thing. What kind of watermark did you end up going with?

500 job sites without noticing? That's like waking up and realizing you've driven the same commute for ten years on autopilot. I hit a similar wall when I found out I'd filled up my gas tank 300 times at the same station without ever once looking at the price, which is either impressive or deeply sad. Your notebook discovery sounds like a detective solving their own boring mystery. At least you didn't find a 2011 memo you forgot to sign, that would be the real kicker.

Four confirm button taps sounds like my luck with vending machines.

My wife and I were at a Target last month trying to buy some gift cards and the self checkout screen had these tiny little virtual buttons that looked like they were made for an ant's fingers. I pressed one and it somehow registered a completely different option so I ended up buying a $50 gift card when I wanted two $25 ones. The machine just beeped at me and flashed this microscopic error message that I couldn't read without practically licking the screen. Had the teenage cashier come over and she just sighed and cancelled the whole transaction for me. Made me feel about 85 years old in a store full of people half my age breezing through.