Read a Harvard study that said saying "I don't know" makes people trust you more.

Who cheats at D&D with a weighted dice? That guy sounds like a total clown. Honestly switching to Catan was probably the best call you made all night.

Gaskets almost never just fail out of nowhere, they give you little clues for weeks if you know what to look for. A tiny bit of condensation, a door that needs an extra nudge, a weird smell in the morning, all of that is the unit telling you it's about to quit on you. Checking them every shift is fine but you might be fixing the wrong problem, because half the time the real issue is a hinge or a warped frame that's slowly destroying the seal.