Who decided sauce and good smoke can't live together? That judge sounds like he got burned by one bad bottle and never let it go. Sauce is a layer, not a cover up, same way salt doesn't mean your steak was bad. If the meat's right and the sauce adds something, that's a win. If the sauce is just there to drown out mistakes, yeah, that's a loss, but that's on the cook not the sauce.

Heard about a guy on a podcast who taped a clear plastic cup over his power button after his cat did the same thing. Cut a little notch for the cables and everything. Cats love warm electronics so they just keep coming back to the same spot. Checking the fans first is smart, you can also listen for the drive spin up before you waste time on anything else.

Ugh, that sinking feeling when you realize the paper you need got tossed! I had almost the same thing happen, except my codes got soaked when a water bottle leaked in my bag, and I couldn't read a single one. Now I save them in my password manager and also email a copy to myself so there's always a backup somewhere I can actually find. My wife knows now to never touch anything in my desk drawer, even if it looks like a receipt.