Swapped my usual nachos order for the box last month and haven't looked back. The extra burrito gets me through lunch the next day, so it's basically two meals for the price of one.

The trick that finally worked for me was setting up a saved search on a couple of book selling sites and just letting them email me whenever something matched. Took about five months, but then three of the four books I needed showed up within two weeks of each other. Also, telling my local used book store owner what I was after turned out to be gold, he started pulling stuff aside for me before it even hit the shelf. That coffee stain thing is real, too. My copy of the second book has a torn corner on the cover and I wouldn't trade it for a mint one. It's got a story before I even read it.

Hold on, you're mixing up two things there. A rotary cleaner with a HEPA vac is still brushing the flue, it's just motorized instead of by hand. You didn't switch from brushing to something else, you switched from manual labor to powered labor. That's not a small difference, but it's not the big jump you made it sound like. The real question is whether that rotary head can handle the same level of tar or creosote that a stiff wire brush can dig into. On heavy buildup, I've seen rotary heads just bounce off the gunk and leave a smooth layer that looks clean but isn't. That's when you still need to break out the hand brush, no way around it. Narrow flues are a whole other animal too, the cables can kink or the head can bind up. So your instinct on that is right, you'll probably always keep a manual brush in the truck for those jobs.

Oh man, that's such a classic trap. My buddy who does cabinets had this exact thing happen in a beach house. He matched the paint in his shop, perfect under his lights, then got there and it looked like baby poop on the wall. The homeowner's kitchen had those crazy warm dimmer bulbs everywhere. He ended up redoing the whole thing with a gray-ish white and it finally clicked. Now he brings a little handheld lamp with him to every job, like a forensic guy, just to check the vibe. It's wild how much the light can straight up lie to you.

Yeah, once a guy told me my display looked like a yard sale and flipping the books face out doubled the sales.