Check the outlet your bench is on and see what else shares that breaker. Old buildings in Tucson are the worst for this because everyone runs window AC units and the voltage sags hard when a compressor kicks on. A clone or a Windows update is pulling max power exactly when your neighbor's AC cycles, and a cheap UPS in battery mode can actually make it worse, some of them output a stepped sine wave that drives SSDs nuts. Grab a $30 kill-a-watt or a logging meter and watch your line voltage for a few days before you drop $150, the data will tell you if it's the building or just a run of bad luck.

Wait, you were cranking out three horror prompts a night solo? That part is not quite right in my head. A prompt is just a seed, so where was the burnout coming from? Unless you meant you were writing full stories or scenes, which makes way more sense. The mason jar thing is great though, my group did something like that with song titles and it worked better than any app we tried.

Fifth and Main is right by that Thai place with the weird hours, so at least you got a story out of it. But the bearing feel thing is kind of a trap, a hub can spin smooth as butter and still have threads half chewed through from someone overtightening the cones. You gotta pull the axle and look at the threads and the cone faces, that's the only way to really know.

The spam folder is not what ate your $2,400. Subcontractors get a ton of email and most of them never open the ones from the office, spam or not. What you need is a paper trail each sub has to sign off on, even if it's just a photo of a written note texted straight to their foreman. A voice memo to yourself was never proof of anything, it was just a note, and notes you can't show in a meeting don't win. Try a group text thread per trade and make them reply "got it" so it's in writing on their own phone.

Check your local rules before you commit to coal, because a lot of cities ban or limit it for home use and Boise could be one of them. That smoke is no joke either, it'll coat your garage and your neighbor's laundry line, and a cheap used coal forge often needs new fire bricks and a blower anyway. Propane is the safer bet for a garage setup even at $400, and you won't be fighting your neighbors over it.