My buddy Dave fixed his whole PC with a restore point, took him maybe four minutes tops.

Ha! Yeah nothing like an old foreman showing up to save your bacon with a roll of paper tape... mesh is great until it isn't, right?

Ha, nope. Spotters cost extra and I was being cheap.

Trusting a neighbor's guesswork more" haha I've been there. I used to swear by buying cheap gear until a $200 meter cost me a whole Saturday chasing a ghost signal. Now I'm on the used Viavi bandwagon too, that Lisak14 mentioned. Better to let someone else take the depreciation hit on the good stuff.

Wait, are we really counting jars and acting like we hit some kind of kimchi milestone? 50 quarts is a lot, sure, but it's just cabbage and salt. Seems like you just got a little overzealous with the experiments, not some huge achievement.