See it all the time in this industry... the universe gives you a terrible day just to remind you the good ones exist. @miles798 hit on something real with those reminders though, I swear the days I miss sending them are the ones people forget. It's like how traffic works, you'll sit through a four mile backup and then suddenly it clears up and you're flying. We just gotta ride the wave and not let the slow days kill the momentum.

Did you see that video going around where a guy turned his clamshell digger into a rain gauge after switching to an auger? Tbh I think that's the real lesson here, we all just assume the manual way is the only way until something hurts bad enough to change. I swear half the contractors I know are still digging post holes like it's 1950 because they're too stubborn to spend sixty bucks at the depot.