Brown the beef first in a pan to get rid of that weird grease. It only takes a few extra minutes and makes a huge difference in the final texture. My chili comes out way better every time I do that.

Oh man, that exact thing happened to me. I wrote a whole paragraph in one line and couldn't figure out why my page looked so cramped. It took forever to notice I needed actual paragraph tags, not just line breaks in the code.

That "air like water" idea is so smart! My buddy had the same thing happen with a cathedral ceiling last year.

Totally agree about it stealing the whole reason you were watching. I had a book ruined for me that way, where someone just blurted out the big twist in chapter five. It made every single page before that feel like a waste of time. I never even finished it, just lost all interest. You're right, switching to something completely different is the only move.

Tell me about it, I had the exact same thing happen with a cheap hinge tool last month. The metal just crumbled like a dry cookie when I put any real pressure on it. Learned my lesson the hard way that with specialty tools, you really do get what you pay for. I've had good luck with the ProForce brand for stuff like that, their tools are simple but they don't cut corners on the materials.