Yeah but honestly that's where all the good stuff is hiding! I've noticed how everyone's so quick to slap a label on things these days without actually sitting with the messiness of it. Julia Fisher I think that's the real pattern here - people just want clean answers but life doesn't work that way. Overthinking is just your brain trying to make sense of a world that rarely makes sense in the first place.

Funny you mention that, my buddy once tried to speed-dry some hot mud with a space heater because he was in a rush to finish a bedroom before his in-laws showed up. He ended up with a patch that looked like a topographic map of the moon. I think he waited about 45 minutes based on the bucket label and figured it was good enough. The mud was still soft in the middle, so when he sanded it, it just gouged out. He had to redo the whole corner and it took twice as long. Honestly, I've learned the hard way that with hot mud, you're better off just walking away for a few hours and coming back with a beer.

Think you're mixing up the two processes there @the_robert.

Had a whole panic moment on a client once where my thumb slipped out and I couldn't even find the hole again. Ended up basically doing the whole haircut with my thumb just kinda floating there and somehow it came out looking okay? Made me realize I was just holding my shears wrong for years. My teacher would cry if she saw me now because I've completely ditched the thumb grip for most cuts. Feels like I'm breaking some sacred barber law but honestly my hands hurt way less and my lines are straighter. Probably just proves I'm a mess at this whole thing but hey whatever works right.

12 out of 50 rusting that fast is rough, I feel for you man.