Wait, 3/8 of an inch by lunch?? That is wild for just one corner being tapped in by eye. I would not have guessed a stack could walk that fast on a short 12 foot run like that. Tearing down four courses hurts just reading about it. We always run a level on every course once we get above chest height because it does not take much for things to creep. Was it the heat that day making it move more than normal?

Ha! My $15 rice cooker from college is still going strong. Gadgets are overrated.

Oh man the CEO strike-through comments about calling it a flop, that is brutal. I did something kinda close last year when I sent a budget sheet to a client that still had our internal notes in the margins, including a line about how we lowballed them to win the bid. My boss made me call the client personally and it was the worst 10 minutes of my life. After that we started doing a quick sanity check on every attachment before it goes out, just one other person glancing at it. Funny how one bad moment makes you way more careful.