Forty dollars for a magnifying lamp sounds like a steal. I looked at those online and most were way over a hundred. Where did you even find one for that price? The cheap ones I saw had terrible reviews about the light being dim. You must have gotten really lucky with that find.

the right answer is the one that feels true to you" really got me, I used to argue about this stuff.

My old apartment was 500 square feet. I started with cardboard boxes from the grocery store to test sizes before buying any bins. Once I knew what fit, I got cheap plastic containers from the dollar store. It saved me so much money and frustration.

That "obvious until you say it out loud" thing is so true. It shows how much we rely on gut feel from experience. A new guy sees water and thinks "container." We see a system where the water COMES FROM and how fast. The real lesson is you can't fix a rate problem with a size solution, bucket or pump.

Saw a tech article last week about how these outages often happen during peak traffic times. The piece said it's usually a mix of bad luck and systems getting overloaded when everyone tries to log on at once. They used a major sports streaming service as an example, where the big game crashed everything. Makes you wonder why they don't plan updates for slower hours.