Did you ever stop to think about how much we take for granted with modern tools? I used to roll my eyes when older folks talked about walking uphill both ways to school, but reading your story about those punch cards actually made me stop and rethink things. Waiting a whole day just to find out your code had a typo sounds brutal, and here I am getting annoyed when my IDE takes ten seconds to load. It's easy to forget that all this convenience we have now came from people who dealt with way worse and still managed to build stuff. I guess my view changed because I always figured old tech stories were just people wanting to feel tough about the past. Now it seems more like they actually earned the right to laugh at us when we complain about pip.

Thought dry heat meant no corrosion, but Phoenix humidity surprised me too.

Tbh that makes total sense. I ran the same issue on some 2G and 3G fillets last month, kept getting this weird shaky bead no matter how much I slowed down. Swapped to a thinner pair of goatskin gloves and instantly felt my finger pressure on the rod. It's crazy how much feeling you lose with thick gauntlets, you think you're holding steady but your hands are just fighting the glove the whole time. Glad you figured it out too, makes welding way less frustrating when you can actually feel what's happening.