Spindle bearing play almost drove me nuts too.

Wait, you think hardware is a distraction... that's wild to me. Fiddling with a real light and timer forced me to learn error handling and logic way faster than any textbook example. The distraction of it not working is exactly where the real learning happens.

Ever try to write a chorus based on your toddler's crayon drawing? My kid drew a "rainbow snake eating the sun" last week and I swear that nonsense is the heart of my new demo. It's got this weird joy my older, angrier stuff never did. @brown.nathan gets it, that lullaby bit is proof. Honestly, the grocery list or the fight over socks, that's the raw stuff. My band mate wants deep poetry but my best hook came from my spouse's actual to-do list.