Turn pasta into a full meal by adding canned tuna or a handful of beans for cheap protein. My mom would throw in leftover veggies from the week to make it stretch. Now I keep a few jars of basic marinara for those tight weeks. You can change it up with different shapes like rotini or farfalle so it never gets boring. It's crazy how a two dollar box still feeds me for three days.

How do scanners earn trust like that timing light, @ericf22?

That shift in thinking you mentioned is key. New techs never learn the hands-on problem solving that comes from fixing old gear.

Ugh, that's an expensive way to learn a lesson, totally feel that.

Wait, the band was actually called Desert Fog?