Blew up a compressor on a Friday afternoon once, right as we were about to start a weekend rush job. Everyone was mad at the time, but it forced us to stop and fix a leaky line that would've caused way worse problems later. Sometimes the machine knows before you do.

Did you actually ask her if she wanted to try again, or was that just a gut reaction in the moment? That silent dinner sounds absolutely brutal, man. I think she might have been testing herself, seeing if the old magic could still override the pain, and when it didn't, she got her real answer. Either way, you showed up and faced it head on, that takes a lot of guts. Are you both doing okay today, or is it still this raw?

We had a 2.2 acre site in San Antonio do the same thing back in 2021. The rain events were washing out the hub and nail setups on the backside of the lot where we couldn't see them from the road. It took a failed inspection to catch it, not a drone, but the fix was brutal. We ended up locking our grade stakes with concrete and then marking them with high vis paint on the rebar tops. Also, we started checking the GPS base station every morning before we shoot anything, because that thing can drift too after a heavy storm. The drone pass after rain is a smart habit, we do the same thing now and it catches maybe 1 out of 10 issues, but that one is always a money saver. Good on you for figuring it out before the pour.