Totally normal, and the missing colon thing gets pretty much everyone. I lost a whole evening to an indent error my first month and wanted to throw the laptop. What got me past it was slowing down and reading the error message out loud, line by line, instead of guessing. The smooth start is real, but the wall is where you actually start learning. Keep going, it gets easier.

Cheap backup beats no backup every time. Keep two real clippers on the shelf, not one, and a spare blade set too. The $19 one saved your cut but it won't last a week of fades. Dead clipper mid cut is a walk of shame nobody needs.

Man that is scary. 16 percent off on a 40 foot pick with 6,000 pounds swinging is no joke, and soft ground near the base makes it worse. Good call shutting it down and calling your lift director instead of pushing through. A phone app that doesn't know the counterweight on the machine is just guessing, and guessing is not something I want on a lift plan. Glad you caught it before it got bad. Paper chart in the cab, every time.