Totally get that. Sometimes the quiet trail lets you actually hear the birds and the wind instead of just other people's conversations.

Saw a food blog once that called those things hockey pucks without a good oil spray. What temp do you use now?

Actually modern compressors are way more efficient, they just aren't built to last 30 years like the old ones.

Feel for you trying to keep that peace. It's tough when a topic people care about turns into a shouting match, right? Maybe a different style of book on the same issue could let you talk without the walkouts.

Used to get hung up on the exact definitions too. Then I saw a show with eight episodes called a miniseries and it just clicked for me. Now I just go by the feel of the thing instead of the label.