I used to think people overreacted to rule lawyers but after watching Mike do the same thing to our group I totally get it now. @owens.cameron nailed it, some people just get too deep into that competitive stuff and forget the whole point is having fun together.

and honestly that $200 email list probably worked better because jazz fans on Facebook are too busy arguing about Miles Davis vs. John Coltrane to actually click an ad. I ran a small blues night once and spent $50 on flyers at a local record store, ended up with a line out the door while my buddy dropped $500 on Facebook and got three likes from bots. sometimes the old school stuff just hits different when you know your actual crowd.

Oh man, that's wild! I've seen this exact thing happen with those new build paint jobs. The VOCs from some of those high-gloss finishes can really mess with the sensors for a week or two. My buddy had a similar issue with a place near here where the primer fumes kept tripping the alarm every time the HVAC kicked on. He ended up just cracking windows and running fans for a few days to clear it out, then the false alarms stopped. It's a pain, but sometimes you gotta give the house time to breathe before those sensitive detectors chill out.

Did you change the flour type or water when you revived it? I've heard switching from bleached to unbleached flour can wake up a sluggish starter because the good bacteria have more to feed on. That might also explain why yours bounced back so strong after all that time.

Dyno'd mine about two weeks after the install. Was pulling 460 to the wheels with the canned Roush tune. Swapped to a local shop's custom tune and picked up 17 more horsepower and a smoother power curve through the midrange. The drivability improvement was worth it alone.