Man, I was the same way, swore by those generic best-time charts for years and never questioned them. Good on you for actually digging into your own numbers, that 10pm slot clearly works for your crowd.

That line about pulling the meat for a week of sandwiches is spot on. I do the same thing when I grab one of those cheap birds, usually on a Sunday, and by the time I'm done picking it clean I've got a big tub of meat in the fridge. Then it's chicken salad for lunches, a pot of soup with the bones thrown in, and quesadillas or tacos later in the week when I'm too tired to cook real food. Best part is the carcass makes a decent broth for basically free, so nothing goes to waste. Ten bucks for all that is hard to beat.

How many of us have signed off on a green light and then had it bite us later? I know I have, more than once, and I still feel like a rookie every time it happens. Last year I had a BITE pass on a fuel qty unit and I turned it loose, only for the crew to write it up two legs later. My old shop lead used to say a built in test only checks what the box wants you to check, not what the wire is actually doing. Now I keep a Fluke in my bag and pull the connector even when the test says good, because a backed out pin does not care what the screen tells you.