Man, my buddy had the exact same thing happen with a paint sprayer. He grabbed some cheap one off a clearance rack for like $20 and it laid down a nicer coat on his fence than the fancy one he rented for the weekend. We all gave him crap about it until we saw the fence, then nobody said a word. Sometimes the cheap stuff just works and the price tag is mostly hype. Makes you wonder how much we're really paying for the brand name.

Oh man, 1,014 entries and 600 are reruns is painfully real. My worst was a planner where I logged "gym" like 40 times in a row and went maybe twice, so basically I was just journaling about the person I wished I was. The copy it forward thing is sneaky too because it feels productive even when nothing moves. Mine got better when I started marking undone tasks with a big X instead of a new line, way harder to lie to yourself that way.