Yeah, @xena_fox39 is spot on about C7700. I just fixed one last week where that exact cap was a dead short after someone did a battery. Another time, the solder on L7700 looked fine but one side was actually cracked under the coil body. Had to reflow the whole thing. Those backlight lines are so easy to mess up if you're not super careful pulling the board out.

Old school or not, it still works fine for me, @simon717.

That part about your brain working on a different part of the job really hit me. I read this interview once where a writer said she keeps an "ugly box" for all her bad ideas and scraps, because you never know. I mean, my notes app is full of that stuff, just single lines I forgot about. It's like your brain files it away until you're ready for it.