Wait actually April 1st isn't considered a bad omen thing, it's just April Fools Day. People used to think it was unlucky to start stuff on that day but that's more of a superstition thing, not some real omen or anything.

Franklin's book has some good tips but I wouldn't overthink it that much.

That lady sounds like a fabric fairy godmother minus the wand.

Bet that pro learned on a coal forge too, which hits different than gas for heat control. What kind of setup are you running?

Bro you gotta look past just the resolution. The Webb deep field shows galaxies from way earlier in the universe's timeline, like 13 billion years ago vs 11 billion for Hubble. That's the real difference. Hubble's image was groundbreaking but Webb's catching the actual first stars and galaxies forming. If you studied the image more you'd see the red shift patterns that tell a whole different story. Give it another look with that in mind, it'll click.