Kroil or PB Blaster on the threads first, let it sit while you grab a beer, then hit it with a six-point socket and a breaker bar. Impact wrenches just hammer the rust tighter sometimes. Got a seized nut on a tractor arm last month, the impact just heated it up and made it worse, but a hand ratchet and a pipe over the handle had it off in three pulls. That vibration from impacts can actually weld the threads together if the rust is deep enough, so the slow steady force wins every time.

That hit on something I notice in life a lot, especially with older tools and gear. It's kind of like breaking in a pair of boots all over again or going back to a car model you haven't driven in a decade, you remember the annoyance but sometimes your body just adjusts or the design gets subtle fixes. I suspect they quietly improved the skirt material over the years, that's the kind of update nobody talks about but you definitely feel on the face.

Man that Motorola box dying on you during the Super Bowl must have been brutal.

Ah man, that's brutal. Just a heads up though, booking sites usually say "air conditioning" but it's often just a general amenity for the whole building, not a guarantee for your specific room.

Learned that one the hard way myself. Sway bar links are always the first thing to check.