My buddy used to wait until the last weekend to file and he was a total wreck. He finally switched to doing it early and said it was like a huge weight lifted. Now he actually gets his refund sooner and can plan around the money. Makes you wonder why more people don't just get it over with.

Learned the hard way that the stall is just the meat laughing at you. My first one sat at 155 for four hours and I nearly took it off to see if my thermometer was broken. The resulting brisket could have been used to resole a boot.

Panicked calls from the shop floor" are the real cost.