It does not please me to see you making these mistakes but it sure makes me feel a great deal better about my own mishaps. I remember when i first got my brad nailer and pancake compressor. Oh boy you guys would have laughed yourselves to death if you saw me.
We did not have these things when i grew up in SA so first time i had encountered it was getting my own. Well like a kid with a new toy i banged nails into everything that moved. I made stuff with ply relying on the nails for rapid assembly. Oh some of those projects were funny. One or two still around. Was good practice though, soon getting the odd nail in ones finger quickly taught you to watch where the intended path was for the nail and as to having it go where desired that too was insight that you dont always have control.
I guess its all a reminder woodworking is partly keeping at it and trying to get better each time. What was that book " In search of ....