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Don't know if I can pick a favorite but I'm often the most happy when I'm actively using Homebox and LubeLogger. I track my tools with the former and track service records, parts inventory, mileage and such with the latter. If I'm using those services extensively it's because I'm wrenching on something and adding more RockAuto magnets to my collection. Even when the circumstances suck, I genuinely enjoy an opportunity to take things apart, tinker and repair them.
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I like busting out the jack and stands, reefing on a breaker bar, field repairs that succeed in getting out of a bind without waiting 2 hours for a tow bill in the hundreds of dollars, then making it home safely and doing it the right way, meticulously cleaning gasket surfaces...It's zen for me and I don't know why. The same reason I enjoy stripping down a firearm and cleaning it more than the day at the range leading up to that point. Or why I'll go through the trouble of disassembling a $30 tower fan to extract every bit of dust and pet hair that has found it's way trapped inside. I couldn't pay someone else to do that for less than the damn thing costs... I just know that I can do it and feel compelled to. I might be an overgrown gnome.
I've got the family's vehicles in LubeLogger, having become the mechanic for anything short of transmission problems or requiring welding or a machine shop. The riding mower is in there too just because. It's never often enough and I'm tempted to find a bike or an old beater I can tune up just to have a project that doesn't have me sitting at the keyboard.