All games have been basically the same since the 7th Gen systems, namely the 360. How many FPS's and 3rd person adventure games can somebody play before they get bored? It's all the same crap with different skins.

Seriously, lol! Yeah man, this house is stealing my life force. Trying to keep it together so that my kid has a house without a sky-high mortgage someday when he's ready. But I'm really wondering if it would be more of a burden for him like it is for me.

You're NOT alone! My house is just as bad and I swear it's alive. Would take me half a day to list everything that's gone wrong in the last year and I too am vigilant about maintenance and have sank any extra money into it. Losing the race of things breaking faster than I can fix or replace them. I spend the majority my free time working on it. Honestly, it's hell.

Happy birthday!

Welcome! Good luck!

Yes it's totally safe to drill into a metal stud. You'll need a drill bit for metal though to make the pilot hole, it will be made of cobalt (or titanium if you go premium). And you'll need a metal toggle bolt instead of a basic drywall anchor. But to backtrack a little bit, all your holes should be a minimum of 4 inches from the window frame, if that changes things at all.

So it's probably just a double stud, and could be a metal stud, both are pretty common when framing windows. But is there any plumbing that runs along that wall, like a bathroom directly above that window on the second floor (if there is one)? It would be poor construction but if there's a bathroom above it it could be a pipe (but chances are slim). Still better safe than sorry. Try holding a strong magnet up to where you've made the holes and see if there's any reaction.

You can also determine if there's a stud there by measuring out from a known stud. It's 16 inches (or if it's cheap construction, sometimes 24 inches) from center of a stud to the center of the next stud.

Edit: There are several other ways to find studs if you're unsure about the methods you're using. A quick YouTube search can show you some of the tricks that take too much space to type out.

Waiting to see that pic you mentioned

Maybe... Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Atmosphere, the Animals, Audioslave, Aretha Franklin (or should she be under F?), Alice in Chains, the Alan Parsons Project, and many, many more.