Tried searching, but couldn't find anything that matched exactly what I'm experiencing.

I don't think I changed anything since my first few prints (which were much better than I'm getting now), but I could be wrong. Now all of a sudden, I'm having issues with the following:

1. Skipping - the hotend will go quite far sometimes without actually laying down any ABS.
2. Blobbing - likely related to #1, the hotend will lay down a blob of ABS, followed by a line of ABS that fades off toward another skip
3. Rough Prints - likely related to both #1 and #2, my prints are coming out really rough, especially on the first few layers. It's almost as if excess ABS is collecting on the hotend and is leaving bits of extra ABS on the edges of each line.

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This picture (sorry, hard to see red ABS on a red heat bed) shows #1 and #2...I'll have to run another print and try to get a pic of #3, assuming there's not an easy fix.

Any help is greatly appreciated.