Looking at the Bahamas sometime this year, but my wife needs to secure the time off first. :(

From Oregon, but we have a large Scandinavian population here.

https://junctioncityscandia.org/

Unmoderated?

Spam and shitposts top to bottom.

My wife will do this when driving. She will drive the complete opposite direction from where we need to go and if I dare ask “Why are we driving AWAY from x?” she gets mad at me for pointing it out.

Cooking at scale is a much, much bigger deal. Hard to maintain quality, both in terms of ingredients and end product.

There’s a good reason why school lunches are garbage. :(

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie's_School_Dinners

Doing grilling lately so just follow the smoke. :)

It was really good, with bacon, veggies, braised in Malbec wine and Grand Marnier.

I found 2 recipes I couldn’t decide between so I just combined them. ;)

1 pack of bacon, diced and cooked in olive oil on medium high until the edges were brown, then removed.

In the same pan, 2 diced carrots, 2 diced celery stalks, 2 diced Walla Walla sweet onions. Cooked on medium high until carmaelized, then removed.

3.37 pound boneless chuck roast. Patted dry, heavily salted and peppered, seared on one side for 5 minutes, flipped and then seared on the other side for 5 minutes and removed.

Added back 1/2 cup Grand Marnier and 2 cups of Malbec Wine. Deglazed the pan scraping up all the brown bits.

Put the bacon back in, put the veggies back in, stirred until well distributed. Added bay leaves, thyme and rosemary, several cloves of minced garlic, topped with the meat.

Brought to a boil then placed in a pre-heated 325° oven for 3 hours.

After 3 hours, beef was to temp and easily shreddable. (Finally! A reason to use the meat claws!) Resting on stove top while I cook some pasta to go with it.

Pasta was super simple. Boiled water and salt, cooked a bag of egg noodles for 8 or 9 minutes. Drained, removed, then melted a stick of butter in the pot, added a small container of heavy cream, added rosemary and thyme, brought it to a simmer then popped the pasta back in and cooked a couple of minutes.

So I have this problem… I enjoy cooking and when my grandmother passed away, I inherited her recipe book and her Le Creuset dutch oven.

THEN I discovered I lived a short drive from a Le Creuset outlet store AND they have a mailing list that regularly delivers 30% to 70% off coupon deals.

So I’ll find a pan that makes me go “Oooh!” then I look for excuses to use it.

So it’s not really a lack of motivation, but rather I want people to cook for. Cooking just for me? Incredibly lazy. “More time to make and clean up than eat? I’m not making it.” Cooking for OTHER people?

Chuck roast:

Shakshuka:

Chocolate hazelnut chocolate chip cheesecake:

Beef roast:

Pork loin w/ scalloped potatoes:

Ableskievers:

Extinct in less than 20 years.

Removed by mod

Sim card extractors.

Couple of tips for working with toner:

1. Wear a mask and gloves. You do not want to breathe that. Last time I worked with toner the material safety data sheet read “Contents partially unknown.”

2. If you get it on you (and you will) brush off most of what you can and then wash the rest in COLD water. Hot water will make it stick.

I find the trouble to be not worth the effort.

That was the weird part, it wasn’t any one specific certification, it was any 2nd certification in addition to the job related cert I already had.

If your AI is craving peanut butter and pickle sandwiches, it may be pregnant. ;)

Had the same conversation with my boss, and I specifically asked him “Is this certificaton job related or is it just so someone can check a box on a spreadsheet somewhere? If it’s job related, I’m absolutely down for it, what does the new role entitle and what’s the increase in pay for it?”

Response? Silence.

People have different priorities. Someone may have just bought a $500 designer shirt, while I bought a $500 comic book. Hard to tell by looking.

If your perspective is “doing good = personal gain”, then you’re doing it wrong.

You do good because it benefits other people, not you.

I set up a Little Free Library and have spent a couple hundred dollars giving away books in my community, it doesn’t benefit me, personally, but other people are enjoying it!

It’s cool, they’ll just have an AI source checker. :)

Mt. Fuji blew up again.

Worked at one place where the machines were named after Sienfeld characters.

Another, volcanoes. :)