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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I saw the sheep and cabbage, and I was expecting more of a stew, but all the pics looks like meat cut a minimum amount to fit in the pot with a quartered cabbage head tossed in. I mean, I’m sure I’d still like it as I like lamb (never found mutton here) and cabbage, but they don’t really seem to have gone for any kind of enticing presentation.

    The lye part of the lutefisk doesn’t turn me off so much, but the descriptions calling it jelly-like don’t make my mouth water. Especially as it has the bones still in it if I recall correctly.

    Whale has always intrigued me, but I feel I’ve heard more bad than good about the taste, plus I’d probably feel really bad about trying it.





  • Oh man, Elios is total trash! 😆

    I think this pic looks better than I remember. It is a true industrial product!

    You take these planks out, and the bottom is perforated to break into three pieces if you want.

    Couldn’t find pic of the big case it used to come in, but me and my brother were just basically alone all summer on school break with a case of this that would just be replaced as necessary. Stuff like this is what got me to learn to cook, so I appreciate it in a roundabout way.




  • Wow, you are sending me down quite the rabbit hole here…

    Fries seems pretty sensible actually. Pizza fries are already a thing. Tossing some straight on top of a pie I think could add a nice crispy element to the topside, and as someone who loves the crust, more crispy starchy stuff is no issue. Saw pics with fries and hot dogs, and that seems like an unusual sausage flavor to add to a pizza, but I wouldn’t turn my nose up to a slice or two. Calling that American style is definitely fair.

    At first, I was less down with peanuts, thinking of that as the sole topping on a pizza. Too different a texture. But then seeing it called African pizza with all the curry, bananna, and ham, now that gives me more of a peanut stew vibe, and other than it basically subbing bananna in place of the carrot, African peanut stew is something I am totally down for. I just may need to make one of these up!







  • I check periodically, but I don’t see anything within an hour of me. It’s a shame, as I’m in the more populated part of my state, between the biggest and third biggest cities and I read about these places and feel I’d really enjoy them.

    I have a milk frother for example, that burned out its stupidly non resetting thermal fuse because it got put on the base, something bumped the start button with nothing in and it burnt out. I’d love to have someone show me how to locate that bit and replace it, but I dunno where to go for that.

    Same with the 3D printer. I can afford one, but at this stage of life I’d rather someone give me a hands on run through and give me some of their wisdom from experience than me playing around and getting frustrated until I get it right.


  • I try to make my jobs work for me as much as possible. I find things that annoy me, and see what I can do to change them. Big things I’ve encountered in a few jobs now that we’re solvable: moving physical paper things to electronic records wherever allowed, automating routine tasks, working out better workflows, improving usability of documents and forms.

    All those things have multiple benefits. Time savings, uniformity/less confusion, and I learned new job skills to get better paying but still annoying jobs. It also sneakily molds the jobs into something that while I still find it largely pointless, it fits into my personality better because I took ownership of things and made them work in a way more compatible with me instead of them being things that someone that doesn’t do my actual work said was good enough and called it a day.

    It’s near impossible to eliminate many of the stupidest aspects of a job, but inefficiency and having to redo things is one of my biggest energy vampires, so these things make it more bearable to me. No amount of bitching or bullet points will make a boss change the job, but invent a better solution on your own, and odds are they’ll let you do it if you show it has merit. Or just do things in secret if you’ve tested them. I do that plenty too, and as long as work is being done timely and correctly, usually nobody notices.

    Also, I focus on things I can actually accomplish. There is a lot of special equipment I need, and you would never believe how rich our company is by the way they maintain things. If something is down, I try to not let it upset me. I just report it to my boss and move on. I used to pressure myself to come up with a solution, but that’s Management’s ordeal once I report it. Just find ways to let go where you can. Keep doing an honest job, but don’t sweat what work doesn’t enable you to do. That is their responsibility to you.

    Also have activities you look forward to after work. Work may always suck, but if you’ve got something positive you know is coming your way after work, it goes better than if you just work>home>sleep>work.



  • That was my first thought, but it seems easier to run a few thousand more off the assembly line and make the original part than I’d think to have at least one person develop an adequate 3D part for an items that wasn’t originally designed to be 3D printed.

    Even for a relatively simple item like the trimmer guard shown, as someone who used those on their whole head for many years, they need to have decent rigidity coming from a number of angles so it cuts evenly, so someone needs to design a decent print, find what types of stock provide the right durability, flex, etc.

    So it’s doesn’t sound that free for them or quick, but it’s much cheaper than distribution for a bunch of random parts that may never get used.

    I’m curious to see long term effects if this catches on. Will more original parts be made with 3D printing if they need to design prints anyway?

    The big downside is even if this were available, I don’t have a printer. I don’t know anyone with one. I don’t know where I could go to (?) rent time on one. So to me at the moment, this is as useful to me as no available replacement part! 😅


  • Glad you enjoy all the different owls!

    I did join up with the local rehab center this year. After promoting it every day, it didn’t feel right if I did not participate directly myself. Last year I also had another commenter tell me the community got them to join their rehab center, so we’re making a small positive change in the world.

    I’ve been learning a lot there and get to see many adorable animals up close. Here is our newest owl patient: