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Soy Pickled Shiitakes Mushrooms:


I also made another batch of the pickled okra (which is great, by the way).

Spicy pickled okra:


Okra (duh), spices, shallot, garlic, cider vinegar, white wine. Figured that would be a good snack for tailgating once the football season starts back up.

Curve cutting practice. They could be better.

Ogees.

Is it weird that I found laying them out with my compass to be fun?

Lemon Pickled Fuji Apples:


I've no idea how they taste and they need to sit in the fridge for a few days to let the flavors develop. Stay tuned!

Shotgun update. I've been making stuff while staying at my folks' place. Mixed veggie sauerkraut or кислая смешанные овощи (sour mixed vegetables). I've made this before, but this time I customized it a little. In particular I used flat leaf parsley instead of dill. Dill just overpowers everything. ...

Oxy, I mean you no offense when I say this, but you are a tiny dude.

I've got more than 15 cm and over 45 kilos on you. Granted I'm bigger than the average; it's like we're book-ending it.

Not as much as you might think. I've not encountered anyone in person expressing an opinion one way or the other. Still, it's hard to not hear a ton of complaining even when you tend to avoid a lot of news because it's mostly noise. Especially when the governor and state attorney were mouthing off a...

Can we please fast forward about 5 years so that the most vocal wailing and gnashing of teeth about the "nightmare" of allowing gay marriage can just go the fuck away?

Rain, rain, go away. Come again some other day.

Shadow's back to normal!

What a relief. The forecast has little to no chance of rain this week.

New level for my tool chest: http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b102/m_spartan1979/IMG_6912_zpsxudmt8iz.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b102/m_spartan1979/IMG_6911_zps6chm92tg.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b102/m_spartan1979/IMG_6913_zpsurtv5xbe.jpg It was just too jumbled in there and ...

Yes!

Well, no.

Yes!

(And maybe after I move...)

Occasionally. I keep vacillating on it.

Though, if I started one I'd probably call it "Tell Me What I Did Wrong". Tongue in cheek, of course. Mostly...

Okay, so I haven't done much this year because I've been dealing with getting my house ready to sell and dealing with all the bullshit that's gone with that. I've only done three brews and little else. First, I abandoned the bookshelf project. I'd gotten the joints *just* wrong enough that it wouldn...

Well, I stopped by my parents house today to check on Shadow. She's practically back to herself, though she hates the cone she has to wear.

I took her out for a jog around the neighborhood so she could get some exercise in. She loves doing that.

Thanks, Stofsk. My mom told me that Shadow is feeling a little better today. She's still groggy and a whatnot because she's still on a lot of meds* but she's eating, moving around. She just hates having the stupid cone on, but it's for her own good. Without it she's scratch her stitches right off. *...

Shadow went to the vet today to get her senior check up (she's nine). She's had a broken tooth and a growth of some sort on her eyelid that we've put off fixing because they weren't causing problems yet, but the vet found that she had a hematoma in her ear. So, today they sedated her and fixed all o...

Get yourself a dash cam. Yeah. I really should have one. It'll also help a little (not at that particular point in my drive, just in general) once I move. My commute will be cut by at least 1/2, maybe as much as 2/3. I mean, it's not ever great, but it hasn't been too horrific for a while. This par...

What the hell? No injuries I trust? No, no injuries. It was at a merge point and the person in question, rather than merging where it was safe, raced ahead of everyone and tried to move into the space I was then occupying so he could be in front. I had to swerve into the oncoming lane to avoid bein...

Somebody tried to kill me on the road this morning. I'm still a little shaky from it.

I've no idea.

Darksi4190 wrote:

The Spartan wrote: "75% of the weight lost was pure body fat!"

Citation needed.

So ask them for one.

Dude wrote:I take it thats a drug?

It's a OTC weight loss pill. "75% of the weight lost was pure body fat!" They repeat that phrase over and over and over.

Am I the only one who's sick of the fucking lipozene commercials?