OT - What are you doing right now?

milesvdustin

Just put some wings in the egg 

thetrim

Sometimes you just can't use enough w's t's and f's

bucky925

Spent the afternoon upgrading our cell phones.  In times past, I needed to have the latest and greatest as they were released.  As I have aged this is no longer a priority in phones or vehicles.  I put it off as long as possible but alas my bag phone and Cindy's Jitterbug have seen their better days. iPhone 8 for her and XR for me.  I actually wanted the 8 also, but the XR was less expensive on promo. 

lousubcap

Just returned from playing precinct worker for the KY (not jelly) election primary.  Nothing like a 13+ hour day and 18% turn-out.  With the governor's race on the ballot this fall it will be much busier.  FWIW-

ColtsFan

Shopping big coolers. I need at 125+ for events...Grizzly 165 is appealing 

HeavyG

Wondering what a six pack of guinea pigs sells for at PetSmart...

https://twitter.com/kenjilopezalt/status/1131001908527812609

Battleborn

Took my MIL too REI to get some new shoes. They had all their Yeti mugs 25% off. $20 for a new coffee mug isn't too bad. 

nolaegghead

nolaegghead

mundane chicken spaghetti casserole 

Botch

bucky925 said:

Spent the afternoon upgrading our cell phones.  In times past, I needed to have the latest and greatest as they were released.  As I have aged this is no longer a priority in phones or vehicles.  I put it off as long as possible but alas my bag phone and Cindy's Jitterbug have seen their better days. iPhone 8 for her and XR for me.  I actually wanted the 8 also, but the XR was less expensive on promo. 

My first mobile was a Tracfone flip-phone, purchased in '07; service was $99/year (/year, not /month).  
Summer before last they sent me a letter saying they weren't supporting "2G" anymore, and I had to upgrade my phone; got an LG "smart" phone for $59, still using the same service/price.  What's cool is it plugs in to my new Audi (latest, if not greatest) and gives me Nav and hand's-free phone while I'm driving (nobody ever calls me though).  I think it has a camera, too!  
 
Some things, I like having the latest (and greatest, if I can afford it); a mobile phone is not one of them.  

alaskanassasin

Battleborn said:

Took my MIL too REI to get some new shoes. They had all their Yeti mugs 25% off. $20 for a new coffee mug isn't too bad. 

 I tried Yeti coffee cups but I have to stick with regular coffee mugs and here is why...

  The coffee never cools down!  I have a big ole yeti coffee cup, fill it up at 7am and by 9am it is still to hot to drink!

Battleborn

alaskanassasin said:

Battleborn said:

Took my MIL too REI to get some new shoes. They had all their Yeti mugs 25% off. $20 for a new coffee mug isn't too bad. 

 I tried Yeti coffee cups but I have to stick with regular coffee mugs and here is why...

  The coffee never cools down!  I have a big ole yeti coffee cup, fill it up at 7am and by 9am it is still to hot to drink!

While I generally agree with that, I work graveyard. So if this and my Coleman thermos keep coffee warm through the night, I will be happy. 

DoubleEgger

Dude has been eating my deer corn tonight  

nolaegghead

Bandit!

nolaegghead

https://rotimatic.com/

nolaegghead

@Botch how do you know no one calls you if you never answer your damn phone?

HeavyG

nolaegghead said:

https://rotimatic.com/

Looking forward to your review.

CPFC1905

nolaegghead said:

Looks great, fella.

One bit of feedback.  You might want to 'workshop' the name of your secret recipe curing mix before the public launch.  
I mean - I'm fine with it, but it could be misread as some type of magic potion to recover special cuddle times that have fallen it to an unrewarding, or 'basic' format.  

Then again, it could be a masterstroke. What about adding a few ground-up blue 'gentleman's encouragers' from Pfizer?

Oh no - I am hurtling towards an inevitable low & slow joke.  I'll stop now.

nolaegghead

CPFC1905 said:

nolaegghead said:

Looks great, fella.

One bit of feedback.  You might want to 'workshop' the name of your secret recipe curing mix before the public launch.  
I mean - I'm fine with it, but it could be misread as some type of magic potion to recover special cuddle times that have fallen it to an unrewarding, or 'basic' format.  

Then again, it could be a masterstroke. What about adding a few ground-up blue 'gentleman's encouragers' from Pfizer?

Oh no - I am hurtling towards an inevitable low & slow joke.  I'll stop now.

Hello my fine imperial fellow forum denizen.  I do appreciate the feedback (feigning abject horror to public exposure to red-neck cajun trade secrets), however (is it OK to put a comma after a closing parenthesis?  Never quite figured that out),,,,I digress.  Inviting all grammar police at this point to write a report.

Magic, my friend, it is.  At least to anyone who unwittingly eats the foul poison.  This fine pig, going unnamed, donated a fatty slab of belly to my dire plans for partial-earth domination. The recipe written on the jar is a trap to those trying to emulate my product.

I've spent centuries sifting through mounds of refuse, looking for the talisman of influence, wealth and power to make this cured and cursed bacon.  Maybe I've found the most secret of secrets, or perhaps it's a false flag of dominion.  My overlords are cruel, so I hope not. (my soul is mortal, my body not..or is it the other way around?  Nevermind)

What is actually in this cure is the object of horror stories, nightmare fueled by Brexit and MAGA wearing fat chicks riding backwards on 50 cc scooters world f*ckin' wide.  Burning flags of all kinds and flatulence of the gods, the vegetarian gods.  And then some.  And, since most of the horror is beyond your mortal imagination, trust me, it will make anyone insane in a micronanosecond. And take all that and multiply it by an exponential imaginary number plus, like, three fiddy.

In summary, your feedback is appreciated.  My obfuscation is inadequate.  It will be world-multiplied by scullions under my control to zip the zag into hyperdrive mojo. Or something even more evil.

I should have stopped before I started.  But that's how i roll.

CPFC1905

My dear old thing,  that eliminates any doubts I had about the mix.  Thanks.

I would like to point you towards the numerous articles online about commas and specifically the Oxford comma - they are tremendous fun.    I'll re-phrase that, don't ever look that up online.  You will never get that time back. 

And in future, please only refer to BREXIT by it's full name; "that ****ing omin-shambles of a cluster**** " as we in polite society call it. 

Oh and with my apologies I had to Google MAGA.   Not as illuminating as 'fat chicks riding backwards on 50 cc scooters'.  That's one for private browsing in future.  

CigarCityEgger

Reverse seared some steak for tacos last night

Leopoldstoch

Dealing with an upset puppy that just got fixed.

ColtsFan

Leopoldstoch said:

Dealing with an upset puppy that just got fixed.

Oh No! The cone of shame is never fun, but those ears!

fishlessman

just realized there are things about oxford commas i really did not need to know....will never look at a comma the same again

alaskanassasin

The other day I broke the socket adapter on a SK breaker bar.  

   Not knowing anything I called them, "press 2 if you need replacement parts for breaker bars or ratchets" 2 "please leave you name, address and model number of the broken tool at the beep and we will send you a rebuild kit."

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saluki2007

This is a wild ride.  Give it a read if you get a chance.

https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1130704462950076416

nolaegghead

CPFC1905 said:

My dear old thing,  that eliminates any doubts I had about the mix.  Thanks.

I would like to point you towards the numerous articles online about commas and specifically the Oxford comma - they are tremendous fun.    I'll re-phrase that, don't ever look that up online.  You will never get that time back. 

And in future, please only refer to BREXIT by it's full name; "that ****ing omin-shambles of a cluster**** " as we in polite society call it. 

Oh and with my apologies I had to Google MAGA.   Not as illuminating as 'fat chicks riding backwards on 50 cc scooters'.  That's one for private browsing in future.  

The take-away from my method that's not really a secret is to add an antioxidant to the cure.  In this case it's sodium citrate (which I guess could be disodium or trisodium citrate, either way, the sodium salt of citric acid).

By adding an antioxidant to the cure, some of that ends up in the meat.  When the nitrites are cooked, especially at high temps as we often do with bacon, they can react with the free amines in proteins and nitrosamines result, which are extremely carcinogenic at relatively low levels.  Other antioxidants can be used, namely ascorbic acid.  The antioxidants inhibit nitrosamine formation.  Also this antioxidant raises the pH to alkaline levels which inhibits nitric acid conversion from the nitrites and also helps mitigate the nitrosamines.

Don't get me started on the study of liver cancer on Norwegian farm animals, but it's a good read if you have some time to kill.

nolaegghead

And I might add, the antioxidants named above don't have any noticeable impact on flavor that I've noticed.  I would shy away from citric acid, I've used it in the past but the pH drop encourages the nitric acid formation. 

HeavyG

saluki2007 said:

This is a wild ride.  Give it a read if you get a chance.

https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1130704462950076416

That was hilarious! Loved the "swap it for a Tom Clancy novel" bit.

alaskanassasin