mmm, that means "Doughnut Sunday" for the next month! I AM SO EXCITE!
(I was raised Roman Catholic with Polish/German Grandparents, "Doughnut Sunday(s)" is a family tradition leading up to Fat Tuesday/Ash Wednesday)
(I was raised Roman Catholic with Polish/German Grandparents, "Doughnut Sunday(s)" is a family tradition leading up to Fat Tuesday/Ash Wednesday)
Had a pipe go leaky on me over the freeze. Luckily, it was just a corroded 40-year old p-trap, so it could've been worse. But I'm gonna Ship of Theseus this whole damn house by the time I have it paid off lol
+1 for Mennonites and the pazcki!
Maria Gras (Fat Tuesday) is February 13, so it’s less than a month to the start of Lent. Is that really creep.
I have created a culinary history class. I’ve got a small but enthusiastic group of students. On occasion, to kick things up a notch, I prepare historical recipes and bring them in for sampling. Today I baked some ancient Egyptian bread based on some grave goods in Ramses III’s tomb. I had found emmer flour and the other ingredients. I was so eager to make it.
Amidst all the excitement, I didn’t notice that the yeast was dead. The bread didn’t rise and I just made hot lumps of dough. I am unhappy.
Amidst all the excitement, I didn’t notice that the yeast was dead. The bread didn’t rise and I just made hot lumps of dough. I am unhappy.
Are you Jas Townsend's?
Also you can smell yeast activity. It smells... yeasty.
Heh, I wish. We are also trying to get Michael Twitty to visit campus.
Still am!
Dave
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Dave
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I'm completely stupid. I honestly thought he was referencing Bubbles, not saying "bubbles in the yeast means it's alive".
He was referencing bubbles in the yeast, I made it about myself because I crave attention. Or, well, thought it might be slightly funny to do the thing.
Sorry for causing confusion amongst the octogenarians!
Maybe we should read this to the presidential candidates and see which one can understand
Dave
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My own rant. Since I'm back on nights I eat lunch at weird times. Like 3 am. I have a microwave in the basement but it's a piece of shit. So I went and bought a new one. Used it for the first time tonight and after about 5 minutes everything in the basement went dark. I can't use my computer and the microwave at the same time.
I was having that problem with my microwave and any other device in my kitchen. Turned out that when some work was last done on our wires long prior to us owning the house, someone put in a 20w fuse for the kitchen. Yeah, that will not hack it. Electrician swapped it out for a 50 and all's good now.
Scratched my eye once and holy hell it hurt so bad. Hope it heals quickly!
Do you have dry eyes? I have a condition where my eyes will dry out while sleeping and will cause the eyelid to stick to the eyeball, so that when I wake up in the morning and open my eyes it takes the top layer of skin off with it.
It's incredibly painful and leaves the eye light sensitive for several hours.
GasBandit
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A little, but not THAT dry. I think it got irritated by overuse of cleaning chemicals that grew into an infection. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow to have it looked at.
Dave
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We had our office holiday party Saturday night. Couple of things that require mentioning.
- Everyone got two drink tickets. This is great for my wife since she gets mine. Then we found out the drink tickets also covered soda, which is insane.
- The bartender was awful. Had to tell her how to make an amaretto sour. I’m not joking.
- Got 6 raffle tickets. There were a bunch of buckets you could put your tickets in. Most of them were for hunting/fishing places, some were for coolers and such. Not interested. There was one I thought my wife would be interested in, which was a plant/garden place. I put all six in there. Get back to the table and she says, “We rent! Why would I want that?!?” Guess who won?
- My old manager sat with us. Very pretty woman. My new manager came & sat with us. VERY pretty YOUNG woman wearing a short skirt and a fuzzy pink sweater. @bhamv3 would have loved it.
The wife and I have been trying for a kid. She's at the age where that can be difficult. Thanks to my pricey health insurance, we have access to fertility specialists. The wife set an appointment with a fertility specialist weeks ago, and it was scheduled for today. Last week, they sent us paperwork that needed to be filled out prior to the visit. Prior medical history and such. Were they pdf files that we could just sign electronically and then email back? Nope. Could we print them out, sign them, and drop them off in person? Nope. We had to download their exclusive app and fill out their specific template. It was a bit annoying, but we got the forms in by Friday.
The wife took half a day off work so she could make the appointment. That's extremely hard to do in the public school system, especially since there are staffing and substitute shortages everywhere. I don't teach on Tuesdays so it wasn't an issue for me. Anyways, we drive all the way to the medical plaza and make it to the office. The receptionist tells us that the appointment was cancelled because they didn't receive all the paperwork. They had required it two business days prior, but the forms had been sent. Because my wife had submitted her final forms on Friday evening, that was considered too late and they had to cancel. We were never even notified but that's because they let us know on the APP. We checked the app, and there had been no notifications or reminders. Apparently it's a brand new app and it doesn't really work, but EVERYTHING had to be done there. The really annoying thing is they actually gave us some paper forms when we rescheduled and that was done inside ten minutes.
So now the appointment has been pushed back two weeks and it will have to be virtual. My wife is extremely upset because she wants to have a kid before it's too late. She was a wreck all afternoon. It's not as simple as coming in a week or two later. She is having surgery on Friday and will be out of action for a while. She has a host of medical issues and lots of things have to align.
The wife took half a day off work so she could make the appointment. That's extremely hard to do in the public school system, especially since there are staffing and substitute shortages everywhere. I don't teach on Tuesdays so it wasn't an issue for me. Anyways, we drive all the way to the medical plaza and make it to the office. The receptionist tells us that the appointment was cancelled because they didn't receive all the paperwork. They had required it two business days prior, but the forms had been sent. Because my wife had submitted her final forms on Friday evening, that was considered too late and they had to cancel. We were never even notified but that's because they let us know on the APP. We checked the app, and there had been no notifications or reminders. Apparently it's a brand new app and it doesn't really work, but EVERYTHING had to be done there. The really annoying thing is they actually gave us some paper forms when we rescheduled and that was done inside ten minutes.
So now the appointment has been pushed back two weeks and it will have to be virtual. My wife is extremely upset because she wants to have a kid before it's too late. She was a wreck all afternoon. It's not as simple as coming in a week or two later. She is having surgery on Friday and will be out of action for a while. She has a host of medical issues and lots of things have to align.
App message: congrats!
Mailbox: start decorating your baby room now! Get toys! Get breast pumps for cheap! Here are the top ten recommended bottle sterilizer!
"Number four will shock you!"
"Check out this one prenatal hack doctors don't want you to know about!"
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Today it dawned on me that one of the reasons I feel lonely so often is because I want justification for being happy. In all my years being sick, I wasn't allowed to be happy about a lot of things. If I was openly happy about video games, or TV shows, or online stuff, it meant that I was too content and didn't want more, so I must be lazy and not trying to get better. Being in a relationship was one of the things I was just allowed to be happy about. So, not only do I want a relationship to cause happiness, but whenever I feel happy for no reason, I feel guilty about that, and my mind goes to wishing I was in a relationship so I could just feel happy without worrying I'll be punished for it.
Only in the minor rant thread because hopefully realizing this will help me feel less guilty about being happy, and that letting myself just feel what I feel will improve my health, but a full-on rant about how I was punished for being happy would definitely go in the big rant thread.
Only in the minor rant thread because hopefully realizing this will help me feel less guilty about being happy, and that letting myself just feel what I feel will improve my health, but a full-on rant about how I was punished for being happy would definitely go in the big rant thread.
For whatever this may be worth: You are allowed, nay, encouraged, to be happy for whatever reason makes you happy. If your mind, FOR NOW, needs some kind of outside authority to get on board with that, consider this my personal seal of approval, backed by whatever authority I may have (it's limited, but it's not nothing). 
Nah but seriously, my dude, that sounds like a really good breakthrough. Proud of you!
Nah but seriously, my dude, that sounds like a really good breakthrough. Proud of you!
And if gigworkers weren't looked down on enough, NOW there are scores of fake fucking videos of people bringing groceries back to the store after learning they weren't tipped and then making a huge stink about it.
More insultingly, two of them were in the same parking lot, with the same guy, and the same customer, its like this infuriating conspiracy by cheap skates who want to make the workers look like ass holes because we just want the tips we're god damn promised!
Key points for a fake video: Lack of swearing, high quality, person in a car, the clear mention of the phrase "Tipping Culture".
More insultingly, two of them were in the same parking lot, with the same guy, and the same customer, its like this infuriating conspiracy by cheap skates who want to make the workers look like ass holes because we just want the tips we're god damn promised!
Key points for a fake video: Lack of swearing, high quality, person in a car, the clear mention of the phrase "Tipping Culture".
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I've got 100 students in my US history surveys, and I found that 19 had cheated on their first papers. One of them was old-fashioned plagiarism (they'd copied a paper from one of my former students) and the others were AI-generated. Hunting down cheaters is no longer a sport. It has become busy work.