Work-Tech Stuff.
Nothing banishes imposter syndrome like having having the VP of Engineering say things like "I'm really impressed with how you've handled this project, I'd like to use it as an example of how engineering and devops should manage large projects moving forward."
Though in my brain. "But all I did was like.. create wiki pages for various steps... drag stakeholders kicking and screaming into meetings and take thorough notes then worked with the member of my team I was paired with to divide up the execution of everything and create a design epic with sub tasks for meetings, PoC, testing and PoC review.. and separate Epic for all the work with subtasks for the various actual work bits and some detailing of out of scope work that all of the stakeholders said was the biggest improvement we could make in the long run.. and then create another wiki home page and stories for that work... after this project."
Oh... that was actually a lot. Now that I've written it all down.
Kitchen Appliance stuff
I really need to get an actual dedicated slicer, everyone here loves thin sliced meat and being able to .5m-10mm cuts would be great.
But an actual commercial grade slicer is pricey and for something like a 25cm slicer, I'm not sure I trust a retail grade appliance.
Plus my poor 15 year old food processor is showing it's age. Can't sharpen the cutting bits, plastic is getting worn and loose and holy shit they really don't make food appliances like they used to looking at various reviews... and holy fuck commercial grade food processors are pricey.
Food prep, woes of delivery groceries
Welp.. safeway delivery went ~$40 over the estimate because of substitutions for items with no substitution marked...
Except it wasn't actually a substitution. It was that the 4-6lb value packs of untrimmed tri-tip where 8-9lbs.
So I have 17lbs of tri tip instead of ~10lbs
Normally I trim it before cooking but after putting everything away there wasn't really space for another 8lbs of tri-tip and I didn't feel like spending 30 minutes trimming two fucking huge cuts, so I dry rubbed two of them untrimmed, one with my traditional blend of minced garlic, pepper, rock salt & onion and the other with blacken seasoning.
Gonna crisp that fat!
Then probably put them through the slicer on the food processor and we'll have lunch meat for a week.
A helpful pair of sharks just reminded me that today, the 17th of April, is @fluxom_alt Appreciation Day!
Everyone please remember to heap as much love and support and appreciation upon Sprinkles as local laws will allow, and then slide more of that love, support, and/or appreciation under the door where the law can't see it.
The problem with time travel isn't that you change the past. Do that, the future is changed, and you find yourself in the now, momentarily confused.
The problem is that for some reason to-do lists are not affected.
Why did I think I needed to "peel sacrificial potatoes"?
#MicroFiction #SmallStories
Dragons who are librarians
-Always know of some strange, obscure tome that is exactly the book you need (regardless of whether it's the book you want.)
-Return books late or damaged at your peril, though.
-When you're walking through the immense shelves, and you see something in the dim light ahead hanging down in front of the books. You approach. Suddenly, as you get close, you realize it's a huge, scaly tail. You follow it with your gaze up to the top of the shelf to see a pair of glowing eyes staring back at you.
"You'll want to take a right at the end of this row," the dragon says. "Then go three rows down and turn left." The tail retracts back up into the shadows above the books, and with a sudden, fluid movement, the dragon is gone.
You never actually told the dragon what you were looking for.
-"Oh you don't need a library card." *growling chuckle* "I will remember your scent."
rice is all done.. tossed some home made sweet-hot pepper relish in my bowl with it..
Verdict: Tasty!
Damn.. kinda wish I'd made a roux to thicken it up... or had some okra.. either one of those would be like the only think of to make it tastier!
I've to talk about my amazing food enhancement condiment.. made from scratch but... the ingredients are a SECRET (because I'm a heathen that doesn't measure and because pickle pepper companies are like "PEPPERS" as the ingredients!)
But it's like carmelized sweet onions, roasted red peppers, jalapenos, some itty bitty hot pickled yellow peppers, jalapenos, hot cherry peppers, sweet cherry peppers all tossed into the food processor and made into relish like texture of delicious sweet and hot.
transhumanism
yes, let me be the cybord dragongirl with cool hologram bits and gosh look at that tail
but also actually gonna be honest. The "eat a pill that its an entire day's of calories" or the "turn this protein paste into lines of code" meme actually also sound appealing.... as a bonus, not an end goal <_<
Since someone else asked for it. Rough outline of my Jambalaya Recipe.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WgMrep6xHOUWdfFyF6RpDMGc60aqDdmm1DzramZV4k8/edit?usp=sharing
@mawr might be interested!
Messed up the ratios for my jambalaya and was making in a smaller pot than normal. Didn't have room for the rice.. ended up draining 8 cups of liquid from the 6qrt pot with all the meat, veggies and stuff in and cooking the rice separate in that. Came out pretty tasty. I could mix it all together properly now but this way the rice won't get soggy either.
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Pronous: She/They/Them-THEONESWHOARE!!!!!