Pork butt was on sale at the local grocery this week, and when it is on sale our usual thing is to get the largest amount we can afford, then we divide it up and freeze it in pieces small enough to fit in the pressure cooker. In case you weren't aware, as I wasn't back when I still laughed at the term "pork butt", it is actually the shoulder of the pig. It is generally sold with a bone in, which i... » Continue Reading
My wife is a big fan of the youtube channel "Cooking with Dog", so there's the title format for this post right there. Convenient! I mentioned in my last missive that we had been finishing up the Borderlands franchise together by playing Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. After that, at a loss for what to play together next, I decided to try and convince my wife to try one of my favorite games of all time, ... » Continue Reading
First of all, my sister-in-law sent us a shitload of meat from Omaha Steaks. 5 boxes of burgers, some steaks, and an assortment of other things that all came in a huge foam cooler with dry ice inside (so it smoked like some scifi nonsense when I took the lid off which was so fun I put the lid back on in order to take it off again for the effect). They had sent us some meat a few years ago when we ... » Continue Reading
I've been wanting to post more here, so I figured today I would compile a short list of my favorite songs by the band Tool. I guess it will be a "Top 10" list. If you haven't heard of Tool, they are known for their song length (many songs between 7 and 15 minutes in length), their creativity (such as using multiple successive time signature changes, overtones from the interaction between guitar an... » Continue Reading
Mowing them sucks. Watering them sucks. Weeding them sucks. Why do we still have grass lawns? Surely something that doesn't require such constant maintenance would be superior. Personally, I like the idea of a yard filled with river rocks or other smoothed stones. That might be what we do here at some future date. And some raised garden beds or perhaps a greenhouse to grow some plants that are act... » Continue Reading
So our new house has a gas stove, gas heater, and a gas water heater as well. None of the gas line was properly installed. In case you're unaware, when you screw pipes together you gotta put some teflon tape on the threads in order to seal the joints. For water lines, you use the thin white teflon tape. But for gas lines, you must use the thicker yellow teflon tape. Something about the density of ... » Continue Reading
We finished moving all of our junk and got the old house cleaned up. The landlord said they were very happy with our cleaning job (much/most of which was accomplished by my wife while I was laid up experiencing the profound regrets someone with a broken body feels after doing things they shouldn't do, like loading, driving, and unloading a box truck) and we gave them back all their keys. Things at... » Continue Reading
Well, hopefully this is the last time, anyway. The last time we have to move houses. The last time we have to collect all of our things together and put them in to a box truck and drive them somewhere else just to dump them out again in a new place. This house we've bought has already given us such a sense of security and we're not even moved in yet. Today I'll be renting that mentioned truck and ... » Continue Reading
Well I'll tell you what is going on! We bought a house. A little place built around 1920 sitting on a little plot of land in a little town out in the middle of nowhere. Soon we will begin the arduous process of moving all of our junk over there and out of here, exciting! And very stressful. The cracks are starting to show in both of us, but we will remain strong and get through this process togeth... » Continue Reading
The implosion of Twitter this week made me recall that I had a Spacehey account, and my page looks really silly with a completely empty content section, so I thought it might be a good idea to do a post! The Tumblr implosion a couple years ago seems pretty tame in comparison to this dumpster fire. BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THAT Lately I've been looking forward to Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. I was never a h... » Continue Reading
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