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Shocked I tell ya!
Pepper jack Cheez-Its > Hot & Spicy Cheez-Its.
Fight me.
My Sunday evening vibe...
https://youtu.be/AR8D2yqgQ1U
Groundhog week.
My two favorite ground hog nicknames are whistle pig and womp womp.
The dance scene from Sixteen Candles.
https://www.google.com/search?q=danc...id:qOcvWfMivqQ
Well, my earworms are set for the day - Spandau Ballet and the theme to Fraggle Rock.
What did cave people have going through their heads all day without music? Or did they just have REAL earworms?
I’ll add to your playlist with my favorite Sixteen Candles scene:
https://youtu.be/rS7s3Wq2ggk
February Monday mornings in 7th grade are generally not for the faint of heart, but a certain group of young scholars came in today and really brought their best selves...met me with thoughtfulness, focus, and motivation. Crazy how positive an effect that can have on one's mindset for the whole week.
Doesn't hurt that I've got a batch of delicious pozole going in the Crock Pot at home.
Whew, off work until Friday!
Glad the pozole.is great! I am NOT going to read the post-game thread.
Got to watch on my phone while flying to AZ. Noted one comment by Frischilla, something to the effect of "This is what you get with an experienced team playing a freshman heavy team."
This conveniently ignored the fact that this freshmen heavy team:
1) beat this team earlier in the season
2) beat a junior and senior laden UNC squad two nights before
Yes. But to me this was a freshman/human nature/away game. I like this team, just like I do every team. They were sky high for the UNC game and couldn't match that again at Miami. A more mature team can handle that better.
I said the 4 games from Wake through UVA I wanted to go 2-2 (honestly I would have taken 1-3). Not going to revise just because we won the first 2. My hope for this team is to make the ACC semis and Sweet 16. I would like that.
Pozole
Ingredients:
-pork shoulder/Boston butt, about 3 or 3 1/2 lbs
-chili peppers: 6-8 of your choosing, according to desired heat level; I used a combination of dried Hatch chilis and some of my prepared Hatch chili paste this time
-hominy: I use canned, about 1 15oz can per pound (err on the heavy side, so for this last batch, I used 4 cans for a 3.5lb shoulder)
-4-5 cups chicken broth
-yellow onion
-3 tbsp minced garlic
-4 tbsp cumin
-one bunch cilantro
-one bunch oregano
-salt
-black pepper
1. Start by preparing your pork shoulder with a spice rub: grind half of your chili peppers, half of the cilantro, half of the garlic and half of the cumin into a paste with a touch of olive/other oil; add about 1 tbsp salt to promote flavor penetration. Rub shoulder generously before smoking or searing; I also like to score it a few times to really get the paste in there.
2. Two options here: either a) give your shoulder a hard sear on all sides in a frying pan or on a griddle, or b) this is my method--smoke it "about halfway" in a standard smoker, 4-5 hours at your usual temp for such a cut (temp is pretty forgiving in this context as long as you don't stay north of 300 for too long). A loose foil wrap is helpful if you smoke...keeps your chili paste contained and also retains some of the juices that render during the smoking, which make a great addition to your stock pot.
3. Mince the onion, the rest of the cilantro, the oregano, add the rest of the garlic. Saute all of it over medium-high heat until the onions start to sweat, 10ish minutes.
4. Add onion/herb mixture and pork to a large stock pot or Crock pot. Pour in chicken broth; supplement with water as needed until the shoulder is covered. Add the rest of the cumin and the rest of your chilis, minced as finely as you can get them (or grind them into a paste again with a little liquid or oil). Simmer on the stove top 4-5 hours on medium low, or cook in Crock Pot on low for 8-10 hours (or whatever constitutes "all day" in your life...this is a great recipe to start in the morning and then come home to after work).
5. Drain hominy and add to the pot for the last 2-3 hours or so of cooking.
6. Garnish with any or all of the following: fresh chopped cilantro, green onions, pickled (or not) red onions, thin-sliced radishes, queso fresco, fresh sliced hot peppers (I like serranos or anchos), avocado...I'm an "all of the above" type of dude.
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So many things to report about the 1400 mile drive to Florida
Tuna held up great! But the following two days of road food was just horrible though not too surprising. Epically bad meal at a steakhouse in Lumberton N C. Memorable lunch stop at Burger King in Georgia where I ordered a fish sandwich. We were the only car there at 11 a m. Bit into sandwich in parking lot and found it to be a fried chicken sandwich with bacon. Went to rest room. They can’t screw that up, right? Bathroom was closed so I used the ladies room. Desperate times my friends. South Carolina official rest stop on I-95 grossest ever Grim and dirty. Saw lots of air activity on Balloon Day but no balloon. Did see epic view if Spacex launch last night from our front lawn. Excellent! Eating mountains of grouper 🐟
If you need a clean bathroom, you can’t beat Buc-ees.
Circumvented DC, Ballmer and Richmond by doing Delmarva peninsula route 13. But driving thru Norfolk area was a construction mess. Formerly tedious tolls like in Garden State relieved by E Z Pass which is a huge improvement. Pedro does not have all the signs of olde but he has a lot. Did not know what to make of bucees signs so now I know! A but creepy, big rodent like that 🦫
The bathrooms are amazing - clean, large, and the doors go to the floor on the Women’s restroom but I don't know ow about the men's. I have looked at the Jerky bar but haven't sampled. Liked the breakfast sandwich. Great opportunity to shop for things you really don't need.
Just had dinner with OPK. If his messages get Twitchy for the next little bit there is no correlation.
Turkey sucks.
Enjoyed it, travel safe when you complete your business in my fine city.
You know, yes, I 100% agree with you.
But...I'm about 40 and finally starting to understand the conflict between nostalgia and cultural norms a lot more. I've been driving by SOTB for 20+ years now on the way to my parents' house south of Myrtle. I always recognized it as a ridiculous stereotype, particularly after I read about the ownership history, but 1) it always served as a portal to the fun, carefree times at the beach, and 2) I have a HUGE soft spot for dumb roadside Americana.
It should probably go away but I will be sad when it does and, on the list of things that I wish disappeared on 95 between Richmond and South Carolina, it's like 7th on the list behind all the giant I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this. Confederate Flags a few landowners are flying not far off the Interstate.
Ordered a fish sandwich but received some chicken disk thing. Glad to learn about buc-cees. Seemed it should be pronounced boo-cheese. Signs were not as informative as you guys. Glad to see the Klan signs are off I-95. Now we have a few hundred religious ones interspersed with hundreds of slip and fall attorney signs including at least one from our own James Scott Farrin Off to Winter Park to ogle a new ride
I don't disagree with anything you say here. I grew up in Charlotte and it was absolutely a nostalgic memory of beach trips.
But hadn't seen it in, gosh, 25 years or more and happened past it on a trip recently. My wife - who did not grow up in the area - was absolutely gobsmacked by, well, all of it.
It was also January and completely totally empty except for the gas stations. Not sure if that's better or worse.
Point being - nostalgia has a funny tendency of helping us willfully ignore some pretty insane things sometimes.
Question #1) Guess who has their dog with them at work today?
Question #2) Guess who got to work and immediately had to clean up a nice tidy turd pile in the middle of the office floor?
Highly unusual visit to Florida car dealer where salesperson and manager were Chinese American with very very modest English skills. Did not expect that. Good conversation though. I think
Pandemic times have shuffled many jobs around and who is doing them. And reduced the communication requirements of many said jobs. My parent's were done in by a rogue customer service person at Cox with limited English. My father kept on asking them to repeat themselves so that he could write down what they were saying. Rep got so pissed off, they hung up and canceled all services except basic cable including their telephone number of 20 years. It was a mess to get it all set up again and to reclaim the phone number.
Nice win for the Ymodores this evening.
Yes, very much so. But add this evening’s finish to the list of game ending shots that I missed. I’m at my parent’s place and dinner was being served. I saw all but the last 5 seconds of the game as they drug it out with fouls and timeouts. Sigh…for reference I missed Lattner’s shot against KY and his shot against UConn the prior year, because ROTC required us to go out and play in the woods one weekend a semester.
Nets really just burned it down.
Y’all never checked out Hokusai, huh?
In other news, the defective part in my new oven has been replaced and now it works.
Mine still doesn't work. Lots of superfluous sensors that do nothing important except blow out periodically which shuts the whole thing down. Even completely turned off the sensors were malfunctioning so I had to throw the breaker in the garage to stop the incessant beeping alerting with some code called an "F4". Now I have a built-in hole in the wall which is only useful at Christmas when I put a little Nativity scene inside it. "Don't worry" I explain to the little Christ baby "I won't immolate you". Are you on good terms with your Dad? Cause it would take an Act of God to bring this piece of crap back to life.
I'm truly tempted to convert it into a indoor charcoal grill. It has absolutely no other value and I have to say it sends me into apoplexy just thinking about it. Fortunately my wife loved to shop late-night and we now own two Nu-Wave cookers, not one, yes two, along with a convection toaster oven and a 1.4kW microwave which does most of the heavy-lifting. I want to replace our oven with a Bosch but no one makes a 24-inch built in oven, except of course Kenner, which makes the Easy-Bake. And that comes in handy when I invite all the local kids over for a tea party on Saturday afternoons. Child services checks in with me regularly.
Dam it duck. No grapes! Waddle the heck away!
A duck goes into a bar, waddles up to the bar, jumps up on a stool and asks the bartender, “do you have any grapes?”
The bartender looks at the duck impatiently. “No, this is a bar. We don’t have any grapes.” So the duck leaves.
The next day, the same duck goes back into the bar, jumps up on a stool and looks at the bartender. “Do you have any grapes?”
“No, i told you yesterday,” the bartender barks angrily. “This is a bar, we don’t have grapes.” So the duck leaves.
The very next day, the duck goes back into the bar and jumps up on a stool. “Do you have any grapes?” he asks.
The bartender explodes at the duck. “Look, you’ve come in here the last two days and I’ve explained to you — THIS. IS. A. BAR! We do NOT have any grapes. If you come in here one more time and ask for grapes, I will nail your feet to the stool and your bill to the bar!!!!” The duck beats a quick retreat.
A week goes by.
After a week, the duck comes in to the bar and jumps up on a stool in front of the bartender. “Do you have any nails?” The duck asks.
“No,” says the bartender, “I don’t have any nails.”
“Good,” responds the duck.
“You got any grapes?”
Horse walks into a bar. Bartender looks at him and says: "Why the long face?"
Baby seal walks into a club.
A dyslexic walks into a bra.
At the Emergency Vet 🙁
J.B’s Fish Camp strides confidently to the on deck circle
How was the manatee prepared?
Taxes done, just need to click file.
Leftover Indian for breakfast?
I got a fox and a raccoon on my trail cam last night!
So, when do we release our DBR LTE ChatBot?
I'm working on an AS project rather than AI. The quest to achieve optimal wrong answers using Artificial Stupidity is more difficult than one would think.
Luckily, I've found a good place for my online research. I'm using this website as a template.
Note: I found it best to send a bot to do the research since visiting such sites seems to cause biological brains to atrophy quickly. :eek:
I made scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast this morning. Just for me. I don't make myself scrambled eggs nearly often enough because it always feels so self indulgent when I'm the only one who is going to eat them (the two sons currently at home both declined), but today, I ignored that inner voice.
Why do I find unc as annoying as fingernails on a chalkboard?
And why do I have their game on in th background?
Commodore held up their part of the bargain; LGD!
I love Duke but I freaking despise Duke fans sometimes.
My wife won a chili cook-off last night. It’s a recipe she’s been making for years that won a cook-off out West in 2008. She’s made a few changes to the original. We had a healthy discussion over the ethics of whether she could now call the chili “hers” or if it was morally more appropriate to cite the original in her entry. Thoughts?
Conspiracy theories really frighten me. I used to think they were fun. I don't think they are fun.
Well, who is buried in Grant's tomb?
Hopefully, no one spontaneously combusted...
I know these are more urban legends, but I did break the chain of that chain letter.
I believe in goat man and have been to a big foot festival for true believers.
I am in the shark bite capital of the world. Still unscathed
My major accomplishment of the last week was hiring a stage manger for this summer's Shakespeare in the park production of 12th Night. As I'm sure I've posted here before, I'm directing this year. I think I really lucked out.
We lucked out last year too with a very competent, on the ball, awesome stage manager. I never even approached her about coming back this year. The reason? She's a UNC grad.
Yes, I am that person.
Now I will present the case for the defense of that situation. Last year's show turned out great but there were tensions during the rehearsal process. Mostly they had to do with the director. The director was a good friend before the production and remains a good friend because I decided not to let the problems with the show affect that. I will probably even hire her to direct again - but not outdoor Shakespeare and not when I am also in the cast. We have very different styles when it comes to our approach. Also, I am the one with experience and she ignored my advice on more than one occasion. Admitting later to me that I was right helped, but not listening to me in the first place might have gotten anyone who wasn't a good friend fired. (I'm not great a firing people, so maybe not.) Every production provides learning opportunities and I have learned that I need to be way more specific about what is the director's job and what is the producer's job moving forward.
But that's the director - where is the defense of not at least asking a very competent stage manager to come back? She had the director's back at all times which is usually good behavior for a stage manager. But. I was the producer. I was the one actually paying her. She did not give my input reasonable consideration and she didn't because she didn't respect me and she didn't respect me because I went to Duke. I know this because the rivalry did come up in conversation and she said one too many deeply nasty things to me, plus, I know the look. I tell people that some prejudices are perfectly acceptable even in today's woke world, and being nasty to Duke grads in one of them. I had to explain all this to the two others who help me with hiring production staff when I refused to even consider this stage manager for this year's production. "Why don't you ask _________?" Folks around here don't really believe me, but I do try to get them to understand that Duke-Carolina is not equivalent to Red Sox-Yankees. It's a whole other level.
I will recommend her to others who ask me for help finding a stage manager. I won't hire her to work with me.
Birds aren’t real.