I won’t turn away a medium rare steak. It’s quite good on fact. But I’ve found with my palette, I’m more sensitive to being too rare than too done, having grown up on leather.

Like, rare is delicious, but if the cook does it wrong, myself included, then the texture and temperature of the meat is off putting to me.

My father in law gave a steak that was wedge shaped, so the thin end was overdone, but the thick end was beyond raw, on the inside. I struggled to eat that, though I did.

That being said, I also love beef tartare, so, go figure 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the tuna recommendation, maybe I’ll have my SO order it and I’ll try some. I’m starting to like fish, in small doses. But my mom is allergic, so growing up we never even had it in the house, so I never learned to like it. That and my first introduction to it was some swampy pond Bass that my friend swore was delicious. It was not. It tasted like bad fish smells. That set me back a decade or two. But again, I’m coming around.

I like certain salmon meals, perch, crab, etc. Heck, canned tuna just went on the menu for me this year, so, progress.

I think you’re right. My brother was on someones Plex for awhile once. And one day the owner asked him how he was liking xyz show he was watching.

Innocent enough, but still weirded him out. He stopped using it immediately after that. Doesn’t want to be observed, even casually.

Best on well done, because it moistens the overly dry meat.

I say this as a lover of A1, and lover of medium steaks.

I grew up with leather and A1, and I still like that from time to time. Now I’ve come to love medium steaks, and if seasoned and cooked correctly, I don’t need A1. Though I still crave it, and will use it on my own steaks at home.

All in all, steak is delicious.

Nice lol, sounds like a good bud

Did you hate this man? Lol

At least they were still in rolls.

I worked as a receptionist for for a few years. One of our customers checks kept bouncing. The business was a luxury service. This person was not struggling or starving, they were purposely trying to get us to give up on collecting. Not answering our calls, sending us to voicemail. This went on for months. It was like $100.

I forget some of the details, but eventually the owner started calling around to other businesses, apparently some of them had this person on a no fly list, for the same bull crap.

Well, somehow the owner found the number of the spouse, and called them, and just kindly and professionally mentioned they were trying to get ahold of so and so and they hadn’t been able to reach them regarding an outstanding debt etc etc.

The check bouncer, was, PISSED. They called, and unleashed fury for the “unprofessional” act of calling their spouse. Which isn’t entirely untrue, but also, it’s not like we were a sex shop or something. Think… As benign as a hair salon…

The owner said “we’re just trying to collect the debt”. So the check bouncer paid the $100. They came in 5 minutes before closing with a DUFFLE BAG, of change. They could barely carry it.

It wasn’t ALL pennies, but it was all small change. It was gonna take FOREVER to count. But it was all legal tender. All loose and strewn together.

They wanted to leave after dropping it off, but the owner said no. It may be legal tender, but it’s not accepted until it’s counted.

So they sat in the reception area, while the owner counted the coins one by one. Glaring at each other and huffing the whole time. It felt like an hour, but was probably 15 or 20 minutes.

The change was correct. The person left and never came back.

Wild times.

That requires specific knowledge and skill that they haven’t needed up to this point. Maybe it’ll come with time.

The irc days were great.

I do all these things already, I’ve never felt so vindicated lol.

Additionally, I keep a pantry full of at least some useful long lasting staples. Some boxed and canned goods. Small bag of powdered milk. A second unopened peanut butter jar. Honestly I don’t go overboard, but it’s so useful when you decide your hungry or want to cook something, but don’t want to run to the store.

My in-laws drive me crazy, empty cupboards, empty freezer. They only buy the smallest portions of things to eat, and make exactly one meal, and then the house is devoid of food again.

It’s not a money thing, it’s a mentality thing, they’ll just run to the store when it’s time to eat again. House sitting for them is an exercise in frustration.

Right, it had everything built in and ready to go

My exact thought. Always been at least mid weight, if not flipping heavy as.

Any suggestions? I’ve owned a piano for years, even took a lesson or two, but no dice.

I can play a couple snippets of songs, but that’s it. No real skill or ability. And I can’t read sheet music.

Driving?

I can’t steer the car in my dreams because I can’t lift my head up to see over the dash and I can’t peel my eyes open more than slightly to see where I’m going

If I’m thinking correctly, that’s because the xtars die at 1.1v, but the lock still thinks that’s plenty of juice so it reports 100%?

But normal AA are 1.5v… weird. I guess they aren’t dead dead until .8 or. 9v, but still.

Assuming you’re using 4 batteries, that means the lock is seeing 4.4v and not reporting a low battery, because real alkalines would go down to 3.2v or 3.6v.

So what you can try doing, is adding a small diode in series with the positive lead of the battery. A schottky would get you .3 to .5 ish voltage drop, bringing your 4.4v down to 4.1 or 3.9v, which would probably be enough to trigger the warning?

Or if you went for a regular rectifier diode at .7 to 1v drop, you could bring that to 3.7v or 3.4v, which would put you right in the zone of normal batteries dying.

Diodes are cheap, it’s worth a shot!

Not op. I hear what you’re saying, and it’s a valid point.

But once you go digital lock, it’s hard to go back. So convenient.

Heck, mine was just a standalone lock with a keypad, I’ve had one on every rental in some form or another for the last 15 years. Until this year…

We just moved into our first house, and the main door we want to use is seemingly incapable of fitting a keypad onto it. The handle is so close to the window frame, that it won’t fit. It’s very annoying. So for the last few months we’ve been using a regular key, and it’s annoying.

First, my in laws needed to watch our cat while we were gone, so I left out a spare key, which they then kept 😖

It’s rude to ask for it back, while simultaneously hoping to ask them for help again in the future. But, they are also the type to just come over whenever, without calling ahead or asking, whether we’re home or not. They are kind, but oblivious, so it’s hard to be firm.

Anywho this was never a problem FOR US in the past, because we’d just make up a random access code for them that was only valid on the days we were away.

I might have to replace the door.

This is fun, because there’s no pressure to pick your favorites to show the world, you just let shuffle pick some.

I have too many old razors.

My current razor is a feather asd2, less than a decade old.

We buy ground beef in bulk whenever it’s on sale. Like 5 or 10 pounds at a time.

We freeze them in quart bags, one pound at a time, squish them flat, and stack them in the freezer.

So easy to slap in a pan and start frying for tacos or whatever.

We recently got a half dozen or so pounds of 1 pound tubes of ground beef gifted to us. And man, it sucks trying to cook those from frozen. Scraping at them and frying them. Bah.

My friend has that, unfortunately.

She never knew, just thought everyone’s joints always hurt that bad. She did a lot of running, into her 30s, until she fell down a cliff and tore something in her knee.

They didn’t find her cartilage problem right away.

Her knees are bone on bone. Can’t relax too much or the bone will start to fuse together. So after her first surgery, she was laid up for awhile, and that they started fusing and causing all kinds of new problems and pain.

She ended up needing surgery in both knees, and now she’s on strict instructions. She has to walk a certain minimum every day. Not too much, not too little, to keep the bone on bone happy, without wearing it out too fast.

Really sucks, she was an extremely active person. Now she wears double knee braces.

Excellent book. Highly recommend. Crazy world building.

Upvote for the joke, but pineapple pizza slaps. So good.