Cool and clear, sunny and warmer later. Nice, for cooler values of nice. Yesterday was very comfortable from about 10am to 6pm. Too cool before and after. Today and tomorrow should be the same.
I didn’t do a run from storage to my shop, but I did get a bunch of domestic bliss done. I cut my hair, washed and folded laundry. Cleaned some stuff up. Got out some more Christmas decorations.
I’ve been cutting my hair since the wuflu lockdowns, but I dropped my clippers and they haven’t been the same since. The last couple of times were very slow, and the result wasn’t up to previous times. My backup clippers were at the BOL, so I had a chance to bring them home this week. What a difference. Wahl Pro are smooth and quiet compared to the cheaper Wahl clippers. Don’t know why I kept the basic ones here and put the nice ones in the closet at the BOL, but they won’t be going back there. I have another set of basic clippers there anyway.
Clipper cuts might not be your choice, but having specialist tools for the specialist jobs makes them easier. At least have a set of good hair cutting scissors and combs. A couple of safety or straight razors and a styptic stick and strop would be a nice deep prep. Nail care tools are essentials too. Remember that infections used to be deadly and could be again. Taking care of fingernails, and especially toenails, is critical for good health.
Even if you usually have someone to do certain things for you, having the tools and some practice doing it yourself is valuable, whether it’s hygiene or auto repair.
Stack the stuff you need to do the common jobs you normally outsource. The day might come where it saves your bacon.
nick
Great minds think alike, etc… I just got my pre-Christmas haircut. I look almost civilised!
Cheese and ham rolls for a quick lunch, then off to the woods with a gub…
Happy days!
Dollar General stores in the US fill that need in many communities and the chain operates on a business model highly dependent on taxpayer subsidies since the stock returned to being publicly traded in 2009.
The stock is mostly owned by institutions, but just about everyone with a pension plan and/or IRA/401(k) has a stake in the chain’s success. VTSMX alone holds its customary 3% or outstanding shares.
Aldi South runs “Aldi” in the US while Aldi North runs Trader Joe’s, which is considered high end in many places.
When we lived in WA State, we were in Trader Joe’s frequently, but I can count on one hand the number of times we’ve been in the Austin store, which is located in a Fancy Lad shopping area.
It isn’t that the store is different as much as the clientele. Trader Joe’s in Austin got away with mandating masks and limiting shoppers inside the store well into 2022.
Austin PD conducted mask enforcement operations in support of retailers through Spring 2023, when I saw the last one at our local Sam’s. By that point, however, none of the shoppers were entering the store in masks.
Hmm, which site to flush? Wordpress? There isn’t a cache or cookie storage for this site as ttgnet.com
I don’t want to dump the whole cache although I did just go thru and dump a bunch of sites with big storage use. I have a bunch of sites I only visit rarely, and want them to recognize me when I go back.
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44F this am. Looks clear so far. Coffee is ready.
n
Flush your local browser cache, Nick. Better, use a different browser, ideally one that you haven’t used for viewing any WordPress sites in a month or more.
that must be a wholesale price. We’ve been talking about shrinking herds and increases in beef prices here for a few years now. Even with freezers full, I’m worried that I won’t make it thru to meat going on sale again.
Longest I’ve gone without buying meat at the store was 8 weeks. I think I’m at six this time around.
n
Flush your local browser cache
I don’t see an option to just flush the cache, only cache and cookies… I don’t actually want to lose the cookies in most cases.
n
I just looked at the wp admin page for here, from my linux box with a different version of firefox that I haven’t used on the site in months and the check marks don’t appear.
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15372145/taco-giro-arizona-ice-raids.html
yeah, nothing shady going on here…
So 46 people were living in “a couple of houses” and the IRS is involved. Sounds like trafficking to me.
When I lived in San Diego, in the late afternoon, going on dusk, you’d see the young men line up on the Mexico side of the border. They’d all be wearing black pants and white shirts. They were waiting for dark to dash across the border and go to work in US restaurants. They did it every day. Their version of the daily commute.
n
The problem with that method in the U.S. is that most would not put aside enough money. The number of tax deadbeats would skyrocket. There are a lot of people in my area that when given a check, blow most of it immediately. Then come the end of the pay period have no money for the basics.
The good news for me this year is that I owe $0.00 in federal taxes. I can itemize this year. The sales tax on the new truck is deductible. The large amount of medical expenses helped. The measly $14.00 in interest I paid on the truck is deductible. The new $6K per adult born before 1961 deduction drops my taxable SS earnings way down. All that combined puts my taxable income below the tax level. Even with pulling money (RMD) from an IRA.
And I will be buying a lottery ticket today. The jackpot has grown to over $1B. The odds of winning are astronomical I know. But the odds are even worse if I don’t have a ticket. If I win the jackpot I will give each one of you regular posting clowns $1M. I cannot imagine what I would do with $700M (after taxes). Impossible to even conceive.
I would probably give a large chunk away and just keep $20 or $30 million for myself and indulge myself on just the interest. At 4% that is about $1.2M a year. New football and baseball fields for the high school would be nice. Endow enough money to fully pay scholarships for anyone that goes to vocational school. Endow enough money for anyone that goes to college in a STEM capacity to fully fund a scholarships. Anyone that choses liberal arts gets nothing.
However, the first thing I would do, is get a good lawyer. Then an armed transport in an armored vehicle to Nashville to redeem the ticket. And keep my mouth shut.
I will be pleased if I win $10.00, the price of the ticket (5 sets of numbers).
I’m an admin on several WP sites, one of which was brought up-to-date very recently. Everything seems to be working correctly on the post creation page, in terms of checkboxes for tags and such. Of course, there are a bazillion plugins and the odds of that site and this site having the same plugins and the same versions are very slim.
Checkboxes don’t show check marks (selection) on my hobby site either.
n
Let’s see… Multiply $1M by the odds of you winning the jackpot, adjust for the chance of a simultaneous winner, take out expected taxes for the portion of the gift exceeding $17K, carry the one … I owe you a dollar. Let me know where to send it.
Gotta have that $500 monthly nut for the truck.
I was wondering how that would work with F150 prices new currently averaging $60k, but the new “Ford Crew” Christmas commercials running in my area show leasing terms at the end of the spots rather than highlighting rebates.
The monthly payment on my truck was over $1,900 a month, for 36 months. I paid it off in 10 days. Only 2 days of interest as it took a few days for the loan origination documentation to make it to the CU.
The dealer gets a kickback on the interest paid to the credit union. A percentage of the interest on the loan. The dealer asked me to not pay off the loan for at least three months. At first I was going to oblige but after they pissed me off I said “screw it, it’s my money”, and paid it off the second day after the loan arrived at the CU. Somebody floated the money for 8 days, I hope it was the dealer.
Subbing today. Probably the last day this calendar year. Most of the sub days occur in April and May as the teachers use up their personal days and sick days. Between the wife and I we made a whopping $3K subbing at the school. If we wanted we could sub every day of the week if we did not limit ourselves to the local high school only. We refuse to sub at the four other schools in the district as it is not worth our drive time.
The “Ford Crew” ads also make me wonder exactly what the company is actually trying to sell — the trucks or the girls in the tight sweaters and high tech insulated coats emblazoned with the Ford logo.
Lessee… Cash prize of a billion is about ½. Taxes take another ½ of that, so net in the neighborhood of a ¼ billion: $250 million. Yep, such problems to have.
I would be pleased if the government funded itself with lotteries and bake sales only. 🙂
One of these? A Pivotal “Blackfly” as flown by Scott Manley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT804EAUVk4
I’ve been musing about something like this for some time, interesting to see that somebody actually brought it to actual flight.
If my son or I win the lottery we will give Bob’s science programs to many church schools.
If I win the lottery I am buying a Starship ticket to Mars.
Hmm, pretty sure the wordpress problem isn’t me, or plugins. Even a virgin copy of portable firefox doesn’t display check marks when the boxes are selected.
Oh well, not a huge deal.
n
If you were so inclined, you might try going into the ‘Inspect’ mode (usually via F9, or right-click and select ‘Inspect’), then look at the Console screen to see if there are any messages in there when you try clicking a checkbox.
Clicking on the checkbox doesn’t generate any messages on the Browser console. And doesn’t display a checked box. It does select the item, even if you can’t see it is selected.
n
A new Firefox feature!
“Comfortable and Reliable Revolver Carry”
https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/comfortable-and-reliable-revolver-carry/?utm_source=newsletter
“A wheelgun can be a very versatile firearm.”
“One phone call changed how I feel about my safety. I was twenty years old and had a stalker. He called to tell me how cute I looked in my pink sweater, and then my hands began to shake when he told me he had been watching me for days. That call changed how I thought about personal safety, and the next thing I knew, I had a snubnose .38 Spl revolver riding in my purse.”
Good for her ! My favorite gub to carry.
“Kyle Rittenhouse Breaks Social Media Silence With Surprise Pics”
https://resistthemainstream.com/kyle-rittenhouse-breaks-social-media-silence-with-surprise-pics/
Good to hear that his life is going well.
Um, it ain’t because they went on the show, it’s because they were obese.
The curse of My 600-lb Life: The 17 TLC stars who have died since appearing on the popular weight-loss show
n
I’m sure nothing could possibly go wrong with this…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15375095/disney-openai-ai-video-deal.html
n
That kind of talk gets you sent to the reeducation camp. You’ll be locked in a room with Efecan Kultur until she’s persuaded you that you’re wrong.
Yes, I realize that she died of overeating a few weeks ago and is probably getting really rank by now. Ranker than a poorly-bathed obese person normally is. Deal with it.
Pocahontas will be starring in Poke a Hot *ss before sundown.
A statement of fact with no direct evidence.
They were all undeniably fat, and had compromised health.
There may be proximate causes of their obesity, making obesity a symptom rather than a disease. Two that come to mind are the food pyramid foisted on us by the quacks at the usgov, and leading to food addiction issues, and immune system failures due to vaccination injury. Alternatively, the treatments for obesity may themselves have ultimately caused some of the deaths. Many of those patients received gastric surgeries which are prone to complications. The subject of the linked article had been dealing with medical conditions for almost a year before the fatal car crash. But she had also lost 500 pounds.
It’s one of the conundrums I face. Correlation data shows being fat “causes” downstream diseases, which I find perfectly believable. But after decades of “too fat”, does weight loss by itself necessarily lead to better health? Or have you done irreversible damage in that time? Do the long-term side effects of pharmaceutical and surgical treatments outweigh the weight loss benefits?
And how can you arrive at the truth when mainstream doctors still believe the lipid hypothesis, CICO, and that statins save lives (they don’t, BTW).
Popo working something big on the scanner. Victim withdrawing $30K from bank, they are surveilling and following to catch someone… extortion? scammer? Multi agency op.
Just mentioned an address for the handover that’s in Conroe.
n
Sounds like they nabbed someone. Wonder if it will make the news?
n
We refuse to sub at the four other schools in the district as it is not worth our drive time.
What happened to the commute by electric bike ?
I probably just lost my million bucks.
“Living to 100 Is Becoming More Common—Here’s What You Should Do to Prepare for Retirement”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/living-100-becoming-more-common-192452337.html?guccounter=1
The people that I have known that lived to be 100 (all one of them, she lived to 105) worked until the last 2 or 3 years of their lives. She had 30+ rent houses and she drove around town each month collecting the rent personally. She did not depend on Social Security, she worked.
I am wondering if I will make 70, much less 100, with my missing right coronary artery.
“Trump Administration Adds Huge Militarized Zone at SoCal Border, Makes U.S. Navy Stewards”
https://noqreport.com/president-trump-adds-militarized-zone-at-socal-border/
“The open stretches of public land along California’s southern frontier have long served as a quiet reminder of America’s vulnerability. But no more. On Wednesday, the Trump administration handed over jurisdiction of roughly 760 acres in San Diego and Imperial counties to the U.S. Navy, carving out a fresh militarized zone to clamp down on the relentless tide of illegal crossings. This corridor, snaking from the edge of the Otay Mountain Wilderness nearly to the Arizona line, traces through the Imperial Valley and past border towns like Tecate—a notorious hotspot where smugglers and cartels have run roughshod for years.”
Huh.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Ex-Michigan Coach Sherrone Moore in Custody Amid Assault Investigation After Firing”
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/12/10/ex-michigan-coach-sherrone-moore-in-custody-amid-assault-investigation-after-firing/
“Sherrone Moore, the Michigan Wolverines head football coach, was fired on Wednesday for having an “inappropriate relationship” with a staffer. He is in police custody amid an assault investigation stemming from an incident that took place hours after his dismissal.”
You were serious about that morals clause ?
“The End of the Air Bag Mandate?”
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/12/11/the-end-of-the-air-bag-mandate/
“President Trump recently announced that regulations prohibiting the sale for use on public (that is, government) roads of so-called “tiny cars” will be rescinded or rendered inapplicable somehow, perhaps by a Fuhrer Order (i.e., an executive order). This as such would be no great affront – to assuage the constitutionalists out there – because after all, regulations are pretty much the same thing. That is to say, a regulation is a decree issued by a regulatory bureaucracy, such as the Department of Transportation or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or the EPA. These regulatory decrees have the force and effect of laws – as in you had better obey them, or else. Yet they are not actually laws in the sense that they were never put forward by a legislature and voted on. They are simply decreed and that is all.”
I hate air bags, they are dangerous to small people. And sometimes the air bag container disintegrates, it is like a grenade going off in your face. We had a senior girl in the local high school get killed by an exploding air bag about 6 or 7 years ago here.
Wear your seatbelts !
“Supremes Have Chance to End Climate Lawfare”
https://thelibertydaily.com/supremes-have-chance-end-climate-lawfare/
“DCNF)—All eyes will be on the Supreme Court later this week when the justices conference on Friday to decide whether to grant a petition for writ of certiorari on a high-stakes climate lawsuit out of Colorado. The case is a part of the long-running lawfare campaign seeking to extract billions of dollars in jury awards from oil companies on claims of nebulous damages caused by carbon emissions.”
“In Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, major American energy companies are asking the Supreme Court to decide whether federal law precludes state law nuisance claims targeting interstate and global emissions. This comes as the City and County of Boulder, Colo. sued a long list of energy companies under Colorado state nuisance law for alleged impacts from global climate change.”
“The Colorado Supreme Court allowed a lower state trial court decision to go through, improbably finding that federal law did not preempt state law claims. The central question hangs on whether the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) preempts state common law public nuisance claims related to the regulation of carbon emissions. In this case, as in at least 10 other cases that have been decided in favor of the defendant companies, the CAA clearly does preempt Colorado law. It seems inevitable that the Supreme Court, if it grants the cert petition, would make the same ruling.”
There are no facts in the Climate Change scam, only suppositions. Cooked simulations do not count.
“Putting the economy in perspective”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/12/putting-economy-in-perspective.html
“I’m getting, not merely irritated, but actually alarmed by the number of people (particularly journalists) who are prattling along about how US consumers are spending as much as last year, and that therefore there’s no need to worry about a recession, blah, blah, blah ad nauseam.”
“The reality is very simple. Sure, the dollar amount spent is about the same in most areas: but the quantity and/or quality of goods and/or services those dollars are buying is a lot less than it was in earlier years. Things are more expensive, and their quality is often less than it was in the past. Where I could buy a self-propelled Honda lawnmower for plus-or-minus $400 two years ago, the identical model, from the same store, is today almost $900. Where I could buy an expensive replacement part for my vehicle two years ago for $950 (dealer price), today it’s almost $1,500. Those are just two examples. I’m sure my readers can supply many more from their own experience. In short: if I bought ten widgets last year for $100 apiece, and this year I bought four widgets for $250 apiece, I’ve spent $1,000 in each of those years – but I’ve got less than half as much for my money.”
I bought a Bosch 300 dishwasher from Home Depot and had them install it yesterday. They also carried off the old dishwasher. $1,400.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Bosch-300-Series-24-in-Black-Front-Control-Tall-Tub-Dishwasher-with-Stainless-Steel-Tub-and-3rd-Rack-Quiet-46-dBA-SHE53C86N/325602606
I bought the same dishwasher in the old house a decade ago with installation. $700.
“The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, 4)” by Becky Chambers
https://www.amazon.com/Galaxy-Ground-Within-Novel-Wayfarers/dp/0062936042/146-1679716-0544446?tag=ttgnet-20
The fourth book of a four book space opera science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Harper Voyager in 2021 that I bought new on Amazon. Please note that this series won the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Series. I doubt that there will be more books in this very loosely connected series.
Life in the not so near future is quite different. All of the space aliens use wormhole traveling space ships to cross the great expanses of space much faster. The Galactic Commons, the GC, provides the wormholes using special high powered space ships to create them.
The planet Gora is way station with no native population or atmosphere. But it is the central connection to five wormholes. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop.
At the Five-Hop One-Stop on Gora, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit permits, and assorted supplies. The Five-Hop is run by an enterprising alien and her sometimes helpful child, who work hard to provide a little piece of home to everyone passing through.
When a freak technological failure halts all traffic to and from Gora, three strangers—all different species with different aims—are thrown together at the Five-Hop. Grounded, with nothing to do but wait, the trio—an exiled artist with an appointment to keep, a cargo runner at a personal crossroads, and a mysterious individual doing her best to help those on the fringes—are compelled to confront where they’ve been, where they might go, and what they are, or could be, to each other.
This series reminds me so much of the “Firefly” and “Star Trek” series due to the people (including space aliens) interactions. There are many space alien races, xenophobia, both mammals and reptiles plus a blob race, AIs, etc. Technology and craziness are rampant throughout the galaxy with people living everywhere that they can set down roots for a while.
The author has a website at:
https://www.otherscribbles.com/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (9,167 reviews)
Lynn
Dirty mother humpers. Gaslighting.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15374809/Stanford-scientists-Covid-vaccine-myocarditis.html
“Experts have long sounded the alarm” – really??? You’re going with that? “Experts” said it was safe and effective. “Experts” would get you fired or banned or ostracized for saying otherwise.
n
Censored, silenced, shunned, abused, canceled. Career destroyed, livelihood threatened.
It’s not understatement to say that the emotional damage of being a vaccine realist and freedom fighter has been larger than the financial cost. And I estimate the financial cost at about a million dollars.
The school I sub at is only a mile away on reasonable roads. The other schools require a trip on a two lane road with no shoulders, dips, and a speed limit of 55. The next closest school is 15 miles away, the furthest is 35 miles. Do the math.
Having been in a collision where the airbags deployed, I was saved from significant injury. Yes, it is violent. It is an explosion. I suffered mild burns to my face from the heat. The other option was smacking face against the steering wheel. The knee airbags protected my knees and lower leg. I think airbags are amazing safety technology.
What I really hated was my 1974 VW that had the seat sensors that would prevent the vehicle from starting unless the belts were buckled. That sensor failed after a couple of years at a most inconvenient time. I had to dig under the seat, cut the wires, and short the wires together.
The Texas alumni are enjoying schadenfreude with the bowl opponent, trying to forget about being shut out of the playoffs despite the costs involved with dropping the dime at halftime of the TAMU game. Sherrone Moore’s problems are aired nightly on local Faux News this week.
No word about “Coach Sark” and his ongoing problems with booze going back to when he coached at UW during our sentence in WA State, but I’m sure that will surface if Texas looses in the Cheez-Itz Citrus Bowl at Camping World Stadium on New Years Eve.
Remember: When “covid amnesty” is brought up, the answer is No. The response can be punctuated with blunt force trauma if necessary.
And you should be able to buy a car with airbags if you want it. I should not be forced to buy cars with airbags.
Our 2016 Jetta which we bought from the wife’s nephew does not like my usual practice of putting my phone on the passenger seat while driving unless I put the phone right on the very corner of the cushion, balanced precariously.
“Inappropriate relationship” is a contract or civil matter.
“Police custody” is a criminal matter.
They are not the same.
It’s unclear whether the reporter got the details wrong or wrote unclearly, or if there are both civil and criminal aspects, or if he was arrested on a catch-all charge like “harassment” for a civil matter.
We replaced the house windows back in 2014. The “trim out like a door jamb” never happened. And I’m done with asking and being told “I’ll call you”.
So I’m looking and I can caulk the cracks ‘tween windows and walls. Make pretty. Get some paint for touch-up and call it done. Or maybe I’ll buy some pre-painted quarter round and cover the cracks. And then cover my crummy miter cuts with caulk.
Plans. Got them.
I’m on the Vine thing at Big River. They offered a pair of curtains. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPCF44MG?tag=ttgnet-20
I hung them, hanged them, whatever, on the existing flat rods one uses for sheers or valances, in the dining room.
They looked nice. They need a trip through the washing machine for the wrinkles. They make the room feel warmer. I suppose that while low-e is great, you still need to block the light and the infrared is light. _ Duh.
The light diffusing effect is nice. Cuts all the glare on the TV when I start a movie at 4PM. What I want most is insulation. Beach towels are colorful but kinda college dorm white trashy.
So I ordered more curtains. A narrower set for the other dining room window. Five more pairs of the original size, might even be here tomorrow, and a pair for the patio door in the living room.
And of course ya gotta buy new curtain rods to make it all pretty. Like this, in various sizes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY74YW68?tag=ttgnet-20
No new curtain rods for the spare bedrooms. Yeah, valance rods for the win.
The new curtain rods are installed wide enough to fully uncover the windows. Might not be the standard way but it’s my house.
The patio door is done. The 33 year old vertical blinds were about an inch and half from the floor. Big light gap. The new curtains are, at the moment, hanging about a half inch from the floor. Oops. Perhaps a bit low. But whatever. My house., right? I’m going to buy another pair of curtains. Two panels 54 inches wide looks sort of skimpy, ala bed sheet, across a 72 inch wide patio door.
‘Suicidal’ Michigan coach attacked woman ‘with a KNIFE’ after being fired for affair as extraordinary audio is revealed
Moore, a married father-of-three, spent Wednesday night in a cell after a stunning day that saw him first dismissed by Michigan over an affair with a staffer and later detained over an alleged assault.
embrace the power of ‘and’.
n
I meant to follow up a thread with this sooner, but this is the page I use as a reference when I need to boot a Linux distro on my MacBook Pro Santa Rosa.
I didn’t notice the numeric address previously. I saved off a PDF copy.
http://192.234.197.243/notes/intel-mac-efi32-linux.html
Damning truth about Ilhan Omar marrying her BROTHER
Ilhan Omar calls Trump a bigot with a ‘creepy obsession with Somalis but his claim she married her brother has long been rumored and an insider told the Daily Mail it is true
– another “conspiracy theory” apparently now going mainstream.
n
It took longer than usual. Most conspiracy theories are proved true within a year.
Well, she’s a special pet of the MSM and the Dems, so she got the maximum protection from them. I’m sure that added to the delay.
“The Squad” is untouchable because powerful people want to get their strange on with all of those women.
Try deporting Omar and see what happens.
Ew. Really, ew. Tidepod Evita was hot when she was about 20 but those days are long gone and even then was a moronic commie and a spoiled party girl. (There’s a strong correlation between those descriptions.) Ilhan Brotherhumper can’t be run through the sheep dip enough times to wash off the suspicion. Radish-shaped Tubb: No, just no. Even with two bags on her head, absolutely not. Pressley? That’s the only one that “powerful people” might want a sniff of, and only because her total hair loss reminds the old pervs of the young stuff they really want.
And a safety bag on your head in case her two bags break.
Better to just put the plastic bag on and draw it tight.
n
Went to D2’s band concert tonight. Good program. The bands really sounded great. The program is strong with a bunch of the kids eligible to try for seats on the state band. D2 sounded good.
Then we went and grabbed vietnamese sandwiches for dinner. They are yummy. Kid decided to bake a pie for one of the band instructors who is leaving for another position. Started baking at 10pm. Smells good.
time for me to get to bed though.
n
Then we went and grabbed vietnamese sandwiches for dinner. They are yummy. Kid decided to bake a pie for one of the band instructors who is leaving for another position. Started baking at 10pm. Smells good.
Vietnamese food is great. Lots of shrimp, beef, pork, etc. We have a Pho House about five miles away from our house that my parents, my son, and I love. My wife thinks it is ok, nothing to write home about.
https://phohouse2.com/
Their soft spring rolls with peanut sauce are to die for.
And of course, I love pie. Any kind of pie but I am partial to cherry, pecan, pumpkin, blueberry, and sweet potato.
The ‘different distro’ was Linux Mint 22.2 Mate, installed with no apparent issues and so far is running fine. Limited memory may have been the issue, as this machine only has 4 GB of RAM installed.