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About to pickle some red onions and daikon.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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Waiting for my tea to be ready. Today seems like a good day to get some gardening done

I wish my veggie garden was bigger this year... I got a late start, so I just have 1 pepper plant (tabasco) in a big, ceramic pot. She even has a rolling cart, to come in out of the rain.

I’ve only got a jalapeño plant at the moment,
Can’t eat chillies the way I used to

I've definitely been eating fewer superhots lately. I'll probably be pickling most of what I harvest this year, and I might cheat a little towards end of season - grow lights are so cheap now!

Picture from the last rainy/stormy day we had:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for my tea to be ready. Today seems like a good day to get some gardening done

I wish my veggie garden was bigger this year... I got a late start, so I just have 1 pepper plant (tabasco) in a big, ceramic pot. She even has a rolling cart, to come in out of the rain.

Here's a little Friday win - got a message from our development director asking if I had changed anything on server X today. Apparently, some task that used to take over an hour completed in less than 20 minutes today. All I did was update the 25GbE networking drivers on Monday.

Whatever, the network gods have smiled upon my systems this day!

Watching it rain and listening to Electric Ladyland - sides 3 and 4.

Hooray!!!! My front porch steps are getting replaced this morning!!! I heard some crazy, smashing sounds coming from outside and realized that my buddy has started today instead of tomorrow.

@nadnerB Does the one at the end have a bidet like the others in that row?

Needed some good, brain-y music this morning, so I'm listening to 'Polygondwanaland' by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Highly recommended.

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Just got a parrot today. It's a rescue, very old and needed a new home very quickly. So now we have a parrot.

pictures!!

Pretty sure it’s not called that

Some friends have a parrot. One of the best things he can say is "come back with a warrant!"

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I got some hanging baskets of portulaca for the front porch yesterday. Today, all the blooms have opened, and I just had a hummingbird feeding on them... Less than 3 feet from my face! I e never seen one that close, it was awesome.

Nice. We have a garden full of hummingbirds. They are so cool.

They are everywhere around our yard, but they are easily spooked. I just happened to be standing still, staring at the flowers.

I got some hanging baskets of portulaca for the front porch yesterday. Today, all the blooms have opened, and I just had a hummingbird feeding on them... Less than 3 feet from my face! I e never seen one that close, it was awesome.

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I spent the last week cutting down/apart a tree that broke in half due to wind last week.

Hope it didn’t hit anything or anything important if it did. We’ve had quite a bit of systems come through here also..

Storm came through about 2:30-3:00am and was very active in lightning…

luckily not. the top half of the tree broke, but not completely - fell over slightly into the street. The break was about 20 feet up - made cutting it down a bit challenging - luckily my latter was talk enough.

haul away, etc was so expensive - it was worth it to buy a slightly used chipper shredder and just deal with it myself. I now have a small pile of logs to give away as firewood.

I need to rent a chipper to deal with my ever-growing pile of limbs and other small debris. Home depot rents them here for $100/day. Now I just need some motivation to do it in the heat...

Here you just use a rake and a match, problem solved.

That is very seasonal here. Burn season starts in October or so.

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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I spent the last week cutting down/apart a tree that broke in half due to wind last week.

Hope it didn’t hit anything or anything important if it did. We’ve had quite a bit of systems come through here also..

Storm came through about 2:30-3:00am and was very active in lightning…

luckily not. the top half of the tree broke, but not completely - fell over slightly into the street. The break was about 20 feet up - made cutting it down a bit challenging - luckily my latter was talk enough.

haul away, etc was so expensive - it was worth it to buy a slightly used chipper shredder and just deal with it myself. I now have a small pile of logs to give away as firewood.

I need to rent a chipper to deal with my ever-growing pile of limbs and other small debris. Home depot rents them here for $100/day. Now I just need some motivation to do it in the heat...

Just chowed down on some homemade beef stroganoff. I subbed in lower fat Greek yogurt for sour cream, I think it was actually better than usual.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to go to Managua with the kids for a day out and about just for fun.

"Maybe you'll return to Managua, you could go unnoticed in such a place..."

FZ

Our drummer FINALLY got back from nearly 6 weeks of jaunting around Europe, so I've got rehearsal in a couple of hours! I wonder if I can still play the guitar....

I just got a package in the mail containing a whole bunch of dried chile peppers. One of my cousins ordered way too many I guess, so he sent the extra to me.
I now have:
Ancho
Pasilla
Guajillo
Mulato
Arbol
...and dried chipotles. The only other dried ones I ever had were homegrown and home made by me. All of them are beautiful, they were clearly grown and dried with care. I can get most of these locally, but they're all busted up. Now I'm set for chili season.

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Another 12 hour recording session on Saturday, but the tracking is DONE. Now we wait on the 1st mixdown...

When can we check it out?

Soon! We have signed off on the final mixdowns and the tracks are arranged properly for a 12" LP release! Now we're just waiting for the mastering to be done. Then we should have at least 1 song to release ahead of the full album. Until then, here's us playing live a couple of months ago:

Youtube Video

You can install these guys by cmd line???!!?!?!?!

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Just got back from the grocery store... time to start marinating some lamb chunks for kebabs!

We have a small middle Eastern presence in our town. Lamb over rice and lamb on the rod are very popular dinner choices in at least a dozen spots.

Where we live is lacking a bit when it comes to middle eastern cuisine. Here it's mostly SE Asian folks, so if you want 24-hour Korean BBQ, there are so many choices. Same with sushi, poke bowls, pho, hot pot, dim sum, noodles, bakeries, boba tea, etc. I don't hate it.