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Same! Mine's smart, entertaining, manages my social life, probably contributes more to society than I ever will and on top of that, for reasons that still escape explanation, actually wants to have sex with me which is probably the only reason I never turned into an incel. She is easily the best thing in this house, myself included.

If we're talking strictly flavor, I guess I prefer pizza hut. Almost never order them though because if I'm looking for that style, Domino's is noticably cheaper for pretty similar quality. If I'm in the mood to spend money on a good pizza, I'm going to a local place so pizza hut is just at a quality/price intersection that I don't find myself looking for.

Right? The town I live in has a couple pretty good (for the area anyway) places that seem like they struggle. Meanwhile, everyone here raves about another local chain that makes what is IMHO easily the worst pizza in the city. Maybe even the state. That's even counting the chains.

I used to be a believer that pizza is like sex, even when it's bad it's still good but, this place proved me wrong. Soggy crust, unseasoned toppings and, way too many of them (hence the soggy ass crust).

So, I work in a maintenance position that really isn't possible to do remotely but we have a fair amount of desk work too. We're in the process of setting up a workstation to program and new head ends for our systems. The first thing on everyone's list when we were deciding on a location was "as far from everyone else as possible" because we all know that other people being around to make small talk is a distraction that will easily double the time it takes to get this shit done.

In every maintenance position I've had, every one of us has had our own secret workspaces where most other guys didn't know to look for us just so that we could get some desk work done in peace. Co-workers are a distraction more often than they are a help and I think we've all known this for years.

The thing is, you don't even need to manufacture a good story. You could tell the true story of how companies have slashed overhead by reducing the amount of office space needed or how employees working from home turn out to be just as if not more productive than those working in the offices and happier with their jobs besides.

There were companies planning to move more jobs to work from home even before the pandemic because it's a model that just makes more sense for a lot of positions. The return to office crowd could be beaten simply by pointing out the for most positions, working on-site is a needless expense. The problem is, the media isn't willing to tell that story.

Yeah, it was a little nerve racking setting it on there the first time.

Seemed to but, I let it preheat like 20 minutes total while I was trying to find the right temp on the burners.

No, just a regular old glass top electric.

That's kind of the appeal. I got tired of buying electric griddles every few years.

Yeah, I used medium on both and let it preheat a good while. I wasn't sure what temp I wanted so let it set at medium low for 10-15 minutes before deciding that wasn't high enough and turning up the burners.

Didn't seem to affect the rest of the range anymore than having three burners (I had a pan of eggs going too) with three individual pans would have. Took forever for the griddle to cool off enough to pull it off the stove though. I would guess that'd be the case with any heat source, that's a lot of iron to cool.

That's the one we had! I still have that zapper somewhere....

My last car was a Ford escape called 7 after seven of nine from Star Trek. I was feeling less creative when we got our current car, a tan C-Max, and it's just called Sandy.